Over the past few years I've come to believe the performing artist gets far more from making the art than the audience does from watching it. This leads me to some questions. Is it the arts fault? The artists? The audience? Do we know how to watch the performing arts? There is a famous story of a production of GODOT at a prison in California. It is said that the inmates where deeply engaged and moved by the show. What tools did they have they I don't?
I once played Macduff in a production of MACBETH that was performed in a woman's prison. As Macbeth moved to kill me, the audience screamed in an effort to save me. It was the most dramatic reaction I'd ever heard from an audience.
Am I wrong? Have you had dramatic reactions to performance? How do you watch?
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