 Against the background in  §2.2  and  §3,  it seems clear that to evaluate an instance of theater demands a decision on the part of the evaluator: to evaluate either the text (as an instance of dramatic literature), the performance or production (as an instance of a public event), or both of them in relation to each other. If both, the evaluator is able to consider the intersection between performance or production and text, to assess the performance or production in relation to the text and to assess the text against the performance of it. Despite their disagreements on the ontology of the art form and the pattern such an ontology should take, criticism of both text and performance is what Carroll, Saltz, and Hamilton all appear to have in mind (Saltz, Hamilton, and Carroll 2001). Moreover, this appears to be congruent with the practices of critics as well.