The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.