stella41b
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With words common such as 'scene' and 'play' and coming from me there can only be one analogy - BDSM and theatre.
Peter Brook defines theatre as an empty space, an actor (performer) and an audience and similarly in WIITWD you have the empty space, the submissive as a performer and the dominant as both audience and director. In his book 'The Empty Space' Brook classifies theatre into four main categories - Holy Theatre, Deadly Theatre, Immediate Theatre and Rough Theatre and I feel you could have the same classifications in WIITWD - Holy, Deadly, Rough and Immediate.
What of the difference between submission and enslavement? In theatre you have repertory theatre - musicals, the classics, and this to me is enslavement, the M/s dynamic, to some the 'higher' form of WIITWD (I disagree) for like the slave the repertory actor has little in the way of freedom, the same notes must be reached in the songs of Les Miserables and Cats and the Iambic pentameter is employed in the sonnets of Shakespeare, and the standards of performance are uniform. However you also have fringe theatre and alternative theatre, adaptations, improvization, the works of obscure playwrights such as Sarah Kane, Daniel Dmitriov, sketches and live comedy, and so too you have D/s, for some more intimate, for others with more improvization, diverse, obscure.
Theatre is about people and so is WIITWD, both require a place, a space, a venue, and both may involve a set (St Andrews Cross, benches, stools), costumes (corsets, boots, leather, etc) and props (floggers, canes, crops, dildoes, cuffs, collars, chains, rope, etc). In theatre you have events, festivals and tournaments, as you do with WIITWD - munches, events, clubs, scenes. However not all theatres stage performances, there are many who tour giving workshops, and many WIITWD couples do not perform publicly or even at play parties.
Even the motivations are similar. The actors love the stage as the submissives love play, directors and playwrights love to see their ideas come to life very much in the same way as dominants and speaking from personal experience of both a good rehearsal or performance can give me the same buzz as a scene or a session - it's something greater even than sex, and just like I often prefer a session I also prefer a good rehearsal or performance to a fuck.
Both theatre and WIITWD thrive on a balance of Meyerhold's constructivism and ritual or protocol with improvization and spontaneity, and the Stanislavski Method of acting, naturalistic, working from the inside out could equally apply to WIITWD. Indeed in my own theory of modern fringe theatre much of the inspiration comes from none other than my experiences in WIITWD. Just like theatre you can study WIITWD, you can be trained in the same way, but WIITWD just like theatre only comes into its own when you experience it.
Even the thinking is similar, as in YKIOK or YKINOK, for to quote Shakespeare, "There is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so."
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) the difference between a sub and a slave is similar to the difference between a pet dog and a working dog. 
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