Can musical theatre be elevant in todays society? why? why not? support your opinion with details.

In a keynote speech addressed to the Association of Theatre in Higher Education in 1992, performance studies scholar Richard Schechner (in)famously declared: “Theatre as we have known and practiced it – the staging of written dramas – will be the string quartet of the 21st century”. We are now more than two decades removed from this provocation. What, if anything, has changed about the state of theatre in the twenty-first century? Is theatre dead, as Schechner predicted, or is it still very much alive and breathing?  In the spirit of retiring “Late Show” host David Letterman’s famous “Top Ten” lists, I submit the following reasons why theatre is still important today:

#10 Human Beings

in this piece, the rectangles, the vertical and horizontal lines, and lack of hue create a sense of harmony. there is balance and proportion because although the rectangles are different, no one rectangle overpowers the others, and the size relationship among the rectangles is agreeable to the eye. there is a sense of movement and depth, through the use of shading and shadowing. it almost appears like some of squares are popping out. there is variety created by the different rectangle sizes, the shading, and the shadowing.

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