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    student at Miami University‚ majoring in Theatre and Creative Writing‚ minoring in French‚ and reveling in a relatively recently discovered passion for dramaturgy. I hope to be able to join the Goodman Theatre this summer as an intern with literary management and dramaturgy or with casting. Where can you go wrong with a theatre like the Goodman? Working with a company that’s well established and doing such varied and consistently high quality theatre is just the ticket for anyone starting off

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    5-Sense of masses and the protagonists to the masses- comes up from a crowed of unemployed workers and after his stolen bike‚ tragedy on the job he goes back and fights with the masses as the movie comes to an end. 6-Realism thru Humanism- creates a gate; sense of realism through the use of real people then all seasoned alters like the man and his son so this way it gives more authentic power. 7-non Professional actors- in the movie the man and his son are obviously not professional actors

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    Knoxville Children’s Theatre: Mulan Disney’s Mulan was recently shown at the Knoxville Children’s Theatre. Mulan is the story of a young Chinese girl‚ Fa Mulan‚ who is coming of age at a time when the Han Dynasty of China is in great peril. The Huns are invading Han China. Due to this invasion‚ each Chinese family is ordered to send a male to fight in the army. In the Fa family‚ there is only one male‚ Zhou‚ Mulan’s aging father and this is where the story begins. To prevent her father from having

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    Is there anything in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy that isn’t absurd? The answer is‚ surprise‚ surprise… no. This quirky‚ fun‚ and overall discombobulated novel was written by Douglas Adams and published in 1979. Douglas Adams’s style of writing and humor shines through and makes a seemingly perfect universe seem the most improbable‚ absurd place that a person has the misfortune to be a part of. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a fun‚ buoyant adventure following the life of Arthur Dent

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    Theatre Review In June 2012 I had the pleasure of watching The Woman In Black in the Fortune Theatre. A spine-chilling adaptation of the 1983 novel by Susan Hill. The story explores a tale of a ‘woman in black’ who is said to haunt the living‚ when a young solicitor enters a town where the villagers are reluctant to speak anything of this ghostly character he ultimately discovers why. The play was first performed in 1987 in the Saint Joseph Theatre in Scarborough as a ‘Christmas play’ only to

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    The Joy Of Text Theatre Review DRA1TKP Tutor: Dr Rob Conkie Monday 1:00-3:00pm Michael Carey Student # 17725486 The Joy of Text Written by Robert Reid Directed by Peita Collard Performed by Jason Cavanagh‚ Colin Craig‚ Kasia Kaczmarek and Elizabeth Thomson Set and Lighting Design by Rob Sowinski Film Design by Isaac Mitchell-Frey Sound Design by Kieran Fox Produced by Rikki Lee Butiner Original Production by Melbourne Theatre Company Venue: Performance Date: La Mama Courthouse Friday 15th

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    Dario Fo’s Political Theatre Dario Fo’s plays were written in Italy during the 60’s and 70’s. During this time there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout Italy towards the government and various factions within the country ‚ the nation seethed with discontent. Dario Fo was born in 1926 in the Italian state of Lombardy. During the fifties ‚ Fo ‚ along with his wife Franca Rame ‚ had a succesful career as an actor ‚ director and writer of comedies in conventional theatre. During the sixties

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    In Twentieth Century Theatre from the time of the Renaissance on‚ theatre seemed to be striving for total realism‚ or at least for the illusion of reality. As it reached that goal in the late 19th century‚ a multifaceted‚ antirealistic reaction erupted. Many movements‚ generally lumped together as the avant-garde‚ attempted to suggest alternatives to the realistic drama and production. Paralleling modern art movements‚ various theoreticians turned to symbol‚ abstraction‚ and ritual in an attempt

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    Films vs. Theatre Theatre as we know it today (called Western theatre) comes from Greek festival of Dionysus while films appeared only in the end of nineteenth century when first motion-picture camera was invented. On the one hand films and theatre are quiet similar – both are performing arts‚ both are reflection through moving and acting‚ film and theatre industries give labour to actors‚ producers‚ sound producers and other ancillary staff and implicitly also to composers and script and screen

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    Renaissance Theatre: Acting and Staging ADA4M Italy Italian Staging of the Renaissance ● ● Although Italians were strict about dramatic content‚ they were more flexible regarding the staging of their dramatic works. Italian staging of the Renaissance built not only on traditions established in Ancient Greece and Rome‚ but also scientific and artistic discoveries of the time. Influences on Italian Staging ● ● ● ● ● In 1486‚ Vitruvius’ work The Ten Books on Architecture (De

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