It seems to be working for audiences: at the Sundance Film Festival this year "Like Crazy" won the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature, and Ms. Jones earned her own special jury prize.
How does it work for audiences?
I've always worked for audiences, and I'm trying now to connect to wider strata of audiences".
Given that theatre buildings are where they are, the urgent question is how can we make them work for audiences and artists, local communities and the wider theatre ecology in the 21st century?
When I was given the opportunity to direct Senna, I decided the film had to work for audiences who disliked sport, or had never seen a Formula One race in their lives.
He says: "When someone comes to me with a project I always ask, 'Is it a fresh idea and will it work for audiences?' And soon I realised the answer to both those questions was yes.
Part of the reason, perhaps, is that directors are working for an audience more diverse than the audience of fifty or sixty years ago.
Nevertheless we are so happy to be working for an audience that has grown just a tiny bit older like us but is still willing to let us fall over on TV in the name of P.R".
Regardless of the audience size, a good story works for any audience.
A great opera production should work for any audience.
