An audience made entirely of green leafy plants and an audience experience completely mediated through a chat feature are two of the many examples of innovative audience involvement and participation in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our research considers audience engagement and reimagines what liveness can mean for an audience on the cyber-stage.
Neuroscience Sheds Light on Audio THEATRE’S Ability for Audience Engagement
A recent paper in Nature, titled “Natural Speech Reveals the Semantic Maps that Tile Human Cerebral Cortex,” explains how, neurologically and psychologically, the medium of audio theatre inherently engages its listeners.