Appreciating H3.1: Critically applies understanding of the cultural‚ historical and political contexts that have influenced specific drama and theatre practitioners‚ styles and movements H3.2 Analyses‚ synthesises and organises knowledge‚ information and opinion in coherent‚ informed oral and written responses H3.4 Appreciates and values drama and theatre as significant cultural expressions of issues and concerns in Australian and other societies __________________________________________________________________________________
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Theatre Evaluation- A Dolls house On the 21st of July I saw a performance of ‘A Doll’s house’ written by Herrick Ibsen in the Young Vic theatre in London‚ directed by Carrie Cracknell. The play highlights a woman’s battle with everyday life in the 1870’s (presumably.) The plays is based around the protagonist Nora’s struggle with Krogstad ‚ who threatens to tell her husband about her past crime‚ this incites Nora’s journey of self discovery provides much of the plays dramatic suspense. Nora’s primary
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truth to it. Theatre of the absurd is an esoteric avant-garde style of theatre based on the principles of existentialism that looks at the world without any assumption of purpose. Existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s‚ after the Second World War. The idea that man starts with nothing and ends with nothing is a common theme amongst most absurd plays. Despite this strange philosophy‚ Theatre of the absurd
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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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stand out from the rest. The theatre department‚ overseen by Michelle Bayer‚ can be described as a whirlwind of activity‚ with 10 official productions each year. My group researched it for the education unit‚ but the majority of them were unfamiliar with the activity‚ and I felt the overall presentation was unrepresentative of what high school theatre is. It can be characterized‚ primarily‚ by an abundance of drama‚ both in the acting sense‚ and in the social sense. Theatre kids are infamous for their
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Bouncers; 17th of October at High Wycombe Swan Theatre. Bouncers is a comical‚ yet serious dive into urban nightlife. The actors use multi-role to play a variety of different characters with hilarious results. Throughout the updated version of the play‚ John Godber (original writer and director) highlighted his intentions through Lucky Eric’s daunting monologues; we still drink too much as a society today. Nonetheless‚ the dated stereotypes and the use of Frank Sinatra and ‘Thriller’ did make the
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Iroquois Theatre Highly advertised as being “absolutely fireproof”‚ The Iroquois Theatre was as fireproof as the Titanic was unsinkable. On December 30th‚ of the year 1903‚ five weeks after The Iroquois opened‚ The Iroquois Theatre did indeed burn. The fire was so bad that in just under 8 minutes it roared through the theatre claiming 602 lives and injuring at least 250 others (Foy‚ 1995). According to the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA)‚ this fire is by far the deadliest theatre fire
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How to Conduct a Theatre Audition When conducting auditions for a play‚ it is of utmost importance to establish an attitude of professionalism from the get-go. One must pay attention to detail and manage human resources well in order to make accurate casting decisions. Like any employer‚ directors must be careful to cast each role with the right candidate. Therefore‚ it is crucial that producers and directors preemptively take care of logistical issues so that they may focus on each actor’s audition
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new-york-city.com) Then why when people hear this street name‚ do they think of theater? That’s because this street‚ commonly referred to as the “Great White Way”‚ has 36 theaters. These 36 theaters‚ along with 4 other‚ make up what is called the Theatre District. Broadway history dates back to the late 1600 ’s‚ when a coffee house called ’The King ’s Arms ’ opened in 1696 on Broadway. Some scholars think this may have held Manhattan ’s earliest theatrical performances (Kenrick
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In 1599:A Year in the life of William Shakespeare‚ James Shapiro (a Shakespeare scholar and professor at Columbia University) depicts a bibliography on the mark left on four plays; Hamlet‚ As You Like It‚ Henry V and Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare in 1599 by public events. James Shapiro goes to the next level in this book by depicting the life of William Shakespeare during the momentous year of 1599. Shapiro informs his readers that much of the story is created from historically informed
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