Performance Relations And The Theatrical Arts

As it is explained by Peter Brook on the nature of drama,"Actor"and"Audience"are two crucial components of a drama, while stage scenery, lighting, sound effect, costume, makeup and other factors remain minor. The drama makes itself real only when actors perform in front of audience. In other words, a complete drama performance is to establish an actor-audience relationship. It is the completion of the actor-audience relationship establishment that is decisive in the presentation of a drama, in that actors and audience are in the dual position of co-existence and mutual confrontation.Formerly, drama focused much on"actor"but neglected the role audience played. However, nowadays, audience is more and more highlighted. The audience decides the overall structure and orientation of a drama. Therefore, the audience is the premise of director's way of thinking and dramatist's script writing.With the development of film industry, TV industry and Internet, drama should play a more active role universally, in order to demonstrate its charm of immersed sense and interactive participation. In this dissertation, the writer trys to sort out the rule of the actor-audience relationship development, to conclude its mode, to propose the possible options of actor-audience relationship, and to put forward new methods to deepen the implementation of actor-audience relationship. Through the breakthrough in the actor-audience relationship establishment, the innovation of a drama performance can be realized and the audience can have a whole new experience.