THEATRE

Theatre: Dramatize its Social Historical Moment

Theatre: Dramatize its Social Historical Moment

Introduction

The theatre is visited by fewer people - that's a fact. The reason lays in the fact that television and the cinema, the theatre increasingly replace in his role as "facilitator" of experiences and situations. By the enormous technical progress in recent years, the film succeeds and the television, almost everything put, every opinion, every feeling and every impression. But above all, it is possible the new media more and more, to create the illusion of authenticity.  A whole new cultural context committed itself to provide the most basic and simplest of questions as to the meaning and function of the theatre at the turn of the millennium again. It is to ask whether and why the theatre in a world dominated by television and cinema time to fascinate people still can, and it applies to the characteristics of the theatre asking that "justify" it so to speak (Orth, 2004, pp. 142-50).

The purpose of writing this paper is to give the readers an idea about the social importance of theatre. The common observation regarding the presence of theatre is that with the every passing day, theatre losing its presence from the minds of the viewer. Therefore, the main argument of the paper is that the theatre must dramatize its own social and historical moment in order to remain relevant to the audience because in the beginning the main purpose of the theatre was to entertain the audience by highlighting their social problems into a drama, so the people to relate those moments with their lives.

Discussion

The paper basically revolves around the work of the two very promising theatre players named as Deborah Gearing and Ishy Din (Din, 2012). Both these writers wrote tremendous work for the theatre, therefore, the paper based on the two masterpieces that are the Riot by Gearing and Snookered by Din.

So what is the theatre? What is the nature of the theatre? Which stands out from the theatre of film and television? Why is thrilled still a large number of people? These questions must be answered:

Live Performance

The theatre is first and foremost a "live" performance, a sort of "show." It therefore belongs in a category of types of events, which we impute to music concerts, cabaret, circus, of course, but also sporting events and street happenings. The main feature of these events is its immediacy; you will be realized in two ways: in the act of communication and at the level of synchrony of time and space, in practice, this means that at each of these events (performances), a direct contact between sender and recipient is and the interaction takes place. Such contact is only possible if both are at the same time in the same room. The simultaneity of the transmitting and receiving process is inextricably linked to the theatre. The cinema and the television time and space separate from the receiver to the sender. The difference between theatre and film can be compared to the difference between a "live" concert ...