Thank you Sharon, basically what I was trying to say.
De
Brain fogged
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>Our two big tourneys are held at the group came at a local state park --
>which is very much a public site. The spectators do watch the fighting
>from a distance -- many ask questions and some stay and feast with us
>(suitably garbed/tabarded of course). One year, one of the park
>rangers came, stayed and later joined. Unless your event is held on
>Private Property, if you at a visible part of State Park property
>(which is where many of our events are held), you have spectators.
Yes, but in the case of SCA events, these general public spectators
are an unintended (and unavoidable) accident, not a primary, intended
part of the plan. SCA events are not put on for the
benefit/entertainment of a non-participatory audience, while many
other re-creation societies do put on their events purposefully for
the benefit/entertainment of a non-participatory audience. (If the
same SCA event that attracts an audience on public property were held
on private property, there would be no audience -- while the civil
war battle re-enactment will have an invited audience regardless of
whether held on public or private property.)
In short, SCA events are not a performance for an audience.
Renaissance fairs and nearly all battle re-enactment societies'
events are. And this difference profoundly affects the nature of
these events and re-creations.
Sharon
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