Do young people goes to the theater?

Thomas Studies show that the theater attracts young people more than the active urban games Encounter and watch, but less than the movies, computer games and crosswords.


Now, you can often hear that young people stopped going to the theater. Causes of decline of interest in this kind of art saw its archaic in expensive tickets in the market priorities of the younger generation. According to the youth survey, which Public Opinion Foundation conducted jointly with the Kaliningrad Fund for Social and Marketing Research, enjoys the theater, only 6% of people aged 16-25 years.


For comparison: the sport attracts 34% of young people, music and singing - 28%, films and computer games - 25%, crosswords - 18%, Dance - 17%, role plays and active urban games - to 3%.


Over the last year in the theater or concert hall has been almost one in seven young (15%). However, they note the theater, which often go to theaters, those who do in this kind of art do not understand ( «now go to the theater, many business people to raise their status, ostensibly, I - the elite ... and the people sitting in the front row and sleep» ).


Who are these young theater? Srednestatichesky portrait looks like. Almost two-thirds of theater-goers make up the female (72% - girls and only 28% - men). About his passion theater often say residents of Moscow (19% versus 6% of young people in general) and students (11% vs. 6%). Among the activists of youth movement (and they interviewed more than two thousand people), theater-goers are three times more than the «normal» young people (18% vs. 6%).


Young theater - a group of small, but stands out against the background of all young people. As one of the most important concepts in life, they are remaining notes spirituality (15% versus 6% on average, young people) and creativity (11% vs 5%). They are often referred to as the creative work of their dreams (11% vs 1%).


Fans Melpomene - People initiative (81% vs. 71%). They do not like dullness and routine, much more likely to seek to stand out from the crowd, want to be different from the rest (71% vs. 47%), contrast to office workers ( «in the bank was a black man to wear a face», «they are all in the mask »).


Most fans of the theater trying to make a career (80% vs. 70%), and choosing a place of work, focused on the opportunity for professional growth (46% vs. 35%). Almost all of them aspire to success (99% versus 92% for the entire sample), many are convinced that such people as they achieve success in life is easy (32% vs. 18%).