'Live' theatre is the opposite of a fixed performance that has been captured on film or tape. The fixed performance is set in concrete -- but who says that is the best portrayal of the role or the best performance of that story that will ever be done?
The actors’ real-time delivery will be made to relate significance to the audience for that specific performance. The show itself might have a flavor that was individually crafted to strike something in the audience that relates to present current events.
In a live performance the audience is entranced -- their disbelief suspended. This requires, and induces the audience to further utilize their imagination and their own creative abilities. The reactions to the work can have an even greater impact.
Because the actors can modify their performance to respond to the audience’s reactions, there is an energy that flows both ways. With reference to audiences, occasionally there are "dead" houses - though the performance material is good and consistent night-after-night. When feeling the presence of the "dead" audience, some gifted actors can actually raise the bar, turn up or modify the energy of the performance and even turn the house completely around!
With a live show. you have the opportunity to witness a specialized form of theatre and artistry: the story is being portrayed from beginning to end – the actor living this full arc of life in over a period of perhaps two hours. The maintaining of the created role provides the audience with a unique opportunity to see the actor undergoing a sustained three dimensional experience. Some movie actors cannot or will not do stage plays due to the subjective emotional and physical intensity of this particular form of stagecraft.
With a live performance the audience experiences a "Human-to-Human" event, an intimacy that is created only with this medium.
Finally, when you see live theatre you will experience something that is unique . . . an interpretation or even a once-only performance that results in a brilliant act of serendipity that may never be seen again!
