Author: Man in the Street (not verified)
Date: 21/02/2008 - 09:24
I think that the quotation I have noted is little more than skin deep. If theatre is just to educate as you suggest then theatre would be a lecture theatre.
There is a message in the subtext of nearly all scripts and a message in the main text of others, it would be trite play indeed with no message. As theatres main tool is entertainment that is the tool that is used. All speech makers use theatre in their delivery. At uni some lecturers would send you to sleep whiles others keep you on your toes through out the lecture.
With regard to Bertolt Brecht quotes, he made the quote, I do not have the full context of when he made the quote, but I believe the quote was made in context of a spoonful of sugar.
I stand by my first statement that theatre is for entertainment. People will take any massage to heart if it sold in a palatable manner.
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Date: 21/02/2008 - 09:24
I think that the quotation I have noted is little more than skin deep. If theatre is just to educate as you suggest then theatre would be a lecture theatre.
There is a message in the subtext of nearly all scripts and a message in the main text of others, it would be trite play indeed with no message. As theatres main tool is entertainment that is the tool that is used. All speech makers use theatre in their delivery. At uni some lecturers would send you to sleep whiles others keep you on your toes through out the lecture.
With regard to Bertolt Brecht quotes, he made the quote, I do not have the full context of when he made the quote, but I believe the quote was made in context of a spoonful of sugar.
I stand by my first statement that theatre is for entertainment. People will take any massage to heart if it sold in a palatable manner.