A traditional Bahamian storytellerm is required to creative. However, Cree storytelling has not got such a formal framing mechanism. During the story, the audience members were not expected to pay close attention. People came and went without any effort to be quiet. In India there are regular public performances of the great religious epics, and unlike the Zuni in America, there is no problem with audience members coming and going as the story is told.
People listen to their favorite episodes and skip the boring parts.
Narrators do not take the departure of one or another member as a sign of dissatisfaction with the performance. In my own research of domestic storytelling in middle-class Indian families, the emphasis of narrators was on teaching the moral of the story. Parents and grandparents told to young children, and most of their stories had clear morals to be learned and even articulated. Children were encouraged to tell stories themselves, and parents and teachers help them with the plot sequence and detail. In contrast, the Zuni and the Lushootseed storytellers resist didactism in their storytelling.