The Immediate Theatre

There is no doubt that theatre can be a very special place to appreciate and the way that artist and any creative person should look at it needs to be much more developed depending on how much they love the space (the stage) and how passionate on what they are doing, especially when they start having the sense of knowing the actual meaning of loving theatre with so much admiration, and they have to be pure true to themselves first and to others, or pretty much to the audience after all.  Theatre is different from everyday life and it can easily be not related to reality.  Personally, I think theatre is the real meaning and definition of our reality because we can notice that any play we go to watch its performance whether you are already familiar with the play before or not, but the way how its brought to you makes you believe that the story is true or it was actually taken from a true, personal story that happened to someone whose popular, it could be totally about random people who live under all different kinds of struggle. So, personally I don’t quite agree with the author’s opinion when he thinks that theatre can be “ divorced from life, it’s just not the way how I always imagined theatre is all about, at least from my point of view.  Peter Brook also did talk about majority of people can live without any art representation and that most people could live without it, believe it or not; just because it doesn’t target them touch them or even interest them in any way, which is really hard for me to think of a person who don’t seem to understand or appreciate any type of art in this life, I just think they are not even alive because there is no normal person in life who you get to know in any society wouldn’t like any art to be presented in their live!

Brook said it that “stage is a reflection of life, but this life cannot be re-lived for a moment without a working system based on observing certain values and making value-judgments.”  He also said, “ Anyone interested in processes in the natural world would be very rewarded by a study of theatre conditions. His discoveries would be far more applicable to general society than the study of bees or ants.” “Under the magnifying glass he would see a group of people living all the time according to precise, shared, but un-named standards.”

It was obvious in this chapter that Brook did talk about theatre and cinema are different from each other in a comparison between the both forms and what’s the only interesting difference between cinema and theatre is how the cinema flashes on to a screen images from the past, which you can tell that cinema seems “intimately real”.  “ The theatre, on the other hand, always asserts itself in the present, and that’s what can make it more real than the normal stream of consciousness.”  Also, “this is what can make it so disturbing.”   

If I want to apply all these elements that peter brook have talked about in the last chapter of his book “The empty space” then I definitely agree on a lot of different things he talked about not only with the immediate theatre, but also this should apply for the other kinds of theatre that he talked about in each chapter. Personally, I learned a lot from what I have read I was able to picture and imagine some of his examples in real life experience whether it has to deal with me personally since I’m in the theatre filed, student, yet I have what it takes to be good listener, respecting, appreciating other forms of theatre performances, learn how to communicate with actors, directors, producers and stage mangers especially if I want to build a very good connections at school or outside of the educational environment if theatre is what I really want to pursue professionally in near future.