Question

For a live play like The Tempest or any play similar hat does the performance suggest about the role of theater in contemporary culture?

Answer 1

By sharing common cultural threads , highlighting the social complexities and thus shaping today's culture, theatres play a significant though subtle role in contemporary culture.

Many actors have played Peter Quince and Emilia. However, because of the elasticity and creativity granted by text and varying types of humor or drama to play with in the roles, the characters and the plays themselves remain. For General audience, seeing classics is always a new experience not only for the different performers, space, or arts but because as audience members grow, change, and experience life, they get something different out of the classics.
Say, as a teen, one may strongly identify with Romeo and Juliet, though as an adult he may discover how reckless and impulsive the young lovers were.
The classic (Death of a Salesman) by Arthur Miller is still performed because it explores the American Dreams. Classics are still performed because of their timelessness and continue to be significant in contemporary culture.