You have to make an audience experience with the ears as well as their eyes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.
Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.
You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.