The audience

As our installation relies on our audience member’s participation we had to make sure, all of our sections within our piece was easy to follow, and the material we used was appropriate for all age ranges. We also made sure the stage was very visually effective for the audience members, as we thought that most of our public would be younger audience members we made sure we swerved as far away as simplicity as possible, In the book Introduction: Contamination or Remediation? by Giesekam states that William Dudley says, that young audience members don’t like ‘the stillness where you’re in one locale for two to three hours…They like high visual dynamics and action, all those things people think theatre can’t do’ (2007, p.4) Within our piece we had many things for the audience to do and also had a projection played the whole time, for them to watch and keep them engaged. As we knew most of our audience members are students, we thought by getting them to tweet their feelings and experience of the piece was so much more interesting then asking them to do a boring questionnaire. As many people tweet, they can not only do a fast summery online of how they felt but also enjoy doing it too.

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