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    Stranger becomes a classic and haunts in general readers’ heart for many decades. Everyone is an innate “stranger”‚ and by reading “The Stranger”‚ we can face up to our solitary‚ absurd scenarios through our lives. Rain Liu 499110296 Ms. Gretchen Lee Sophomore Composition D R-4 11th June‚ 2012 An Antagonist in an Absurd World: “The Stranger” by Albert Camus “Why do I exist in this world?” This question might be quite common or ordinary to every individual who exists. However‚ few of

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    Theatre is a very competitive business. Hundreds of actors can show up to an audition and half of them may not even get seen by the casting team. Out of the people who are seen‚ only a few may get a job. Auditioning is a difficult process and not only your skill is judged but also your appearance. Some roles are written for specific ethnicities but the casting team doesn’t always honor the writers’ intentions. Many roles written for non-caucasian actors are given to caucasian actors. Actors of color

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    age for its intake of breath of revolution on the polish stages. Even though the revolution has been made by the Meiningen theatre company‚ Ludwig Chroneg‚ André Antoine‚ Konstantin S. Stanislavski in case of new theatre staging going in contrast with romanticism and naturalism. But it was Wyspianski and his Wedding‚ who pioneered the modern play connected with the great theatre reform on polish stages. Still the fact of revolutionary wasn’t the primal intension. The content of the play – its themes

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    Bangarra Dance Theatre

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    Bangarra Dance Theatre – Ochres 1995 Co-Choreographers: Stephen Page and Bernadette Walong Composer: David Page Cultural Consultant: Djakapurra Munyarryun Lighting Design: Joseph Mercurio Set Designer: Peter England A Passion for Dance “For me‚ I think the importance of going back to the traditional style of dance was that I was able to observe and watch our traditional teachers‚ not just for the dance steps but to be aware of what environment they came from‚ what their landscape

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    Realism vs. Surrealism

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    Essay Topic:  "Why does Ray Bradbury create Beatty? Why is he so important? What makes is death so significant?" Realism vs. Surrealism Books are a major piece in the puzzle of life. When books‚ a source that points out a society’s imperfections‚ are taken away‚ humanity is lost. In Ray Bradbury’s scientific novel Fahrenheit 451‚ firemen are the people to start fires‚ rather than extinguish them‚ as they do in the modern world. They also investigate homes that are reported to be sheltering books

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    to Albert Camus‚ an existentialist‚ life is considered absurd because the meaning of life has no answer‚ yet one continually searches for meaning while knowing death is inevitable. One is responsible and free to determine the meaning of life for oneself. People will continue to create a purpose for themselves and struggle to accept death. This is what makes life absurd and the act of searching for meaning pointless. He describes that the Absurd life comprises of “Consistency‚ authenticity‚ self-awareness”

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    as a pure but different view of that thing (it?s sometimes called ?anti-realism). I can give you a very simple example of expressionism: If I showed an impressionist a vase of flowers‚ they might produce something akin to ?A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers? by Edgar Degas. An expressionist might show you something like "Flowers in Vase" by Mary Lee Lombard or maybe something not at all like that. The Expressionist theatre movement developed in Germany around 1905. It was characterised by attempts

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    Realism in Joyce's Dubliners

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    William Buttlar ENG 200 9/28/12 Style and Substance: An examination of Joyce ’s unique form of Realism There are not many individual who can claim to have completely redelevoped a style of writing‚ but James Joyce was not like most individuals. As an introverted yet observant youth‚ Joyce formed a highly progressive (while unpatriotic) view of his hometown of Dublin (Levin‚ 11). When considering that “[the] history of the realistic novel shows that fiction tends toward autobiography” (Levine

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    The idea of naturalist theatre sprung a lot of controversies from numerous theatrical practitioners such as the likes of Vsevolod Meyerhold- who holds the title of being one of the most influential drama practitioners in modern theatre today. The general term “naturalism” is based on scientific theories surrounding Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution‚ the importance of the environment and how it affects people. Meyerhold held naturalist theatre in the lowest regard and he was recognised for his

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    Theatre Monologue Essay

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    slouching over in my chair as I listened to my theatre teacher recite difficult words from a book written by‚ what he considered an old friend of his‚ Bill; little did I know‚ Bill was going to change my life forever. Competitiveness runs through my blood so when I heard the school was hosting a monologue competition I did not hesitate to sign up. To my surprise‚ it had to be a monologue from one of the plays written by this Bill character that my theatre teacher adored so much. I irked his plays due

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