Abstract
What do we see when we look at naked bodies on a theatrical stage? Are we still looking at the representation of the person, or possibly — ultimately -the person himself, who is no longer concealed by a costume? Has a naked actor become more himself — a biographical person — now that he appears to us in the nude? Do the nude actor on stage and the dressed spectator watching him per definition constitute a voyeuristic set-up? Why does the audience always fall tensely silent when an actor disrobes himself? Why do we not encourage him or her like we do at other times, in other settings? Why are we interested at all in nudity in the theatre when it has become so evident, so commonplace? This contribution relates to these and other questions; to the relation between the glance and the (nude) body: to looking at naked bodies on stage.
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