Why is Theatre Important Now? Blog # 22

                                                              




These are crazy times! Agreed? Every time you turn around, there is a new precedent for this or for that! People are confused, depressed, lonely, stressed-out, financially-strapped, fearful, anxious, and even suicidal! 

We are all dealing with more stress in these uncertain times than we have had in our entire lifetimes! We are looking for relief and an escape...and there is none! Movie theatres have just now begun opening, with limited seating.

Live Theatre is even more sorely needed than watching a movie, which is a one-sided stress reliever. With Live Theatre, both the performers and the audience interact with one another to bring about laughter, sadness, epiphanies, and yes, even catharsis! It is an interactive, cooperative, and reciprocal type of entertainment that we have all missed during these past several months of Covid Quarantine and isolation! It is time to get together again in a live theatre setting! The actors miss it, but I believe that the audience members miss it even more! 

The performers and the audience feed off of each other! Oh, how we need that human connection and interaction! That is what we have needed and what has been missing these past several months. It's not only about entertainment, although that is important, too. It is more about being in a community together! Humans were made to connect and be together. This forced isolation had paid a toll on our health: mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional!

We need Live Theatre now more than ever! We at Hidden Treasure Productions are ready and willing to get back out there with our new play, Shadows of the Mind! We are all set to perform this on November 13th and 14th in Oceanside, CA, and to take it to the UK in April of 2021. We hope you can join us at one of our three performances, locally. By the way, this play is very timely for today, imitating real issues taking place in the world, such as depression, substance abuse, childhood sexual abuse and suicide.

So let's go to the Theatre! Let's get back to life!

By:

Beverly Dennison

Director of Communication

September 12, 2020

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