Knowledge Quote by John Fiske

“On the other hand, identification as a relationship of audience to performance disguised the arbitrarily constructed nature of the performance and encouraged the audience…

— John Fiske

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

— Joshua Oppenheimer

I always remind myself that my audience is human. Therefore we have to be human, play human, reveal the humanness of who we are.…

— Aaron Pedersen

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space…

— Miranda July

The idea of making audiences feel like they matter, that the theatre matters, and that they're a partner in the event—that's what fuels me…

— Diane Paulus

With theatre, we are always trying to engage in a conversation with people and to bring people into that conversation, but I was disappointed…

— Rachel House

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

Audiences are audiences.

— Theodore Bikel

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film…

— Bertolt Brecht

I've managed to alienate most of what would be considered the core audience that I'm supposed to have had.

— Lou Barlow

When you're in a play, you never really have a sense of what an audience is experiencing. The experience of doing a play is…

— Kate Arrington

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety,…

— Arthur Miller