The theatre itself needs to create a relationship between the performer and the audience  no one in the audience should feel that theyre getting an unreasonably prejudiced view of the actor Its important that theyre not too far away they can hear they can see they can feel in some sense in contact with whats going on on stage The proportions of an auditorium are important They have to respond to the human voice and the scale of the human body If an auditorium dwarfs the human body theres something wrong with it because you cant deny the human form at the heart of drama A lot of theatres in the late nineteenth century got it right because they managed to shape an auditorium that somehow embraces the stage