Justice is blind, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t watching. It means she is watching without Judgement, which is reserved for another capacity entirely: a different angel or volitional agent of God’s cosmic consciousness.
But sometimes the witness to an event changes those events.
While practicing in China earlier in his career, Boal would apply ’simultaneous dramaturgy’. In this process, the actors or audience members could stop a performance, often a short scene in which a character was being oppressed in some way (for example, a typically chauvinist man mistreating a woman or a factory owner mistreating an employee). The audience would suggest different actions for the actors to carry out on-stage in an attempt to change the outcome of what they were seeing. This was an attempt to undo the traditional audience/actor partition and bring audience members into the performance, to have an input into the dramatic action they were watching.
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