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“The play’s the thing where in I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”
In one of the monologues spoken by Hamlet, in the famous and sad play of the great Will, he says: „The show will be the trap in which I will capture the king’s conscience.” This phrase is, in my opinion, the essence of theater. Theater offers this unique possibility to touch and to influence the audience conscience.
Each of us, in our everyday life, tries spontaneously to defend ourselves from the surrounding world in order to feel safer and, therefore, more at peace with ourselves. For this purpose, we build day after day, moment after moment, a strong wall around us. With this wall, with this armor, we act in the outer life.
In the audience, comfortably sitting in the armchair and looking towards the stage, sometimes curious, the armor is on us, the wall separates us from everything around. It’s our way of receiving life around us. Here comes the power of theater to penetrate through this shell. This possibility exists and has always existed. But how? In what way? What must be done to allow the show to invade the territory of our privacy? We often enjoy a theater performance. Sometimes it amuses us, it cheers us up, it makes us sad, it makes us think. Other times it leaves us indifferent or even annoys us or bores us. These are the normal reactions we have in this encounter with the show. But deeper, nothing was touched. There, deep in our soul, everything remained intact. There, where a pure vibration still lives.
How do we build „the King’s trap?”
How do we succeed in penetrating the twisting labyrinth of our deepest being?
