The Theater and Its Double by Antonin Artaud P.107

It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the best possible language. And it seems that on the stage, which is above all the space to fill and a place where something happens, the language of words may have to give way before a language of signs whose objective aspect is the one that the most immediate impact upon us.

Considered in this light, the objective work of the mise en scene assumes a kind of intellectual dignity from the effacement of words behind gestures and from the fact that the esthetic, plastic part of theatre drops its role of decorative intermediary in order to become, in the proper sense of the word, a directly communicative language.