The Deadly Theatre

After reading and highlighting the important key elements of the “Empty Space” as how it’s referd on the book that was written by the author Peter Brook, I was bale to draw out an idea of what’s the definition of an empty space and calling it a bare stage as how it was mentioned in the text.  Then he splinted the word into four ways and distinguished what are the four different kinds of theatre. These types of theatre are: Deadly Theatre, a Holy Theatre, a Rough Theatre, and the fourth one was the an Immediate Theatre.

In this chapter Peter Brook was to deliver a powerful indictment of deadly theater for us. In better words, he was able to identify and explain with such a detailed relevant sequence what is deadly theatre in terms of performances that are dull and boring, providing no transcendental experience or immediate encounter with truth and beauty. In his book, Brook has focused on several reasons why deadly theater happens and why it persists; and while I was reading through the chapter and reviews it again during that time I were able to pull up some of the reasons that made the author describes a period of time, place, and people and the way how they plays were written or taken a place at and gathered all those together and called it the Deadly theatre because of the following:

1-Deadly theatre happens when all the stage directions are prescribed, leaving no room for improvisation and creativity.

2-Deadly theatre is content to be conventional and follow the rules.

3-Deadly theatre is imitative rather than innovative.

4-Deadly theatre approaches performance from the perspective “that somewhere, someone has found out and defined how the play should be done.”

5-Deadly theatre persists because it does not adapt to a changing culture and expectations.

Deadly theatre persists because people are most concerned about what makes money (consumerism) rather than what is interesting (creativity).

It also explains how the limit lies in the deadly theater performances associated with a ticket window and being the concessions at the expense of aesthetic taste and social awareness, the more accurate word to life itself. It also leads us to say, the fact that the scene this way: What is a commercial commodity, to injustice without looking for a unique vision or aesthetic value and can not find an outlet for the lives of more capacity and a comprehensive perspective.

In conclusion, I was able to understand by reviewing and knowing what the daily theater is all about especially when I weren't familiar with this type of theaters before until just today! It made pause and think of my current status and where I am at now, and how I would be able to move forward and look for the creativity in the role I’m playing and make it more interesting for the audience, and how I could touch their emotions and minds by feeling what I’m acting on the stage and make sure to keep working hard on how I could improve from my ways of persuasion in order to convince the viewer and making him believe that almost what he watched on the stage was close enough to reality and as if it was a real story and areal moment but not the opposite. And that’s surly, one of the important elements that I think it’s required from any actor and actress to start developing and accomplishing at the same time.