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    It is not the case that The theatre experience involves active participation by the audience.

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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