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Television as Theatre

  • 16-03-2013 3:26am
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    JohnFalstaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭


    Television is a relatively new medium that has absorbed our attention as no other. In pre-TV times our entertainments were onstage performances of plays, songs and stories. The crucial difference between televisual and theatrical performances was the absence of the audience from any engagement with the performance.

    Social media has had a profound influence on how we interact with television and is going to have a major say in how TV is created and consumed.

    Recently Twitter has allowed us to re-engage with performance. Only now the shadows play on both sides of the curtain - fictional characters now have their own twitter accounts and actors can tweet from behind the scenes as they film new episodes.

    Is TV as we know it a dying medium? The cathode ray tube beamed in images that were removed from our lives, but increasingly we seek to involve ourselves in those same images.

    Will the concept of theatre prove more resilient than that of TV? And will TV move more toward an immediate theatrical experience over the coming years?


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