Is Theatre still a worthwhile art form?

Sure, since a plastic fork is considered "art" these days

Yes.

>>9184109
No. Art is dead.

there's no art anymore, just content

>>9184109
No, theatre is dead as fuck

>>9184109
>Go to Disneyland with family
>Enjoy self going on rides 'n shit
>Wife and her sister want to go see Frozen
>Agree to this
>Sit in mezzanine seats, far above the theater
>Intro plays
>Do you wanna build a snowman!
>This is kinda cool
>Next scene
>Anna is Asian and Elsa is black
>Utterly confused
>The cast literally changed race for no reason
>Even the extremely liberal sister's boyfriend is confused (He's from Washington)
>I look it up
>Race-neutral casting
>Gender-neutral casting

I also watched a pidgen version of Hamlet, which I thought was pretty ono.

>>9184165
Pidgin* as in Hawaiian syntax and vernacular.

>>9184336
The Bible in Hawaiian pidgin is great fun.

Avant-garde theater is the epitome of everything that can go wrong with the arts

It is so full of talentless morons who latch on to the genre because they think it means they won't have to do as much work that the genre has paradoxically developed its own god-awful tropes, cliches, and redundancies. It is no longer avant-garde, it is soulless, talentless, mindless garbage.

I fucking hate it so much.

theatre is ubercool desu
experimental theatre is epic fun
that's the most radical and where it's at
written form theatre is mostly boring tho

>>9184130
your dick is dead

>>9184452
what are some "radical" plays i could watch on youtube

Is better than going to the movies, tbqh.

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>>9184109
Damn right it is, friend. If you live in or near a city, take advantage of the local theater scene.

Only if you're a playwright

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>>9184109
Viennese decadent psychosexual theatre is pretty great t bh. check out Arthur Schnitzler and Frank Wedekind. It's edgy dark comedy with expressionist elements

I used yo hate theatre untill I saw the work of Romeo castelucci

>>9184109
Have you seen Book of Mormon yet?

>>9184117
No

>>9184446
This

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No.

>>9184165
>Anna is Asian and Elsa is black
>>Utterly confused
>>The cast literally changed race for no reason

I had a similar experience with a local college production of Othello.
Their twist was
>Othello played by a black guy
I walked out and demanded a refund

>>9187409
You know how they could and would fuck it up tho? Making Iago black. Or the entirety of the cast black.

>>9187351
I just remembered that the last play I went to, King Lear; Lear, Goneril and Regan were white but Cornelia was black. I think Edmund was too, as were the French.

Can't say I thought about it at the time, the whole cast and production was fantastic.

>>9184109
I still want to go and see Shakespeare in the original pronunciation at least a couple of times in my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYiYd9RcK5M

>>9187463
Literally just speaking in a common Norfolk accent.

>>9187499
Really?

Check at 2 minutes 45 seconds here then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW1eV7Oc5A&

Pretty sure nobody speaks like this today.

>>9184165
I have a bit of a hard time believing this only because Disney is notoriously superficial when it comes to casting their park impersonators. It may be different for those wth stage roles though

>>9187505
Go anywhere in the countryside and people will pronounce the example 'here' as 'air'. Hell I do a bit because I'm from Cornwall so some of my Hs vanish and my Rs are a bit fruity. Or should I say 'frootei'?

>>9187517
It's called Early Modern English for a reason mate. Nobody speaks *entirely* like that simply because some modern dialects have similar sounds.

I sincerely doubt anyone says "craytures" or "raisons".

>>9187522
Try Ireland, a lot of that comes in there as well. They even still pronounced 'film' and 'filum'.

It's not even as if everyone spoke entirely like that in Shakespeare's time considering how strong regional accents are even now.

>>9187530
You are literally arguing that people speak the same now as they did 400 years ago, which is just flat out wrong.

>>9187536
"People" don't speak like anything.

>>9184137
underrated post

I quite like a bit of Stoppard, and Shakespear is essential knowledge, just like the Bible, to understand much of modern literature.

Twelfth Night is my personal favourite.

>>9187515

http://thedisneyblog.com/2016/06/01/disneyland-assembles-color-blind-cast-new-frozen-musical/

>>9187351
Tfw have a trip to London in May which includes a viewing of a Shakespeare's drama in Globe. Is this a meme or should I really be spooked?

Neat-o, Jenkins!

>>9188876
Stop believing everything you read on the internet.

>>9184446
This desu.

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>>9184109
>tfw want to be an actor but theater people are SJW as fuck and 4chan will make fun of anything that's not stem and people hate your profession because of what idiots in hollywood say

>>9184436
It's honestly no different to the KJV (and presumably the original). It's bizarre how casual God is about being...God.

