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Campbell, Paul Newell – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1981
Defends the notion of the abstract audience. Questions Gillespie's concept of audience adaptation and the relationship among play, actor, and audience. (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Drama, Interaction
Peer reviewedCampbell, Paul Newell – Central States Speech Journal, 1981
Develops the argument that considering theatrical performances to be rhetorical transactions between actors and audiences is both inappropriate and critically unprofitable. (See EJ 240 170-173.) (PD)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Dance, Drama
Campbell, Paul Newell – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1981
Argues that theater is aimed at and presented to an ideal or abstract audience. Discusses the implications of performing for an actual audience, adaptation to various audiences, and the concept of the audience as an evaluative device. (See CS 705 536.) (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Drama, Interaction
