In this weeks readings, the relationship between audience and actor were prevalent in Brecht, Boal, and Taylor’s work. First I’d like to begin with Performance, where we see an expansion of the thing one is doing and something that is done. It seems that Taylor is expanding the conversation on how audiences and spectators influence performance or they also take part in performing. She also points out how politicians as well as actors in terms of theater, engaged and shape the body, for example, colonialism, capitalism, religion, and dictatorships. I think that this book, performance, is itself, an act of performance because it engages the reader through photographs of performances. Brecht gives us an understanding of the theater, he mentions that it’s a platform to experience pleasures. Brecht, Taylor and, Boal in theater of the oppressed speak about the self and reality, meaning that as spectators or audience members, even in the form of a political event, we alienate from the reality to what its our our existence. Where theater, and like the book performance tells us, as spectators or audience members , Brecht promotes art as a way to intervene with history, which my interpretation of this would be, as spect-actors, to intervene with power and transform the realities in which we live.