Abstract
“Es ist nichts theatralisch, was nicht fur die Augen symbolisch ware/Nothing is theatrical that is not symbolic for the eyes” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked in his maxims and reflexions. What does he mean by that? Formally, these lines describe the relationship between the theatre stage, on which actors can perform, and the audience watching the performance. The semantic interpretation of the performance, and the beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. When I began to study computational linguistics and artificial intelligence in the mid-nineties, I liked such sayings, like this one: computational linguistics deals with computer programs for parsing language and artificial intelligence deals with the rest of the physical robots we will interact with in the future. A theatre researcher, however, might add to Goethe’s words that not only the staging itself, but the usage of specific linguistic or visual metaphors, i.e., the
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