>>9184470
oedipus rex with the masks

>>9187522
>I sincerely doubt anyone says "craytures" or "raisons".
Then you are an idiot.

He's right. It's close enough to such accents that that's how I read all these kinds of poems in my head.

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who /playwright/ here?

first original production happening in August

>>9189876
Written but no productions. Sad feels, desu

>>9184468

No, it's art.

>>9184109

hey op remember that scene at the end of season 3 where jim asked pam out on a date and then she just looked at the camera smiling a big smile and asked sorry what was the question? i thought that was nice

>>9190951
Get rich friends my man

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>>9190962
Oh the feels, man. She's lovely, especially the first few seasons.

>>9190976
>having friends

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>>9190989

>>9190984

she really is

>>9187351
To be entirely fair, Shakespearean comedies are tailor made to pander to the lowest plebian dregs of society, so yeah, this is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would've wanted.

>>9184137

there's no happy anymore, just content

>>9189530
God isn't some grumpy old man.
I bet Jesus was ironic and cracked jokes all the time from what ive read.

>>9189367
>Caring about what people on 4chan think
>Being in americuck

I mean I'm not in a first world country but we have a long tradition (and contemporary) of great art and theater is pretty alive and mostly rid of SJW and femenist agenda

>>9191004
So cute in season 3, but sad till the end

>>9192573
there's no there anymore, just content

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>>9194777
there's no singles anymore, just trips

>>9194802
Nice weyoun, son

>>9187351

The Globe is a fucking theme park, what do you expect.

>>9187412

There was a recent production in New York with David Oleyowo as Iago. I did not get to see it, but I heard very good things about it.

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>>9185880
>Implying you could ever properly capture the depth and mystery of human emotions in any other form than acting

>>9196026

Wait, I'm all fucked up. Daniel Creator
Craig was Iago in that one. I'm thinking of an RSC production a couple years ago.

>art form that literally peaked 400 years ago
lol

>>9184109
Somewhat. But the lack of proper competitiveness in the genre lowered the performance standards of most performers. It's like watching a volleyball championship in Iceland.

>>9196276
>But the lack of proper competitiveness in the genre

what the fuck are you talking about, the job market is absolutely saturated with actors.

>>9184446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYgt6g1DPW4

>>9196268
Peaked 2500 years ago, you mean

I saw The Pitchfork Disney at the weekend, it was really good. Not really sure what it was about; the plot didn't say anything I could take away from it but the acting was fantastic, the writing was clever and the scenery/setting were really atmospheric.
I'm curious how many of the posters in this thread have actually been to a significant number of plays.

>>9196325
Not the same anon, but that's not what he said. I went to an acting conservatory and can attest to the fact that a lot of up and coming actors have their heads up their ass and rely on brown nosing to get to where they are. Many don't even work on their body or voice on their own time. And the worst part is the instructors seem to be aware yet hardly ever gave lectures of professionalism. Was annoying as shit and led to my disillusionment with theater desu.

>>9188876
i've never seen anything going that over the top. but midsummer nights dream is one of the most accessible comedies so maybe they did it to appeal to a wider audience.

i've seen titus andronicus live, that was good. in fact that production caused many people in the audience to faint over numerous performances.

seen some other plays through "globe on screen", the tempest, twelfth night, much ado about nothing, none of them were as mad as that tumblr post implies.

>>9196376
Even this is absurd and obscene to the point of some kind of merit. It is at least still shocking. Avant garde theater on the most part fails even to shock you, it is so wrapped up in the patterns of its predecessors

>>9184109
Angels in America

>>9194777
Content

>>9184109
The stuff that has always been good is still good. Anton Chekov and Willy Shakespeare come to mind.

I don't know if anything worthwhile is being made nowadays though.

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Yes. Yes it fucking is.
I would rather go to poor theatre than see a amazing movie.

That said i went to see Tom of Finland the musical. Funny as hell.

reading plays i liked and then seeing them adapted convinced me that actors ruin theatre

>>9198647
How so?

>>9184470
>watching "radical" plays on youtube
you need to get out more

>>9199589
Kek

>>9184165
>hrr drr she the wrong color!!!
you dumbfuck bible belt hicks sure get upset at weird shit.

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>>9187351
>>9184165
You know what doesn't suffer from this? Noh.

>>9187412
making iago black would be interesting. making desdemona black would be dumb

>>9187451
the cast and audience are there to play make believe. i've seen an all female production of two gentlemen of verona. ive seen julius caesar played by a woman. they were great shows. the fact that they are not the gender they are pretending to be is no more important than the fact that they aren't really roman

>>9187463
brits used to sound like leprechauns?

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>>9200960
It's a matter of context, not a matter of race.

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>musical theatre