1. Who decides the meaning of the character’s physical characteristics—the performers, the playwright or the audience?

2. What assumptions about bodies do audiences bring to the theatre and project onto the bodies of actors?  

3. How do belief systems, social, cultural, and economic conditions, and communal and familial contexts inform our understandings and experiences of the body?  

4. Historically, how do plays shape audiences’ understanding of the body?  

5. How do theatrical conventions in the past and present complicate contemporary theories of the body?