The performing audience

• Patti Peete Gillespie ^[1]
  1. [1] University of South Carolina

     University of South Carolina

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 46, nº 2, 1980, págs. 124-138
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The nature and role of the audience is at the crux of continuing controversies about the nature of theatre. In this essay I argue that an audience is necessary to the art of the theatre and that the necessary audience is real rather than abstract. My conclusions grow out of three demonstrations: (1) audiences are too diverse to be usefully described by an abstraction; (2) audiences do, in fact, affect performances, and (3) interchange almost certainly occurs between actors and audiences.