You need only compare "August" to an earlier play about a family gathering, Harold Pinter's "Homecoming," which was revived to strong reviews but weaker audiences this season.
You're supposed to leave a gig on your strongest laugh, by ending on such weak wordplay most audiences would be left unsure of what they'd just seen.
Often starting as ensemble players at London's fringe and state-financed theaters, they would emerge out of that egalitarian climate, with its deliberately alphabetical billing, and go on to leave movie audiences weak at the knees -- and asking one question.
However long it might take, they will not leave the stage until the audience is weak from the hilarity.
"Sites with a weak relationship with their audience may struggle, especially if advertising networks are the only way they target their ads.
It's a hard evening - some of the audience looked weak with the effort and there were empty seats after the interval.
The handsome singer, GQ UK's Man of the Year 2008, who makes his audience go weak in the knees, stepped modestly to the microphone and started the show with a lilting, serious song about spending time on his knees in prayer.
As well, it has long been thought that text slides with too many words per slide or too many text lines per slide were ineffective [ 2, 3] although in our study this revealed only fairly weak negative correlation with audience evaluation scores.
Its two-hour premiere last week drew a mere 9.18 million viewers, according to Nielsen's overnight ratings, and Monday's second episode was even weaker: it attracted an audience of 8.45 million.
Or even more difficult not to blame their kings for failing to care for the weak and vulnerable when audiences were transfixed by those sublimely moving scenes on the heath as King Lear, amidst the raging storm, was shocked to discover what appalling conditions his people had endured for centuries.
