3 Truths About Drama

1. Theatre reflects culture.

• ex: You can understand what was going on in people's minds through the arts and find out their   spirits, philosophies, feelings, and beliefs

2. Artists must be "dangerous".

• ex: Artists expose the hearts of the matters and they have the power to create something that is risky and dangerous.
• ex: In Russia, poetry can be dangerous because the people who reads them were in danger of death.

3. The origins of theatre is not Western Theatre, but World Theatre.

• ex: We often believe that Western Theatre is the origins of all theatre, but in reality, there is World Theatre which helped create and become the influence of Western theatre or just theatre all together.

Other Notes:

• The church first banned theatre because of the gladiators and the olympic games that tortured Christians.
• The church then reopened theatre because the people did not all know how to read latin so the church brought back theatre to help the common people understand the Bible stories more easily.
• War can twist theatre and art and instead of reality plays, they go through disillusionment and led to modernism.
• Then post-modernism came afterwards and is art with no rules or boundaries.