Micha Wertheim Somewhere Else

The bigger the audiences for Dutch comedian Micha Wertheims shows became the less he had to do to make them laugh In one early show he suggested that the audience would be better off without him So in 2016 he acted upon this suggestion with an experiment that made theater history he wasnt physically present onstage but somewhere else The audience wasnt aware of this in advance though they did get a hint in the form of a prerecorded live radio interview from a remote studio I see my audience as my children Wertheim says in this interview You have to educate them and thats what Ive been doing for the past 15 years At first you have to constantly be there watching them but there comes a time when you have to trust them to get on with it without you With some help from a robot a printer a stereo and a set of headphones the members of his audience were able to make their own performance