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Question: Have theatre audiences changed dramatically in terms of the expectations and their makeup in the last forty years, in your experience? Answer: Yeah, and I mean, depressingly so in terms of technology again, I?m sorry, this is turning into [laughing] a rant about technology. Because I love things like moving lights, you know, I absolutely, and I think that the new technology for things like moving scenery, point hoist systems, motors, replacing the Victorian kind of counterweights systems which are heavy and ugly and restrictive, you know, we?ve got a lot of technology now which can free up design, and will do, I hope, technology that allows us to be minimal rather than have big heavy machinery which to me stinks of the Victorian age and is something we should be leaving behind. But in terms of sound systems, technologically I think audiences have become very much, it?s almost like they?ve become, their senses have been deadened a bit and the number of shows I go to now where the sound is over produced and you know, nobody sings live on stage anymore, it?s all going through microphone and, and, yeah, it?s all processed. But I think people, you know, whether people demand that kind, they?re used to it now, they?re used to it. And so I think people, you know, that?s a worry, I think people should be getting better at listening, not getting lazier, getting their ear kind of blasted with amplified sound. Even in, there was a period in the early nineties, where I know the National were doing lots of hidden follow spot lighting within scenes to help you follow the person on stage, well, that?s extraordinary. If it?s not their acting and their voices helping you follow them, then, you know help. But also doing, you know, there are a lot of theatres using float mikes on Shakespeare, you know that kind of hidden, secret amplification, and I think that kind of thing is, is, a worry in terms of what audiences expect. I think they?re being spoon-fed. |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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2 minutes 13.24 seconds |
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