Constructing Meaning: An Audience Interprets Western Canada Theatre

Authors

  • Ginny Ratsoy

Abstract

This article, reprinted from It’s Your Cue: The Audience Show, a catalogue for an exhibition of photographs of regular attendees at Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops, is based on the premise that theatre audiences produce meaning – of both individual plays and entire theatre companies. The article interprets a survey administered to regular attendees of WCT productions and addresses the following questions:

What is the impact of the company on the individual and the city?

How do respondents perceive the audience demographics?

What is the nature of the impact of the company’s plays?

What suggestions for change do the respondents have?

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Published

2012-07-17

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2012): The PROFESSIONAL THEATRES ISSUE

Section

SECTION THREE: AUDIENCES AND BEST PRACTICES

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