"Can Theatre and Media Speak the Same Language"

"Can Theatre and Media Speak the Same Language"

What happened in the 1920s to spur a new trend in scenography?A photorealist painting is a picture of a photograph- how weird!Space or volume implies time.Theatre is real and live. Something tangible. A projected image is disconcerting because it's of the past and can't be reached: The projected image is dead.The realm of disbelief allows us to believe that the character is leaving and their world continues offstage even if we know the actor is going offstage.French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard: "Movies are truth twenty-four times a second.Cinematic stage transforms even the most blatant fantasy into reality while theatric stage turns concrete reality into fantasy.A projection is made of light and shadow; it is not a real. A chair left on stage will still be a chair when not in use. This creates two kinds of realities: the real and the perceived.It is not about making the two vocabularies of media and stage exclusive but seeing how they inform each other.Some theatre groups have, of late, been experimenting with the use of cameras on stage and creating worlds through media but they are not modern literary productions.The Introduction of technology can be an asset to theatre but it can't just be blatantly introduced, it must be consciously and critically integrated.