“Theater” is artificially popularized by Maugham. The author specially chose this topic to entice the townsfolk, having in mind, of course, the Shakespearean theater, not on the stage, but in life. But few people paid attention to this. In general, any commercial methods of the writer, people consider the norm, but only not if it concerns the author with the already established reputation. From the “Theater” is something really cheap, there is in it something rude, Fitzgerald.
The main idea of the “Theater”, which has nothing to do with what is connected with the “Theater” is the policy of the thought itself. What Moyem conceals much about, which is silent especially, and clearly developed thought quickly leads to the side without even putting a question mark – all this suggests that he does not have a low opinion of his own audience. With its naturalness and organic truthfulness, this does not fit absolutely, because the numerous cheeky lies that are not very evident, but still definable in his works, as well as elements of the biography – here you can only take off his hat before Maugham. The man lived a very busy life, he wrote a ton of beautiful works, but he concealed his real face. How delightful and how true it is. “Theater” has its own meaning, at least in some ways.