theatre reflects the changing artistic, social, political and personal issues and concerns of our nation.” Theatre performance has existed in Australia for around 200 years and the subject of Drama has been taught since the 1970’s. This is with the exception of Aboriginal corroborees, a form of dance drama which have been around for around 40 000 years. Australian theatre began officially on June 4th, 1789 with the production of ‘The Recruiting Officer’ months after the first fleet Arrived in Australia
Words: 1257 - Pages: 6
Today I would like to write about the last play I attend on Sunday the first of November in Acts Theatre Lake Charles. The play is called Guys & Dolls which consider as a musical fable of Broadway based on a story and characters of Damon Runyon. The play and the theater were special for many reasons. First of all, I would like to mention the location and the style of the theatre, the theatre was in a neighborhood in old design, so when I arrived there I did not notice it’s a theatre because it was
Words: 365 - Pages: 2
To Be Or Not To Be: Aristotle’s Tragic Hero Aristotle defined a tragic hero as one that possesses certain characteristics, including a fatal weakness or mistake in judgment (hamartia), a reversal of fortune (peripeteia), a revelation that the misfortune the character experiences has come about due to his own behavior (anagnorisis), enormous pride (hubris), and an ultimate outcome of fate that is greater than deserved. In the 1601 play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the titular character serves as
Words: 746 - Pages: 3
"Stanislavsky method" or also known as method acting. Stanislavski was known as the “father” of contemporary acting and was born in 1863. We believe him to be the first drama practitioner. In his years of directing he looked at what humans did naturally in their everyday lives and turned it into something systematic for the stage. The drama he tried to create was realism so that the audience could relate to the piece. He tried to put everyday feelings and emotions into his performance because it came across
Words: 692 - Pages: 3
Español Comentar Casa de muñecas se abre en la víspera de Navidad. Nora Héller entra en su habitación bien amueblada-ajuste de los vivos de los palay-llevando varios paquetes enteros. Toral Héller, el marido de Nora, sale de su estudio cuando oye su llega. Él la saluda alegremente y con afecto, pero entonces su reprende por gastar tanto dinero en los regalos de Navidad. Su conversación revela que los Héller han tenido que ser cuidadoso con el dinero durante muchos años, pero que Toral ha obtenido
Words: 1618 - Pages: 7
Love a la Mode Certainly, the play can be seen as a dramatic presentation of varieties of love in the England of the year 1700. Central is the delicate handling of the love game as played by Mirabell and Millamant. They represent the ideal of the Restoration attitude, intense yet balanced, their love based on mutual esteem with no surrender of individuality. Contrasted with it are Mirabell's earlier and quite ambiguous love affair with Mrs. Fainall; the illicit love of Fainall and Mrs. Marwood,
Words: 639 - Pages: 3
scene added drama to the ending of the movie, it was over quick. On the contrary, in the remake, not long after Ren and Ariel arrive at the dance at the grain mill, Chuck and several of his friends arrive to beat up Ren. Ren, Willard, Rusty and Ariel subdue Chuck and his friends. They go back inside and Ren then dumps buckets of confetti into a shredding machine and yells, "Let's dance!" The movie ends with everyone dancing to the opening song "Footloose". This ending provided much more drama and with
Words: 1015 - Pages: 5
A Tragic Hero(ine) is “a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities.” Shakespeare play “Romeo and Juliet” would be a perfect an example of a Tragic story. The play is about two young star-crossed lovers(Romeo and Juliet) whose passings at last accommodated their family feud. When asked, who is the tragic heroine in Romeo and Juliet, many seem to think it’s Juliet. Juliet is a tragic hero as she had tragic flaws,a noble birth and killed herself for a reason that didn’t exist
Words: 473 - Pages: 2
Vocal Evaluation of The King and I On April 22, my parents and I attended a Sunday Matinee performance of The King and I at the Aronoff Center for The Arts. This was the touring cast of the Broadway Revival, which started in 2016. The King and I is a Broadway musical written by the famous duo, Rodgers and Hammerstein, that tells the story of Anna Leonowens, a English teacher who is hired by the King of Siam to teach his children. Through this agreement and her teachings, she finds herself attracted
Words: 609 - Pages: 3
Audition and Casting During the choreographic process of my previous piece, I have experienced working with an average cast. My only piece, “Stuck” had five dancers and this number of dancers was fairly easy to manage. While being an novice choreographer I felt that I was going to have a difficult time placing them throughout the space. While preparing for each rehearsal I imagined each one of my dancers as a piece of a puzzle, this helped me understand where to place them throughout the space.
Words: 563 - Pages: 3
