3.3 Audience space/scenographic space

By Scott Palmer (pp. 74-84)

• Theatre spaces by their way of nature seek to organize people and place them in specific relationships to the performers and to each other.

• Place is a practised space. Space becomes place when it develops significance by its inhabitants or users (Michel de Certeau, 1984).

• “We are spatial creatures, we respond instinctively to space… it is the apprehension of space that may be the most profound and powerful experience of live theatre although, admittedly, it is one that is most often felt subconsciously” (Aronson, 2005:1)