Drama Masks: The audience is listening-but who is 'The Notebook' romancing? - 48 hills
Audience-performer boundaries can collapse into violence when politically charged performance provokes, as in a German production where spectators attacked an actor playing a fascist.
Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
A university actor was accidentally stabbed onstage during a staged fight using a real knife, sustaining a 7.8cm back wound and requiring hospital treatment.