Michael Billington, the author of the article I is for Illusion, is a firm believer that Theatre should be a combination of both little and great aesthetic distance. Billington starts off the article by making it sound like he believes theatre should have almost no little aesthetic distance at all. He seems to think that having great aesthetic distance takes away from the illusion of the performance that is being watched. He believes that the new advancements in today's theatre such as visible set changes and the new changes in how stage lighting is conducted today make us more aware that we are in theatre and the events being presented to us on stage are not real. Billington also comments on how close emotional involvement between an audience
