The other significant goal for this book follows on from his previous work: to decentralize the role of dramatic text in performance, and to understand all theatrical components from props to costumes to acting and movement as co-sources of theatrical meaning and signification. ...he sets up technicity as the frame through which he examines theatre and technology throughout the book: technicity encompasses representing technologies such as props, technologies that make the performance possible such as electric light and sound, and the architecture, texts, and the bodies of performers, and how these components necessarily and fluidly work together. ...Worthen argues that app design reinforces the practice and business of acting as a standardized form of mediating character through the technology of memorization and recitation.