...Fatima Pootrakul – Theatre Management 1- How will you go about obtaining property? What will you need to obtain this property? We would need to acquire the rights to produce the play “Ghetto Klown”. Team awesome would contact John Leguizamo himself and his attorneys. This would be easy to obtain since our good friend Luis Guzman worked closely with John in the past and has kept in contact with him since. We would need small rights since it is a non-dramatic play. If “Ghetto Klown” has musical intros or segways then we would have to obtain a license from either ASCAP, BMI or SESAC. At the end of the day, we will obtain grand rights to avoid any law suits or injunctions with copyright infringement. Even though we will have the assurance from Mr. Leguizamo himself in that he controls the rights we need to produce the play, Team Awesome trusts no one and can easily fall into a false sense of security. Better safe than sorry! 2- Will you need actors? Dancers? Or both? If so what performers-related unions will you have to deal with? Provide some examples of rules and regulations the union dictates. Since we are using the one-man show “Ghetto Klown” all we would need is one actor. The Actors' Equity Association (AEA) is an American labor union representing the world of live theatrical performance, as opposed to film and television performance. However, performers appearing on live stage productions without a book or through-storyline (vaudeville, cabarets, circuses) may be...
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...Definition and Beginnings of Theatre Arts Theatre or theater is a branch of the performing arts. While any performance may be considered theatre, as a performing art, it focuses almost exclusively on live performers creating a self contained drama. A performance qualifies as dramatic by creating a representational illusion. By this broad definition, theatre had existed since the dawn of man, as a result of the human tendency for storytelling. Since its inception, theatre has come to take on many forms, utilizing speech, gesture, music, dance, and spectacle, combining the other performing arts, often as well as the visual arts, into a single artistic form. The word theatre means "place for seeing". The first recorded theatrical event was a performance of the sacred plays of the myth of Osiris and Isis in 2500 BC in Egypt. This story of the god Osiris was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization, marking the beginning of a long relationship between theatre and religion. Elements and Principle of Theatre Arts There are six elements necessary for theatre: Plot, Character, Idea, Language, Music, and Spectacle. Script/Text, Scenario, Plan: This is the starting point of the theatrical performance. The element most often considered as the domain of the playwright in theatre. The playwright’s script is the text by which theatre is created. It can be simplistic, as in the 16thcentury, with the scenarios used by the acting troupes of the Commedia dell’ arte...
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...rules by which the production team works. Currently, producing Shakespeare does not mean that it has to be done in Renaissance England. Indeed, artists have found that updating the location and time of a Shakespearean play makes it more believable, and in a sense, breathes new life into it. Moreover, advances in technology have also strongly influenced this period and its theatrical spectacle. The use of plastics, steel, aluminum, advanced lighting control, and sound recording equipment drastically changed the face of theatre production and quality. This is also a period of open experimentation both in design and production and has resulted in the development of the minimalistic and fractured realism styles. Minimalism is a style, which reduces the design elements to the least number necessary to produce the production. Fractured realism uses limited realistic elements separated in a fractured nature. Furthermore, a division of the theatre workforce into separate specialized artisans increases both operational efficiency and overall quality. The development of the technical director to oversee the production elements further organizes the modern theater. However, this specialization requires a great amount of trust and collaboration between the director and other artists on the production team. The advent of director/designer teams like Eli Kazan and Jo Melziner are in response to this emerging need for collaboration. Historical Background Obviously, the...
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...relationship between them. In some plays all of the actors may adopt the same attitude towards the audience (for example, the entire cast of a production of a Chekhovian drama will usually ignore the audience until the curtain call); in other plays the performers create a range of different relationships towards the audience (for example, most Shakespearean dramas have certain characters who frequently adopt a downstage ‘platea’ playing position that is in direct contact with the audience, while other characters behave as if unaware of the audience’s presence). Audience is an essential part of the theatrical event. With the actor it comprises one of the two indispensable elements of theatre. There seems to be no dispute over this fact. Yet the audience is the most elusive element of the theatre to deal with, source material is scarce and complex; it does not submit to simple analysis or definition. Primary sources tend to mention curiosities connected with the extravagant behavior of spectators, or to ignore the audience altogether. But in Hansel and Gretel, I know Jonathan Aitken and Sheldon Rosen, Ryerson professors, have developed a unique twist on live performance. Incorporating interaction between live actors and animated typographic actors, their play Hansel and Gretel explores multiple modes of communication: between actors and audience, actors and actors, actors and animated text and animated text and audiences. It...
