
Audience as Participant
not including participatory theatre (ie where an audience don't have to prepare beforehand)
An attempt to classify the types of audience participation
I/E: Ignore / Exclude: a ritual or happening that ignores the audience
I-T: Invisible Theatre: with performers operating secretly in the real world
Inv: Involved in set-up: people watch the show being set up and become an audience
F+R: Giving focus & responding voluntarily: perhaps the standard audience model
PfR: Performers playing for response: mugging and clap-traps
Man: Manipulated audiences: fooling the crowd eg illusionist
V-P: Voluntary participation: the classic 'He's behind you!'
R-P: Requested participation: instructing / queueing the audience for specific responce
Rep: Representative: 'Can I have a volunteer?'
ASp: Audience becomes the spectacle: audience presence becomes part of the show
C-P: Crowd Power: in acting together the audience becomes empowered
Sec: Competing sections: eg who can cheer loudest
Sep: Separate experiences: a show with 2 or more different perspectives
Dir: Directed: physically moving place between scenes
Gui: Guided: following a prescribed physical route
Exp: Explore: audience physically find own way around a dispersed performance
P-G: Pervasive Gaming: where participant play a public game
Imr: Immersive Theatre: when audiences become characters in a scenario
U-I: Unplanned involvement: performer picking on someone
UUI: Unplanned, Unknown involvement: picking on someone without their knowing
I-F: Intense Focus: prolonged, heightened focus on an audience member
Hum: Humiliation: finding a victim and repeatedly picking on them for comic effect
ADQ = Audience Discomfort Quotient
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Please rate on a scale of 1 - 10:
C = loss of control
i = intensity of experience
s = size of group
PH = public humiliation
H = humour
w = warmth
a = moderate alcohol
F = festival atmosphere
ADQ =
-(C+i) + (10-s) x PH2
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( H + w ) x a + F
Chris Squire
Presented at FLOI 12
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