TheOtherDave comments on How to Seem (and Be) Deep - Less Wrong
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(shrug) This reduces to the question "what are plays for"? Whatever they're for, failing to do that thing is grounds for objection.
I expect "that thing" is a disjunction, and I don't claim to have a full specification. But in much the same way that one doesn't have to be able to articulate precisely what a business plan is for in order to be pretty confident that the fact that it isn't in iambic pentameter isn't grounds for objecting to one, I don't think a full specification of the purpose of theatre is necessary to support the claim I'm making.
That said, if I strip out the implicit context and address your question in isolation... "failing to entertain" is probably a generic enough answer to cover most of the bases.