 On the other hand performance does not involve a whole population. Many young male Athenians did participate in choruses for comedy and tragedy. Each year a few dozen future farmers and doctors, generals and gentlemen, spent a season preparing for their time on stage. Even so, the extensiveness of the practice among young people does not justify barring all drama from the city and from the sight of each citizen, and that is what Plato’s concluding ban comes to: