My Personal Theatre Philosophy

 

     To me, theatre moves people to feel things that they might not understand. It helps people to see things from someone else’s view, to look through someone else’s world. Theatre is a mass of art. It combines sculpture, painting, music, dance, architecture, technology, light, etc. into a cohesive mass. It takes all of these things and distills them into an integrated whole, so many things working together to create a singular, beautiful moment. We take the time to create a physical thing; we make people come to us to get the full experience of our art. In a theatre, you have a creation which is tangible and present, and yet is so fleeting as well.

 

     Theatre is a beautiful form of expression. It begins as the expression of one person, and then spreads out to be the expression of so many people. You move from the ideas of the director, to the designers, to the actors, to the run crew, to the audience. Everyone shares that moment, and then it simply disappears, captured on film or in the mind, but never quite the same.

 

     Theatre is a groundbreaking creation. It pushes boundaries, expanding the minds of the viewers, challenging them to rethink their opinion s and preconceived notions of how things are supposed to be, what is right and wrong, how we treat the beings that we come in contact with. The most beautiful thing about theatre is the brutal honesty that it gives to the human condition. Theatre accepts the fact that people are flawed, it accepts the fact that everyone is different, it teaches people about people. Theatre refuses to compromise, refuses to die.

 

     "The theatre is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive."

          -John Steinbeck