nonetheless , all the playerswhatever their inclinations and differences in personalitywould , for the sake of their audience , live out the lives of these characters again and again in perpetual repetition , and they would be revered and loved once at noon , once in the late afternoon and once in the evening , and the audiences would clap and howl and whistle and throw roses , until the curtain went down and the hall fell to murmurs and then silence .