Hi. Why is theatre only for a small audience? I don't want to be cliche but Shakespeare never gets cliche so bear with me. He says "All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players". If we are all mere actors on life's stage, then we wouldn't go to a theatre to see someone else play, right? We want to be the actors, forever, and we want all the world to look at us, and see how we play, this could be called narcissism, but face it, we all have it. No, don't deny it now, if you do, you're not being honest with yourself. So, those few, who go and watch theatre live are able to share their world of acting. They can let another actor in, and be with them momentarily, while they are on life's stage on the stage with a spotlight. Support them so they can keep on showing you to yourselves like mirrors, 'standing in front of you to make an eternity of you' [I think this is Shamloo's loose translation into English]. Anyways, where was I? I don't know, but watch more theatre, it's good for your blood. I have to go back to the quote now, so when you're living, I mean right now, or whenever that you're living, think of yourself being on stage with spotlights on you and think of others around you as being on stage always and forever. This way, you bear the unbearable heavy load of the lightness of being (Stolen from Kundera with integrity). That's it about what I wanted to say, but I have to say something else that's pending. I have to say it because of the respect I have for Shakespeare, I think he knew something we don't know, a genius, and I try not to use this term loosely. Anyways, here it is: If you act on the stage of theatre, then you are an actor in life! This is to acknowledge my friend who acts Shakespearean on the stage of theatre, so this friend may also know something we don't know because he has chosen to play what Shakespeare has chosen to say to show you to you (mirror analogy coming back here thanks to Shamloo). This is all I wanted to say. Don't scratch the mirrors, look at yourselves in them. I mean go watch more theatre. Okay, I said too much. Enough say said. Bye.
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. "
William Shakespeare
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"One of the main justifications for the theatre is that it reminds us of something fundamental, which is that in human life nothing lasts. This is something obvious - one doesn't need to be a Buddhist to know it - but it is easily forgotten, and human beings try to go against reality by holding on, fixing, blocking something, rather than accepting that the whole of life is a coming and going, that everything is in flux and everything is changing."
Stolen from somewhere else!
Thank you for the stolen words. Let's steal more. Let's all become thieves. Let's steal the world!
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