Experience as it is represented on stage—“represent” understood as the simple action —can be divided into performance, productive work, statecraft, and personal relations; theoretically, any one of these can serve as a subject for theatrical representation. In practice, however, some kinds of experience appear on stage more frequently than others. Productive work is rarely represented in theatre. Even in plays like John Gabriel Borkman or The Cherry Orchard, where the productive mentality is an important theme, we rarely see the producer actually working. Performance is shown on stage more often than productive work, but still rather infrequently. When it does occur—in a play within a play, in a marriage or funeral scene, in a boxing match—it is usually an isolated scene, and is rarely the subject of an entire play. The most common subjects for theatrical representation are without doubt statecraft and personal relations.