The World at Play: Performance from the Audience's Perspective interrogates what makes audiences and their experiences of the performing arts so unique and intense. Right through the following chapters, you will become aware of the conscious and unconscious phenomena that occur when groups of people gather to experience performance, how you can increase your own individual capacity to better analyze and respond to performance events, and then take a deep dive into the characteristics that set each form apart from the others in order to better understand your experience of them.