Theatre Is Interesting - Personal Essay

I love theatre so much. This is because everyone’ who does theatre is interesting in their very own ways and are often very amusing to be with. My theatre class is very entertaining with kids from all ages gathered together to share a hobby. Theatre is truly a hobby where all people from all ages can come together and be a family. Once we did this piece on the holocaust and focused in on the smoke and gas from the labor camps. It was a disastrous scene with dead people all over the place and the actors and actresses trying to find a way to make the show as realistic as possible because we have never been through this experience. We needed to come up with something that made us think of that emotion. I believe that it is called sense memory. We have done several activities with it until the scene looked real and believable enough to perform. I thought about the time when I saw a really bad car accident with lots of dead bodies and chipped up necks. Some other people thought about a fire they have seen on television or a movie they have seen. Either way, sense memory is used to express something that you have never experienced before. We also practiced the meisner technique which is a reaction technique so that what is said in the lines make sense at all time. When someone is not paying attention to a line that another actor messed up, the whole show becomes messed up due to the fact that the conversation doesn’t flow.