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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Cinematic vs Stageplay Thinking
In this day and age of technical advancement and shortened attention spans, it seems to me that theatre will naturally move toward more cinematic story telling. Your thoughts?
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I think theater will always be tempted to move in that direction and sometimes succeed, but I'd bet that audiences find themselves feeling dissatisfied when it does, perhaps not even knowing why. People do come to the theater hoping to experience 'presence' (for good or ill, depending on your point of view; for me, it's usually good) and 'presence,' in the form of character development and performer charisma, can't be adequately created or supported by over-reliance on cinematic technique. Words, voice, physicality are the working stuff of theater, whereas light and motion are the working stuff of cinema.
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