What is theater?\nWhat role does theater play in our life? Why?
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Theater:A building, room, or outdoor structure for the presentation of plays, films, or other dramatic performances.  Dramatic literature or its performance;\nThe milieu of actors and playwrights. \n\nYour question is relative..\nIt may not play any role.\nhowever its primary purpose is to entertain.\nthe delivery and form in which the entertainment \nis served varies, and may be something thought provoking, humorous, fantasy or profound.\nand may be expressed in the form of drama, music or dance or all three!\nFor the actor, it is leaving who you are somewhere else..and becoming someone else with a purpose and a reality. \nFor the audience, it is an escape from reality... just for a moment....it is stepping into the book.
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The world and your place, my place, everyone’s place, in it is magnificent.  It has been so for millions of years.  You have a choice, learn something new everyday and initiate by intent no harm to anyone, that is joining into the world.\n\nOr,\n\nYou can take the lead role in the old story of chicken little who once passed under a walnut tree when an acorn fell off and hit him in the head.  From then on he ran around crying that the sky was falling.  \n\nWe all run into challenges, but we can make each one into a learning experience.  Its all up to you..
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Get yourself involved with community theatre asap so you get used to auditions. If you can, get involved in the Thespian organization. They are amazing. \n\nSign up for an account at Princeton Review and then go to this site. They list the Best College Theatre programs.\n\nhttp://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=7&topicID=58
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u have great imagination. u should teach english or drama
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I LOVE musicals.  I've been lucky in my life to see a whole bunch of different ones and I absolutely adore them.  Even high schools do a good job with musicals, they're just not the newer ones.
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Go out where? with who? to do what? Going to the movies, or a bar, a fancy restaurant, an opera are all different. Don't expect any helpful answers if you don't provide adequate information.
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I would vote for A Midsummer Night's Dream.  It's a great dose of comic silliness with just enough philosophical inquiry into the relationship between dream and reality to give you food for thought.  The last scene alone is worth the price of admission (or rental, or the cost of a good book).
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Even when I was a child I liked the 'incidental' music of shows and movies.  Why is it we can all recognize music that accompanies scary scenes, romantic scenes, fight scenes, weird/bizarre, etc.  I also think the person who's responsible for designing a set (what pictures do you have on the wall?  What kind of telephone, television, or CDs would the character have?  If the setting is furturistic, the choices become even more fun to play with.
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There are things that happen in this world that are above our understanding.  If we were to know how everything worked, we would be God.  Not understanding everything makes us human.
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Putting others ahead of yourself.\n \nThis teaches us everything we need to know about life.
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The human imagination is the root of what makes us human and what causes our problems. \n\nWe imagine things that are contrary to reality, thus we act against what is best for our own self interest.\n\nWe create alternative realities and create moral systems that work in those supernatural realities, but only serve to ultimately  destroy us in reality. \n\nA moral system designed to support a supernatural reality is anything but moral.
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My favorite teacher in high school was my Theater Arts teacher.  She was kind and lenient.  She was real and I could be myself around her.  She let every student know she was their friend first and then their teacher.  She loved to teach but she also loved to encourage her students to be themselves and pursue their dreams.  She always went out of her way to make our classroom expereince enjoyable.  She let us watch many movies as rewards for good grades, purchased chiaroscuro makeup and let us practice techniques in class on classmates,  took us on field trips to art festivals, and held many pizza parties so we didn't have to eat the not so palatable cafeteria food.  I will never forget her.
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My question would be movies for entertainment or movies that are based off of books?  \n\nIn several of my classes, my professors would have us read the book or the story and then we would watch the movies in class and contrast and compare.  That's more of a director vs. author argument, though.  However, the justification for showing the movies, too, is that it helps to better the understanding of the cultural perspective (when the book was written vs. when the book takes place vs. when the movie was released).\n\nI hope I didn't confuse you and that I gave you something to think about and maybe even a basis for an argument...\n\nBy the way, what side are you on?
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Shakespeare is a literary giant, just like Hawthorne, Melville, Hugo, Twain, Steinbeck ...\n\nIt probably has a lot to do with standardizing Literature education among high schools.  No doubt, every literature teacher has his / her favorite writers .  Decisions about testing have to be made somewhere, and Shakespeare is likely as good a pick as any.\n\nStudents who go on to College / University education will likely see Shakespeare again, so it's good exposure.
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Sometimes we are consumed by the roles we play in life which confuses our identity.  By that I mean, when someone asks you who you are, do you answer with "student, mother, daughter, or a job description?"  Or, do you answer with the unique qualities that make you special and represent the kind of person you are (i.e. I'm kind, thoughtful, intelligent, funny, focused, friendly..)\n\nWhen we confuse who we are with what we are our self-concept suffers because it is not being expressed. A lot of women experience this crisis when they go through a divorce because the label of wife is expunged and replaced with divorcee.  For me that is when I realized, my identity was too wrapped up in roles instead of the kind of person I became because of the roles I used to express the kind of person I am.\n\nIt really helps to list out both on paper. You'll find that the roles you play really are not that unique because a lot of people in the world play the same roles. BUT, in being who you are you play that role in a way only you can because of who you are. It assisted me in crystallizing in my mind the person I was and the person I wanted to become.
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Get experience. Check out community theatre and community TV. You can explore your skills, find out if you have what it takes and spend only time. Look for mentors to help you along. But know this - its not an easy path. In acting, you create a fantasy but the work is no fantasy. Its long hours for low pay. You're more than likely going to want something thats flexible to make money at on the side if you're serious.
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the "stars" are a symbol of fate. the play starts w/ 2 "star-crossed" lovers. no matter how they try and plan to deny their fate- and fall in love/ live happily ever after- they are doomed.