Environmental theatre, a branch of the New Theatre movement of the 1960s that aimed to heighten audience awareness of theatre by eliminating the distinction between the audience's and the actors' space.
Byrne's music, which featured a number of ringing choral passages that would be amplified to fill the theatre with male voices, heightened the audience's sense of Joan's singularity, and of her vulnerability before the implacably masculine institutions of monarchy and Church.
After they visited the BSO at work, they thought not only about how they could make all that movement easier but also how they could heighten the audience's connection to the performer.
The melodrama was invented in France in the eighteenth century — the critic Peter Brooks has argued that the form grew out of an urge to replicate the high drama of the French Revolution — and it often included music as well as words, in an effort to manipulate or heighten the audience's emotions.
Many of the editing choices in the film are also used to heighten the audience's discomfort.
The number of characters was cut down, the back story was significantly shortened, most of the supernatural events depicted in the novel were kept off-screen, and the greater part of the action was set inside the house to heighten the audience's feeling of claustrophobia.
There was no denying that drawing the public into the curatorial process cultivated a broader audience, heightened the sense of individual investment in a collection, and boosted museum attendance.
All of the five senses are heightened as the audience develops new means of interacting with the piece, realizing that their response greatly impacts the art and the ways these forms are moving over time.
The proscenium stage has been extended to thrust into the audience, heightening the sense that we are one with the cast members.
The introduction of the Kindle, the biggest-selling e-reader, opens up library e-books to a wider audience, heightening the fears of publishers that many customers will turn to libraries for reading material.
