....audiences are dead.
It's true. Audiences sit themselves down in their seats and watch theater through hawk eyes just looking for something to dislike, looking for a way to be unsatisfied with the product. They want to be impressed so instead of experiencing what is happening, they are thinking about how much better it could be if they were watching a different play.
But it's not a different play. It's the play that's going on right before you.
I'm not trying to say that every play out there is amazing and deserves the unquestioning adoration of an audience- but a lot don't get a chance.
Yeah, there are a lot of other problems, but I just noticed it tonight, watching a play at my school. When I looked at the audience, it was like they were all brain dead. They may as well have been drooling. And yeah, the play had problems, but none that detracted from the overall experience- it was awesome. I loved it.
But there were some people who had decided to judge it three weeks ago and were continuing to do so right there. I just wonder how theater would be if people could just sit there and experience theater, just experience it for what it is and don't think "Well if that" or "That should have been like that" or anything like that. And it's not like I haven't done it, but I just thought of this tonight and it makes sense in this moment so that's what I have to say.
Thanks.
