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    Drama 122 Week One August 19‚ 2013 Reviewed syllabus and exercises • Teacher’s name is Douglas Dildine • Teacher’s contact information • Required to attend DVC Drama Fall Productions: Zombie Prom and The Children’s Hour • Purchase before shows or get season pass • Course description • Scanning exercise is basis of everything an actor does on stage • Take written word and give it life and flesh so audience will believe • If audience doesn’t believe‚ why should

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    original as much as possible so that the translation represents the goal and effort of the original author. Each translator aims at a maximal realistic authenticity‚ including both the inner (author’s and director’s notes) and outer language of the drama. “Translation‚ the surmounting of the obstacle‚ is made possible by an equivalence of thought which lies behind the different verbal expressions of a thought. No doubt this equivalence is traceable to the fact that men of all nations belong to

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    Naturalism‚ in the simplest of terms‚ is the struggle between people and nature. Nature shapes the lives of every person on the planet‚ but in naturalism this intensified and made into more of a survival of the fittest situation. Some anthers who wrote in the naturalism genre include Stephen Crane‚ Edith Wharton‚ and Kate Chopin. Stephen Crane being one of the most influential authors in this movement. Stephen crane’s “The Open Boat” optimizes the naturalism movement in American literature. A key

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    Who Am I? 2. Where Am I? 3. When Is It? 4. What Do I Want? 5. Why Do I Want It? 6. How Will I Get It? 7. What Do I Need To Overcome? Stanislavski believed that actors needed to bring real life situations (realism) to the stage and was against naturalism. Realism involves many things such as ’the forth wall’ . The forth wall is an invisible wall within a box set where a character speaks the audience without the other characters knowing. For an example‚ during a monologue a character

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    Drama Discuss the dramatic role of the Gentleman Caller in ‘The Glass Menagerie’. In this essay‚ the dramatic role of the Gentleman Caller in the infamous play ‘The Glass Menagerie’ will be discussed in a number of different roles. First‚ it will be shown that the Gentleman Caller was the last hope of financial stability for a young woman‚ Laura‚ and her mother‚ as well as the last hope of escape for Laura’s brother‚ Tom. It will also be shown that Jim‚ the Gentleman Caller‚ shatters the lives

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    LHE 3253 TEACHING THE LANGUAGE OF DRAMA Assignment 1 Dorothy Ting Siao Wei 153071 Dr. Habsah Bt Hussin Submission date: 19 Oct 2011 THE JEWELS OF THE SHRINE 1. One of the themes of this play is false relationship among family members. Quote the part(s) in the play where you can discern this theme. Throughout the play the theme false relationship among family members is seen. Firstly‚ it is seen in the character of Bassi. Bassi is not related to Okorie at all but is seen to be always around the

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    The example of this novel being an example of naturalism lies in its title‚ Of Mice and Men coming from the quote “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray.” Someone with a positive view of naturalism would likely be able to connect with the idea of predestination‚ where it doesn’t matter what you do during your life‚ whether you end up in heaven or hell is already decided and there is nothing you can do about it. With naturalism‚ we are the direct victims of nature‚ and there is

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    job‚ she can spend money‚ especially for Christmas. The entire dialogue through this scene is very mushy and cannot be taken seriously as realistic dialogue. The reader can soon realize that this play has elements of both realistic and non realistic drama. The realistic parts to this play are more throughout the play then the non realistic. It’s set in a home with a mother‚ a father‚ two children‚ a nurse‚ and a housemaid. It’s a typical family setting for when the play was written‚ around 1879

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    The realistic impulse‚ the desire to reproduce on stage a piece of life faithfully has been persistent over the last hundred years. However reaction against the theatre of psychological realism and of ordinary speech and behaviour was also relentless throughout the twentieth century. In order to explore any form theatre‚ it is important to understand the historical‚ political‚ social and cultural perspective of the time in which the piece is created. Through the turn of the 19th century‚ “a period

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    Romanticism‚ and formed their experiences into a dramatized version of itself . However‚ when America saw devastation on its own ground‚ manifested in the Civil War ‚ authors transitioned to more unidealized approaches in writing. The styles of Realism and Naturalism arose‚ offering stark differences from the popular manner of the time. Stephen Crane is one such Naturalistic writer who helped to galvanize the shift from Romanticism. He studied the Civil War and expanded upon his findings‚ creating a

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