Entertainment for an audience!
The whole purpose of a performance is to gain attention from others, reaching out to their emotions whether to make them laugh or cry. They must remain interested in some way throughout the whole piece to be successful. A performance can be absolutely anything, anywhere and at any length of time to entertain. It can be with or without people, music, dialogue, props or effects. A performance is a deliberate setting but can also be experimental and using improvisation.
“The spectator will go to the theatre the way he goes to the surgeon or dentist. In the same state of mind – knowing, of course, that he will not die, but that it is a serious thing, and that he will not come out of it unscathed."
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