It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
If the audience doesn't like it, usually they're just silent. But they've never all walked out at once.
If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.
With 1,000-seater venues, rather than 5,000-seaters, there are richer opportunities for sucking the audience in.
I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.
Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.
Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place.
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
The players never think they project enough. In a hall that seats 3,300 people, it's a very scary thing to play so quietly that you can barely hear yourself.