The only thing absolutely necessary for theater is an audience.<\/p>\n
Let’s think about this a little more deeply, by considering two complementary examples.<\/p>\n
Here’s the first example: If you have people up on stage acting, and there is nobody in the audience, that’s not theater.<\/p>\n
Here is the second example: If you have an empty stage, and an audience is sitting there experiencing it, that’s essentially a variation on John Cage’s 4’33”<\/a>. Unlike the first example, it is arguably theater, albeit very avant garde<\/i> theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The only thing absolutely necessary for theater is an audience. Let’s think about this a little more deeply, by considering two complementary examples. Here’s the first example: If you have people up on stage acting, and there is nobody in the audience, that’s not theater. Here is the second example: If you have an empty … Continue reading “The only thing absolutely necessary for theater”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24449\/revisions\/24451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}