Audiences

29.11.23

• Young people create and attend plays based on familiar stories, often based on familiar stories and ones with positive moral and ethical content

• Slapstick comedy performed in afternoons at fairs, festivals and weekend outings

• Romantic comedies performed in the evenings at the same events

• Political skits, most probably in major cities and at times of elections, protests or political instability

• Religious dramas, both inside and outside places of worship

• 'Professional' theatre companies performing works of past and current playwrights, presented at regular intervals for audiences that might include everybody in a town or a selective, often affluent minority.

Rosemary Ingham

Crucial at the beginning stages of script work, that everyone focuses on the play itself rather than one any one person's concept of the play. Production built on images + ideas of all the collaborators stands better chance of touching the audience.

Designers have special knowledge about the effects of design on human response. e.g. use of colour theory

Good questions an artist/ set designer should ask themselves...

• why am I making this?

• why am I making this now?

• who am I making this for?

• how do I want the people I am making this for to feel?