Contrast between Ancient Greek Theatre “Antigone” and Modern Russian Theatre in “The Cherry Orchard”. Theatre which is a main source of entertainment has made various stories in her womb regarding theatres in all over the world like African‚ Yoruba theatre‚ Asian Theatre‚ Middle-East Theatre and Western Theatre like Greek Theatres and Modern Russian Theatre. First of all‚ Greek theatre seems to have its roots in religious celebration that incorporated song and dance. Like this Greek theater shadowed
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Jerzy Grotowski There were few men who were seen as key figures in the 20th century in terms of furthering the actor’s technique‚ and Jerzy Grotowski was one of them. Grotowski was a Polish theater director and innovator of experimental theater‚ the “theatre laboratory‚” and “poor theatre” concepts. On August 11‚ 1933‚ Grotowski was born in Rzeszów‚ Poland‚ and he died in Pontedera‚ Italy on January 14‚ 1999 at age 65. During World War II‚ Grotowski’s family got separated. His father went to
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VSEVOLOD EMILEVICH MEYERHOLD AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THEATRE Introduction Vsevolod Emielevich Meyerhold‚ considered one of 20th century greatest theatrical innovators‚ was born on February 10‚ 1874 in the Russian town of Penza. He was originally born into a Lutheran German-Jewish family with the name Karl Theodore Kasmir Meyergold. In 1895 he took the name Vsevolod Emievich Meyerhold after converting to the Russian Orthourdox Church. Meyerhold studied Law at Moscow University for two terms. He
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Personality Profile: Mrs. Popov in The Brute by Anton Chekhov In The Brute‚ Anton Chekhov scripts a relatively short‚ one-act play which features two prominent and distinct main characters. Chekhov himself was born in 1860 in Russia to a lower-middle class family. At age sixteen‚ he was literally abandoned by his family‚ an event which would shape the course of his life and writings in the years to come. Chekhov’s outlandish stories are generally classified as farces‚ which are defined as light
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In performance an actor has less time to characterise and so can risk the character coming across as underdeveloped. The great realists of dramaturgy have relied heavily on implicit characterization which occupy the main body of their character driven plays. Examples of these playwrights are Henrik Ibsen‚ August Strindberg and Anton Chekhov. Such psychological epics as The Seagull indirectly characterise the protagonists so that the audience is drawn into their inner turmoils as they are slowly revealed
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Sound Designer: State the interpretation and approach of your director. Do you personally agree‚ or disagree‚ with the interpretation and approach of your director? Why? The sound designer has an extreme importance in the play. The sound designer need to study techniques‚ theories and music to have a great understand to be able to introduce sounds and music in the play in order to show emotions and feelings. According to the President of the American Association of the Community Theatre (AACT)
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Konstantin Stanislavsky and Edward Gordon Craig are both influential directors and have shaped that way we view theatre today. Stanislavsky valued a form of naturalism that the actors should have experienced a similar situation to that of the character. From this the actor could convey real human emotions to the audience. Further along in his career‚ to allow the actor into the psych of the character‚ Stanislavsky started to focus on the psychological motivations that drove the role. On the other
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Mikhail Baryshnikov is a professional dancer. Born in Latvia in 1948 has become one of the best ballet dancers in the world. Baryshnikov is known for being versatile dancer with high leaps and strong turnouts. He has performed and choreographed with several renowned ballet theaters in the world and continue to perform and create his own works to this day. Baryshnikov has not only transformed the dance world‚ but has also taken his passion and love of dance to film. Throughout all of his career Baryshnikov
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A Cherry Tree and an Epic Similarly‚ the classic tale of George Washington chopping down his father’s cherry tree contributes to nationalism. This myth‚ as it has been proven to be‚ tells the story of six-year old George Washington who received a hatchet as a gift and damaged his father’s cherry tree.43 When Washington’s father discovered what he had done‚ he became angry and confronted young George about the tree who‚ famously‚ said‚ “I cannot tell a lie… I did cut it with my hatchet.”44 Washington’s
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Modernist Literature In the world of literature‚ modernism is represented by the moving away from traditional rules and practices‚ looking at man’s place in the world with a realistic view‚ and experimenting with form and style. Modernism focuses on the use of language and the function of the actual writing. Modernist literature moves away from Romanticism by exploring subject matter that in the past was viewed as boring and often pessimistic. Instead of using language that is poetic‚ the language
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