The Audience: Its Role and Imagination
I. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE
A. The Special Nature of Theater: A Contrast with Film
B. The Chemistry of Performer-Audience Contact
II. THEATER AS A GROUP EXPERIENCE
A. Psychology of Groups
B. How Audience Makeup Affects the Theater Experience
III. SEPARATE ROLES OF PERFORMERS AND SPECTATORS
A. How Should the Audience be Involved?
1. Observed
2. Participatory
B. Audience Participation through Direct Action
IV. THE IMAGINATION OF THE AUDIENCE
A. Tools of the Imagination: Symbol and Metaphor
1. Functions of Symbols
2. Functions of Metaphors
B. The "Reality" of Imagination
V. THE IMAGINARY WORLDS OF THEATER
A. Realism and Nonrealism
1. Realistic Elements of Theater
2. Nonrealistic Elements of Theater
3. Combining the realistic and Nonrealistic
B. Distinguishing Stage Reality from Fact
IDENTIFY OR DEFINE
1. Performer-audience relationship
2. Empathy
3. Aesthetic distance
4. "Live" performance
6. Participatory theater
7. Observed theater
8. Sociodrama
9. Psychodrama
10. Drama therapy
11. Role reversal
12. Fantasy