The actors were not allowed to leave the stage, but the visiting audience was permitted to walk up and congratulate them.
Ms. Feeney worked the stage and the room, visiting audience members to whisper individual bits of gossip in "Myth" and transforming her face from otherworldly composure to private mourning to nutty intensity, song by song.
Beyond the exhibit components themselves, there is also great detail to color, narrative style to include and engage and yet be true to the science, and how to explain what needs to be explained in three languages: English, Spanish, and Vietnamese which reflects the demographics of the visiting audience.
And if you are not on the very cutting edge of understanding your visiting audience to whatever degree is technologically possible, you will die.
Its London premiere caused an even bigger sensation than Petit's first visit, audiences finding it thrillingly risqué.
That punishing exploration of the voyeuristic imagination was itself a kind of torture visited on audiences primed to gasp and shrink in horror when the camera finally zeroed in on the butchery, which it never did.
It's going to be some months before anyone will know what difference it makes to ticket yield, audience numbers and the diversity of audiences visiting ARC.
The show is also proving very popular with Asian audiences visiting the UK, with data collected by the theatre box office and other ticket agencies showing that 21% of the audience has been from Asian countries, not including the Asian audience based in the UK.
Confusion, suspicion, dismay, hostility are visited on audience and actor simultaneously.
It visits the audience, it gambols, it dances expertly, and your kids will want to take it home.
