composing to the stage

In what way can individual artistic choices feel lifelike, if they are reactionary only in an internal sense? The situations addressed must be empathetic and uncanny to the intended audience. They must be conversations everyone has had, images commonly seen, sounds that are familiar. There is an artistic language in every discipline already in place that may be referred to ad naseum, that may be self-referential but is not emotionally affecting. If not familiar there must be a reaction to space, time, a conversation with medium and presentation.