Just a thought

[charliebearnj]

This has been the year of dead theater.

Not just Broadway being closed, but also the pervasive entertainment being recorded drama and comedy.

Not live theater, but disconnected, dead theater.

Does that mean that we are not evolving in our understanding of each other?  Script writers get their cues from established culture, and it is only when the

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[barak]

Well, live-performance theatre has had to shift or shut down completely. I have a buddy who does improv and they shifted to online sessions- and people can watch via some type of zoom viewing. Also, some (scripted) television shows are returning slowly. But I'm assuming you're going from live-performance theatre to being dead theater and being a bit funny about the nomenclature.

[charliebearnj]

It's a bit like when folks from a country move to another one... become the "diaspora"... they try to continue the culture of their native land, but they can't. Their native land is always evolving. the dance that they did in Greece in 1890 has long gone out of fashion, but it remains in the diaspora. And the new twist on break dancing never gets to the diaspora at all...

So the culture is frozen...

Same with jokes and emotions... they evolve based on a community's understanding, but with no community gatherings they can't evolve. To write new plays you don't hang out with friends, you go hunting culture-mushrooms growing in obscure corners of the world.