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The Audience Position

This series explores the ways various artists and companies employ the tools of interactive theatre to complicate audiences’ individualized experiences and get them thinking about their place within a community.

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13 July 2016

In this installment, Damon Krometis shares his experience with garnering audience collaboration and gives tips on how to best include audience members in a performance. 

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17 April 2016

In this installment, Damon Krometis discusses the Boston premiere of An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and the ways this production positioned the audience as both spectators and participants.

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Watching the Watchers

25 January 2016

In this installment, Damon Krometis discusses Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 and the relationship between watching and being watched for theatregoers.

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8 December 2015

In this fourth installment, Director Damon Krometis discusses the implications of spatial relationships between performers and audiences.

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17 November 2015

In the third installment of his series, Damon Krometis explores how much agency to give audiences during an interactive performance.

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31 October 2015

In the second installment of his The Audience Position series, Damon Krometis describes the unwritten contract and relationship between actors and audience members.

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Introduction

21 September 2015

In the first installment of his series, Damon Krometis explains his relationship to interactive theatre and his influences.

Series are collections of content curated around a specific theme. HowlRound works with curators to develop topical pieces meant to spotlight current events and happenings within the commons.

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