If the progression is from the '70s Mail Art through the '80s Zine Scene, then the art form growing out of the '90s will be

Always scrawl or carve these letters onto the PAGE to remember the cave wall, the animal hide, the tree bark... the Flesh of their inception.

To distinguish this art from the theatre, bowling, billiards we all do as well, we will name it STAGE. Although it's not Mac Wellman vs. WINNEBAGO WELLMAN, the suggestion is that Theatre is the Pupa or Imago of STAGE (What is the Worm's Work in his Cocoon?) STAGE then, also in the other definition of the word (but please, one stage at a time so we don't get confused.
Writing has moved so far from its root in magic, that unless we learn again to write like Pythagoreans, we will never find the essence of
(Bowling and Billiards and Theatre are closely related to this writing. The pencils PROPS just weigh more.
The cultivation of STAGE will be an attempt by the theatre tribes to tattoo their playwrights and brand their actors and packrat their designers with enough knowledge that they become WORDS, THE SPEAKER and DEEDS, THE DOER and are able to deliver the presents "presence" of one tribe to another.

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