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MÓNICA PANADERO SAYAS

Teatro Inglés Siglos XIX y XX

Grupo B

PAPER 4

THE FUTURE OF THEATRE

Theatre is denominated the branch of the scenic art, related to the performance,

that represents histories in front of a audience using a combination of speech, gestures,

music, sound and spectacle. (1)

The theatre began in Greece and Rome and went developing with the passage of

time with the theatre of the middle age, the theatre of the Renaissance, the isabelino

theatre, the theatre of absurd and many more currents.

What the theatre looks for is to show the reality to the spectators pretending,

exaggerating and interpreting things of the real life. To make a critic of it more hard

with a humour touch. The thing theatre has always needed is and an audience.

Nowadays it has to compete for an audience with cinemas, television, concerts and a

series of social events that make it difficult to retain its splendour.

I think that one of the causes of which the theatre so is not visited as the cinemas

are the economic question, but not only for the public but for the own actors, who make

a great work and they are not compensated. The theatre needs new blood and talents,

and it needs money. Money is required to make ticket prices accessible to all, to secure

buildings, to provide continuity for theatre companies. In Spain and other European

countries, the government is also trying to help theatre companies to subsist by

providing programs to help them economically. In same cases, up to half of the

expenses will be covered by the Education Ministry, making the choice of theatres and

plays wider so as to encourage the population to go the theatre. (2) I suppose that if

from children, or even of adults, instil us more the theatre this one would have more

followers.

Since or I have said before the cinema or the television takes immense majority

to the theatre. As Grotowsky said, "if some power, a World Bank, decreed that

tomorrow it is necessary to close all the theatres of the world, at least a 99% of people

in the world nor would realize". (3) Nevertheless, if that happened with the cinema or

the television right away would be everybody making manifestations

The theatre never will disappear since it is a very important force in the cultures

but it suffers or it is going to suffer a very great suppression due to the economy like I

am tell before, or even because it is the more comfortable which they pass the play to

the screens of the cinema or to wait for a little more and to be able to see it by television

from your own house.

But everything has not been bad for the theatre, but that has had its great

development and evolution and that we can see it reflected in the illumination, the

scene, in atrezzo, the actors...

And so, if new authors are writing, theatre is using top technology and it has the

government’s financial support, will it die soon?

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

(1) http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki /Teatro