Drama Essay – Section 1 Our task was to dramatise and perform an extract from the play text ‘Blood Brothers’. The performance had to take into consideration the intentions of the playwright and use an appropriate style. My group chose to perform seven scenes from the play. The beginning scene for our piece is looking at how the lack of money affected the children at that time‚ with children that were complaining they were hungry and that they didn’t have all they wanted and showing that the
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Shakespeare’s works were published they were first performed in a theatre for a live audience. There were many different theatre’s during Shakespeare’s time because the theatre was considered a main source of entertainment. Theatre’s were places where men and women of varying social ranks could come together and enjoy a good comedy‚ tragedy‚ or drama such as Henry V. Even Kings and Queens attended the theatre‚ but they would attend a specific theatre named Whitehall‚ which was built for people of royalty and
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I went to see the play Blood Brothers‚ on February the 12th at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham‚ which was directed by Billy Kenright. The play was originally written by Willy Russell in 1983‚ Blood Brothers follows the lives of two twins Eddie and Mickey. The Johnstone twins are born into a very large‚ working class family‚ who struggle to get by with their mother Mrs Johnstone‚ who is a cleaner for a middle class woman Mrs Lyons. Mrs Lyons’ husband is away on work‚ but they both wish they could
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proprietary live performing arts organizations disappeared in the face of the new technologies—first film‚ then recorded music‚ radio‚ and ultimately television. (1) By end of 1920s there were over 1000 non-commercial theatres including college and community theatres in the U.S. Federal Theatre Project Produced phenomenal variety and quality of productions all over‚ with different kinds of ongoing projects and companies. Eventually congress challenged the content of productions as subversive propaganda
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Presentational acting and the related representational acting are basic terms utilized inside of theatre feel and feedback. Because of the same terms being connected to certain ways to deal with acting that negate the more theatrical definitions‚ in any case‚ the terms have woken up. In the most widely recognized sense (what relates the particular elements of theater to the more extensive tasteful classification of ’representational craftsmanship’ or "mimesis" in show and writing)‚ the terms portray
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‘’…. It was terrific Theatre’’ It was a first‚ it had never been done before. We were going to be the first Irish school to stage an amateur performance of this magnitude. We were going to stage Andrew Lloyd Webbers ‘’Phantom of the Opera’’. When we first heard this we did not think we had the talent in our Transition Year Group to perform such a spectacular show. The Phantom of the Opera based on the French novel Le Fantome de L’Opera by Gaston Leroux is considered to be the most successful
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Necessity of Elaborate Theatre After reading about medieval morality plays for the last couple of weeks–by reading I mean painstakingly combing over the small print of several different books I discovered in the library–I came to a realization. All of these books said the same basic thing just in a large variety of ways. Stage production and theatrics were an important contributing factor to performing the morality plays‚ but one above all others was invested in the showmanship of theatre: The Castle of
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Courtney Cox 5-4-10 THEA 1334 Final Paper Costume Design THE ROLE OF COSTUME DESIGN IN MUSICAL THEATER Imagine a classic Shakespearian play or Italian opera performed in hip-hugging jeans or baggy t-shirts; or imagine the period musical 1776‚ produced by the wonderful Stuart Ostrow‚ performed in the groovy attire of the 1970s. These performances would seem completely out of place and confusing. One would not be able to grasp the completeness of the story or have any understanding of the time
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be comical and also sensitive but it depended on the kind of play it was the masks could be taken off anytime within the play to reveal the person identity as the masks were not considered a permanent item. Now masks are used mainly in films or theatre they are much more modern and come in much more shapes‚ coloures and materials and some contain extreme detail for example lights etc. Early as the 1970’s John Moll was putting pencil and brush designs to paper with the various costumes and characters
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approach to the typically happy and childlike setting of a circus. As a whole the class responded with quite abstract and solemn pieces‚ I feel the physical theatre reflected the tone of the stimulus well‚ all of the responses tended to lean towards drawing fear from the audience‚ for example instead of limiting the use of space to a typical theatre styled front on stage setting the use of proxemics broadened when groups branched out and included the audiences space during their performance‚ this gave
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