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dealt with the relationship between the actor and the audi-
ence. The following are abstracts from those comments:
The actors seemed unafraid of the audience and
their inter-action was good (I got an apple; wonder
what kind of Eve that makes me?).
The production seemed a successful attempt
to involve the audience in a series of provocative
and moving impressions of man. It was a memorable
experience.
To effectively critique a production one must
be an outside observer to insure objectivity. This
position of removed observer I cannot assume be-
cause I was totally emeshed in the production and
the literature. Your intention of relating to and
involving your audience was completely realized in
me, and I an sure it was realized in the other audi-
ence members as well.
The open theatre concert of audience rela-
tionshir to the literature and the production was
well illustrated and achieved by your skillful
establishment of aesthetic distance. The destruc-
tion of this distance, by shattering the fourth
wall either by physical movement or by addressing
a spoken line through the wall, was very effective.
The techniques of direction you employed served to
bring your audience closer to the intention of the
production and closer to involvement with the
meaning itself.
I wished for more audience contact in Viet
Rock. I wanted the cast to come into the audience
at the end of the play which is suggested in the
script. I feel your uninhibited cast could have
handled this beautifully, and it would have en-
hanced the production.
I don't know if it was by choice or not, but,
I feel the stage used was a wonderful choice.
It brought the audience much closer to the thoughts
of the cast.
Viet was quite original in its approach to the
audience and its relationship to the individual
audience member.
The audience was allowed, sometimes forced,
to experience with the cast humor, pain, pathos,
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Peveto, Mildred A. An Experiment in Open Theatre, thesis, August 1972; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500450/m1/87/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .