Closely Reading Community Audiences: A Simple Twist of Faith and Site-Specific Community Plays.

This article offers a close reading of audience member reflections of A Simpl Twist of Faith, a Canadian play that uses community-engaged theatre practices and site-specific dramaturgy. What can we as scholars, researchers, and artists learn from long-form audience responses? How does site, time, identity, and community infiltrate and overlap in this play? By centering audience reflections, this article offers a critical case-study in ethnographic audience research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]