Theatre

The definition of theatre in courtesy of Google is a building where theatrical performances or motion- picture shows can be presented. 

This can be an internationally known theatre house such as the likes of the Sydney Opera House or Broadway but can also include indie theatre houses that are abundant in the more underground scene. Depending on the theatre house itself, it could be a grand, complex performance hosting hundreds of people in the audience but it could also be with a much smaller audience, an intimate moment between the performers and the attendees. 

While the traditional theatre may not have much going on in terms of the types of media that they use, the more modern theatre manipulates many types of media to further put across their message to the audience. To start off, and this kind of method has been used ever since the first existence of theatre, is the most obvious, the actor’s voice. Performers are trained to project their voice so that it can be heard even by the furthest seating audience member and since the stereo system was nowhere in existence in the first times in theatre, this is a crucial first skill for stage perfomars. Of course now with the aid of the latest in technology stereo surround system, audiences get a whole new heightened theatre experience in terms of sound. Music of course is another part in theatre that is irreplaceable and every background sound is meticulously arranged to further expand the effect of sadness, happiness, excitement and whatever else that speaks to the heart.

Props are of course abundant in theatre performances. Whether small or big it plays a crucial role to the scene. Everything on stage is used to its whole entirety to contribute to the story. Props that are a few meters high are smoothly rolled in and out of scenes, all thanks to the hours of training and practice masterminded by the stage directors, technicians and many more people that most of the time are not even glimpsed by the audience, but with the absence of, the show will come to pieces. Projections are also frequently used, and now with smaller, more powerful computers that have become a lot more available to theatre houses, the use of it in theatre has increased magnificently. Lighting designers create these display media to inject another dimension on stage and opens up much more opportunities for the more unusual execution of the scene.

Theatre itself is a media packed performance and aims to provide to the audience a much more real and intimate performance that may be lost in the modern cinema. With the actors very much there right in front of your very eyes, and the complex arrangements and movements of props it is up to the respective directors to run a very tight ship and create a unforgettable moment to the audience.