Audiences: Friends or strangers
Mon, 30 July 2001, 06:24 pmGambler9 posts in thread
Audiences: Friends or strangers
Mon, 30 July 2001, 06:24 pmIt seems to me these days that the majority of theatre audiences are either fellow actors, friends or Pensioners (or a combination of them). Does this mean that Stage performances are a dying phase? Before television, computers, game machines and movie cinemas the theatre was the place to be. Now it is only for a minority of society. Any thoughts?
RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers
Mon, 30 July 2001, 09:30 pmWalter Plinge
Adapt or die! You're right, live theatre in its purest form is well and truly dead as a mainstream form of public entertainment. But that doesn't mean we have to pack up and go home. The answer is to either aim our wares at a niche market and be happy with that, or redesign the live-theatre concept to suit the mainstream audience. The former would involve presenting theatre as a nostalgic, stylised "revisit" to a past fad, and the latter would involve adopting a commercialised and user-friendly attitude, making the audience a part of the performance.
What we've known in the past as theatre is dead, but that just makes room for the next evolution of this artform.
What we've known in the past as theatre is dead, but that just makes room for the next evolution of this artform.
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