The author suggest that successful theatre is not of vibrant sensation and/or over-stimulation of the senses and emotions, but theatre in which members of an audience become emotionally and spiritually involved with "the man [walking] across the empty space." Theatre that doesn't function to connect with its audience is "deadly" theatre—theatre of dullness; in short, "deadly" theatre is theatre that, in his definition, is simply "bad". (read more)