"What kind of literature and what kind of life is the same question," Tom Stoppard The Coast of Utopia

Warnings

"In it's use of signs that move through time and space and which imitate the world beyond performance, seen and unseen, the theatre may well bear a likeness to that sensory mode of divine self-revelation attested in the classic texts of Christian faith. But, at least for the Christian, the theatre will not move beyond likeness to rival, claiming to emulate the Incarnation by summoning spirit or universal will to inhabit it's material signs" Max Harris. Theatre and Incarnation

Artaud on Theatre

The spectator must approach as they might a surgeon
"knowing, of course, that he will not die, but that it is a serious thing and he will not come out of it unscathed...He must be totally convinced that we are capable of making him scream" Antonin Artaud

Could we say the same of a sermon?