The Audience of Survivors

Send us Fan MailGEORGE:In this series we’ve treated plague as a character.We’ve treated fear as a character.We’ve treated rumor, policy, numbers—characters.Today I want to treat the audience itself as a character.Not a passive crowd.A living organism.WILL:Yes.A crowd is not merely many people.It is one creature with many hearts.GEORGE:And after plague, that creature is wounded.WILL:Wounded—and hungry.GEORGE:Hungry for what?WILL:For company.For permission to feel.For a story that does not lie to them…but also does not crush them.George -  What the plague did to the audience before they even arrivedLet’s build the world they were walking in.Your city tracked death publicly.Bills. Lists. Tallies. Numbers.WILL:Yes.A city reading its own obituary in installments.Support the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.