Jealousy‚ love‚ hate‚ deception and treachery lie at the heart of William Shakespeare’s Othello‚ and the National Theatre’s rendition brings these themes to life in a vibrant and gripping way. This production is fast-paced‚ provocative‚ and coherent. With an ensemble that encompasses various ethnicities‚ Othello’s race is largely irrelevant here. Instead‚ the tragedy of Lester’s dignified general is that he is a military man – he loves his vivacious young wife Desdemona (Olivia Vinall)‚ but he really
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Against my better judgment‚ my wife and I attended another one of Hollywood ’s attempts to coerce public opinion on their latest target. Blood Diamonds‚ the saga surrounding the moral challenge of the international gem trade. Based in Sierra Leone‚ Africa‚ in 1999‚ it depicts the story of two mercenaries fighting to locate a rare blood diamond the size of a golf ball. The local region‚ engulfed in a civil war between the government and the RUF (Revolutionary United Front)‚ is a backdrop for indiscriminate
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Theatre 100 Final Exam Review Drake Union tour Remember the major rooms and theatres we toured Lecture #9: Sarah Ruhl & contemporary theatre Brecht- Epic theatre • Alienate audience to THINK‚ not FEEL • Use history to comment on present • Remind audience they are in theatre: open stagecraft‚ musical numbers‚ puppets‚ narrators‚ film Samuel Beckett & Absurdism • Characters in bizarre situations • Circular/static blots- things often repeat • Sparse language- talking past each other
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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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INTT 434 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT & ENTREPRENEURSHIP Case Write-up Mama Mia Case GokhanCaylak Ersin Ayli Yusuf Cihan Yagsatan Batuhan Durak Mustafa Bulut Istanbul‚ Turkey 2013 Decision Problem: Mamma Mia is a successful stage show‚ their success leads to more demand from audience which leads to more performances resulting in a lot more critics. What can be done to sustain its success without being a moderate commercialized play? As we have yet to define the main decision problem
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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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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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motives of complex crime‚ read Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences.” If one scares easily‚ is squeamish or wants to avoid imagining a remorseless‚ brutal killer around every corner‚ do not. In his 1965 nonfiction novel‚ Capote paints a disturbingly vivid picture of the quadruple murder of the Clutters‚ a highly regarded and semi-wealthy farming family from Holcomb‚ Kansas. In Cold Blood examines the incentives and methods used by the killers
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of rebel forces were bound for their town. Many people were killed‚ some who were lucky got out (including Solomon’s family) while some unfortunate ones got captured and made to work in the mines like Solomon. They were made to mine for diamonds‚ blood diamonds. These gems are used to fund wars throughout the country. While working in the mines‚ Solomon chanced upon a huge pink diamond. He was caught by the commander of the rebels while he was trying to hide the gem. The government forces then arrived
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Michael T. Klare‚ Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America’s Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt‚ 2004). Preface How to explain the post-Cold War violence? Some attribute it to identity politics (xi-xii). Pace Samuel Huntington‚ the cause is a struggle for resources (xii). Oil as special resource: 2001 and since revelatory of the consequences of oil dependency (xiii-xv). Goal of book: “Tracing the evolution of U.S. oil policy and weighing
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