Thursday, September 28, 2017

Theatre Talkbacks - Popular With Audiences, Not Always With Playwrights

"For theaters, the talkback can connect the venue to its audience, deepen understanding of the work and make the audience feel more like a participant and not merely an observer. Skeptics, however, fear that talkbacks can oversimplify the art onstage or discourage personal interpretation — the stage equivalent of didactic wall text telling museum visitors what to think about a painting."



Article source here:Arts Journal

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