Student: Maria del Carmen López Albert
Teacher: Dr. Vicente Forés
Group: A, morning
THE FUTURE OF THE THEATRE
Nowadays the theatre is a minoritarian show. Since we have other options like television, people search their own comfort, and to have a world in a small screen is more comfortable than walk or pay for go to the theatre.
At first the theatre was the only show where people can go. They use it for meet new people and because it is an entertainment. It has sometimes been used to put into people´s mind the ideology of a group of people, but it can be reactionary too.
But we cant say that all of the cinema is negative, theatre and cinema are very similar. They tell us a story and there are a group of actors than performs a role. It is true that nowadays with special effects we can get more realism with the story we want do. However I think that the theatre gives more possibilities of interactuation. One actor can speaks with the audience and we can see very near his pain, his hapiness.
But our society gives adds to us, and inside it the theatre doesn´t exist, it isn´t popular, if you go to the theatre lot o people consider you a bores person.
A lot of people says that go to the theatre is very expensive, but if you waste money in CD, DVD, and the cinema, why do you say that? The only reason is you need a excuse to say why you don´t go. Maybe it is because we don´t have enough advertising, we only do things that appears at the T.V or things that benn more valorates.
I think that if in the future there isn´t enough conscience the theatre lose its magic, and people don´t go.
When I went to the theatre to watch the plays for this subject, the theatre was very empty, And the people who was in was old people.
It is very difficult to say what thing has we do to push the theatre, but we can find some suggestions. For example:
Fernando Herrero
says (in an article in “la revista de folklore” number
Guillermo Heras says (in an article in “la revista ń” october2003) the theatre will be a ceremony with past sign but addeding new creatives territories.
They agree with the same thing, the theatre needs other influences, it has to be open to new ideas.
Probably our society need an impulse. People have to teach the children that the theatre can be as funny as cinema, and teach them to discover new aspects, they have to participated in this idea.
From my point of view I think that the theatre has to give us more things still.
We have to help it, because it is a show that always has been there, and I hope that always be there.
But it has to change, it has to innovated, because I think that the theatre have to be always renew itselfs, it has to be addapted to the new audience, the new times...
And it is a worried of us, of all of us.
If somebody asks me about the future of the theatre I will say that I see a future because it can die, it always be there.