Posted: September 13th, 2017

Does the theatre play a direct role in your life? If not directly, do you think that the theatre, as an art form integral to the development and evolution of culture, has impacted your life indirectly? If so, how? If the theatre is a dying art form should we attempt to resuscitate it? In other words: DO YOU CARE?

Does the theatre play a direct role in your life? If not directly, do you think that the theatre, as an art form integral to the development and evolution of culture, has impacted your life indirectly? If so, how? If the theatre is a dying art form should we attempt to resuscitate it? In other words:
DO YOU CARE?

Please write one paragraph for each question.
1.  Does the theatre play a direct role in your life? If not directly, do you think that the theatre, as an art form integral to the development and evolution of culture, has impacted your life indirectly? If so, how? If the theatre is a dying art form should we attempt to resuscitate it? In other words:
DO YOU CARE?

2.  Describe the greatest differences between TV/ Film & theatre?  What is the value of each?

3. As Uta Hagen puts it in “Respect for Acting” her seminal text on acting, the theatre always involves some kind of “revolt”. That is, the theatre aims to change society. This chapter suggests ways in which the theatre is a tool of social, historic, economic and religious information or even propaganda. The theatre’s roots are the roots of all performance media. What has the the theatre done for us lately? Discuss the roll of the theatrcial in our social and political lives. That is, how have we been or how are we changed by the theatre, the tv, the cinema, the internet, etc? Think about grass-roots political organizations, social media biases, etc.
Post a link to something online with the potential to change the world.

4. Additional Extra Credit:
Would you consider the Superbowl, theatre?
Why or why not?