Alumno: Jose Sospedra Canovas
This is the fourth and last parper I do, at
least I hope so. This fourth paper I’m going to explain, since my point of view,
the theatre in the future.
I think that is very difficult to know and even
to think about the future of the theatre, nobody can tell us what is going to
happen, but we could make an idea if we see the theatre nowadays very carefully.
So, let’s start.
First, I have to say that every day the theatre
dies a little bit more, unfortunately. Nowadays very few people is interested in
the theatre, because the TV and the cinema seems to be funnier, and the people
is becoming more and more stupid. The same is happening with the literature. The
people prefer watching a brilliant film with great special effects before to
have to read the story in a book and having to imagine themselves the special
effects or in theatre where the special effects are not as good as in
films.
The playwrights know it, so every day more and
more, they are including in their plays audiovisual effects and even they mix
the audiovisual effects with the theatre, as they do in “Pica, ratlla, tritura”
where the characters were introduced in the audiovisual by means of shadows.So,
I think that all the plays will mix theatre and audiovisual effects. This is one
of the possibles futures of the theatre
On the other hand, I have realized that the
music never ends, and we are always remembering music of last times. Everybody
likes music, so nowadays is fashionable to make musical based in the music of
some old band of musica as “Hoy no me puedo levantar” that is based in the songs
of the band Mecano, or “Mamma mia” based in the songs of the band Abba. Make a
musical based in the music of bands that everybody knows and everybody likes is
a advantage, because it means that all the fans that those bands had they will
go to see the musical of their favourite band:
En el país europeo, Hoy no me puedo levantar fue
visto por 230 mil espectadores en siete meses. Desde su estreno siempre se ha
colocado el cartel con la frase "Localidades agotadas". La preventa es 32 mil entradas, algo único en el mercado
español. La disponibilidad de boletos en fin de semana es "para dentro de dos
meses". Dura tres horas 20 minutos.
“En los musicales con una duración de más de
tres horas hay sólo dos o tres canciones conocidas, pero este, el nuestro, tiene
28, que la gente puede cantar."(Report by Arturo Cruz Barcenas,
Martes 15 de noviembre de 2005,
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/11/15/a09n1esp.php)
This kind of theatre allows to the audience
enjoy double because they can see a performance, a story that it happens but at
the same time it is as if they were in a concert of their favourite band. For
this reason, in my opinion this is one of the posibles futures of the theatre,
to make comercial musicals wich they like everybody and they could make in other
countries, like Mamma Mia that was made frst in England, or Hoy no me puedo
levantar, that now is going to performance in Mexico:
El musical Hoy no me puedo levantar (título de
una canción), del ex Mecano Nacho Cano, director de la obra, será estrenado en
México en el primer semestre de 2006, informó ayer el músico en conferencia de
prensa realizada en la terraza de un hotel de Polanco. ."(Report by
Arturo Cruz Barcenas, Martes 15 de noviembre de 2005,
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/11/15/a09n1esp.php)
Other kind of theatre that in my opinión is
going to happens in the future I think that it is a theatre abstract,
alternative wich will show things that the people like to see, morb things. For example I remember that
a friend of me told me that he had seen a play where the actor takes his own
blood in the performance and later he cooked and he eated and he offered to the
audience to taste. This kind of theatre where the actor do things that
apparently have no sense I think maybe other future for the
theatre.
I
don’t think that the theatre will disappears, I think it keep going but with a
lot of problems. In my opinion the government should do something, it shoul to
promote the theatre to the people, as they do with the literature. I think that
in the school should have a subject about theatre since the people are child. I
don’t think that the goverment do anything, however, the theatre never dies,
because there will be always who likes the theatre and makes
theatre.
peolple want to see spectacle, people
want to see things that they can’t see in their daily
lifes.