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The phrase "audience were required to" is not correct in standard written English due to subject-verb agreement; it should be "audience was required to." You can use it in contexts where you are discussing obligations or expectations placed on an audience, but ensure to correct the subject-verb agreement.
Example: "The audience was required to submit their questions before the event began."
Alternatives: "attendees were expected to" or "participants had to".
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Both Dave Gorman and Aziz Ansari offered to pose for audience photographs at the top of the show, after which the audience were required to power down the cameras and concentrate on the comedy.
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(Sadly, Mr. Vaughan probably won't dance; the audience is required to imagine the dances).
Activity is required of the theatre audience if the performance is to succeed; the audience is required to share with the performer and to assist in the act of creation.
After Tiller, acclaimed for its humanist, non-political approach, made the official selection for Sundance Film Festival last year, where the premiere was guarded by armed security and the audience was required to pass through metal detectors because of the attendance of the four doctors who are the subject of the film.
The precise details of the show, which is scripted by Tom MacRae, are a closely guarded secret, beyond an ominous hint that the audience is required to face a menace that recently came first in a poll of the scariest Doctor Who adversaries, beating the Daleks into second place.
Hamilton wanted to create, "something with the pacing of that era where the audience is required to be patient, but at the same time always keep them on their heels because this entire thing is a mystery".
Nolan's trilogy could be smartly tied up without audiences being required to sit through yet another big screen Batman origins story – the third in less than three decades.
This is one of the few theatre companies where audiences are required to put in nearly as much mental preparation as the actors; one of the earliest, too, to explore the concept of theatre as immersion, decades before Punchdrunk and other such companies.
Three-dimensional street art is a form of anamorphosis, meaning that audiences are required to see the work from a particular perspective in order to appreciate the effect.
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Indeed, audience members were required to provide the accompaniment for a song by either hitting, waving or blowing through the copies of the paper.
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