2 Huge Reasons Why You Should Watch More Theatre

I think film is an astounding new art medium. You're combining theatre, music, and visual aesthetics/art together to create one huge piece of art. It's wonderful.

    I think it's unfortunate though that our society is gradually losing the art of theatre, and it's becoming more mainstream to watch only films.


1.   I think one of the problems with us watching so many films is that most people don't seek out films that are made purely to be art. They find films online, or go to a big movie theatre and watch those generic action and chick flick films that the movie industry churns out.
      I myself enjoy those movies every once in a while.  
     There's some people though that only watch movies like those, and since films are always being reviewed in the media, and are distributed en masse to movie theaters, I feel like it's a lot easier to control the content of films since they know all the films that are being made and released. If the media wants to reinforce gender roles or stereotypes, they have the power to manipulate all those films that are shown everywhere into illustrating the values and ideas that the media wants us to take in.

2.    There's something special about seeing a live performance of theatre that you just don't get from watching a film. And it's not just that the light being emitted from the film can be bad for your eyes. There's really something special about being in the same room as someone who is creating live art.  Every performance turns out slightly differently, even if the actors are playing the same roles, therefore you have the opportunity of witnessing a unique performance that will never happen again.