Covid and Drama

Theaters have been shut for more than a year in Geneva now.

I am beginning to feel the lack of cultural feedback, especially

the one that w have from a good play with a climax and a worthy

dénouement. Plays give us a connection with the societies in which

we live, work, and interact. The lockdown has deprived us of these

moral and emotional experiences and we begin to feel the effect.

I have begun watching the classical Shakespeare tragedies played

by Christopher Plummer, Laurence Olivier, and Richard Burton

who have different styles of acting but convey the main ideas

and emotions of the plays with excellent acting. Yet, still feel it is

not the same as being in a theater and experiencing the drama

directly through the actors. The screen and the virtual experience

holds a censure which is hard to break, I think.