Schechner's Cat

I just finished reading chapter four of Performance Studies in which author Richard Schechner discusses the concept of play in the context of performance and beyond. For me it was a little far beyond in some places. As it got into quantum mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle and multiple universes, I failed to see the relationship to performance, at first. That is not to say that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy those pages. Initially, I was just not sure Schechner could connect the seemingly mysterious events that occur only at a subatomic level to culture, society or performance. It seems the cultural phenomenon Derrida describes is a reaction to the strict cultural formulas and artifices that dominated Western thought in the early part of the 20th century. But I don’t see anything that relates to Heisenberg or Schroedinger’s cat. Or is there?
As I think this all through, I do began see a relationship between the Schroedinger’s cat metaphor and performance theory, particularly the observer’s role in the paradox. Briefly and way oversimplified, here is my understanding of the Schroedinger’s cat paradox: Schroedinger proposed a scenario with a cat in a sealed box, where the cat's life or death was analogous to the positive or negative state of a subatomic particle. According to Schroedinger, there is a paradox which implies that the cat (or subatomic particle) remains both alive and dead until the box is opened. Until an observer is present and physically observes the cat (or subatomic particle), the cat/particle is both dead and alive (positive and negatively charged). This can be compared to performance and the theatre in the sense that until the play is actually performed and comes to life, it only exists in a state of flux on the page. The existence of a live audience is what makes it performance. When a group of people acknowledge that it is performance and legitimize it by seeing it as such, it becomes a real performance, just as the observer makes the cat dead or alive.