Theatre

Characters in stories are made immortal by their creators. The more skillfully an author presents his story, the more retaining power it the story has over its readers. In plays though, aside from the talented playwrights who fathered the scripts, the ones that help emboss the characters in the minds of the audience are the actors themselves. We are able to maintain in our memories not only the play itself but each individual character portrayed by very talented actors. We are able to remember,...

William Shakespeares work was performed in the play The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged. It was a mixture of Shakespearian plays which have been shortened and portrayed at a different perspective other than the usual. It was very simple and straightforward to the audience and my first impression was this is revolutionizing. This is one of the main things that I liked about the plays that have been portrayed. It was a different presentation and packaging of Shakespeares plays. This...

The play A Street Car Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1947. Needless to say, the plot and dialogues of the play are undeniable work of a genius. It is basically about the conflict of the main characters Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. Overall, the play was satisfactory. The staff, actors and actresses managed to give justice to the concept of the play. The actors for the roles of Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski and Stella Kowalski gave life to...

1)  What was being attemptedNoises Off is a play within a play that attempts to depict the onstage and backstage frolics of a mediocre cast ensemble who are attempting to stage a cringe worthy sex farce.  The play attempts to portray the reality of theatre life and the unpredictable nature of staging a performance.  It tries to show the audience what really happens behind the scenes and how a playwrights dreams can turn into a nightmare as the play unfolds.  In the play Noise...

I recently attended a performance of The Nuthouse Improvisational Comedy Troupe and was truly impressed.  This was my first time ever seeing live improv and, before I entered the theatre that evening, I really didnt know what to expect.  However, by the end of the performance, I had gained a new respect for this unique art form, and I hope to have the opportunity to be a part of an improvisational theatre experience again in the near future.     The Nuthouse Improv Comedy...

The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy that is rife with paradoxes and inversions. These traits are especially exemplified by two main characters of whom the story also revolves around John Worthing, J.P. (also known as Jack) and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack is a simple country lad that perceives issues of life quite casually while Algernon is a cynic whose views of life are dandiasic and formal. Indeed the two, as will be demonstrated later on, clash insofar as their respective perceptions of...

Porgy and Bess is an operatic drama by George Gershwin. It was first staged in 1935 (Erb). It revolves around the lives of African American residents in the fictitious place, Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina (Erb) in the 1920s. Among the colorful cast of characters in this ground-breaking all-Negro production (Standifer) is Sportin Life.     Sportin Life, although not a central character in the story, probably contributes the most important pivotal part. His singular objective...

The dramatic structure of ARSENIC AND OLD LACE can be interesting to look at. The play is a very dark comedy that maintains a number of over the top humor scenes. However, the dramatic structure of the work is not much different from serious dramas that cover the well made play paradigm. Because of this, it is not very difficult to see where in the play ARSENIC AND OLD LACE presents the similar structure. This structure is clearly visible in the opening scene, the obstacles and complications, and...

Heroic drama, at times named heroic romance is a kind of play popular throughout the Restoration age in England, differentiated by both its subject matter in addition to its rhyme structure, the heroic drama sub-genus developed through a number of workings of the mid to late 1660s. Key developments of this form of drama were Roger Boyles, The Black Prince (1667) and John Drydens The Indian Emperour (1665).Dryden disputed that the drama was a sort of heroic poems for the stage that, as the heroic...

Drama and all other art forms revived during the Renaissance between 1500 and 1600 across Europe, which set the ball rolling and this renewal of the performing arts lasted for another three decades. This paper elucidates on the drama and performances between the 15th and 17th century and its effect on the society as a whole. Romans introduced drama across Europe including England and this led to the construction auditoriums across the continent. During the medieval period, an early street theatre...

As a Korean American living in Ohio, Im constantly find myself in cultural situations where I am the minority. After all, we are only about 0.4 of the population. In a way, this made the task of immersing myself in another culture quite easy for me, as it is something I have to do every day of my life.  However, most of the opportunities I have to co-mingle with other races and ethnicities primarily involve Anglo-Americans, so when I heard about an event called the Women of The World Poetry...

    When Wendy Wasserstein died in 2006, the American theatre industry did not only lose one of its greatest playwrights, but also a colleague for many and great friend as well. She was not only famous for her very humorous productions but was also a woman writer who had deep political conviction and activism. Throughout her theatre life, Wendy Wassersteins plays depicted a class of women heroines who were intelligent and successful but whose personal lives were also full of personal...

Fences is an award-winning play centered around a black man and his family in the 1950s. They are a low-income family consisting of Tony Maxson, the father and main character Rose Maxson, the mother Lyson Maxson, Tonys first-born from another marriage Cory, Tony and Roses son and Rynell, Tonys child with his mistress Alberta. In the scenes where he had just come home from work (Scenes One and Four of Act One), Tony wears his garbage man uniform, a dark grayish green overall but like the first scene...

On August 28, 1955, a fourteen year old boy from Chicago named Emmett Till was brutally murdered, his bloated and disfigured body left unrecognizable to friends and family. Emmets crime He allegedly whistled at a White woman, although it should be noted that most historians believe that even this flimsy justification for this young boys murder was fabricated by his killers. (Wright 129).   The United States has a long and shameful history of lynching Black men, and the 1915 silent classic,...

Law of man or law of nature This question faithfully relates to the story of Antigone, one of Sophocles finest tragedy. The plot, the scenes, the dialogues of this wonderful drama will engage all readers to their own production their own stage play or film in mind. Reading through the pages of the book is like taking part in the scenes and sorrows of Antigone.     Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus the King, who ignorantly murdered his father, married his own mother and fathered...

Kele James Shut up Nick.Ryan (smiles, while looking at the street lights and sign posts.)Nick James, you might be the biggest star at school, but those damn chicks dont know the size of your brain (Ryan laughs harder) Kele James one more word from you and Im gonna shove my fist down your throat Ryan chill my friend. Knuckle head over there got detention for hitting the vending machine.Nick I wouldnt if it gave me what I paid for (kicks.) Ryan yeah, how I wish you checked the note that said that...