So how can I relate theater to my every day hobbies and interests…. When I think about my life I really am not the type of person that’s into acting or theater. I am actually the complete opposite deep down when I look at my everyday life I am pretty animated person, I act out a lot of things and enjoy life and like to make it fun and entertaining even if that means looking stupid or pretending to do something.
When really looking at the things I do and analyzing Things Theater is all around me and I am performing theater and I don’t even realize it. Deep down none of us really realize how much performing, acting or what ever you want to call it we perform theater actions. Theater really is a savings grace to many people when thinking about it we all think to our selves or make up games when were bored. I mean the other day at work, I am a landscaper but I was working on something by my self and instead of just sitting there and picking weeds out of the ground I was round up man. I pretended I was in the wild Wild West back in the olden days and my round up weed killer was my gun. I walked around and shot the entire weeds saw essentially killing them and becoming the bad guy. I walked around contounsisly look for more weeds to shoot and kill. As stupid as that may sound it helped pass time and at the time yea I though wow this is really stupid I hope no one is watching. But now looking back what I didn’t realize is I was in my mind performing a theater performance, the stage was a backyard and I was the main character playing a wild west cop solving crime finding and killing the bad guys.
That is just a dumb and silly example of theater in our everyday lives but its proof that we really do perform theater almost if not for sure every day of our lives. I mean we don’t have to rehearse everyday or go to lessons or do anything professional but we can be doing something so little as doing the dishes or cleaning up our rooms at home. If we pretend or want to make it into something that its not that is a theater performance that is bringing theater to life in our minds.
Other ways that theater is and relates to my everyday life is when playing sports. Always in my mind I’m going through what the other team or person is going to do. In my head there is a theater performance of the opposite player or team performing what they do or are going to do.
We all have creative minds some a lot more than others. Mine being not so much as creative and theater based. I was never the kid in the plays I was actually in fact the kid in the crowd making noise and distracting people but now when I really look at it. I am one of the biggest actors around I constantly act things out or perform theater and I don’t even realize it. I challenge everyone to sit down and look at what you do throughout a day and think wow was this a performance or theater like.
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