Can theatre enable people to tackle the oppressions to which they are subject? Compare and contrast the work and approach of two applied theatre practitioners and companies in order to explore this question. According to Oxford Dictionary Online‚ oppression is defined as ‘prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or exercise of authority’ (2014). Within theatre‚ oppression is a powerful subject to tackle. Not only it is used as the subject of many productions‚ it is also a key part of many rehearsal exercises
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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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When it opened in 1914‚ the Apollo Theatre crowded with musicians‚ comedians‚ and other people who wanted to show off their talents. Most of these artists started their stardom here‚ playing last minute gigs just to be heard or to earn a quick buck. People like Ella Fitzgerald‚ Billie Holiday‚ James Brown‚ and Luther Vandross had the opportunity to perform their‚ starting their stardom and their fandom for that matter. Back then it was used to make money‚ but now it is a “respected not-for-profit”
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The theatre has been an important part of my life starting from a young age. Growing up‚ my mother was always involved with community theatre‚ and I would attend her rehearsals and performances. The very first live theatre performance I went to see my mom in was A Grand Night For Singing‚ and from the first note of the overture‚ I was hooked. There was something that drew me into theatre and made me want to be a part of it. As I grew older‚ I eventually was able to be apart of theatrical productions
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Verbatim theatre is communal storytelling at its best. What are the benefits of such storytelling as a collective act? To say that Verbatim Theatre is communal storytelling implies that it is the community telling stories. Such storytelling employed as a collective act allows for many benefits including the voicing of previously unheard stories from a variety of perspectives‚ feeding stories into the wider communities and allowing for action to be taken‚ and providing a venue for the search of truth
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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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Drama essay “Theatre has the capacity to transform our perceptions of the world we live in” To what extent is this statement true of two twentieth century theatre practitioners you have studied. The theatre has tremendous capacity to transform our perceptions of the world. Two theatre practitioners who had strong beliefs in this statement were Vsevolod Meyerhold and Augusto Boal. Both Meyerhold and Boal believed that theatre had the power to transform the way we look at the world‚ each displaying
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Drama Essay “Drama and theatre in their content and style reflect the society from which they spring” – To what extent is this true of contemporary Australian theatre practice? Theatre is a direct reflection of life and society. Any script is written‚ including their themes and genre‚ in the attempt to draw on and display our surrounding world to ultimately impact audiences. Our unit of drama including Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Jane Harrison’s Stolen does exactly this‚ but
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that might have seen or performed of one of these new created little or art theatres Following WWI ‚ between 1929-1939 approximately 2/3 of all live theatres venues due to the great depression and the advent of much cheaper films simplified realism Dominated broadways plays all the way up‚ Broadways were not really
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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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