Theatre should do what only theatre can do. It is unambiguously happening in front of you, the words you are hearing are being spoken now, the people are there, it is real. People will always want to experience this....
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...Trying to make theatre popular by trying to make it more like film, or more memeable, is simply not going to work. It is not shareable, it is not convenient, it cannot achieve the same spectacle. But they cannot be what theatre is, which is happening in the same room as you...
... It is for just you, this audience shares this experience which is then gone. And the more our lives are filled with ai created, infinitely adaptable, algorithmically perfect media, the more we will also want, and crave, the unambiguously real.
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