As our private and public experiences and our work and entertainment are reshaped by the internet and the remote control, Michael Kustow asks if live theatre will survive and what we would lose if it did not. In the digital age ahead, will Dionysus, god of theatre and wine, stand up to the mighty computer mouse?

In the second of five programmes, The Language of Theatre, he looks at the changes in the basic grammar of theatre language - space, time and the actor. Fiona Shaw talks about the immediacy of acting, Deborah Warner about refreshing theatre in unorthodox spaces, and Simon McBurney about our loss of the present moment in an age of consumerism.