LIVE Production Analysis Who would have thought a board game would make an interesting play? Peter DePietro did and made a play with a book about it. I watched “Clue”‚ performed by a group of highschoolers in drama club from Indian Hills High School‚ on December 28. This play‚ as one would guess‚ is based off the board game “Clue”. The play began with a butler welcoming six guests one at a time into a mansion for dinner and mentioned to each one that their name must remain anonymous‚ only referring
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Throughout Shakespeare’s work‚ more famously in “Hamlet”‚ “Romeo and Juliet”‚ “Othello”‚ and “Merchant of Venice”‚ there are cleverly placed puns in the poems‚ plays‚ and some sonnets. A pun is a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. These puns are either overlooked‚ unrecognized‚ or not credited well enough. The puns that Shakespeare utilizes in each of his works can have either an erotic‚ humorous
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Incorruptible The play‚ Incorruptible‚ is full of deceit‚ irony and just a little bit of morally wrong acts committed by Christian monks. The first act begins with Charles the head monk of the church is praying to the relics of the Saint Stella. A peasant woman is trying to sneak in a few prayers without paying the church a penny to pray. Martin‚ another monk of the church‚ and Charles are arguing because their church is not getting very many donations and not making very much money. Saint
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Price to Pay? With its minimalistic set design‚ small cast‚ and a stage with nearly no lighting‚ Peter Shaffer’s play Equus relies heavily on a masterfully written script to spread its message with the audience. The play is “neither great theatre nor bad psychology‚ but it has elements of both” (Witham). With the assistance of the character Martin Dysart‚ a child psychologist‚ the play analyzes the parental‚ religious‚ and sexual reasoning behind the heinous act of a sick boy (Alan Strang) and calls
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Interest in and Communication with Peers How does each child communicate with his or her peers? Is the child communicating through sounds‚ touch‚ eye contact‚ movement‚ or words? I observed children at the Sandusky Mall play area. There were a lot children between the ages of two and three years old. Most children have probably never met each other before‚ but that didn’t stop them from interacting. Some children were able to communicate verbally‚ others used touch and eye contact. The children
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Hamlet To Be or Not To Be “To be or not to be”(III‚i‚1). Director Franco Zeffirelli put his spin on the classic shakespeare play‚ Hamlet in 1990. Working with known actors such as Mel Gibson‚ Glenn Close‚ Helena Carter‚ and Alan Bates‚ Zeffirelli brings this Denmark tragedy to life. Keeping his version of the screenplay similar to Shakespeare’s original play‚ the settings‚ costumes‚ and language blended nicely into historical times. Quite a few directors have put their spin on Hamlet. Although
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The play I went to watch was Domesticated by Bruce Norris at Canadian Stage Theatre and it was a comedy and drama. The story revolves around Bill a respected politician and how his one mistake changed his whole family’s life for the worse while the media humiliates them. Bill was caught hiring multiple high end prostitutes to satisfy his sexual desires and he was caught when one of them has an accident that sends her into coma. This incident causes his marriage to be falling apart and his two daughters
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different‚ but there are also many other ways. Like how the crowds act and what they expect to happen in plays‚ how historically correct plays are‚ and the timelessness of the pieces written are all ways that they are similar and different. There are many elements to this that will be explored later on in this essay. First off‚ the way that the crowds act and what they expect to be a part of the play in some way. In Shakespeare’s time the crowds were made up of a very diverse group of people. All the
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How to play Basketball In order to play basketball‚ you need one basketball and two basketball hoops on opposite ends of the court. The hoops should be ten feet high. In an original game‚ you should form two teams of five individuals apiece would be the requirements. If a court just so happens to be full or fewer players are available‚ a game with one hoop can be played using alternate rules. The object is for you to score more baskets than your opponent. You should
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How to Play a Flute In this paper I am going to explain to you how to play my musical instrument‚ a flute. The flute is a woodwind instrument that has been around since before 4‚000 BC. There are many types of flutes; some are made of wood and others of medal. The kind I play is a c instrument made of medal. This instrument is considered a woodwind because it is non-directional‚ which means that the sound goes in all directions at about the same volume. It also is considered a woodwind because
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