poster appears to be gargoyle.
RE:expected that people are going to sit and listen.
Du7de - Why be a whinner - obviously yor KNOT a WINNER
More, perhaps, are you a Weiner?
A passingly good entertainer - can keep an audience enthralled for 40 minutes.... a weak one maybe 30.
Go back to Your Material and reconsider the choices and times the audience became dis-engaged.
NO ONE TALKS - When you have created "Alpha State" -