THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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Traditional Western theatre‚ beginning with the ancient Greeks‚ was divided into comedy and tragedy. A tragedy typically ended with the death or destruction of a fictional or historical hero‚ whereas a comedy focused on the lives of middle to lower class characters and ended with their success.in this essay I want to make comparison between the European theatre and the Middle east theatre the first playwrite Oscar Wilde and his work “the importance of being earnest”.the second one is Tawfik El Hakim
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Definition of Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.[1] The term comes from a Greek word "dran" meaning "action" which is derived from "to do" or "to act". Drama is an art form that explores human conflict and tension. It generally takes the form of a story presented to an audience through dialogue and action. The story is conveyed using the elements of the theatre: acting‚ costumes‚ props‚ scenery‚ lighting‚ music‚ and sound. Drama has an emotional and intellectual
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Introduction Commedia Dell’Arte is a form of improvised drama which originated in Italy in the 16th century. Commedia uses stock characters and is a form of theatre for the common man. Fawlty Towers is a British sitcom created by BBC Television which first broadcasted on BBC2 in 1975. Faulty Towers episode "Gourmet Night" have used many of the same comical devices as Commedia. Faulty Towers is originally based in a hotel and focuses on the misfortunes of the owners and the staff as they try to
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Blood Brothers Performance Evaluation My strengths as an actor during the rehearsal period‚ I believe included my attendance as I had arrived on time to every single rehearsal for my performance in Blood Brothers which means I was able to fully go through what I needed to do every session and make sure I did it. This included rehearsing with all of the others in my cast and also planning our set up and staging‚ including props costume and set. Also being in for every session made me more relaxed
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Theatre History 1. Theatre and men are as related as mirror and reflection as self and shadow and study theatre of a particular era‚ and you learn the religious‚ social‚ political and economic influences of that time and also learn people’s desires‚ ideals and needs and gain insight into the present from what has gone before. 2. A) drama means to do or act B) Drama was born out of the dance of primitive man‚ when his instinctive rhythmic movements evolved into pantomimes that told or showed
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Through writing my pitch‚ I’ve learnt several things about the film industry. I’ve realised that a pitch is the very first thing we need to do before proceeding to any preproduction or production tasks and that the purpose of a pitch is to attract development finance to pay for the production of the film. Therefore‚ a pitch should be marketable and interesting. As pitching is commonly known as “selling the film”‚ there are several things I need to consider in my pitch so that it can attract the investors
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Once upon a time‚ in the sunken city of Atlantis‚ there was a well known mathematician. This mathematician was a fish though‚ and was famous for discovering the pike-thagorean theorem. Now‚ this fish was facing the lowly task of tutoring a bunch of young fish in how to be successful in algaebra. Little did he know‚ he was being watched by an evil force as he went about this task. While the teacher taught his students about pollock-nomials‚ he was unaware that nearby‚ a waterproof robot bigger than
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Research Report To find out what the best solutions will be for Westwood Hockey Club’s systems‚ in a group we investigated the requirements for each type of system and we documented these sources of information. A system to store and process club members’ records For this research I found a spreadsheet for Bamber Bridge United Junior Football Club’s member records from Ross the manager. This is how the club keep track of all their members and their details. It has columns for Name (for which
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Reality and Illusion In the stage directions at the beginning of Act I of Six Characters in Search of an Author‚ Pirandello directs that as the audience enters the theatre the curtain should be up and the stage bare and in darkness‚ as it would be in the middle of the day‚ “so that from the beginning the audience will have the feeling of being present‚ not at a performance of a properly rehearsed play‚ but at a performance of a play that happens spontaneously.” The set‚ then‚ is designed to blur
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