28th March to Sunday 6th April‚ 2008 at the UWI Learning Resource Centre (LRC). Written in 1979 by Lester Efebo Wilkinson‚ Bitter Cassava is a well crafted full length play with music and dance. It was first produced in November 1979 for the Folk Theatre Festival component of the Prime Minister’s Best Village Trophy Competition. Interpreting the play for local audiences was director Louis McWilliams‚ Lecturer at The University of the West Indies‚ who has been an admirer of Lester Wilkinson since 1980
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Our IB Bunraku Theatre performance was a very difficult project to undertake. We were put under a great deal of stress to complete and make our performance great. It was all put together in just a few short weeks and there was a great deal of tension during rehearsals. Bunraku is a Japanese puppet production and we made it our own. Our story was about an autistic teenage boy killing his best friend in a moment of rage and confusion. It was quite a deep story. The audience seemed very in to it and
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MEDIVAL DRAMA ESSAY With the decline of the Roman Empire so went Greek and Roman Dramatic Theatre. Minstrels and Troubadours Beginning in the 5th or 6th century traveling performers named Minstrels and Troubadour’s began to travel castle to castle and town to town. Their performances were often vulgar and flamboyant; using colorful costumes and many times using musical instruments in their performances. Although their content tended to be crass and vulgar it did lend itself to themes of the day
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The Paper of the Absurd: A Literary Analysis of The Stranger By: Michael Lovett Advanced Placement English Language and Compositions 5th Period 13th of December‚ 2010 Michael Lovett In Albert Camus’ existential novel The Stranger‚ the pointlessness of life and existence is exposed and expounded upon in such a manner that the entire foundation of spirituality is shaken. The concept that drives this novel is one coined by Albert Camus himself‚ the “absurd”. Under the absurd‚ life is pointless
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Renaissance Theatre vs Today’s Modern Theatre As society grows‚ theatre is forced to evolve to meet the needs of its audience. During the Renaissance‚ theatre would convey it stories using low-budget and every day materials; this was mainly due to society being from a less technology driven time in history. Today‚ society has not only evolved into a wealthier one‚ but a society with growing technologies allowing theatre to pull out all the stops‚ conveying its stories in a more elaborate
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Roman theatre and Greek theatre‚ yet alike‚ had many differences‚ but have influenced our present day entertainment. Much of the architecture‚ structure‚ building‚ design‚ and the plays shown in the Roman theatre were influenced by the Greek theatre. In Roman theatre‚ the venue’s structural design was built upon their own foundations. The theatre included dance‚ choral events‚ mime‚ and different types of plays including tragedy and comedy. They also had horse and chariot racing‚ gladiator fights
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Australian Theatre uses the dramatic form of realism and its conventions to expose underlying issues within the Australian culture. Set in the 1970’s‚ the context of the plays ‘The Removalists’ and ‘Norm and Ahmed’ by David Williamson and Alex Buzo‚ explore issues of racism‚ corruption and male aggression through the struggles of their characters. Racism is an undercurrent that runs through the Australian 1970’s culture and is captured in Buzo’s Norm and Ahmed. Buzo uses two contrasting characters
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Camus’ Attitude to the Absurd in his The Stranger Mahbuba Sultana1 Abstract: Albert Camus (1913-1960) was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1957 for his important literary production‚ which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times. He was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. The Stranger is indeed
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IMPACT OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE ON THE THEATRE OF ABSURD Gaurav Singh M. A English I ENGL 403 Elizabethan Drama Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 – 1980 ) is perhaps the most well known existentialist and played a key role in 20th century French philosophy
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states connected with them. The problematic area of the modern cognitive linguistic is rather wide. [24; 35] We decided that it would be interesting to investigate the basic notion of cognitive linguistics on the basis of W.S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre“. W.S. Maugham’s early reputation was based on his comedies of manners for the stage. Among the best remembered of his witty‚ cynical and frankly commercial plays are “The Circle” (1921)‚ “Our Betters” (1923)‚ and “The Constant Wife” (1926). W
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