A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.
Reality' is a word with many meanings.
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.