IS ALL THEATRE POLITICAL??

 After this term of work on Political theatre, I think that not all theatre is political. I personally think that all theatre should have a message to it, whether it be a message about magic or about WW2. There are many different tyoes of theatre and I don't think that childrens theatre always has to have a political message, but something that will interest that audience and that audeince can take something away from it. I think that all theatre should give something to the audeince and that the audience should walk out of the theatre, what ever theatre and what ever audeince, with something to do with the performance in their kind and for the story to send the audeince a message or a feeling or a veiw. However I don't think that all of these messages have to be political, they can be about something really small or really big however not every peice of theatre has a message or a political meaning that will make the audeince leave with a deep thought and challenged to want to go make a change to the world. However they will be left with a certain feeling in themselves either about the peice as a whole or about the meaning of the peice. 

 

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
― Bertolt Brecht

Brecht

“All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.”
― Bertolt Brecht

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
― Bertolt Brecht

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