Theatre is for people......

You might work hours and hours, days and days, months and months, years and years masering your piece of art whether its a song, poem, dance,theatre or paintng it does not matter if people dont like it; if people dont appreciate it; if people are not behind your work,your creation won't go anywhere...you must as well stay with under the box unless its a choice. I met up with a friend in joburg she is a well known actress, actually i think she is the best one we have as our own she exhumes an amazing oresence and presence, she is beautiful on stage and she is working hard she has done well for herself, she just had a opening night for her show, for a woman of her calibre you expect a marvelous and wonderous turn up of audience but to her dimay and my shock the openning night did not do so well, mind you its not the lighting ,blocking, make-up costume or acting.BUT people did not pitch, my question is how does the audience affect the perfomance of show including behind the scenes.

I was perfoming in swaziland with  Tumelo Khoza, i expected not to have an audience becouse iam used to not having an audience surely i channelled my mind to accept the predicaments of the situation, to my surprise, we had about 50 chairs and those chairs were filled only two or three empty chairs yet it was occupied by cameras and woter bottles. My perfomance was different i felt that the stage was for the audience therefore respect is crucial, also felt that they owned what was in front of them yet it became my territory yet it becomes my solitude they boosted me to be more creative even after the show  i was being fed the energy i needed as a artist and i responded with the same energy. The audience was also perfoming with me  feeding each other energy. It was an awe moment for me, i asked my self  how did they do it to have such a turn out.

what if the audience is not there? what is the purpose of my theatre? what happens to an actor, poet, dancer, singer,painter if the audience is not there??

"Theatre is for people we do it for them,  hungry they become fuller we become"_Bandile Mkhize