1980s drama films

discuss and go into great depth on Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins An Octoroon and the postdramatic theatre elements that are represented in both of them. Muller’s statement in Steegmans, After Postdramatic Theatre refers to a crisis of drama, which consists of the apparent inability to convey the complexity of the modern world. It’s that the problems of the present exceeds the representational capacity of the situational dramatic art. When we look at postdramatic theater all…

The arts of the western world have been largely dominated by the artistic standards established by the Greeks of the classical period. It is from the Greek word “theatron” meaning “a place for sitting”. It is said that the Greeks were the first people to erect special structures to bring audiences and theatrical performers together. The theatres were normally located near a populated area at the bottom, or cut out of a carefully selected, sloping hillside overlooking a seascape, plain, or city.…

The movie High Noon portrays the elements of a Greek tragedy. In High Noon, we see a very close relationship between what Aristotle described as the essential elements to a tragedy and what we see unfold throughout the movie. We see all of the six elements; plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle, and song, shown in some form throughout the movie, although, Aristotle says that plot and character are primary, so those will be the two elements of focus. In exploring plot and character, the…

negative gossiping happens a lot. It may be the producers telling the castmates to do it, or it could be the castmates doing it to get “camera time” but either way there is a lot of drama and gossiping. As human beings, people love the drama and love to watch it on television. So that is why people gossip and start drama in reality television. With this essay ending, there are positive and negative gossiping. In the play, it shows both positive and negative. By having Beatrice and Benedict…

exchanges with these actors which changed my view of them, or at least how I viewed myself in relation to their amazing talent. One actor I understudied is a man who is a joy to watch in any play. He is consistently employed around town performing drama and comedies, classical works and Shakespeare, contemporary plays and musicals; he can do it all. He work has been recognized with awards and he is a sought after teacher for other actors. If I hadn’t made it clear by now I greatly admired him…

There are many types of people in this world. Some live their life to the fullest expecting great things for them in the future. Then, there are those who just work just to make a living. In the book, Death of a Salesman, Willy the protagonist of the book, was the typical working family man who works to support his family. As he supports his family, his own world is falling apart. His false reality is eating him inside out. Things are just not going the way that they are meant to be. Willy was…

women facing many challenges like sexuality, desire, and growth a she changes from scene to scene. Marie has two love interest in Turk and Bruce that shed light on the character that Marie is. In Drama for students by David Galens, Sheri Metzger who is a professional writer who specializes in literature and drama states “Inge was ahead of his time when, through Lola, he points out the inequities between women and men…But there is a double standard governing the behavior of men and women.” (114…

Performance Analysis, Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave, Theme, Tiffani Buck The professional theatre production I saw was called carried away on the crest of a wave by David Yee and Directed by Frank Miller. This play was performed at the Georgia State University Theatre and acted by "The Players" of Georgia State University. "In a series of vignettes, carried away on the crest of a wave illustrates the ripple effect of one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history and ponders…

laughter and comedy – which she examines as two different things with a few overlapping parts – she shows what exactly makes a comedy a comedy. A common theme in Nevo’s writing was how the Greek philosophers viewed comedies. The Greeks appreciated the drama and integrated it into their lives. They made it part of many festivals, many of which were to celebrate and pay tribute to Dionysus, god of fertility and civilization. But…

Adaptation of Our Town Of the three versions of Our Town that we viewed in class, the PBS 2003 version best portrayed what the author Thornton Wilder wanted. Our Town is quite a unique play due to the fact that unlike most play’s the Stage Manager is on the stage rather than behind the scenes. The Stage Manager is also a character in the play itself and acts as a narrator in the play, so he talks directly to the audience the majority of the time. This unique characteristic allows a director to…