What
is theater?
Theater : a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full".
How
do you think theater, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?
Let me
start from old days (stone age) have you ever think about it , during those
times without languages and technology how human communicated with each other ?
Gesture, yea you’re rightGesture
was one of the base communication form during that time after it was painting
then they create languages for themselves ,so let’s back to gestures ; theaters are same like gesture languages but they use music and some decoration
environments which that’s helps them to send their messages to audience.
Or in
other word:
“Music
blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They
become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics
have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going
on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've
got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in.”―
Stephen Sondheim
So theaters
unlike other form of media can send their messages indirectly to the audience
which is the beauty of it. For example in theater the actors/actress , can performing about politics but the show
can be about animals in forest and how they influence each other in that
environment which as we know before many of these performances performing their
artistic works.
I want
to mention this during world war II one of the most powerful weapons (which used
by governments ((allied and axis)) ) was theaters and street shows which they
use it to inject their will to the people if you want to understand this part
better I recommended read “hypodermic
needle theory or magic bullet “ it will helps you to understand most of the purpose
of media around you be always consider this as Marshall McLuhan said “medium is
message” which can’t be miss used by other parties and also review my article
which you can find it in my weblog “ http://ashkan-alidi.blogspot.com/ “About
how media can be used as propaganda weapons for other parties .
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