Stage presence – the best compliment that big celebrity can get is that he/she has the awesome stage presence like it was very charming and I am not talking about just actors, it can be in any field. Take actors example no matter which industry in the world they belong to, not matter what is their experience in terms of acting. The roles that immediately stuck to our mind have been played so well from the actors, they all have one thing in common among them they all are theatre actors. They are all trained actors and knows what, when and with whom the scene needs to be played or what they have to Act.
You can read books to broaden your knowledge, watch hundreds of movies you enjoy, and admire actors and wonder how they transform into someone entirely different, but something changes inside of you the moment you stand behind a curtain, hear the audience settling into their seats, and realize that you have to walk onto that stage and change into someone else in a matter of seconds.
For this reason, I think everyone should go to the theatre at least once in their lifetime.
Theatre has a unique and lovely way of bringing out aspects of you that regular life frequently hides, so it’s not required for you or anyone else to become an actor or perform professionally.
You Get to Experience Multiple Lives
Ever wonder that in day to day lives we often see some person that we admire and want to life like them, somehow in theatre there might be a chance that you can play character alike and somehow for few hours you can live that life that you admired someday.
There are many emotions that are connected to your personality on a daily basis, such as calm, anger, happiness, and sadness. Theatre can help you manage these emotions and act appropriately when you want to. For example, you might be playing someone who is completely different from yourself, such as someone who is very confident when you are shy, someone who is angry when you are calm, someone who is poor, rich, cruel, kind, broken, ambitious, helpless, funny, or even completely irrational, and for a while you have to comprehend why they act the way they do.
You start asking questions
Why does this character speak in this manner? Why does he despise that individual? Before this scene, what had occurred to her? What is this person’s true desire? What do they have to conceal?
You begin to see life through the perspective of others without even realizing it.
It teaches you empathy by making you temporarily live someone else’s life.
Theatre Gives Your Imagination a Place to Breathe
Life is tough, the moment you realize this life becomes easier but majority did not understand rather accept this. We have our work, responsibilities, deadlines, bills etc etc. we fail to accept the reality and we start living in imagination and that’s when theatre help.
A plain, empty stage can be transformed into a courtroom, a village, a palace, a bedroom, a train station, or even a whole globe. It can be physically empty. However, both the performers and the audience concur that it is real.
That calls for creativity, and when you collaborate with other theatre professionals, something even more fascinating occurs. Everybody contributes their own ideas, enthusiasm, and interpretation. Your perspective on a scenario can be drastically altered by one person’s suggestion. In a moment when you saw seriousness, someone might discover humour. An expression or movement that you never thought of might be suggested by someone else. As you start working together, your creativity is automatically stimulated by the ongoing interchange of ideas. Sometimes creativity comes by just living with creative people.
Your Memory Gets a Serious Workout
Practise makes a man perfect and that strongly goes with theatre that audience somehow ignore. You rehearse a lot. A performance that looks effortless on stage may have taken months of repetition behind the scenes. Actors read the same lines again and again. Sometimes for six months. Sometimes for a year. The same dialogue is repeated until it becomes almost a part of their body and unlike a video recording, theatre doesn’t give you the luxury of saying – CUT – Again, you cannot retake.
You are simultaneously recalling your lines, your gestures, your cues, the dialog of your fellow performers, your facial expressions, and the character’s emotional journey.
You may eventually become considerably more at ease with memorization and recall as a result of this practice. Standing on stage, you cannot be thinking about the meeting tomorrow. You are unable to check your phone. You lost focus, thus you are unable to halt the scene.
Your Voice Becomes a Tool
In our day-to-day routine, we don’t really think about voice, we just speak – that’s it but on-stage speaking is not enough – the same sentence can be spoken in different ways depending on how you say it like you can whisper it or shout it or you can slow it down. You can change the pitch of same sentence on your own depending on the role and situation. This is called Voice modulation
You can use everyday life as an example. A management providing feedback to an employee, someone presenting, someone attending an interview, a teacher explaining something to students, or someone attempting to persuade a client.
The way you say things is frequently just as important as the words themselves.
You learn to be aware of your voice through theatre. You begin to realize that effective communication requires more than just using the appropriate words. Tone, speed, pauses, volume, emotion, and confidence are all important. Additionally, you begin to notice these things in real life as soon as you become conscious of them on stage.
Theatre Can Change How You Present Yourself
It trains you to perform even when you don’t feel confident, not how to be confident.
There will be times when you feel anxious before performing. Your heart might beat more quickly. When the curtain opens, you might be wondering if you’ll remember your lines. Once you’ve done it enough times, you start to realize that fear doesn’t always mean you should give up.
Sometimes all you have to do is accept your fear and move on, and that lesson becomes immensely useful outside of theater. It’s scary to give your first presentation at work. The initial interview is intimidating. It is intimidating to speak in front of senior citizens. It’s scary to meet new people. However, many commonplace circumstances suddenly seem less frightening if you have already felt what it’s like to stand in front of hundreds of people and perform without a retake.
Theatre Doesn’t Just Create Actors
For this reason, I don’t believe that theatre should only be accessible to those who aspire to be professional performers. It can be advantageous to a learner. It can be advantageous to a corporate professional. It can be advantageous to a teacher. It can be advantageous to an entrepreneur. It can help even someone who thinks of themselves as quite introverted. Because acting isn’t the sole aspect of theatre.
It involves comprehending others, recalling, listening, envisioning, speaking, watching, and expressing oneself. Perhaps most crucially, it allows you to temporarily change who you are, and you could learn something new about yourself.
You might find that you’re funnier than you realized. more assured than you anticipated. More imaginative than you anticipated. more perceptive than you anticipated. Perhaps even more sympathetic than you anticipated. We strive to become one version of ourselves for the majority of our life. We have the chance to become many through theater. and maybe that’s precisely why everyone ought to try it at least once rather than pursuing a career in acting. However, to become a bit more human.
