Theatre creates a direct connection at the moment between performers and audience that few other art forms can. Since performances vary, audiences know that what they are seeing is unique on each and every occasion they take place. This has an effect – when it is carried out to a high standard – that movies and television dramas cannot bring about. Theatre can be interpreted and reinterpreted in infinite ways, but its importance tends to rely on what it says about the human condition in the here and now. Shakespeare's plays, for example, continue to be reinterpreted and staged not because of a sense of heritage but because they still speak to us.