Week 3 | task 3

Write a short essay of about 400 words on the ‘subject-matter’ below stated.

What is theatre? How do you think theatre, as a media form, communicates messages to its audience?

Theatre is a building or area in which plays and dramatic performances or motion pictures are given. It’s the activity or profession of acting in, producing, directing, or writing plays. Its different from movie that we watch at the cinema because theatre is a live performance starring by the performers that have the combinations of movement, song, dance, and speech to communicate and deliver the message to the audience. There is also lecture theatre, which is a room or hall for lectures with seats in tiers. Mostly found in universities and collages. 

I think theatre as a media form, is a medium that has their own strength in delivering a message to their audience. It is because, when the audience watch the theatre in live, the can successfully deliver the message as the audience give their 100% concentration to their performance. Plus, as a person who already has the experience of watching theatre, I can say that you will not bother to focus on other things and people around you because the theatre itself already grab your attention to watch it from the beginning until the end of the performance.

For example, in Malaysia, we have a lot of theatre performance that be held at Istana Budaya such as Puteri Gunung Ledang The Musical, theatre Tun Siti Hasmah and they has their own message that they want the audience to understand and feel it at the same time. With a great performance by the actors and actresses, it gives more emotional and romantic feeling to the audience. With that kind of feeling, I believe, the audience will certainly remembered the show indefinitely. Moreover, the respond that they get after the performance is totally positive. Means that people can accept the way they perform and as one of the media form that can gives information and moral values to the audience. 

In conclusion, theatre can give a major impact to all of us if we properly understand the message that they are trying to deliver to us. It can be a media form for us to get information as well as a learning process if we take it seriously because people nowadays rarely see the good impact of watching a theatre. Some of them might think that theatre is boring, and it’s only for old generation to watch it when they’re totally wrong.  Theatre can be fun if they know what is exactly theatre is all about the good sight of watching it. 

'Aisyah Alwani bt Azhar
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