Anna in the tropics[audience edition]

The moment I walked in there were people sitting in all three sections. I could hear people casually talking about their expectations of the play and how excited they were to watch their fellow peer perform. It was pretty quiet; no one was talking extremely loud or being obnoxious. Even though the show didnt start everyone was talking in low voices. I began to notice that when the show was suppose 2 start which was at 7:30 people began to stop their conversations and if not they would get even quieter. The show started around 7:36 by the way.
When the show started no one was talking everyone was paying really close attention to what was going on. The phones that people had out were put away and sileneced to show full respect to the actors. They laughed pretty loud at funny parts and stayed quiet for the others. The crowd seemed to be really into it and really follow the story. At the funny parts I couldn't help but laugh aloud with my fellow viewers. In a weird way I tried to match the tone or loudness of everyone else so that when I laughed I wasn't being to rowdy. I think in a sense everyone did that.Everyone seemed to have been laughing a pretty descent volume. I think laughing to loud would distract the performer and in some occasions may be seen as rude[but hey thats just me]. I was sitting in the front row on the right set of risers, so that would be stage left for the actor.  The majority of the audience were either sitting in the middle or the ones to the far left, which is stage right for the actor. Being in the seat I was in I couldn't really get a feel of how the audience felt about the performance. I really like the fact that I noticed the audience focusing on what the director wanted us to be looking at for the time being. For example in the beginning of the play There was a scene with two men betting on a rooster that I guess would win a fight. Then another set of actors came in and the previous ones were frozen and the lights didnt shine on them. To me, It was pretty cool to see how different techniques could get an audience to focus on something else; even though I'm sure there may have been a couple of people that may have been interested in the frozen male actors.  Another part that really spoke wonders on what type of audience we had that night was when they began to do intimate scenes and or talk about sex. There were some children in the audience so the people that looked under sixteen looked very uncomfortable. I completely understand why they acted that way. I dont think Anna in the Tropics was written for an underaged group so the reactions I saw from them were understandable. The elder people on the other hand, people over the age of 18, also responded in weird ways. There were people that really got excited/amused when these scenes happened, those who seemed disgusted or annoyed, and those who just like the younger kids seemed to be uncomfortable. I'm part of the group of people that were excited when these scenes happened. I was amused because I did not see those type of things happening in this play. I expected it to be clean and sweet wholesome love. To my suprise there were affairs and a lot of lust going on, so it was nice to see this type of thing going on. There was only one point where I felt uncomfortable with a paticular intimate scene was when the eldest daughter started to kiss her husband. I felt awkward along with some other people watching this paticular scene because they were kissing with no emotion and at that moment I felt like they broke character because the kisses looked really fake. If they were executed a little better the uncomfortable feeling that some of the audience members got probally wouldn't have happened. As soon as we saw the look of a "staged" kiss and not a really passionate one it just looked like two people kissing that didnt really like each other.
Last but not least on my way home I could not stop talking about the lector because he was so handsome and Corinna because she was amazing and I had no idea she was such a wonderful actress.