DRA 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Participatory Theatre, Psychodrama, Autotelic
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Lecture 2 - chapter 1: the audience: its role and imagination. They are in our presence, conscious of us, speaking of us, working for and with us. Our presence, the way we respond, flows back to the performer and alters what he does to some degree. Unlike in a film, everything is already built and finished. Actors can"t feel or react to the audience"s presence. Performers in our presence just as we are in the presence of theirs. When a collection of individuals respond more or less in unison to what is occurring onstage, their relationship to one another is reaffirmed. For a moment, we are part of a group sharing an experience: collective mind. Theatre audience does not contemplate theatre individually, but as individuals within a larger group. Factors include: gender, race, socioeconomic background, geography, and age. Essence of literature and the visual arts is to catch something at a moment in time and freeze it.
