Theatre heals the soul!
Dec. 29th, 2024 09:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incompleterulerI went to the theatre today! And I was immediately reminded of how much I love theatre!!
I've loved acting ever since I was a child and there's nothing like standing on stage to me. But watching plays is just as important, and something I think everyone should do... I understand acting isn't for everyone, but I truly believe there's a play for everyone out there. The thing with plays is that you'll never watch the same one twice, even if it's in the same location with the same cast and supervised by the same director. Every time a play is represented is unique to, and I think that's so beautiful.
Unfortunately I feel like theatre is an art that's really underappreciated these days (man, I sound like a grandpa saying this. I'm an eighteen year old guy!!), and I don't really understand why. The seats were all sold out but most people were elders, and there's nothing wrong with that obviously, but I do wish the younger generations would appreciate it a bit more. I feel like this is the case with a lot of art forms anyway, but at least people read books and listen to music. However, I can't help but notice that I don't usually hear someone say they're going to the theatre. I understand that it might sound time-consuming, but any time spent in the theatre is time well spent!
I'm obviously very biased with this because acting has always been one of the things I hold closest to my heart, but I really just wish more people opened the door to the vast worlds theatre has to offer. Either way, I'm just really happy to have finally gone to the theatre to watch a play again (I do frequent my local theatre, but it's to act, not to watch others act lol). It's good for my soul I think, it's one of those things that never fail to make me feel alive. It makes me happy to know it's not just me who shares the feeling and that theatre is something many people before me have also loved dearly.
On that note I'm really excited to study Classical plays in class. I don't know when that will be, I think I'll have to wait until next year, but I've read a few already and I'm looking forward to studying them in more depth as well as translating them, though I'm not sure if that's something we'll do in uni but we probably will eventually.
I've loved acting ever since I was a child and there's nothing like standing on stage to me. But watching plays is just as important, and something I think everyone should do... I understand acting isn't for everyone, but I truly believe there's a play for everyone out there. The thing with plays is that you'll never watch the same one twice, even if it's in the same location with the same cast and supervised by the same director. Every time a play is represented is unique to, and I think that's so beautiful.
Unfortunately I feel like theatre is an art that's really underappreciated these days (man, I sound like a grandpa saying this. I'm an eighteen year old guy!!), and I don't really understand why. The seats were all sold out but most people were elders, and there's nothing wrong with that obviously, but I do wish the younger generations would appreciate it a bit more. I feel like this is the case with a lot of art forms anyway, but at least people read books and listen to music. However, I can't help but notice that I don't usually hear someone say they're going to the theatre. I understand that it might sound time-consuming, but any time spent in the theatre is time well spent!
I'm obviously very biased with this because acting has always been one of the things I hold closest to my heart, but I really just wish more people opened the door to the vast worlds theatre has to offer. Either way, I'm just really happy to have finally gone to the theatre to watch a play again (I do frequent my local theatre, but it's to act, not to watch others act lol). It's good for my soul I think, it's one of those things that never fail to make me feel alive. It makes me happy to know it's not just me who shares the feeling and that theatre is something many people before me have also loved dearly.
On that note I'm really excited to study Classical plays in class. I don't know when that will be, I think I'll have to wait until next year, but I've read a few already and I'm looking forward to studying them in more depth as well as translating them, though I'm not sure if that's something we'll do in uni but we probably will eventually.
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Date: 2024-12-31 02:31 am (UTC)i've been kind of pestering my boss for a few months now if we could have an excursion to one of our local theatres for one of our camp weeks, since i think it would be really good for the kids enrolled in our programs to have exposure to that kind of art, y'know? it's been a bit difficult, since we'd have to ensure that there's a local theatre showing smth that elementary-aged kids would actually be interested in during a time when we're actually running one of our camps lol but i believe in the convincing power of simply asking for something over and over again LOL
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Date: 2025-01-04 07:04 pm (UTC)I feel like finding something kids would like is quite easy, actually! I was taken to the theatre a lot as a kid all the way throughout school, and even now that I'm in university I'm still doing that kind of stuff (just less often lol), so hopefully things haven't changed too much and there's something interesting for kids out there! Where I live there's always some sort of play about popular children tales or even original stories. The first musical I watched was an original story at one of my local theatres and I remember being obsessed with it for the following weeks!! Hopefully you'll find something for the kids sometime soon!!