I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.
There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Audiences can be very judgmental.
I guess you'd have to say that sometimes the audience is smarter than the critics.
I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.
The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.