The Role of The Audience

Which of these are categories of art?

• literary

• visual

• performing

• all of these

What is the audience's main responsibility ?

• laugh at inappropriate times

• turn your phone ringer on and call in the middle of a show

• respect all performers, turn phones off, and be quiet

• throw food at performers

How the audience participates: what is the willing suspension of disbelief?

• to believe that the work in the show is real life

• to acknowledge that things on stage are not reality

• music moving through time

• the spatial art of which they exist in space

How the audience participants: what is the aesthetic distance?

• the way you look

• the disconnect between the audiences

• audience member is aware the work on stage separates from reality

• audience member believes that the work on stage is real life

opera would be an example of

• none of these

• literary art

• performing arts

• visual arts

The actions of the audience members affect...

• all of these

• the performers

• the people around you

• people working backstage