Week 3 Entry

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

          What is theatre? What inside theatre? And what theatre does? As been stated on wikipedia, theatre "is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place." The combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance are been used by the performers of the theatre to communicate the message or experience to the audience. In other words, we can say that theatre have 3 elements which are performer, action and audience. Why? Performer does an action to the audience. A theatre needs an element called communication where the process of creating representation of meaning for the other people can interpret it. So it does apply to the performer creating for the audience to decode it.  As my opinion, theatre is a powerful medium in producing a massive message to the audience. As the audience watched the stage play (theatre) live, so the message that transferred is directly received by the audience.

          Theatre can be as one of the media form because it transfers message to the audience. We can see a form of communication happen in there. A theatre gives a meaningful information or moment to the audience to experience it. There is a lot difference when a person as the audience interpret the message that carry by the theatre performer live. With a great and awesome performance by the actor/actress of the theatre, it gives more sentimental value for those who love this kind of art. The audience will feel touched and mesmerized with the theatre performance. So, the theatre can be one of the media form used.

          The history of the theatre is it has become an oldest tool of communication since it started in 17th century. During that time covers many important issues such as politic, ideologies, current issue and many more. If we look at the acceptance of the society, we see that positive respond by them towards the theatre art. There are many plays/shows that have been conducted. This means that the societies are accepting the theatre as the one of media form as it provides information that gives lessons to the audience. In Malaysia, we can see the example how the society acceptance towards the theatre where theatre is actively shown at the Istana Budaya. There are many plays/shows played until now. And the response by the society is very impressive makes that the theatre side non-stop making a new show.

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