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...Word Count 1006 The art of theatre is very important part of our culture. Without entertainment, whether it is individual or with a group humans could not stay occupied. Throughout time stories have been pasted down from generation to generation-through words, books and theater. Theatre continues to thrive and has become an important subject in schools now. People are allowed to express their creative and critical thinking to really allow the viewers to get involved. The purpose of theater is to develop performance art through any distinctively cultural foundations. Theatre is able to enrich our social and cultural views through art and performance. Actors provide a stage that they can really test the limits of their own creativity by ongoing dialogue of ideas. The “whipping man” is to show the relationship between a master and slave. We are shown that after losing everything you never know what you will have left. Caleb is part of a white family that bought slaves and treated them like family. Caleb leaves and returns only to find out that the two people who are left after war are two slaves his family owned. Simon and John are now forced to take care of Caleb because that is all they know to do. Simon is the main caretaker and demands respect from Caleb when he returns home, because things are different now and he should not be treated the same. John struggles with this relationship with Caleb because when they were younger the two were best friends until Caleb was given...
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...Director’s Concept Board Name: Yingjie Tang DESCRIPTION: | It’s talking about a swimmer swims from long beach to Catalina Island. While she was doing the game, she met some troubles. Finally she overcomes the fear of the helicopter, the oil slick, the exhaustion and the underestimation. The result is she wins the game. | SPINE: | Swimming competition | | | CONCEPT: | Basketball: margarita meets many difficulties like shooting the basketball. Even you missed this point, pick the ball and shoot again. | | | * * METAPHOR IMAGE: Place metaphor image with citation here http://stock.591hx.com/images/hnimg/200909/28/83/16736849182010914415.jpg Additional images (inspired by the metaphor) that further express my vision for this production to my design team) | Place image with citation here.http://i1.sinaimg.cn/ty/k/2008-02-27/U2035P6T12D3497415F44DT20080227073726.jpg | Yao Ming was getting injured in one basketball game. Doctors said he couldn’t go to the court. at all. Then he tried to stand up and did some recovery exercise. He was walking back to the court again. Finally relied on him. They win the game. Like Margarita met many difficulties, she still insist and finally she won the game.. | Phttp://images2.sina.com/newscenter/oth/singtao/000-000-105-109/2008-06-30/e06d37a3a3ae51d817c59f98679d799f.jpg | The actor who played Margarita needs to swing arms in the entire play. Although when we paying attention to the conversation and things happened...
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...the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ or e-mail: psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. Any enquiries regarding this document/publication should be sent to us at enquiries@educationscotland.gov.uk. This document is also available from our website at www.educationscotland.gov.uk. Contents Mind map of educational relevance 4 Exploring stimuli 5 Discovering your theme 12 Applying knowledge of technical skills and choreographic principles 13 Appreciating safe dance practice 15 Engaging with theatre arts and technology 16 A choreographic plan 23 Evaluation...
