It is a television audience, spectators who have already been brainwashed by television.
Even the words that refer to us as theatregoers – audience, spectators – emphasise sound and sight alone.
When a particularly ominous blob rolled downstage and threatened to ooze into the audience, spectators in the first row were happy to push it back where it belonged.
In a world of insidious surveillance, the audience is spectator to the madness, violence and rancour of the "rotten" state.
In this stripped-back retelling of the Ekdal family – who were rich until scandal cast them into poverty – the audience is spectator to their inner lives.
This article will consider the philosophy of dance as a Western theater or concert art, by which I mean the sort of art that is practiced in a performance space and that is offered for some sort of audience or spectator appreciation.
Ideally, the backdrop is a very public space, usually with a built-in audience of spectators (tourists will do in a pinch).
Advance buzz and the lure of free admission (with premium seats available at a cost) attracted a capacity audience, with spectators seemingly jammed into every aisle and galley.
If they prefer to sit on the sidelines, they can create an electronic persona to be inserted in an audience of spectators.
But as those productions gained tractions, the participants' looks grew more outlandish, and the audience of spectators swelled.
He filmed several sequences in long takes, as if "The Great Gatsby" were live theater, and shot it in 3-D; the stereoscopic technology, Luhrmann said, heightens the film's emotions, moving the audience from spectators to participants.
