Strategic research on Living Theatre Serving the Society Based on Xingxiang Culture

2014 
As a regional culture, Xingxiang culture's birth is synchronous with that of Chinese culture. Meanwhile, it is an important and indispensible component of Chinese culture. The living theatre based on Xingxiang culture has risen like bamboo shoots after a spring rain and brought immeasurable benefit to the society in recent years. It is a kind of intangible cultural heritage and has profound connotation that other artistic forms cannot compare with. Living theatre can be interpreted as an artistic form of stage plays performed on the stage. Its performing form is featured by diversity. Considering its types, opera, dance drama, drama and traditional opera are involved roughly. In history, living theatre used to be classical memory of people. In addition, living theatre has been an artistic form that shows uniform effect can be realized in the world for a long time. With respect to situations of modern society, living theatre brings immeasurable service strength to the society. I. Application of living theatre to real life Shakespeare said, 'The whole world is a living theatre'. Many people deem performance is fictitious and far away from reality and such a situation will make a number of people fail to distinguish the real world from a virtual world. However, performance of living theatre has been related to social life closely in modern life. Each person has different division of labor in society and plays a different role. Performance of living theatre develops rapidly in many developed countries and even becomes a huge industry. People's research on performance of living theatre not only involves it can cure people's mentality but also contains its wide application to commercial society. A number of transnational enterprises pay attention to performance of living theatre so that they will invite professional actors to interact with their employees when training is given to them, including playing living theatre together with employees and simulating situations that employees may meet or have encountered. In such situations, employees can find solutions to problems, staff from the service industry can standardize their industrial quality via scenario simulation and commercial people may find ways to deal with things feasibly according to performance of living theatre. A great many of people in different industries may improve their work quality effective via performance of living theatre. It is said that therapeutical effect of living theatre was found and used by people in ancient times. People could utilize performance of living theatre to enable others to generate basic concepts about cognition even in the period when primitive men lived. Additionally, they realized performance of living theatre would help with people's physical and psychological health and make people adapt to social life better. Actually, ceremonies carried out in various religions and even witchcraft are regarded as performance of living theatre, which is the earliest situation that people use performance of living theatre for treatment. At the end of the 1950s, some mental hospitals and clinics adopted living theatre and activities on stages and at theatres to help people having difficulty in learning because of related scholars' impacts. Lots of countries have developed activities and training in this aspect in modern society. Performance of living theatre has entered education deeply in Taiwan. In detail, it is popularized at primary schools and is a basic skill that teachers must master. The reason for this is that research
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