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Exploring Theatre—Lecture on Spaces & Actor/Audience Relationships

I am professor lynn porter of fairfield university and this is my intro to theater lecture on actor audience relationships and how they...

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Actors connect to the audience with their performance and everything that comes with it—their tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions. This connection communicates emotions, ideas, artistic expression, and plot, drawing the audience into the world of the story.
Actors share experience or information and audiences become expressive. Audiences also recall their experiences at the same time to watch the theatre. It is the basic relation between actor or performer and audience.
If an actor speaks directly to the audience, does something to the audience, or even simply notices the audience, it is known as breaking the fourth wall. In a movie, or on television, this can be done by the actor speaking directly to the camera. This breaks a boundary normally set up or assumed by works of fiction.
'Presentational acting', in this sense, refers to a relationship that acknowledges the audience, whether directly by addressing them, or indirectly through a general attitude or specific use of language, looks, gestures or other signs that indicate that the character or actor is aware of the audience's presence.
fourth wall, in theatre, television, film, and other works of fiction, a convention that imagines a wall existing between actors and their audience. The wall is invisible to the audience, so viewers can see the performance, but opaque to the actors, blocking them from the audience.