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Role reversal: when audience participation doesn't work by Lyn Gardner

Do you look the other way when a performer invites you on stage? Or get into the spirit of things?Last Saturday afternoon in Newcastle, I watched a very good actor struggle and work incredibly hard to get six people up on stage during Theatre O's take on The Secret Agent, based on a novella by Joseph Conrad. The audience was invited on stage in a scene that demonstrates the need for a government to scare people in th…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:23AM on October 28, 2013

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