629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?
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Making something out of nothing is hard. In the beginning, all you have is your imagination. It's your only tool, your only muscle. But if you are determined and lucky, that thing in your imagination can become real, and then if you are very lucky, People will pay to see it.
There's been theater since the beginning of man, really. What is theater? What is going to theater and being in a theater? What is it? What happens?
What transpires at that moment? It's the same as the oldest human endeavor of all, which is gossip. Theater is gossip. This is a crazy idea I know, except that it's true. What do you do when you go to the theater?
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