You can't just be theatre… you have to do something.  (Maybe)
 

Today I'll write a script, you'll see
Come along and play with me.
For it's no fun alone "to be…
Or not to be," as the case may be.
Share with me, I share with you
We'll run and skip and jump for free
And when we're tired, we'll sleep with glee
Dreaming of more things to do-you...and me.

Make up scripts change them into plays.  Make up words, share them.  Make up worlds, change things. Theatre?

Theatre is a verb, an action verb, not passive or reflexive or for that matter, reflective either. 

I have written, "the theatre reflects the society of its time."  I want to amend that to "what we do with theatre reflects the times in which we live."  It is about where we are and where we wish to be. Living theatre is never about where we where; unless where we where says something about where we are or where we want to go. As I travel my life journey I find I have no love for theatre concerning itself with where we don't want to go.  Why waste creativity and happiness to create places we don't want to go.  I believe in conflict, and I believe in confrontation, but not in victims or victimizing. 

That is another rant.  Back to doing something.  Let's play.

I've said many times that plays are actions not descriptions or state of beings, so too is theatre.  Theatre is action.  Mostly you will read "theatre" as "the theatre" an annoying snobbery making all the "work" in the past some how less important than the "study" of it or even more annoying the "reference" and "deference" to it.  Theatre in practice, like life in practice or love in practice, is much more satisfying.  Maybe we should event a new word?

Theatring. 

Theatring, a verb from of the word theatre.  Here is an example that should clear up this idea, love and loving. 

Psychologists define love as unconditional positive regard. (With this gift for words maybe it’s a good thing they are not playwrights.) Unconditional positive regard in theory sits alone on the shelf collecting dust, while actions performed using unconditional regard is shared.  Sharing is another major tenant of theatring. Love is a state of being which can only be expressed in actions of loving.  Theatre can only be expressed actions, too.  Theatring.

Being in love drives you, compels you to do things.  Being in theatre should as well.

Loving is an on going process and so is theatre.  There is no end to love.  There is no end to theatre.  There are only transitions.  The action never stops it only changes.  We can manipulate it to our own needs, desires, and wishes; but most of all we can share it by doing something. Loving.  Theatring.  Living.  Changing.  Playing.

I am loving someone by writing this.

It is theatring, because writing it is an action that sets other things in motion, the same as an exploratory action in a script.

This is living, because my heart is pumping wildly as I try to finish writing this, so I can share it and use it.

Changing?  This one takes some perspective, which requires walking down the path a bit more, and walking is an action of life, so it fits my criterion.  (Remember, justification is a major director's tool in the interpretation of scripts.)

Playing?  You bet.  You and I are playing right now.  How does it feel?  Do you want to get up and do something?