The theatre endures as a refreshing dramatic encounter where there are no screens. Our dramatic lives are dominated by screens - movies, TV, video games. Theatre is a refuge from the daily barrage of pixels. This is the theatere's great appeal, seeing the sweat on the actors' faces, the risk of mistakes, the noise of stagehands scrambling in the dark between scenes; it's real; it's dramatic.

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An interesting thing happened last week. Apple released a new product. It is both hailed as the next revolution in personal computing and derided as a useless, redundant piece of technology. Also, the President of the United States delivered the State of the Union. Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union. Everyone was talking about the iPad. No one was talking about the speech.