Commedia Dell Arte (comedy of actors) is an Italian form of theatre which involves the use of stock characters each with distinctive personalities, costumes and character traits for example Harlequin, Pantaloon and Perrott . It usually involved actors improvising upon a stimuli. It was increasingly popular throughout Europe in the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Many playwrights incorporated this theatre form and the stock characters into their own plays for example, Shakespeare. There were
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The moment the school bell rang everyone stood, faced old glory and recited the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’, and then Misty Fort, a petite fourth grader, walked up on the porch and sang in a professional operatic voice, the ‘Star Spangle Banner’. Next, Reverend Jarvis gave the benediction. In turn Mayor Smiley delivered a short speech and then Sally P. Strong, the Principal and the school’s only teacher for the past thirty years walked to the center of the porch and motioned for Billy Smithton, the
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What safety procedures must you follow during this lab period? During this lab period, the safety procedure that should be followed are safety glasses, lab coat gloves and proper tools for dissection. Use a text book or online references to define the following word modifiers. Proto= “first” Deutero=second Stome= “organism having a mouth or mouthlike organ” Nephro= “relating to kidneys” How might you benefit from remembering the definitions of word parts? I might benefit from remembering
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On Saturday, April 14th I went to the 104th Annual Spring Powwow at Lloyd Noble at 7 p.m. It was presented by the American Indian Student Association or AISA which is student organization that promotes Native American culture on campus. The powwow was a celebration with music and dancing where different tribes came together and passed on their own traditions from generation to generation. It wasn’t just Native Americans in the area that went to the powwow, but there were people from all over the
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Crue Concert With the smell of sulfur in the air and the heavy metal in my head, I couldn’t believe what I had seen. Me and my friend Clayton were at the Xcel Energy Center in St.Paul for the Motley Crue concert of the 8th of August this past summer. We are huge fans of the band and we made a good effort in getting tickets and seeing our sort of “role models”. Since I am a huge fan of Motley Crue I follow them quite a bit on social media and things like that. I had heard through the media that
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I never knew how much a music venue would change me until I started going to the Cherry Pit. The Cherry Pit used to be the only all-age venue in Mankato. It was located on Cherry Street until its premature death last November. Although I was only able to attend a few shows, the people and the music at the Cherry Pit taught me three different lessons. The Cherry Pit taught me to not be afraid of trying new things, that people care about your well-being and when times get tough people pull together
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When I hear about the play title “Hands on a Hard Body” what come up in my mind was different until I watch the play. The production crew did a good job for putting this wonderful play together. The director of the play name is Beth Criscuolo and music director by Christopher Tolomeo. There are sometimes when you have a low expectation of a play and when u watch it, you get amaze and end up loving it. This is the situation of this play “Hands on a Hard Body.” Hands on a Hard Body is a fabulous
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There is no better feeling for an actor when the musical or play is over and you know that you did your best to put on an unforgettable performance for the audience. That was the one of the biggest accomplishments of my life, acting in a musical in a summer repertory, saying my lines properly and executing the choreography with potency and dedication. I enjoyed every single minute of the product of fifteen sessions of rehearsing and thirty days of memorizing my lines and the steps of the tiring choreography
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TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK – EVENING Crowds of people move slowly along Times Square. Cars and taxis are snarled in traffic. the presence of horns honking makes it difficult to hear the discussions. Children running and giggling on the streets in the cold weather of New York. Director: Positions everyone. We will start the show in 5. People are rushing throughout the room finding their positions. One person is placing the lighting in the perfect area. The smell of coffee and breakfast dishes fill
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Coscino Professor Tyler MUH100 23 March 2016 Montreal Symphony Orchestra Post-Performance Report Yesterday, the 23rd of March, I attended the Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s Performance of Claude Debussy’s Jeux (1912), Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto, No. 3 in C Major, Opus 26 (1921), and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) (Zaption). I had a wonderful time, as the Orchestra was masterful in their performances, starting with Jeux. The Symphony Towers was a wonderful venue, very upscale and
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