Neighbourly Theatricality

Scenes generate a chance to see and be seen, shaping the bearing and manners of their members. Participants can enjoy the essentially social pleasure of beautifully performing a role or a part, or of watching others do so. Theatricality is the pleasure of appearances, the way we display ourselves to others and see their images in turn.

 

Does participating in the activity associated with [amenity] promote in participants a sense that it is good, because it is pleasurable, to notice and/or be noticed by others in terms of intimate, face-to-face relations where participants tend to have, desire, or establish personal relations with one another?

Is being notice by others in terms of face to face relations a crucial part of this amenity? Would the absence of this quality fundamentally change this amenity?

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Does participating in the activity associated with [amenity] promote in participants a sense that it is good, because it is pleasurable, to notice and/or be noticed by others impersonally, in terms of (the often cold) distance that comes from keeping one’s distance from others?

Is being noticed by others impersonally a crucial part of this amenity? Would the absence of this opposition fundamentally change this amenity?

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