Cosmic theatre: in search of a verb

At the beginning of the 20th century, theatre was described as a place where different disciplines and arts cooperate, and a place for intersections. But in the last decades, due to contamination from different arts, the word "theatre" has been losing some preponderance in artists', and also academics', discourse, who prefer names such as "performing arts", "scenic arts", or "live art" (art vivant). This search for a greater comprehensiveness by renaming a discipline is a typical consequence of the importance of nominalism in the disciplinary system in which theatre is integrated. The obsession with names has been going on for at least two centuries, but there has been a qualitative shift in debates about disciplinarity, since the mid-1960s. In 2017, at a conference held in Copenhagen, Hans-Thies Lehmann, the German theatre scholar who coined the term "postdramatic theatre", stated that theatre studies were "rather behind the theatrical reality" (Lehmann, 2017). I would thus like to propose the expression "Cosmic Theatre", with the help of two authors of different generations-Gertrude Stein and Paul. B. Preciado. I am convinced that the meanings that are unlocked by pinning the adjective "cosmic" on the word "theatre" may help tackle an attitude towards intersectionality, which escapes a stable description. The adjective "cosmic" is a way of looking or reading and a way of creating and writing that is not interested in confirming its truthfulness or applicability but rather in offering vocabulary for a doing. It is about "making kin" or "becoming with" (Haraway, 2016) and not about providing knowledge, getting acquainted, or seeking familiarity. In a certain sense, it is the possibility of transforming the noun "theatre" into a verb.