AUDIENCE
Signature: The audience seems to always be an important part of
the equation for you, particularly in your direct address, one-person
shows. Do you take the audience into account while you’re writing?
WE: I hope so. And certainly in those one-person kind of direct address
things. I think most people who care, and are good at writing plays have
to do that. It occurred to me one time that, even if you have a huge cast,
the audience is going to outweigh the people onstage pound for pound
in terms of humanity. And they’re just a huge part– that’s where it all
happens. A play gets finished in an audience’s mind. So I’m– I hope–
deferential and kind and open to the idea of an audience.
Will Eno, 2013.
Conor Lovett in
Title and Deed at
Signature Theatre,
2012.
...the audience is going to
outweigh the people onstage
pound for pound in terms
of humanity.
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