Theatre: Impact on Academics and Literature

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Theatre, an art concerned exclusively with live performances in which the action is planned to create a coherent sense of drama. Diving on this part of the industry, let’s add a personal touch, “That which MOVES is a MUSE. Which doesn’t, is a SCENERY to be infused with the Muse.” A real event or an imaginary world where a wordsmith meets the artist producing a masterpiece event. ‘Buckle up! The live emotions of mystery, romance, and comedy is about to create an everlasting impact, to be remembered for ages to come.’

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Though the word theatre is derived from the Greek word, theaomai “to see,” the performance itself may appeal either to the ear or to the eye, or if the director of the play turns out a genius then he might even have the heart of the spectator.?

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Sometimes it has an intellectual sense of appeal as in William Shakespeare’s?Macbeth?but the intellectual element in itself is no guarantee of good theatre.?

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Better performance for example, of?Macbeth, is difficult to achieve, and a poor one is less satisfying than a brilliant presentation of a circus. It demands the spectator to be prepared to put forth their greater intelligence to use while on a comparative analysis, Hamlet may be taken as a relaxation pursuit.?

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The complete participation of the viewer is a necessity in the theatrical world otherwise the phenomena of the action and reaction seem to be dead.

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It’s a falsifying statement to say, ‘that the art of theatre can be discussed in terms of intellectual or comic sense. It’s a more in-depth art where literature meets the imagination of the author producing a play to either leave an audience breathless for days or make them itch in their backs. For several years, the works of the legendary dramatists, Shakespeare, and other significant German poets such as Friedrich von Schiller, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson have been studied than performed to their truest potential. When subjected to melodramatic tuning, the literary aspect works the most effectively.?

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The strongest impact on the audience is made by acting, singing, and dancing, followed by the spectacle—the background against which those activities take place. The line sure does incite inspiration from the theatrical world where imagination plays a pivotal role, opening a pathway to a different world through a script, which is set to bring a diversified characterization to display emotions from every day. Using words, phrases, prose to exhibit responses is part of daily life. It’s a routine that succumbs to the human character yet when it comes alive, it’s sure to strike a nerve.?

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How well is something received by the viewer is often decided by the course of the responses. “The Oh’s and Ah’s are to be appreciated or the Nay’s are to be brushed off like they never came.”?

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Later, on retrospection, the spectator may find the meaning of the text has made an ever-lasting impression, but more often the literary quality of the script, or its “message,” is a relatively minor element.

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Yet it is often assumed that the theatrical experience can be judged by reading the text of a play. In part, this is a result of the influence of theatrical critics, who, as writers, tend to have literary expertise.?

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Their influence is magnified by the fact it is difficult to make serious theatre widely available.?

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The contribution of the author goes unseen neither by the audience nor the readers. A reader tends to have an enhanced vocabulary while the viewer is in for a heavy dosage of a voice war along with the battle of the most dramatized fictional story. Whether be it opera, classical, or a play, it connects the diversified cultures, values, believes, costumes, jewelry, and educating masses or simply, helping them change the outlook of their lives to a world which is better.?

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Or even propelling them towards a path of their dreams in designing, fashion, and so on. ‘Sometimes, a forgotten thought is the cause of most chaos.’ Maybe, that thought is a world of theatre because one never knows from where the concept of it originated and how far it could go. It’s an endless route where there’s so much to gain yet everything to lose, but it can either make a known personality or train one. It’s one decision to act and receive feedback.?

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To conclude, “A great theatre comprises of a good script, good cast, good stage director, assistant, manager, technical team, and above all, mass-audience to make the auditorium feel livelier and more alive.”?

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