REALISM

Theatre is not realistic, even though there are authors which try to emulate reality onstage theatre was never designed to portray realistic depictions of our environment. Theatre has been changing accordingly to every literary period in history, In several occasions every literary period contradicts the previous one and many times one period shows a positive and optimistic view of life and the next one contradicts this showing a more sad and pesimistic point of view. Theatre has evolved during all these years, we are now able to see plays following conventions from a period of time.

We were explained by our teacher why couldn´t we portray realistic depictions of life on theatre, the reason is simple, as a form of art theatre has one purpouse, to entertain us, even if the play is extremely sad and makes us cry it still entertains us and at the same time it gives out a message to us, the spectators. However if the play shows a women cry in a realistic way we find it boring, why? because art is not supposed to express life as it is, as a form of art theatre gives you infinite possibilites to express your idea and give out your message. Not only in theatre realistic depictions of a certain event does not fit well, for instnace in comic books, if you read a superman comic book you don´t want to watch his pit stains when he flies.

In conclusion theatre gives us infinite possibilites and we are able to express ourselves throughout it, however theatre is not realistic, there is no form of art which can be 100% realistic, in movies you don´t see the actors stop acting and go to the bathroom and once you enter the theatre to watch a play, you know precisely it is not supposed to be real, its simple purpose is to tentertain you. This is the reason why do realistic acting on theatre almost never will be succesful and its unlikely to appeal to the audience.