Art is influence, and it works both ways. The audience gasps, and the storyteller knows they struck the right note. They laugh, and the storyteller knows their wit landed a blow. They snooze, and the storyteller recalibrates. It is the joy of theater and live music that the audience plays a role in the energy received, absorbed, augmented, transmitted, transmogrified. Any live performer will tell you this. Any live audience will agree.
