The willing suspension of disbelief of a theatre audience is the willingness to for a moment, shut out the “real world” and accept what is happening on the stage as a real world situation for a two or three hour period. Those who attend a theatre showing, from the moment they purchase their tickets, are agreeing to temporarily suspend their disbelief of any otherwise impossible real world situations. Whether it means believing in love at first sight, talking animals, or wizards and witches, they want to partake in a story that brings them out of their everyday normalcy. However, even with an out-of-this-world theatrical situation, the audience can find their own human nature in performances and allows them to connect to the actors and occurrences.
