The Genre Of Clowning The genre of clowning actually originates from Greece‚ where satires had begun originating slowly as time went by. The art of satire was challenged throughout the years to form the various forms of clowning we have today. A clown must have certain abilities or skills to master its comedy upon the audience. It is a profession that requires delicate detail‚ precise movements‚ and of course a reaction. The costume for every type of comedy is extremely different. Commedia
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PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THEATRE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY Afolabi Taiwo Okunola (Department of Theatre & Film Arts‚ University of Jos‚ Nigeria) Abstract The business of theatre management is business of management. It is a culmination of the directive principles‚ canons and protocols governing theatre and management together to form a formidable team which thus makes a theatre entrepreneur. Being a theatre entrepreneur in Nigeria entails many dilemmas‚ challenges and hurdles. Thus
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Musical Theatre Virtuoso For many‚ musical theatre is an experience that not only posses the power of entertainment‚ but the power of transformation. Masters of music such as Stephen Sondheim‚ Leonard Berstein‚ and George Gershwin used music as a theatrical element by which intense emotions and ever changing moods could be expressed. Their beautiful scores are regarded as the most impressive and moving in musical theatre history. Joining them at the top is Andrew Lloyd
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Konstantin Stanislavski was one of the most influential modern day theatre practicioners. He developed the naturalistic technique that came to be known as The Stanislavski’s Method or System. Before him‚ the theater was an udisciplined place commonly performing farces which could have been hardly seen as realistic. Instead of trying to educate the audience he strived to suck them into the play‚ letting them forget their ordinary lives and connect to the realistic performance on the stahe. He wished
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Major Figure Research Paper: George M. Cohan Just like anything else in this world‚ American Musical Theatre did not just come out of nowhere; it was started by many different ideas and talents coming together. According to American musical theatre history‚ the first musical performance took place in Charleston‚ South Carolina on February 8‚ 1735. It was the production of Flora‚ a ballad opera from England. According to the same history timeline and google‚ The Black Crook was however the first
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EVOLUTION OF THEATRE FROM THE GREEKS TO THE CONTEMPORARY ERAS Greek Theatre If theatre is to be defined as involving the art of acting a part on stage‚ it begins with Thespis. He won the play competition in honor of the Greek god Dionysus‚ in 534 B.C. And it is his name with which the dramatic arts are associated in the word "Thespian". Greek theatre took place in large (the largest ultimately held twenty thousand people) hillside amphitheatres. The players included a chorus and their leader
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Joelle Davis John Duran John Hicks Morgan Plasse Travis Rogers Eric Thomason PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES: THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE AND CONTEMPORARY DIRECTION “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.” ― Cheris Kramarae INTRODUCTION Since the first records of complex civilizations‚ male dominance in human culture has molded itself into global societies and has forced women into lives of subordination and inequality. Historically‚ men have stood as the primary political
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Concept as the basic term of the cognitive linguistics…………………………...6 1.2. The notion of theatre…………………………………………………………….17 II.THEATRE concept in the semantic space of W.S.Maugham’s “Theatre”…………………………………………………………………………….20 2.1. Theatre as it is viewed by W.S.Maugham………………………………………20 2.2. Theatre as people for W.S.Maugham’s…………………………………………23 2.3. The place of tropes in W.S.Maugham’s presentation of the THEATRE concept….............................................................................
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New school‚ new identity‚ new target. Short story part 1. The first day at a new school is usually daunting‚ but not for me. That’s not the way I have been trained. I was brought up on rules. We all were. Rule number one: never show weakness. Well‚ at least not your real weakness. Rule two: never stray from the information provided. There are more‚ but these are the most important ones. I had a shower‚ and combed my red hair. I decided to leave it down today‚ mainly to stand out. I pulled
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of the Spanish Golden Age of theatre in the year 1492‚ theatre was not yet formalized. Players would perform their plays on the streets and would use pageant wagons‚ or “carros‚” to change the setting and scenery throughout (MacGowan 75). Having multiple sets for a production was progressive for this era because theatre before this time used sparse scenery‚ such as in Shakespearean theatre in the Elizabethan era of England. These elaborate wagons were similar to theatre today where productions use
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