If all the world's a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Answer 1

Waiting for the finale at your funeral.

Answer 2

No need for chairs, the audiences are also in the stage. If there is one audience not part of the drama, well... HE don't need a chair either, HE can sit without one, HE can watch the soap opera with HIS eyes closed, HE might as well be the director of the whole thing - GOD.

In every rule there is an exeption, if the whole world's gonna be the stage, we may as well change our concept of how we will play or watch it, new rules apply to this one, all performers are audiences, all audiences are performers.

Answer 3

when james burbage built 'the theatre' early in the 1580s it was the world's first custom-built playhouse. the word 'theatre' was actually invented by burbage to describe a place where people went to see a drama.

over the next twenty years theatre became hugely popular -and hugely profitable - in london. enormous fortunes were made by people involved in the theatre. this worried the establishment since 'players' did not need to serve an apprenticeship or join a guild. players were roughnecks with wild lifestyles, but several of them achieved superstar status (will kempe in particular).

the two big companies (the beatles and the rolling stones) were alleyne's men, and the company belonging to james burbage's son richard.

alleyne's men had the greatest playwright the world had ever seen in christopher marlowe. but burbage had hired a young gun from stratford - william shakespeare - who just kept getting better.

when the lease expired on 'the theatre' giles alleyn the landlord (not the same guy as edward alleyne - the theatrical impressario) tried to claim ownership of the building (which he hoped would make him a lot of money).

james had died by now, so late one night richard and a bunch of heavies broke onto the plot where 'the theatre' had been built and stole the building.

('stole the building':: this is a late elizabethan wooden frame construction. stealing it is difficult but not impossible).

burbage' men spirited the timbers across the thames and rebuilt it as 'the globe' south of the river.

because they were about to move up-market they put a posh latin motto on the front door:

TOTUS MUNDUS AGIT HISTRIONEM

nobody really knows if this is a half-rased translation into latin of william shakespeare's 'for all the world's a stage' ('as you like it') of if it was a well-known phrase which shakespeare himself had translated to put in his play.

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this doesn't answer your question.

but it is a lot more interesting than any answer to your question could be.

Answer 4

Who says an audience is nessicary? Is it not enough that the actors recognize each other?

Alternate answer: since all the world's a stage, the audience must be aliens.

Answer 5

My guess is that if thats the case, then all the audiences are sitting on the stage.. They are actuali takin part in the 'world' play as well.. By just bein audiences..

Answer 6

You're quoting from Jacques' famous monologue in "As You Like It," but I think you need to look at a bit more of it in order to answer the question. Jacques' says: "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." In essence, he's provided the response you seek. "All the men and women" in the world are actors in a play. Not necessarily the SAME play, and not all at the same time...Jacques also says that we all have "entrances and exits," so obviously we're not ON all the time. But, insofar as we're all the stars of our OWN play...the audience is all around us. While we're playing our parts (the "7 ages of man," as described in the monologue), the audience is all of the people with whom we interact. And we're in THEIR plays, too.

Answer 7

The Universe?

Answer 8

The audience is taking part in the play!

Answer 9

The audience is part of the stage. There is no one watching beyond ourselves.

Answer 10

the audience willl sitting on the chair

Answer 11

we really don`t have audience because we all taking part on stage...