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An essay on training in the theater art is presented. It notes that before training reached theater, it has been associated with the transmission of skills and techniques as well as the creation of coherent group entities. It notes the efforts Elsie Fogerty, William Archer and Harley Granville Barker in the foundation of training schools at theaters. The emergence of the concept of apprenticeship in dance theater as well as the training model mass dance are also tackled.

Examines the observation by Antonin Artaud that western theatre is dialogue based and incapable of releasing the primitive forces of life, and attempts to demonstrate how noise is produced in both, performer and audience, and how this noise is itself scripted. Objective of speech to deny ornamentation and create a spectacle of vocal power; Choreography of the body by speech; Use of syllabification as a sort of delivery; Technique of accretion in speech delivery; Structure and accompaniment of movement by rhetoric;