In concert, these agencies required spectators to traverse a remarkable cordon.
The overall result is a narrowing of the audience base; theater requires spectators who know how to read and decode its signs.
The other two require spectators (30 or so are allowed in each room) to be gamely herded from one to the next, positioning themselves where they can before the duologues unfold.
The Oak Road End has an entrance that is often considered unusual, requiring spectators to go through an entrance built into the row of houses and up stairs to the stand.
It's possible that shorter games could alleviate the problem; not only do they reduce the time commitment required of spectators, but they randomize the game to a certain extent by forcing players to make their decisions more quickly.
As such, this method has advantages over current practices, which require the spectator to make indirect inferences about character motivations from the complete performance, which can often require two or more hours.
"However, it is far from clear that such a sporting venue will be able to host events that regularly attract the hundreds and thousands of spectators required in order for it to be financially viable.
As for the sprinkling of stardust required to attract spectators and media attention, Major League Soccer has shown that a move to North America is appealing to players approaching the end of their careers, some of whom are prepared to take less money than is on offer in Europe in order to live in a glamorous city such as New York.
In disturbing encounters – alone in a bedroom with a sex worker who produces a gun, or taken in a car and made complicit in the coercion of a young Russian immigrant who tries to escape – each spectator is required to respond and participate.
Therefore, the spectator is required to translate the traces, caesuras and elisions that negatively defined the new world of expression into positive traits: "… the imagination of the spectator has not only a regulative function but a constitutive one.
