She slipped that mention of Ritalin in for the present-day audience, didn't she? (Nope; it's there in the best-selling 1986 book based on the play).
Carlton's theory also emphasises the importance of establishing a link between the era covered in the movie and the social concerns nagging at its present-day audience.
In Britten's version (based on a 1931 play by André Obey, a French dramatist), two figures, called the male and female chorus, are reading this story and commenting on it as it unfolds, acting as a buffer (or a filter) between the past and the present-day audience.
And lest you worry that the game's been redone and gussied up for a present-day audience, it has NOT.
The very largeness and diversity of present-day audiences make less and less relevant the type of review that never gets beyond the book under review.
This character is described, in a script written long before the days of political correctness, as a 'black Moroccan cur', causing shocked gasps from present-day audiences.
The comparison is mentioned not out of nostalgia for such scant programming – but present-day audiences may be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed with choice, especially when there are as many documentaries reaching cinemas as there are days in the week.
That for most present-day audiences, the wealthy 19th-century household in which the first act is set was itself a fantasy, greatly reducing the potential impact of the dreamland.
While Aeschylus and Sophocles were winning prizes with tragedies full of philosophical jousting with Zeus and agonizing over the fates, Euripides was exploring what we would today call character development, and it is his concentration on the individual that makes his plays more accessible to present-day audiences.
Author points out that the preoccupation of present-day audiences with such purely visual impressions occasionally gets out of hand, and encourages our maestros to feats of heroic choreography that really haven't much to do with the music they conduct.
"It's about balancing the original work's intentions with a story that is maybe more realistic for a present-day audience".
