Forms of Public Sphere: Theatre as a Collective Social Builder
Forms of Public Sphere: Theatre as a Collective Social Builder

Summary/Abstract: Artistic expressions have a close relationship with the society in which they are embedded. For the theatre this is even more true according to the very nature of live experience that the teathere is proposing to a community. This paper has the intent to inquire the complex relationship between arts and society by its forms and theoretical narratives. Theatre as an institution has the potential to innervate society, or the community, through a practice of sharing creative work and the legitimation, or censorship, of cultural expressions, choosing between the different leanings which theatrical productions can represent. Compared to other forms of collective narration such as cinema, for example, theatre is radically different in its realization, in the nature of its communication with the audience, in the type of commitment required of the actors, and in the type of executive production. What makes theatre different, is its relationship with reality, its requiring a physical co-presence which is realized in a performance, the live performance and the presence of the gaze of spectators.

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