The Wicked Stage: Emotional releases in musical theatre
Catharsis is a Greek word meaning 'cleansing' or 'purification'. Aristotle explains catharsis as the “purging of the spirit of morbid and base ideas or emotions by witnessing the playing out of such emotions or ideas on stage”. Many of us have cried our hearts out over the love story in The Notebook and felt better [...]
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