However, I maintain that many immersive theatre performances still tend to assign audiences to a scheme of production that is neoliberal in character and that affects the values and meanings that are attributable to that scheme of production.

Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.

Suddenly he was deprived of his job, his chargelings, whom he loved, and Diotima herself.

A good deal of what transpires is characters at cross-purposes, underspeaking, talking past each other.