The theater is deliberately small (1,300 square feet), to reduce audience eyestrain.
He sees himself as a "myth buster," and his website describes how he's overturned some conventional wisdom, including the claims that "violent media have a trivial effect on aggression, venting anger reduces aggression, violent people suffer from low self-esteem, violence and sex sell products, [and] warning labels reduce audience size".
"With mostly new works, I had reduced audiences -- and stronger support," he recalled.
That can't be said of their new subject, climate change: Armageddon seldom reduces audiences to stitches.
This refusal to play for sympathy somehow enhanced the sympathy she aroused; the show regularly reduced audiences to tears.
She would always talk fondly of the experience of acting with that least starry of great actors, who invariably told her ribald jokes in the wings before coming on stage and reducing audiences to tears with his saintly nobility.
McQueen's film pitilessly documents the beatings, lynchings, rape and brutality of a slave-owning class half-demented by its own moral corruption, and routinely reduces audiences to tears.
The show, broadcast nightly during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is a smorgasbord that regularly reduces audiences to gales of laughter with skits mocking, for example, the swaggering of anonymous officials who command fleets of Government cars.
(Maybe a little too fast for Messiaen's instruction of "Moderately, almost lively, with great joy"). Those audience members that had come – plenty, but the 20th-century repertoire effect of automatically reduced audiences was visible – were sufficiently enthused by the ultimate catchiness of Messiaen's Turangalîla.
Classical musicians, Weitz explained, are "hoping the future of classical music does not involve vastly reduced audiences".
