My production would be a murder mystery dinner party. It would take place at a restaurant, where the waiters, chefs, and hostess's would be acting as usual. The people eating at the restaurant would be the audience. The audience would purchase a ticket and would understand that they were signing up for dinner and a murder mystery party. It would use the 6 axioms of environment theatre. It would be a set of related transaction in the way the people interact with each other and the restaurant staff. It will use all the space because it is using the whole restaurant. It will take place in a transformed space. The focus would be flexible because it is heavily dependent on the audience, and variable because there could be different ways to solve the murder mystery.
The framework of site-specific theatre and environmental theatre effects my production because my production does not take place in a theater. It heavily relies on the environment to be successful. I think it would be an enhancement for the audience. Certain members of the audience would not actually be audience members, they would be performers acting as the audience. They will help further along the mystery.
I agree with Kantor's view because people are utterly surprised when seeing theatre outside of a theater. People expect theatre to be in a box sometimes, and don't realize that street performers can be theatre as well. I think it does surprise people when theatre is in a different site than usual.
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