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Theatre As A Form Of Theatre

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Theatre and live performance can serve so many purposes and one of them is to globally entertain the audience and to shape the society through the lessons learnt from a performance or play. Theatre exists because we are mimetic and communal beings, we seek order, finally we enjoy and need entertainment.
Theatre as a form of entertainment is extremely popular all over the world, and it has been designed to hold audience’s attention for a long time, it has been the primary form of public entertainment way before the advent of radio and movies (Foreman). Live performances are known to get audience off their seats due to excitement and it can also change one’s mood from bad to good or vice versa.
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This play has been revived many times since its premiere(Cruttwell).
The Role of the audience when it comes to theatric entertainment can be affected by the genre of the play, space of the theatre, sitting arrangement and demographics. It is up to the audience to make a performance better due to different reactions like echoing (being loud), laughter, standing ovation and gasping.
Another great importance of theatre is the way it shapes the society. Firstly, theatre brings people together as a community, Greek theatre is a good example of this, especially during the festival of Dionysus, where the audience for plays would be over 1000 people. This gives the community something to talk about therefore bringing people together. Theatre can also be of importance because of the sense of identity it brings people, Theater, being such an ancient art, has become part of the cultural heritage of many cultures. Peking Opera, Bunraku, Noh are all specific to a culture and form a part of the identity of the people who belong to these cultures. Theatre being used as an instrument for change is also important, nowadays, social media and video are probably a more effective tool to effect change in society, but there is no media that can cause a bigger impact than theater. Watching a live performance is much more likely to compel you to act for change. The work of theorists like Bertolt Brecht and Augusto Boal is pretty much completely based on this idea.

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