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I. The Audience
o The theatre experience
o The actor-audience relationship
o the chemistry of actor-audience contact
o The group experience
o Psychology of groups
o How audience makeup affects the experience
o The separate roles of performers and spectators
a. How should the audience be involved?
b. Participation on direct action
◦ The imagination of the audience
The dramatic imagination of spectators
“Reality” of the imagination
◦ Realistic and nonrealistic theatre
Realistic elements
Nonrealistic elements
Combining the realistic and the nonrealistic
IX. Tragedy
o Traditional tragedy
o Modern tragedy
X. Comedy
o Characteristics of comedy
o Suspension of natural laws
oContrast between the social order and the individual
oThe comic premise
o Techniques of comedy
verbal humour
comedy of character
plot complications
Farce