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Audiences: Friends or strangers

Mon, 30 July 2001, 06:24 pm

Gambler9 posts in thread

It 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

Tue, 31 July 2001, 08:06 pm

Walter Plinge

The Gambler gamely garnered:
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*It 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?

Mmm- maybe not. Community Theatre (can't speak for the pro area- never done it) is a self sufficient environment in teh sense that it tends to feed itself. It may not be thriving or endemic but it is still here, and the fact we are here on this site discussing the matter should surely give us a skerrick of hope.

Shouldn't it?

ELiot

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Audiences: Friends or strangers— Gambler30 July 2001

RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers— Walter Plinge30 July 2001
RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers— Walter Plinge31 July 2001
- RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers— David Ryding31 July 2001
  - RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers— Walter Plinge31 July 2001
    - Drinking to old friends— Grant Malcolm1 Aug 2001
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        RE: Drinking to old friends— Walter Plinge1 Aug 2001
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        RE: Drinking to old friends— Walter Plinge1 Aug 2001
RE: Audiences: Friends or strangers— Walter Plinge31 July 2001

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