You can send me queries, your thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email in the morning before classes, in the afternoon, and at night. I want you to succeed in this course, and I am happy to meet with you about your writing and progress. You will all meet with me individually after the first paper, and I encourage you to see me about subsequent ones. When you watch movies you are so wrapped in the dark that you can be persuaded to believe almost any nonsense.
Live theatre is something very different.
There is all that light coming from the stage. You are never unaware of surrounding members of the audience, or of the fact that you are observing actors impersonate other people. The result is that you develop bifocal vision, which allows you to appreciate both the fiction taking place on the stage and the skills of the people making it possible.