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"We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?"
Milan Kundera.
Acting is a very complex art. The impulse to act seems to be instinctive in humans. It is related to the natural development of the imagination and of social skills when we are younger. The actor's split attention, the means by which he plays being a character at the same time as watching himself do so, is analogous to our own character - our life-role, our subjective consciousness - being watched by that part of our mind, our objective consciousness, which sees it 'on-stage', as it were, in the theatre of the world. Dialogue between actor’s character and spectator is normally accomplished through voice, movement, and the registration of emotion. For the reason that chosen theme is so extensively personal, it relates to almost each of us.
Whatever the reason to be part of it, through theater one can learn something about the world and community he lives, through playing and watching one can discover real nature of himself.
Social interaction, or in other word… escapism, appered to be main reason for most people.