Audiences need to lift their game
Mon, 19 Mar 2001, 06:10 amWalter Plinge6 posts in thread
Audiences need to lift their game
Mon, 19 Mar 2001, 06:10 amSo writes Timothy (Kafka Dances) Daly in this article in the Sydney Morning Herald.
"Let's be brutally frank: in the main, our theatre audiences are pleasant, well-mannered, not very knowledgeable, intellectually undemanding, slightly imaginative, and with a very strong comfort zone. A former artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company once complained that his subscribers "only care about having comfortable seats and good coffee""
Check it out.
Cheers
Grant
"Let's be brutally frank: in the main, our theatre audiences are pleasant, well-mannered, not very knowledgeable, intellectually undemanding, slightly imaginative, and with a very strong comfort zone. A former artistic director of Sydney Theatre Company once complained that his subscribers "only care about having comfortable seats and good coffee""
Check it out.
Cheers
Grant
RE: Audiences .. not needed??
Tue, 20 Mar 2001, 11:48 amWalter Plinge
Joe, with all due respect can I suggest you actually read the article being discussed.
Timothy Daly presents a well reasoned argument that should give all serious theatre practitioners considerable pause for thought.
This site would make an excellent forum for arguing some of the issues he raises. Particularly as community theatre is to a large extent the breeding ground for potential audiences and theatre practitioners.
Malcolm
Timothy Daly presents a well reasoned argument that should give all serious theatre practitioners considerable pause for thought.
This site would make an excellent forum for arguing some of the issues he raises. Particularly as community theatre is to a large extent the breeding ground for potential audiences and theatre practitioners.
Malcolm