What is the importance of the "audience" in the play, Fairview?

At the beginning of the play, the audience represents what the play seems to suggest is the typical audience for a play - mostly white people. Keisha offers this insight at the play's conclusion, which suggests that the play's perception of the audience in those terms has been there from the beginning. As the narrative and action of the play unfold, however, the audience starts to take on a wider and broader representation - that of non-black people in general, and particularly white people. In Act Two, when the non-black / white characters appear and start commenting on the actions and stories of the black Act One characters, there is a sense that the playwright intends for those Act Two characters to represent the voices and attitudes of the audience, and again, of white people in general. This idea is given voice by Keisha in Act Three, who specifically asks the white people in the audience to come up on stage, come onto the set, and engage with the lives and stories of the black people they have been watching unfold throughout the evening. In that moment, and as referenced above, it becomes clear that for the playwright and the play, the audience has represented the views of a culture and society that may think of itself as conscious and compassionate, but is, in fact, limited and racist in its perceptions and attitudes.