audience = sitters

We are investigating the power of the audience member as an active participant in the performance event. If theatre is a dialogue between the artists and the audience, what is the essence of that two-way transaction?
Sophie and I aren't interested in putting the audience in the spotlight as such. It's a fine balance between the discomfort that makes an individual close off from an experience, and the discomfort that makes them active.
We know that theatre needs an audience, but how is that different to cinema or even visual art? They too require audiences, but the work exists in the first instance to then be 'viewed' by a spectator.
We want to create an experience that literally cannot happen without its audience. We want to investigate that complicity that occurs when a person enters a theatre with the desire to contribute through the presence of their body in the communal space. This work is about a group of people creating through the mere presence of their bodies.

This article gives a great outline on the importance of the 'sitters' for a seance