In production: from the Lyttelton to the Adelphi 13 In production: Theatre Royal Haymarket Richard Bean interview Grant Olding Interview 14 15 17…
The Genre: You’re familiar with the book and movie reviews that appear in newspapers, magazines, and websites. They are just one kind of evaluative writing, but from them we can identify the key components of the genre. First, there is the object to be evaluated. Often this is a single thing—a music CD, a scholarly study, a corporation—but it can also be an idea or process: the impact of a particular band on rock history, the importance of a new trend in scholarly opinion, or the management practices used by a particular sector of industry. Second, there are the criteria…
From the inside, the globe theatre was just like I had expected it to be, the walls were decorated with carved- in paintings that had probably faded away throughout the years because you couldn’t see much of them now. The room was brightly lit by the sun and there was a massive stage in the middle where the actors acted out. At the back of the stage there was the musician’s gallery where the sounds took place. At the entrance I had to pay 5 pence for my seat. It would have been better sitting where the upper-class citizens (gentlemen’s rooms) sat but I was short out of money and thought it was too expensive, it would have cost me one shilling! Although it must have been worse for the lower –class citizens because they had to stand to watch the show.…
When shakespeare was a boy there were no theatres and plays were performed in private houses,and the courtyards of inns, which is an enclosed area with an open roof, rich people often had them in their houses. The globe theatre was built in 1599 by some of shakespeare's playing company.Some plays were performed privately, and were called private plays and performed in people's houses, usually to celebrate an event, eg. A midsummer night's dream was performed privately to celebrate a wedding. The timber for The Globe Theatre was actually reused wood from “The Theatre” – an earlier theatre owned by a man named Richard Burbage. Some of shakespeare's plays were premiered at ‘the theatre. But it was closed down in 1598 and the globe theatre was built.…
In the early part of the twentieth century Boston Massachusetts was a growing city full of history and possibilities. A younger Boston had survived the turmoil of British rule and the American Revolution. As a tribute to its past, the former home of Revolutionary hero Paul Revere stood at the north end of the growing city not far from the Old North Church where Revere warned the Patriots of an impending British arrival. But Boston was also growing and changing with the new times, especially in the area of Boston known as the North End.…
what Going to see a play _______in Elizabethan England would be very different from ________ you are seeing used to today. Maybe your experience is___________ your friend that had a small part in a school _____________ production last year. Maybe you’ve been to Broadway in new ______ York City.…
The Theater could hold up to 2000 and 3000 spectators. The theater had no lights. All the performances depended on the weather. Most of the plays took place between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. The theater was mostly all open air so the acoustics were really bad. The actors had to pretty much shout out there lines. Oddly enough the theater unlike modern day theaters the Globe had no background scenery. There were also no curtains and no stage hands. The actors utilized props and costumes. When the scene would change it would be explained in short speeches Shakespeare wrote into his plays.…
The theatre has been a part of entertainment since ancient Greece, around 4th century BC or thereabouts. The theatre grew out of festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Aeschylus created the first play in her honor. The first Greek plays were all tragedies but eventually comedy made its way and these plays were performed at festivals all over Greece. Through the centuries theater played the main role of entertainment from noble and royalty to the common person in any city or village, and as we move into the twenties century, theater was still a huge part of the entertainment for the masses.…
Amy Allison is considered one of the most well written authors today. She has written many books and poetry such as Jack & Jill and Gargoyles on Guard, as well as enjoying seeing remakes on Shakespeare’s plays. Allison informs the general public of the theatres during Shakespeare’s life and the audiences that attended his plays. Amy Allison states that theatres was consistently changing in order to attract more viewers to the play, But the Theatre that was liked by the Shakespearean people was one that had a large wooden frame surrounding a raised platform that had a stage which was lifted six feet above the ground and backstage. It also had a three tiered gallery that were covered by an overhang which faced an open yard. The audience would have to pay an admission fee to be closer to the stage. This book provides a useful description of what the theatre was like during the Shakespearean era.…
In 1592 there was a plague that broke out and killed 15,003 people and caused the theaters to close down. In 1596 all plays and theaters were banned by London authorities. Because there was drinking, gambling, the plague could spread, and because the church didn’t like it. In 1598 the document for the theater to stay on the land became expired. So they had to dismantle, they had to manually move the timber from the on Theater to the new Globe Theater. The Globe Theater was made up of timber and it was first built in 1599 which is located next to the Rose and on the south side of Thames. It was designed and build for Cuthbert Burbage who was an English theatrical figure and he is the son of James Burbage who is the one that built the theater. The theater is co-owned by Burbage, his brother Robert, Will Kempe, Augustine Phillips, John Heminge, Thomas Pope, and the legend William Shakespeare. Some of the most famous plays they had in 1613 were Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and Midsummer Night’s Dream and also on 29 June, 1613 while a play or show was happening there was a misfire with a cannon and surprisingly it hit the roof and landed in the Globe’s thatched roof which is a roof made of dry and dead vegetation such as straw and sedge. Because the cannon ball was so hot from being fired; it caught the whole roof on fire and so they closed down the place because of the incident. Surprisingly it took them just one year of building to…
It is a truth that in such a technologically savvy and dependant generation as today 's, venturing to the theatre is slowly becoming a rarity. This is due to the strong, extensive domination of film, television and new media, clearly eminent in the present entertainment industry. Live theatre in Brisbane is constantly competing with the comfort and affordability of staying in and enjoying a pre-recorded television show or watching a 3D movie in one 's own home. There is next to no motivation for people in today 's general public to attend a theatrical performance leading to the classification of live theatre as passé and dated. However this does not in any way signify that the quality of theatre has degraded. For those who enjoy the emotive and interactive experience of attending live theatre, Brisbane has an array of diverse shows that are perfect indicators of the level of high quality theatre that is available to the community. In fact through the thorough analysis of three different levels of productions: Wicked, Summer and Smoke and Lying Cheating Bastard this essay will attempt to prove that through the manipulation of the elements of tension and relationships within each of these plays, dramatic meaning is created and the quality of theatre is heightened.…
The distinct differences in style of theatre between Shakespeare's time and modern theatres is the fact that in the 1600's because most theatre companies were a travelling minstrel group who actually went to the inns to get their audiences the group would frequently immediately start to act. The audience would then gather by coming out onto the balcony of their rooms. They had no closed in features like a roof as they were constructed in a courtyard style. The audience would gather like a crowd to watch and therefore there was standing room only.…
By the time of Shakespeare, the popularity of theater was the result of a rapidly grown middle class that has some disposable income and a desire for leisure earned after a work week.…
Have you ever wondered how the theater become so popular? People will think that it was because of Hollywood or some other thing, but it started on the eastern side of the world. There was a movement called the Renaissance, and that movement created theaters and many other things that people enjoy in our modern world. There were many theaters during the Renaissance, but one of the greatest known theaters were the Elizabethan theaters. The Elizabethan theater would not become a spectacular place for entertainment if it was for a new time period, the playwrights, and the theater’s design and features.…
In the beginning of the 1800’s the area we know as The Theatre District originally belonged to a couple of families and was completely covered in farms. In 1836 42nd Street was opened by Mayor Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence. Almost sixty years later, the first broadway theatre was opened by Oscar Hammerstein and named it the Victoria Theatre on West 42nd St. This theatre was originally…