The Decline and Evolution of English Stage Play

Before the film was born, the stage play once represented an era. There are many kinds of stage plays, mainly adapted from novels, history and folk stories. The earliest stage play was born in western countries, and the exact year is hard to know. Classic English stage plays include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear and La Traviata.

Nowadays, English stage plays are not as popular as before, and gradually fade out of most people's sight. On the one hand, there are more and more emerging entertainment activities, on the other hand, stage play, as a way of performance, cannot be accepted and appreciated by the general public. Even so, in big cities with developed economy and large population, you can still see the existence of stage performance groups, and an excellent stage actor is highly respected. They often have to pay more energy and sweat than ordinary film and television actors. To be an excellent international stage actor, you should not only be good at singing and dancing, but also be good at using body language. It can be seen that if Hollywood actors want to enter the world, they must first pass the oral English test. For the sake of accent standards, it is inevitable to participate in oral English training and learning. Faced with such a bleak situation, in order to survive, stage plays will inevitably change and evolve.

In Asian countries, Japanese stage plays are animated stage plays combined with the local developed animation industry.

The script is adapted from popular animation, which is very popular in Japan and can be said to be very successful, which is inseparable from the die-hard loyalty of a large number of Japanese cartoons and the strong mass base of stage plays. China's stage play is much worse, and it is still dominated by drama, which can't be broken. For example, people who participated in the drama club in college may be interested. However, changes are not without them. Nowadays, many stage plays also talk about hiphop pop music, but it is not as good as other countries in this respect, and it is short-lived to rely on a few big-name singers occasionally.

So generally speaking, the development of English stage plays is not optimistic, and how to change it remains to be seen.