TORONTO -- Theatre is perhaps the only medium that demands that its finest artists disappear. And no, we're not talking that Presto!-Chango! Who-hid-Houdini? thing.

In the very best theatre, all the diverse elements are woven together so seamlessly that the world is effectively shrunk to the size of the stage. The set becomes a real room, or park or sailing ship, the actors cease to play the characters and become them instead, and the story becomes, for a time, more real than life on the street outside.
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