"The performances were to be choric, to involve the audience as a realisation of the "Volkgemeinschaft", and in this respect had antecedents in socialist "Laienspiele" and other movements seeking to open up theatre, including both Protestant and Catholic amateur traditions as well as Ernst Wachler's neo-pagan drama of the early 20th century.The dramas characteristically interwove audience and action, especially through the choruses, and sought to have the audience identify with the National Socialist revolution depicted.