Saturday, January 9, 2010
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
-Oscar Wilde
I wish I had found this quotation earlier, It is, essentially, what I based my theatre college essay on.
That is what theatre is.
Theatre is everything we are. It is emotion, it is detachment from emotion. It is life, death, the grey area in between. It is our stories, our past, present and future. It is morality and immorality. It is bliss and devastation and the high points and low points of everything we are as human beings.
It amplifies all the we experience yet cannot always understand. It is what I've always known, but could not always identify.
It is a cultural centerpiece to the Greeks, criticism for George Bernard Shaw, a mirror to all that we are to Shakespeare and everyone else.
It is all that we are. All that I am.
Measuring life in love at.1:55 PM
