On the subject of audience reaction: The Infinite Monkey Cage, a BBC Radio science/comedy show hosted by Briana Cox and Robin Ince has always been recorded in f

On the subject of audience reaction: The Infinite Monkey Cage, a BBC Radio science/comedy show hosted by Briana Cox and Robin Ince has always been recorded in front of an audience. They have recently been experimenting with remote audience and it's worked surprisingly well. They have built a webapp for it called the virtual audience recording system that the audience members use while watching the live show in zoom. The performers and audience can hear each other through it, so you are not just laughing to yourself. It's really quite striking how much of a difference having an audienceakes to the performance. The conversation seems to flow much better and theres a lot more energy to it. Ive been involved in community theatre for years and I've always found the interaction between audiences and cast absolutely fascinating, especially with comedy, where a near identical performance can feel so different from one night to the next.