Come watch a play in a theater!

Drama theater is where a soul finds peace in imperfection. Movies have showed us how dissatisfied the search for perfection and completion can be. Watch a play in a theater to experience the zest of characters coming to life. Big emotions by small people who are not any closer to you than the other's on the stage is the essence of drama. I remember going to my first play and I didn't even know what to expect; but now, 10 years down the line I still remember the characters and the play itself.

A drama script is like a mason jar, it is filled with the golf size ideas, then filling it up with a lot of pebble like emotions and sand as logic packs its tight. Finally it is fulfilled by artists who are like water, taking the shape of the character they are playing. Theater's aren't fancy because they are not trying to sell you anything. They are feeding your imagination and most of them carry a social message. Many of us don't enjoy plays because it doesn't fancy our social life.

Theater plays carry content and intrigue our imagination and questions our beliefs. Theaters don't have stars in them because it is important to have the right people in the right parts of the story. If they chose to cast big stars it would be a great disservice to the theater industry because it could just mean it is to get more people to come and watch. Theaters try and have always tried to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Take your children to watch plays and I assure you that you would be giving them a rich experience that they will thank you forever. Unknown faces and known emotions fill the air in a theater. Voice's of the artists' blow up to gigantic proportions giving the audience's silence a whole new meaning. Suddenly the whole play becomes more than art and script. The script itself breathes into the each member of the audience's ear a story that no one else can hear leaving them heaving to the weight of the script itself. Theaters have a lot to offer for the little we spend, we get to experience music, see costume, listen to a story, see the acting and get to feed on the orchestra; there's a lot to take in and a lot to take away.

Unlike movies, where the characters have no idea of what you feel and experience when you are watching; you emote so strongly in a theater that the artists on the stage just resonate your enthusiasm. You need to experience it at least once. When you watch a play there is no screen and nothing else that separates you from this experience. Give yourself a chance to watch a play and you'd thank yourself for this one life-like experience. Let me end with a famous quote from Shakespeare's play.

William Shakespeare, As You Like It -

“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. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”