Know anything about theatre?

answers1: Oh, Great Blue Jumping Jehosephat! Save me from Important
Theatre Scholars! <br>
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Theatre, unlike painting and sculpture, is ephemeral and mutable. A
single performance is never the same as another performance. Theatre
is a One Shot Deal. Once the performance is over, that's it. <br>
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One can view Michelangelo's David or Picasso's Guernica today, and
revel in the artistry. One can only read about the great performances
of Will Kemp or Sarah Siddons. <br>
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Theatre is a "living art form" because it is born in rehearsal, lives
under the lights, and dies at Closing. <br>
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Not a bad turn of phrase, if I do say so. <br>
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Perhaps I might be an Important Theatre Scholar some day. I got the
lingo down pat.
answers2: id say thats a great way to describe it becuse unlike art or
poetry it cant be put in a book or on a shelf it can only be seen, in
its truest form, live on a stage with an audience. <br>
an thats as living as it gets
answers3: Theatre only exists when it is being performed live in front
of an audience. If is is recorded in any way, it ceases to be
"theatre" and becomes something else, such as a film or a recording of
theatre which are not theatre in the strictest sense. The same is
true of dance and musical performance.
answers4: I agree with this. He may be saying that theatre is a living
art form because most art is still (painting, sculptures, drawings,
music, etc.) It is still because it does not change, whereas theatre
can only be art whenever it is live and there is always the chance of
error where improvisation (such as improvisation that we do in real
life) may need to happen.
answers5: The reason why he refers to it as a "living art form" isn't
because it is being performed live or anything like that. It is
because it changes and develops and grows over time. Theatre goes
through phases and stages like a human or other animal. It moves, it
expands, it contracts. Theatre is a living art form because it never
stops changing. It has grown from the greeks praising dionysus and
Zeus and the other gods that they believed in to now street theatre,
experimental theatre, theatre for social change and etc. Theatre never
stays in one state. It goes through rebellious stages, religious
stages, pop, punk, country music. hip-hop musicals are becoming rather
wide-spread now as well. There is always something new, theatre never
lies dead. The analogy or metaphor or what-have-you is basically
saying that theatre never stays still, and it's always going somewhere
new.