Theater Matters with Jarice Hanson: Audience participation required: Three plays raise questions around moral integrity and point of view

Theater Matters with Jarice Hanson: Audience participation required: Three plays raise questions around moral integrity and point of view

By Jarice Hanson For the Valley Advocate Plays about difficult subjects, like the consequences of personal actions, politics, and social change, require more of the audience in terms of asking them to consider how their own sense of morality and moral integrity filters into their willingness to accept the playwright’s ideas. Media theorists have long argued that any form of media (like theater) does one of two things. Plays either reflect social…