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The theatre experience involves active participation by t... — Carmelics

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The theatre experience involves active participation by the audience.

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1.Marcel conceives of the theatre as an experience of 'communion'.
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2.Communion implies mutual, active participation rather than one-directional transmission.
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1.Aristotle's concept of catharsis frames the audience as passive recipients of emotional purgation initiated by the dramatic action itself.
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2.If emotional transformation occurs through reception rather than production, the audience's role is fundamentally receptive, not participatory.
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1.Guy Debord argues in 'Society of the Spectacle' that theatrical spectatorship epitomizes alienated passivity, where the audience contemplates life rather than living it.
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2.Marcel's 'communion' metaphor conflates felt emotional resonance with genuine active participation, which requires agential contribution to the shared event.
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Nevertheless there is also an active side to artistic enjoyment, as in reading, for example. Without the spectator’s contemplation, or the reader’s reading, the artwork’s expression remains purely subjective. It becomes objective, manifesting its sense in actuality, only through the symbolic consumption of the audience. This act, however, is not passive: it mobilises the audience’s own power of expression and imagination. Reading, watching, or listening are, as Sartre puts it, “directed creation

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