Multiplicity of meanings and the audience's role in making dramatic meaning

What this note covers

1. Audiences actively assemble dramatic meaning
2. Multiplicity keeps several meanings or perspectives in active relation
3. Co-creation ranges from interpretation to consequential participation
4. Ambiguity needs structure and evidence
5. Audience configuration changes what spectators can know and do
6. Worked co-created ending: distributing the final testimony
7. Worked partial-viewpoint event: four witnesses, one sealed room
8. Worked ambiguity test: spectators allocate the final light

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