Theatre's Superpower
The theatre has the power"more like the prerogative"to warp reality to suit its own ends, exiting the literal world through whatever trapdoors it creates. Why does an angel crash through a gay man's ceiling in "Angels in America" and declare him a prophet? Because Tony Kushner said so. In screenwriting, there's always talk of the "rules": the time machine only works at eighty-eight miles per hour, etc. Onstage, suspe…