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Jerry--
Thanks for your complete and well-considered answers, one of which prompted another question. You talk about the audience discussion, which I haven't found to be a totally useful experience. I believe a well-structured framework in which the audience "describes their experience but never offers suggestions on how to make it better" would be useful to me. What format/process does your theater use to frame questions in a manner which elicits useful answers? Our discussion series has been going on for more than a decade. Nonetheless, before every post-reading discussion we lay out the ground rules. We are looking for feedback on the audience's experience: what they enjoyed, what they despised, where they got confused, misled, what they expected as opposed to what they got, were they surprised, etc. We don't want to know how they would have written any of the characters, or how they would change the action of the play. If, in the course of the subsequent discussion, a respondent begins to cross the line, we stop them (we is me or John Gl |