What barrier does Hannah Baxter remove when she acknowledges and comments directly to the audience?
Fourth wall The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the actors act as if they cannot. From the 16th century onwards, the rise of illusionism in staging practices, which culminated in the realism and naturalism of the theatre of the 19th century, led to the development of the fourth wall concept.
Slowly I Turned "Slowly I Turned" is a popular vaudeville sketch wherein a character is relating a story and is triggered into violent outburts when the listener inadvertently utters a triggering phrase. Versions have also been performed in cinema and on television. Comedians Harry Steppe, Joey Faye, and Samuel Goldman each laid claim to this routine, also referred to as "The Stranger with a Kind Face" by clowns, "Niagara Falls" by fans of The Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello, "Martha" by fans of " I Love Lucy", "Pokomoko", and "Bagel Street".