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Introduction
Freeing the Captive Audience
Performance, Education, and Everyday Life in a Dramatized World
Performance matters. Therefore, audience matters. Performance and audience matter in culture, in sociopolitics, in economics, and in technology. Therefore, performance and audience should matter to young people in schools (see Bauer, 1997; Eek, 1959; Grady, 1995; Jaeckel, 1996; Kubler, 1987; Miller, 1993; Strukus, 2002). This collection of essays and poems examines the potential of heightening young peoples’ ability to perceive and interpret their own participation as members of an audience in performance (AIP). In an increasingly dramatized and performative contemporary world, this book’s focus on developing an AIP curriculum offers illuminating educational experiences in and through the performing arts.