<1> In realistic productions in performance space, the audience member exists imaginatively in the illusion produced on stage and is not aware of or has lost conscious awareness of being in physical space (one could say the audience member is "less aware" of being in physical space, but for the purposes of this model, I say "not aware" to clarify the extremes of awareness or consciousness). In Brechtian productions, on the other hand, the audience member has a heightened awareness of being within physical space and outside of or distanced from the illusion of the production on stage. In happenings, the audience member has a double-edged awareness of being imaginatively within physical space and within the production, so the production is not set distinctly outside of the audience-participant in an imaginative or physically spatial way. The definitions of realism, production values, and conventions of behavior within virtual dramatic space beg to be filled in.

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