Teacher: Vicente Forés
Course: Filología Inglesa
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Date: January – 12th – 2006
What
is the art? Can anybody explain exactly the term “art”? Sure that many
people
think that is possible to answer this question, but the truth is that
everyone
of us has one singular definition for that term: from my point of view,
the art
is the only quality human have for ourselves and it is the only thing that
distinguishes us from the rest of animals, -the art is the quality we
have
to express our feelings and emotions-; we consider that music is art
as the
same we consider the drawing, cinema, literature or theatre, etc. The
difference between them is that all these are different forms of ilustrating
the art.
Theatre
is always present in people: everybody have their own role, and they are
needed
to interpret it in an infinite scenario, that is our world; this is a
subjective view of theatre. However, we are going to talk about the
formal view
of theatre, this is the theatre we know.
From
my point of view, theatre is one art that has been reduced by the pass
of time
to an alternative way of entertainment (this is only in general, for the
great
part of people), but the problem we have today is that there are another
(most
common) ways of entertainment, this is the case, for example, of cinema.
However, it is stupid to think that theatre is going to be subordinated
to the
rest of arts: theatre is evolving, theatre is joining new
tendencies.
Recently, I saw a film that
explained
approximately my idea of a vision of future of the theatre, this was the
spanish film “Noviembre”. This film is about a revolutionary group of young
actors, called “Noviembre”, that decide to challenge the classical view of
theatre making a sort of vanguardistic plays outside the scenarios, in the
street, and making them always free, without earning money, so the
result will
be very negative because the extremism of some members of the group (it
shows
metaphorically the differences between the spanish progressive parties). The
only fact I am not agree is that extremism. The original idea of making
a new
theatre outside, more popular,
and the
illusion of making their own art without the idea of being profited with
it.
This is what I think it might be the
theatre in the future, but I prefer to go deeply into this idea: our
education
since we are child does not prepare us to develop our artistic features,
if we
want to create a new generation with people who had a minimum artistic
culture
we need to give importance to it with the education, this is the most
important
thing we have to do: education is the first step. From the other hand,
modern
theatre does not have to follow the model of “Noviembre” like a realistic
model, it is only an utopic vision, and this is because “Noviembre” rejects
classical theatre, and I think that to be real innovative you need to
combine
classical ideas with the last tendences, for me it is easy to see it
with the
music (I am a musician): Mike Olfield is a musician who has never
rejected the
classical tendence of the classical authors and he has combined them
with his
ideas, so he is now one of the best musical innovators of this century.
Theatre will evolve with the rest of
the arts, theatre needs not only good and new actors influenced by good old
actors, theatre needs too good spectators influenced by an evolved
education.
Are we going to be good actors and good spectators? Only time will
tell!
Bibliography:
Spanish Film
“Noviembre”
www.uv.es/fores/teatrouvp.html
Modern
Theatrical
Tendences (Internet communication via Google)