What are the basic elements of theatre?
Live: both audience and actors are experiencing the story in the same space at the same time. This is different from a t.v. show broadcast live from in front of a live studio audience: the theatrical experience is meant to be experienced only First-Hand, not through the interpretive eye of a camera.
Acknowleged Artiface: we all know that the actors are pretending to be other people, in an environment that is artificial, under lighting that simulates "reality" or attempts to signal a mood or tone.
What are the other elements?
Does theatre need to:
tell a story?
have an audience?
use language?
have design elements?
start as text?
What is specific to theatre that is not possible in other forms?
Where do theatre and other art forms overlap?
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