Drama Notes: Stanislavski * Realistic theatre has been dominant for the past 100 years‚ on cinema and stage. * The idea is to create believable characters and situations and t=give the illusion of real life * It makes the audience believe what they see/hear and become involved in the play * This style evolved during the twentieth century‚ moving to selective realism (focus on particular characters and events) and magical realism (similar to realism but with magical/supernatural
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actors’ interpretations and arguing over who is at fault in their tragedy. Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 play "Six Characters in Search of an Author" ("Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore") has the deserved reputation of being the first existentialist drama and having a profound effect on later playwrights. The father was once married to a peasant woman and had a son by her‚ but forced her to leave and live with another man. From afar he has watched her new family grow up. The widowed mother
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don’t know what Dialectic means? It is an art of investigating truth by discussion and logical argument. Socrates started it in the fifth century Before Christ‚ in Athens. Here again it has been used by Brecht in his dramas‚ especially in “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”. Son : I still don’t understand. Father : My son‚ Dialectic is a process whereby contradictions merge to form a higher truth. Son : How do contradictions merge like that? Father :
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Eliot sought to combine his poetic talent with the form of drama in this excellent and outstanding text. It is easy to see the massive influence that poetry has on this play‚ as there are only two sections that are written in verse‚ which are Thomas’s Christmas sermon and the so-called "apologies" of the Knights to the audience. Apart from this‚ the rest of the characters speak in verse which is very powerful and is poetic in its intensity. Note‚ for example‚ the following quote from the opening
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absence on stage. He recalls Jacques’s exaggerated and dramatic response to the dying deer and how he begins to moralize the abandonment of the deer by its herd. This over-dramatic nature of pastoral life is used as comic relief to balance out the drama that took place in court life‚ and to an extent its innocence which is shown by the fact that the great tragedies taking place in the forest is dying venison. This in turn highlights the more evil and tragic nature of court life where you have scheming
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Kabuki: A Japanese Form Japan ’s dances and dramas as they are seen today contain 1300 years of continuous uninterrupted history. This prodigious feat of conservation‚ theatrically speaking‚ makes Japan an extraordinary and unique country. In all of Asia‚ where tradition generally is sanctified and change eschewed‚ Japan stands as the only country whose theatre is its entirety has never suffered an eclipse nor undergone any drastic revivification or renovation. The most traditional form of
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challenges theatre’s claim to be simply realistic -- to be nothing but a mirror in which we view the actions and sufferings of characters like ourselves‚ suspending our disbelief in their reality.” (Metatheatre). It is present in many Renaissance dramas‚ yet it is analysed‚ understood and critiqued in a vast variety of ways. Davis claims that metatheatre awakens our minds to life’s “uncanny likeness” to art‚ theatre and forms undefinable. Metatheatre begins by sharpening our awareness of the unlikeness
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Theater Critique The play‚ “Frankenstein‚” by Philip Grecian based on a novel by Mary Shelley‚ is a drama because the story line was about a very serious scientist‚ Victor Frankenstein‚ who was extremely involved in making a life form. He spent most of his time in the lab‚ and neglected his other duties and his health to some extent. When he finally created life with the help of his colleague‚ Henry Clerval‚ it was not at all what he had expected. He created a monster‚ which was referred to as
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prevalence of literature in Ancient China‚ Ancient India‚ Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome. Many works of earlier periods‚ even in narrative form‚ had a covert moral or didactic purpose‚ such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Metamorphoses of Ovid. Drama and satire also developed as urban culture provided a larger public audience‚ and later readership‚ for literary production. Lyric poetry (as opposed to epic poetry) was often the speciality of courts and aristocratic circles‚ particularly in East
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learned some things from observing our play in class and I have also learned Aristotle’s element of drama. I noticed that out of Aristotle’s elements of drama‚ Plot‚ Diction‚ Spectacle‚ and Thought were very strong in the play. In my Play Experience class‚ we learned about imaginative transformation and I noticed this concept was well executed by the actors in the play. In Aristotle’s elements of drama‚ Plot is considered the action and Diction is of course dialogue and or language. The main plot
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