I Can't Stand It: @mnemonictheatre vs @nestruck
A Twitter debate over an idea ovation innovation: Asking audiences to please stay seated unless "incredibly satisfied". Vancouver's Mnemonic Theatre proposes; Globe and Mail critic J. Kelly Nestruck disposes. What do you think?
@broadwaybabyto @wyl81 @@nestruck @tinarasmussen | AN IDEA TO REMEDY "THE COMPULSORY CANADIAN STANDING O" | ow.ly/hB4sS Thoughts?
I've said it before I'll say it again just never want to underestimate the audience @mnemonictheatre @broadwaybabyto @wyl81 @nestruck
@mnemonictheatre Perhaps you should include a program note on when and how to laugh and cry. Or perform to robots.
@mnemonictheatre I like idea of inviting honest feedback, we're accustomed to being polite & not say anything- @mnemonictheatre The audience is always part of the process. You're actually taking agency away from them.
- @mnemonictheatre Nothing wrong with surveying your audience. Choreographing the way they respond is silly, however...
- @mnemonictheatre Hmmm... Maybe it's not up to you to decide how audiences engage with art.
- @mnemonictheatre Again, the irony is that you are actually taking away interactivity by dictating how spectators should respond at curtain.
- @mnemonictheatre Don't turn me into data, diminish my response by turning me into a three-point scale.
- @mnemonictheatre At least I get four stars... But, nevertheless, your audience is not comprised of theatre critics.
- @mnemonictheatre One of the great joys of going to the theatre for fun, for me, is not having to come up with a reductive rating...
- @mnemonictheatre ... and being able to keep my opinion to myself. Your audience doesn't owe you a review or a data set or whatever it is.
- @mnemonictheatre Exactly! But you want to turn your audience into theatre critics. And the worst kind.
- @mnemonictheatre No, the only difference is that a critic *has* to voice an opinion, usually in a prescribed format.
