Drama, among various other forms of expressive media, has long been used by people around the world to share personal stories, help us use our imaginations, and connect us with each other through shared themes of love, suffering, joy, pain, and other uniquely human emotions. This storytelling medium is distinct, in that the meaning of works being performed changes with differences in acting choices and other factors. Some performances, however, convey the same themes and messages more successfully
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For a story to be considered a tragedy, the protagonist has to experience a big loss, or in other words a downfall. William Shakespeare, who masters in writing tragedies, portrays the tragedy of a hero in the play Macbeth written in 1606. It is set in Scotland during its medieval times, where the main protagonist Macbeth is a person of nobility being known to be: Scotland’s greatest warrior, the Thane of Glamis, as well as the first cousin to King Duncan. His impending tragedy starts from the moment
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The Playwright or dramatist holds the most important role in creating a theatre play. They create the stories, timelines and the order of events which makes up the structure of the play. The playwright develops the story which is a complete account of everything that has happened in the story. The playwright has to be selective in creating the plot from the story because of time restrictions on the story itself. The plot is an arrangement of events from the story that is acted out onstage. One of
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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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make my decision; I wanted it to be something unique. Surely, I came across just the right one: Thoroughly Modern Millie, a musical production directed by Mark Madama right here at Wichita’s very own Centery II. It amazed me to find out that this is its the 46th summer of Broadway productions. After watching the play, I have unquestionably grew to be a fan of threatre. Back to Thoroughly Modern Millie, it was originally produced as a movie by Richard Morris in 1967 and later it was adapted into a Broadway
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The show “Arsenic and Old Lace” by Joseph Kesselring was an interesting show that it not like anything else I have had the privilege to see before. It was filled with comedy but is also an intense show to watch keeping the audience on the edge of its seat. The length of the is not something that I am used to. I though it was a long show, but it kept my attention throughout the whole three hours. This show seemed to run a little longer than I would have liked it to have. I did not feel like it was
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A theater company called the “Torn Out Theater Troupe”, performed two outdoor shows ( 1st central park, 2nd prospect park) of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”. The show included an all-woman cast who were all performing nude. The Troupe believes that the human body tells a story and that story has full capability to tell their story, apart from just sex. The issue with the Troupe’s rendition of “The Tempest” wasn’t necessarily the nudity; the issue with the show was the fact that it was an outdoor show
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Event’s Reflection The first event that I attended that was relevant to this class was the play that the school put on called Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party. This was a play that explored sexuality and growing up in a small town. This play relates to the class it that it brings up the idea of sexuality and becoming comfortable with your own identity. At first I was kind of uncomfortable with the play, not because of the content but because of the very eccentric acting that was slightly overdone
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He had to focus on the main characters, being Beatrice and Benedict and their romance, and of course the drama concerning Hero and Claudio, but also keep other characters incorporated as well. For those attacking the "whittling down" of the script, why didn't anyone bring up the point that Benedict is supposed to have shaved his beard while in attempt to woo
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Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing one of Texas Southern University’s theatre department productions; For Colored Girls, Who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. Written by Ntozake Shange and directed by Erika R. Walton, the play was performed marvelously at Ollington Smith Playhouse located in the heart of the historic black college. At first glance, the performance space looked more like an auditions holding place than somewhere to hold a production, but all in all it was an unforgettable
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