Thursday, October 30, 2008

A Room With No Doors

There's something incredibly visceral and immediate about watching horror on stage. In film and television the special effects may look more realistic, but the audience has a psychological distance from the action. When you're watching a horror play, you're trapped in the same room as the monsters and madmen. Blood sprays across the stage, sometimes splashing the audience, and there's no escape for the viewer.

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