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...think but this, and all is mended” (5.1.418-19), reminding the audience that the “shadows” are just actors, and the magic they experienced was a play. There is also Jacques’ famous “all the world’s a stage” speech in As You Like It, in which he compares life to a stage, and men and women to actors (2.7.138-39). But Shakespeare’s most self-referential plays are Hamlet and The Tempest. The protagonists, Hamlet and Prospero, are both performers and directors of the action of the plays. Furthermore, each play consists of a play within the play, The Murder of Gonzago in Hamlet, and the wedding masque in The Tempest. These self-reflexive moments break down the barrier between fiction and reality. Hamlet is associated with raw emotion, and theatre acts as a sort of stand in for authentic emotion, something that Hamlet struggles to understand. In act one, scene two, Gertrude questions Hamlet why he “seems” to be taking his father’s death so personally, to which he responds that sulking around in black clothing, sighing, and weeping are just “actions that a man might play” (1.2.84), or a performance of grief, but not truly representative of the grief he feels within. These lines seem very self-aware, and bring attention to the fact that an actor, expected to act in anguished manner, is almost questioning his own authenticity as a performer. These lines pair with a later scene in act two. Following the first player’s speech of “Aeneas’ tale to Dido,” Hamlet is outraged at the actor’s...
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...Max Reinhardt, a very influential Austrian director, could arguably be called the father of modern theatre. His innovations facilitate the direction and management of both plays and movies. Starting with a brief look at his early life and touching on the big moments in Reinhardt’s life, we will see that many of his beliefs and practices are still widely used today. Max Reinhardt, was born an Austrian Jew in 1873. Reinhardt was born under with the name Max Goldmann. Goldmann did not change his name until 1890, when he became an actor. After about 30 years of being involved with the theatrical world, Reinhardt and his colleagues created the Salzburg festival. By 1924 Reinhardt had made his way to America and he directed his first American production, The Miracle. In 1933, he is, “Forced by the Nazi government to give his theatres in Germany to ‘the German People”. In 1935 he opens his film adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Warner Brothers. 3 years later, Reinhardt’s property in Austria was confiscated but he did open his own studio called, the Max Reinhardt Workshop for Stage, Screen and Radio in Hollywood. Finally, 1943 Reinhardt suffered a stroke and passed away. Otto Brahm, the most notable German producer at the time, introduced a more impressionistic realism to Reinhardt. The impressionistic realism consisted, not only of acting with the voice and with gestures, but with the entire body. Similar to naturalism, everything should be as it was in normal, everyday...
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...Adapting Plays Into Movies “In theatre, you can change things ever so slightly; it’s an organic thing. Whereas in film, you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all,” These insightful words were once spoken by actress (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace) and Oscar winner Judi Dench, and they very clearly illustrate one of the biggest differences between theatre and film. However, a small hint of bias seems to be depicted in this point of view. The quote (and many others) seem to suggest that one form of acting is more difficult than the other. It seems the opposite is true; that when taking one of these art forms (i.e. theatre) and transforming it into the other, one would come across a wide array of differences, as well as similarities. When researching a topic such as this, one must go beyond reading. One must not only dive into a script or a periodical or academic journal, one must immerse themselves into the films that have come about as a result of the transformation of turning a play into a cinematic experience. When going about researching this topic, I watched the movie Chicago (Dir. Rob Marshall, 2002) as well as looked over the original Broadway script (By Jon Kander, Fredd Ebb, and Bob Fosse 1975). The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975, at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical...
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...born in January 18ac63 into a wealthy Russian family. His family were always involved in the theatre so Sergeyvich got increasingly involved from a young age and when he was a teenager, he started working in theatres with the mind-set of becoming an acclaimed thespian and/or a director of theatre productions. He also studied piano and singing, and also performed in amateur plays with his siblings. As a teenager Stanislavski also had an excellent education in ballet, singing and acting. Although Konstatin Stanislavski went to drama school post his education in ballet, singing and acting, he dropped out as he didn’t like the style of performance, he thought it was over-dramatic, unrealistic...
