Does the taste of an audience limit the theatre? Was- CANDRAMA and a Question

[Alastair M. Wallis Jarvis]

Stuart!

Thanks for telling us what's going on there!

        While I think that Lepage is fully aware of the influence of
television on an audience, I agree wholeheartedly with your perception of
an audience's tendency to demand realism. It certainly is a challenge to
find a way of pushing the envelope that does not mean you play to empty
houses.

        Perhaps a question to throw to everyone on the list would be how
the audience's expectation and taste limit the work which is done in
Canadian theatre?

        Is there a responsability to educate an audience? Can such
questions be raised without necessarily being subject to accusations of
elitism?