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THE THEATRE OF DISSATISFACTION
Today, the modern audience like in the Elizabethan theatre also chooses, influences, takes part in a performance. However, it is only because there is no other choice. The author able to propose a consistent, comfortable and exciting world no longer exists. The spectator has to construct the text of the play on his own. Whereas the goal of the 17thC English actors was to live up to the audience expectations, the founders of postdramatic theatre try with all their might to let those expectations down. Everything that up to this time attracted the clientele during some hundreds years of bourgeois theatre’s dominance – is rejected. Spectators entering the space of the game they give a mute assent to have everything they do used against themselves.