The document discusses the theoretical framework for analyzing theater as an evolving technology to tell stories. It proposes three key stages: 1) examining the history of technological development, 2) how innovation requires an accommodating social environment, and 3) how theater has both behaved as a community and evolved as a disembodied technology adapting to different eras. The status and media used by theater can change over time, with old and new forms coexisting as the technology advances different ways to tell stories.