the religious dimension: Baty, Dullin, Ginsberg and especially Louis Jouvet have discussed this in depth. Gaston Baty, in an inspired book, has elucidated the relationship between the whole phenomenon of the stage and Christianity by reference to the medieval “mystery plays”,7 which he terms “cathedrals in dramatic form”. Like the Greek stage, they were born out of the liturgy and became a movement involving the whole people.8 Life itself—nature embedded in the supernatural—was acted out, and thus