Theatre and the Holy Mirror
1 Theatre was never "extra." It was a civic ritual: a place to feel together without permission.
2 On stage, the soul speaks in muscle and breath; the audience learns how to witness without fixing.
3 When the poor are taught to mock theatre, the powerful inherit the only rooms where truth is performed.
4 The curtain rose and fell like a heartbeat; and a city remembered it was one body.
5 Screens can distract, but they cannot replace the sacred friction of shared silence.
6 A community that cannot bear vulnerability will eventually outsource compassion to slogans.
7 Art is not luxury. It is training for empathy under pressure.
8 If the ticket is too costly, build a porch theatre: stories told by firelight still count.
9 Mockery is a leash: it keeps the hungry from walking into rooms that might free them.
10 So gather again—small at first—and let truth be performed where the greedy cannot gate it.