WEEK 3_TASK
Write a short essay of about 400 words on the ‘subject-matter’
below stated.
What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form,
communicates messages to its audience?
For me, theatre is someone’s imagination, dramatized on a stage setting. It has characters and
actors just like movie and TV shows. In
general, theatre is a branch of
the performing arts defined as simply as what “occurs when one or more human
beings, isolated in time and present themselves to others. As a performing art, theatre focuses almost
exclusively on live performers creating a self-contained drama. Besides, a
performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion. The impulse towards theatre is universal and ancient, as
well as all cultures at all times have a strong tradition of storytelling.
Theatre has come to take on many forms, utilizing speech, gesture, music,
dance, writing, and spectacle, combining the other performing arts.
Theater can
bring a group of people together, even a whole community. Sometimes, it can also
ease tension between loved ones and friends, and also change a person mind set.
It allows people to get emotional without having a real solid background. For example, in a musical, an orchestra may play a pastiche
of melodies from the shoe to set the mood and catch audience’s emotion.
Therefore, theatre allows us to communicate messages through experience the
world of another person and at the same time experience ourselves in our own
world. Theatre requires a physical space in which the performers and audience
will collaborate to create experience. They come to experience and understand,
emotionally and intellectually that our lives connect to another's life, and
our world connects to another's world. The theatre ties together our own
humanity and always focuses on human beings and their expression. For
instances, audience might cried at productions because the story was very
touching, they laughed as well because the funny scene. Moreover, the mix of songs, drama, and music make the massage such
as social issue, moral value, and lesson leave a deep impression to the
audiences.
In
short, theatre is expression. Artists create an experience about our
relationship with our world. That exploration leads to a literal experience for
audience members as well as artists. By sharing in the experience, audience members
also become expressive. Hence, we are driven to explore, understand, feel or express
ourselves in our world. Unlike all the other arts, the theatre creates a world.
As human beings, we need to actualize ourselves by creating. The theatre, as a media
form, is the height of creation for we literally create a complete and living
world which focuses on ourselves as human beings.
(13 September 2012)
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