Musical theatre can be a great tool for teachers as it can help teach a variety of skills and provide information. However‚ musical theatre is often ignored in the classroom. This is not only a fault of people with distaste for theatre‚ but also lovers of theatre. As David Savran says‚ “And even for many devotees of the so-called straight theatre‚ musical theatre remains (at best) a guilty pleasure-a little too gay‚ too popular‚ too Jewish‚ and too much damned fun” (216). This blockage between
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Historical Timeline of Musical Theatre Renaissance The antecendents of musical theatre in Europe can be traced back to the theatre of ancient Greece‚ where dance and music were included in stage comedies and tragedies during the 5th century BCE. The 3rd-century BCE Roman comedies of Plautus included song and dance routines performed with orchestrations. The Romans also introduced technical innovations. For example‚ to make dance steps more audible in large open air theatres‚ Roman actors attached metal
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British theatres One of the world’s major centers for theatre‚ Britain has a centuries-old dramatic tradition and about 300 theatres. There are several thousand amateur dramatic societies in Britain. The Royal Shakespeare Company performs in Stratford-upon Avon and at the Barbican Centre in London. A modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre‚ close to its original site‚ is under way. Most cities and towns in Britain have at least one theatre. There are 500 youth theatres in England alone. The Unicorn
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audience looks on. Picture what it would look like and feel like on a stage performing. This is what the actors at Stebens Children’s Theater sometimes experience. Stebens Children’s Theatre was first created in 1984 and it first was named “The First Act”. In 1988‚ it later changed into the Stebens Children’s Theatre that exist today. The Bertha Stebens Charitable Foundation purchased the building that Stebens is located now. It puts on productions‚ tier classes‚ and workshops that teaches kids about
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British theatre The earliest forms of theatre in Britain were the religious ritual performances of the native Britons. The first theatre in Britain that we may recognize as such was that of the Romans. While we know a great deal about the Roman theatre its effect on Britain seems to have been limited – theatres were small and not particularly numerous (and may have been used for sports‚ gladiatorial contests and other mass spectacle entertainments more than for classical theatre). The ruins
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History of Theatre Early in the 1700’s British people that were involved with theatre were mostly middle class. There were 2 kinds of new dramatic theatre: sentimental comedy and domestic tragedy. The fist playhouse was in the American colonies was built in Williamsburg‚ Virginia. In 1741 the greatest British actor was born and his name was David Garrick. Aeschylus wrote the first major playwright and multiple contests. "The Orestria" was the last remaining tragic trilogy. Sophocles
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were no theatres and plays were performed in private houses‚and the courtyards of inns‚ which is an enclosed area with an open roof‚ rich people often had them in their houses. The globe theatre was built in 1599 by some of shakespeare’s playing company.Some plays were performed privately‚ and were called private plays and performed in people’s houses‚ usually to celebrate an event‚ eg. A midsummer night’s dream was performed privately to celebrate a wedding. The timber for The Globe Theatre was actually
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Globe Theatre From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Globe Theatre of Shakespeare. For the modern reconstruction in London‚ see Shakespeare’s Globe. For other uses‚ see Globe Theatre (disambiguation). The Globe Theatre The second Globe‚ preliminary sketch (c. 1638) for Hollar’s 1647 Long View of London.[1] Address Maiden Lane (now Park Street) Southwark[2][3] City London Country England Coordinates 51.506770°N 0.094677°WCoordinates: 51.506770°N 0.094677°W Designation
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Theatre as Visual Rhetoric In Scott McCloud’s “Understanding Comics‚” he defines art as both “any human activity that doesn’t grow out of EITHER of our species two basic instincts: survival and reproduction” (164)‚ and “the way we assert our identities as individuals and break out of the narrow roles nature cast us in” (166). Although McCloud was discussing graphic novels in his work‚ I think that these quotes and his argument apply to any type of visual rhetoric. As a former theatre minor at Marquette
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Hallo‚ Hi everybody. I´d like to talk about the National Theatre and one very interesting play. First‚ few words about the Theatre. The National Theatre in Prague is known as the national monument of Czech history and art. It´s neo-Renaissance building dating from 1868-83. It is instantly recognizable from the river‚ its golden roof gleaming in the sunshine on fine weather days. For Czech people‚ the National Theatre is one of the most important cultural institutions in Prague - since
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