Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface - Theatre of the Day Before (Text, Game, Semiotic Perspective) -- Preface - By The Author -- Introduction: Notes on the Semiotic Nature of Théâtralité -- Part I: Theatricality and Semioticality -- Signs and Sign Configurations - the Space of the Performance as a Signifier -- Semantics of interpretation - the stage figure in the context of performance -- Theatre communication and theatrical codes - aesthetic sign convention and spectator perception -- Reflection of dominance - the sign as absence/presence -- Linguistic and paralinguistic interaction: symbolic transmission, representation, and active convention -- Part II: Performance and Signification -- The performance as a theatrical text - morphology of stage signification -- Actors in the stage space - semantics of interpretation -- Semiotics of the stage - I in the stage space -- Mise-en-scéne - The Representative Convention of Performance -- Phenomenology of the Game-of-Lies - the Incorporation of Theatrical Representation in the Architectonics of Performance -- General Conclusion -- Theatrical Performance in a Semiotic Perspective - Conclusion -- Supplement -- Derrida - Artaud. The ultimate economy of difference or the suggested word of alienation. The theatre of cruelty and the radical purity of the expulsion of God -- References -- About the author.