[ pendent, esborrany]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/the-first-great-original-play-of-quarantine
There’s been ample time, during the past few endless weeks, for a person who misses theatre to think about what theatre gives us that’s different from what we get from other kinds of art and performance. We have television to entertain us, movies and books to sustain us. What can plays do? When in doubt, it never hurts to consult Hamlet. “The purpose of playing,” the Danish prince tells us, “was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.”There’s been ample time, during the past few endless weeks, for a person who misses theatre to think about what theatre gives us that’s different from what we get from other kinds of art and performance. We have television to entertain us, movies and books to sustain us. What can plays do? When in doubt, it never hurts to consult Hamlet. “The purpose of playing,” the Danish prince tells us, “was and is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.”