A pioneering example of meta-theatre, it has often seemed to be in search of a meta-audience.
We hope that availability of our methods to the wider meta-analytic audience may further improve the inclusiveness of all relevant studies for the Cochrane and other meta-analyses.
When a character comments on how meta everything is, the audience laughs, but why?
Ira Glass at Goucher College: "Commencement speakers give doomed advice which is then promptly ignored" It should come as no surprise that the host of This American Life gets all meta on his Baltimore audience.
Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt's molotov cocktail of numbingly depraved personalities and fiery meta humor consumes the audience with nervous joy, sad anger, reluctant disgust, and ambivalent empathy.
The audience is "meta-theatrically" guided through the action by a character known as BJJ, a stand-in for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins himself.
Read the first sentence without thinking anything except maybe that you're currently reading the first sentence of "How To Improvise A Meta-Reading" to an audience that is probably confused and now also self-conscious.
Doing a Q&A at a Toronto movie theater, Murray is asked, "How does it feel to be Bill Murray?" – and he takes the extremely meta query seriously, asking the audience to consider the sensation of self-awareness.
There was the meta-theatre of high-profile audience members in the hot seat: Mike Pence at "Hamilton," Ivanka Trump at the anti-xenophobic musical "Come From Away".
Under the unfussy direction of Sarna Lapine (niece to James), this doesn't diminish the power of the musical and once in a while enhances it, reminding the audience of its meta-theatrical qualities.
Embracing the artifice of theatre, the intimacy of camera-confessional and the stylisation of drama, the film cannily and courageously uses meta-narrative to subvert both audience expectations and documentary form.