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...Stagecraft Essay Since ancient times, people have been enjoying the delights of theatre and play enacted and carried out on stage. The history on lighting for the theatre is very interesting and innovative. As technology has developed over the years, theatergoers have been witness to extraordinary progress as innovations took over and added unique contributions to stage craft, architecture and theatrical lighting. The history of stage lighting and lighting cues in theatre dates back to Greek and Roman times. Light has always been an important component for theatrical storytelling, and various lighting techniques have evolved over the centuries, Before the 20th century, many experimented with electric lights but it was until the turn of the century where electric lights were used exclusively in most theatres. During the 20th century, stage lighting design became an art in its own right, emerging from the obscurity of props, set designs, and costumes. Great efforts were to bring the subtlety and drama of effective light on the stage. The American playwright and producer David Belasco and his assistant Louis Hartman had developed many light instruments. Jean Rosenthal, another pioneer of American stage lighting, invented a system for recording a particular lighting sequence so that it could be faithfully repeated. Going into the 1940s and 1950s, stage lighting kept on evolving and improving. Many technical advances included special lenses, reflectors, projectors,...
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...symbolically represent ideas and feelings and their consequences. ΅΅ Drama has the capacity to move and transform participants and audiences. It can affirm and challenge values, cultures and identities. ΅΅ Drama includes a wide range of experiences, such as dramatic play, improvisation, role-play, text interpretation, theatrical performance and multi-modal/hybrid texts. It includes the processes of making, presenting and responding. ΅΅ Drama draws on many different contexts, from past and present societies and cultures. Drama is one of the five arts subjects that make up the Australian Curriculum: The Arts. View website » Drama Australia uses the term drama broadly to represent related fields of artistic activity including theatre and performance. Drama encompasses a range of activities that both share conceptual similarities as well as specific differences relating to form and purpose. Drama is recognised and celebrated as a relevant and significant art form that both reflects and contributes to culture. An Education in Drama Drama in the school curriculum can develop students’ artistic skills and creative dispositions. It can also enable students to generate new knowledge and skills that are transferable to a variety of artistic, social and work-related contexts. An education in drama can: ΅΅ Humanise learning by providing lifelike learning contexts in which students can actively participate in...
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...In many forms, theatre was and still an effective medium to promote social awareness, as a means of entertainment and a liberal way to express one’s opinion. Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Theater in the Philippines is as varied as the cultural traditions and the historical influences that shaped it through the centuries. Given the historical background of the Philippines, it is safe to assert that its theater tradition is as old as the country itself. Its early beginnings were purely indigenous community theater. All its forms and manifestations were people centered, from the everyday rites and ceremonial rituals, customs and traditions to the contemporary and new routes of expressions that draw inspirations from the same. Theater in the Philippines is as varied as the cultural traditions and the historical influences that shaped it through the centuries. Given the historical background of the Philippines, it is safe to assert that its theater tradition is as old as the country itself. Its early beginnings were purely indigenous community theater. All its forms and manifestations were people centered, from the everyday rites and ceremonial rituals, customs and traditions to the contemporary and new routes of expressions...
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...Phil Theater Arts In many forms, theater was and still an effective medium to promote social awareness, as a means of entertainment and a liberal way to express one’s opinion. Most places in the Philippines have their own town fiestas flaunted with festivities and shows. During holy week, people stage the cenaculo- a theatrical presentation of the passion of Christ, and the moro-moro or comedia that relates to Christian and Muslim conflict. Some towns perform zarzuela, a Philippine version of Spanish light operetta, others present their poetic debate called duplo and karagatans. Another theatre form, the carillo, a shadow drama is usually shown after harvest. Cavite has Sanghiyang, Batangas has Subli and Laguna presents their Turumba and Pasyon. These traditional plays exemplify the union of folk religion and Catholicism. On the first Sunday of January, Marinduque present its Three Kings’ Pageant and during the Lenten season, the same town performs its famous Moriones Festival. In the streets of Baliwag, Bulacan and Kawit, Cavite, Panunuluyan is staged on Christmas eve- a re-enactment of Mary and Joseph’s struggling search for shelter for the birth of Christ. http://www.camperspoint.com/spip.php?article249 Philippines Dula: Musing on Philippine Theater and Drama “Scene 1, Act 1. Lights focus on center stage. Enter actor from corner left of the stage.” People involved in theater arts know this as typical stage lingo. Whether you are talking about Shakespeare, Shaw...
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