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The theatrical experience is unique in that actors and audience get together at the same time and place for a specific purpose. Actors act for an audience; there is an implied contract under which the person in the audience willingly suspends his disbelief in the pretending on stage. He knows that the actor playing Julius Caesar does not really die when he is stabbed, and that is not real blood. He knows these things but agrees to pretend that he does NOT know them so that he can empathize with the actors on stage. The audience for a theatrical production is not a voyeur. It is a participant, part of an active relationship. Each side brings something to the event, and they pretend together. This is why the events are called "plays".

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