An audience accepts a play through a combination of emotional engagement, relatable characters, and effective storytelling. When the narrative resonates with their experiences or evokes strong emotions, viewers become more invested in the performance. Additionally, the actors' delivery and the overall production quality can enhance or detract from their acceptance. Ultimately, a successful connection between the audience and the play fosters a sense of immersion and appreciation.
By making it easier for the audience to follow what is happening in the play
There is no "audience" in the play Merchant of Venice, unlike Hamlet or A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In the Globe theatre, when the audience liked the play they clapped and cheered unlike when they disliked the play, when they would throw things at the stage.
A drama is a story that is written to be acted for an audience.
An audience can tell that a play is moving on to a new scene when the scenery, lighting, and props change.
An audience that does not just accept what you say at face value. Instead, they examine and evaluate what is said for its merit or stupidity.
If the audience didn't like the play they wouldn't clap to it.
when you have to play a part of play
M.L. King uses a number of techniques to persuade his audience to join his campaign.
By making it easier for the audience to follow what is happening in the play
There is no "audience" in the play Merchant of Venice, unlike Hamlet or A Midsummer Night's Dream.
In the Globe theatre, when the audience liked the play they clapped and cheered unlike when they disliked the play, when they would throw things at the stage.
A drama is a story that is written to be acted for an audience.
An audience can tell that a play is moving on to a new scene when the scenery, lighting, and props change.
Las Casas was a master of rhetoric. How does his language in describing the Spanish settlers and their actions incline his audience to accept his bias or position? Do you think he was successful
Begging the question
Since there are four different scene fives in the play, I cannot say much about the particular scene. I can, however, say something about making a scene seem natural. No scene in theatre is natural. There are conventions about what you are prepared to accept. You can accept that when Juliet stabs herself, real blood does not spurt out of her arteries. You can accept that when it comes time for the curtain call, the actors playing Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt and Mercutio will all take bows. You can accept that we skip over time and only see the interesting bits of the action. We can accept that the playwright has put interesting words in the people's mouths instead of the insipid tripe and the garbled gibberish that usually comes out of people's mouths. In some forms of theatre the audience is called upon to accept some pretty wild things: that one person is simultaneously a whole group of people, that an empty stage is a forest or the inside of a dumpster or outer space, that the actor is holding a gun on someone when there is nothing in his hand, and so on. Audiences regularly accept such things with no difficulty and go on to enjoy the drama. Audiences will not, however, accept these conventions unless the actors accept them and never let go. An audience will accept that a middle-aged man is a young girl if he behaves with complete and sincere conviction like a young girl. Romeo and Juliet does not usually require that extent of audience faith. But the audience must accept that Romeo and Juliet really speak those lines because they mean them and are so in love that their words come out in poetry. To do this the actors must believe that there are no other words in which they could possibly express what they want to say. This is the one and only way to make any play seem natural. The actor must get the audience to come along with him or her into this fantasy world and temporarily accept it as natural, because the actor accepts it as such.