In addition to intergroup squabbles, we're treated to wild theatrical exercises and even a final, touching interaction, based on written audience responses.
In Chicago, Ms. Shteir wrote, audiences are more diverse, municipal support for theater is stronger, and there is greater hunger for innovative voices.
Curtis writes: "audiences who, just a year earlier, had no clear handle on him, were suddenly turning out to see him.
Christoph Willibald Gluck, writing for audiences in Vienna that favoured the French genre, was the only great composer of that era to devote himself extensively to it.
In the course of his recitation, he writes, the audience sat quietly, deeply moved.
In Mesa, Arizona, he wrote, his audience included a woman with "a flashing sign nestled against her pubic bone declaring: ATHEIST".
I wrote "Captive Audience" because we cannot afford to put this problem on the too-hard pile.
"For Plath," he writes, "an audience had to witness the spectacle of what it meant to be Sylvia Plath".
As Andrée left the stage, a witness wrote, the audience "cheered until the great hall of the Colonial Institute rang".
It is believed that Morgan will be re-writing The Audience to include Tony Blair, who did not appear in the original.
