torsdag 6 september 2018

What is theater?


Theater is something that has been apart of my life for as long as I can remember. For me it was an escape from my daily life. But it didn't start out that way, it started with a more innocent beginning.
I was just 8 years old when the whole concept of pretending to be someone else in front of people became a thing for me. But as I got older I realized that it's so much more than that. 

To me acting & theater is a way of making people feel different emotions. Not just the basic ones like laughing, crying & and the feeling of tension, but feelings like betrayal, friendship, companionship, whats right & whats wrong, compassion. So to me Theater is simply a way to make the audience FEEL. I want them to really feel what the character is going through. And I as a watcher of theater want to feel what the character are feeling. 

So in the end, the word "feel" comes up a lot when I think or talk about theater. I can't really put all of my thoughts about theater & acting into a single post. Would probably need a 700 page book to do that. But even if I wrote a 700 page book about it, I would still come back to that word... "feel"