Le Uanaktplhei for Le llongherodienz

After presenting the one act play at the festival, in hiram, we presented it in school for the Form II and form I students, but they didn't react as planned or as well (to the jokes) as the audience in the one act play. Maybe because they didn't understand very well, or maybe because we weren't with as much energy as before, or maybe they just didn't wanted to laugh, i don't know.

The target audience of our play was Form III students and older (and parents) and so we did have a wide range of possibilities to play with on stage, but for some strange reason, younger kids did not find it amusing, although they were not very far form our target audience. I wonder why.

Maybe they were forced to go and therefore didn't enjoy it, because theatre supposedly an art (i say supposedly because i don't know if what WE DO is actually art but anyways...what is art then? lets leave that for another blog) but art is enjoyable as long as its voluntary, as its a passion and not a duty. When you see it as a duty it stops being art, and the same for the audience. People that are still in form I and II may not yet have developed a like for theatre arts, mostly because over 90% of them just chose theatre cause its the easiest course (...before the IB...) and not because they actually enjoy it.

So your target audience has to be, known before hand, people that enjoy theatre, and so will get entertained, but you can't show a play to a audience that are not willing and expecting to be enjoyed by a play of this type. It's just a theory though, which may break down is people from sixth grade enjoy it more, and then i would have to re-do and re-think about it, but my predictions are a silent audience, with actually no questions at the end because they won't be paying attention. But i guess this is how to awake the passion for theatre in the youth, because if they grow up without any theatre, then there will be no way of making theatre enjoyable for them, if it isn't voluntary, as they will not be pre disposed to enjoy a play and therefore wont find it entertaining. But how can you make plays entertaining to this kind of audience that don't like theatre, to start that spark? because maybe it is just voluntary, there is no actual way to make someone like theatre by forcing him to.