Audience

Audience can come in various shapes or forms depending on what kind of play your doing. If it’s a more of a violent play you can expect there to be a bigger ratio of men to women watching the play, however a romantic play would be more popular with women than with men. Thinking that way gives you a clear understanding of your audience. 
there are three different types of audience, contrast audience is when the audience paid to watch the play and are there by choice, pass us by audience is when people are just walking by and happen to stay and watch a street performance, and lastly, captive audience is an audience that’s there because they are forced to be there, example- a school trip. 

when thinking about your audience, you need to think about; their age, what age group is your play attracting, their ethnicity, what ethnicity group would they be and why? Maybe because of some religious/cultural context, their occupation, so would they be loaded and have a lot of money or would they just be like every other person, their preferences, so depending on their age, gender, ethnicity, what might their preferences be, and finally their interests, what might their interests be, this fits in with preferences.

All of this that I have mentioned is our target audience, however there’s another more posh and professional word for that, and it is a demographic. In this case my, our demographic for our performances is children, and because we know that we can make our performance really funny and make lots of jokes that would be much suited for children than adults, but we can also change our physicality and the way we act to be really over the top and dramatic.