Cinema and Theatre

Theatre is a building with stage for the performance of plays and other dramatic performances. Cinema is a room with big screen which is used to play films in front of the audience seat. Both are similar as both are presenting dramatic performances to bring pleasures to audiences. Besides, both of them involve actors, scripts, plots, and music.
However, theatre is different from cinema as the play is performed in the present time or in other words, it is live performance. The actors that performed in the theatre must put great effort in practicing as they cannot do mistake during the live performance. In movies, when there is a mistake done, the director will just say “cut” and film that scene again. Besides, the setting of theatre is different to the cinema also. The stage of the theatre is decorated depending on the play being performed on that day. The decoration of the stage is temporarily and can be changed when other play is performed. In the cinema, no decoration of the setting is needed as the movies are played through videos. Without the movies, the screen is just a blank screen. in a nutshell, both theatre and cinema have similarities and differences.

Is theatre out of date?

Theatre is a performance art that places human experience before a group of people-an audience-in the present moment. I think theatre is out of date because it is performed in a dull way. In this age of world which is full of technology wonders, people are more attracted to movies which have more special effects. They feel more excited when watching movies which presented in an advanced way with computer generated images and etc. In contrast, theatre is performed without special effects. It is lagging behind in the world full of technologies wonders. It is performed presently in front of audience. The content is limited too. For example, it cannot involve scenes that need the use of transport like van as you cannot drive a real van into the stage!
Besides, theatre is out of date because audiences need to pay great concentration to catch what the play is going on. They need to listen attentively to catch what the actors talking about as theatre cannot be play back or repeated. People choose to watch movies rather than theatre as movies can be downloaded easily and watch it many times and there is subtitle on the screen while theatre does not have it.
Apart from that, most people think that the content of theatre is unrealistic and are not related to our daily lives. People usually think that theatre is all about art and in their mindset, only those who are good in art can understand theatre. This causes them not to watch play.