How strange.. I've been thinking about conversational skills a lot recently and now this wonderful post.

I just posted this clip of Orson Welles take on a performer wining over an audience, a skill which is not easily pulled off. He talks about real audiences being extinct and therefore the skills needed to seduce or dominate an audience are becoming redundant.

Orson Welles on performers working an audience

In a way, we are performers winning over the attention and attraction of the female audience. Interesting...