Sentence examples for trapped audience from inspiring English sources

He's very conscious that theatre events have "a trapped audience", unlike art galleries, where people are free to come and go.

We've done over 50 theatre shows and usually you've got a "trapped" audience.

Ghesquière trapped his audience in a computer game, dedicating his show to the point where cyber life and real life intersect, and to a host of female computer-game heroines.

There's more than a hint of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre about this Dennis Kelly-scripthrillerller, which does a grippingly efficient job of trapping its audience amid the pumping pistons and clanging pipes of its inhospitable setting.

It starts with anxiety-provoking audience-interactive carnival games like "Be My Slave and Pick Up the Cotton Balls on the Stage" and "You Put a Positive Spin on This Totally Racist Statement" and ends with Burch trapping her audience under a "circus tent" (a claustrophobic canopy of cloth) and dishing out her take on the legacy of slavery, tutoring privileged kids, affirmative action, and more.

The audience, trapped in a plain black box, watch and hear the action – splintered, repeated, and with speeches often treated as if they were rehearsals for a final show – performed behind a series of glass windows all around and above them.

Individuals on the screen certainly get worked up about secrets hidden and revealed, but those trapped in the audience will wonder why they should be bothered.

They were a captive audience, virtually trapped in Midtown by the halted subways.

Just like passengers on a subway, the audience is trapped in a state of anticipation: will the train ever come?

Withholding careers and education information from children who don't want to be marketed to makes this audience similarly trapped.

One series, aptly titled "The Car Plays," trapped a two-person audience inside a car with two actors for 10-minute vignettes.