Abbey Theatre

modern theatre goers (Dass, p.65). The significance of the play does not lie in its…

BASILONIA, Yvonne Mae G. 3LIT1 “Conveying Emotions and Awareness through Drama: The Tempest Reimagined Review” The Tempest, a play written by William Shakespeare himself was adapted in the Philippine setting by the Philippine Educational Theater Association, titled The Tempest: Reimagined, and speaks of the super typhoon Yolanda when it hit the country and the great damage it caused to the Filipinos. Emotions swirled within the stage brought by the actors themselves, the effects of both…

Chazzerick Cox Professor Mulcahy Dance Appreciation 2303.WS1 March 8th 2018 The Green Table is a sly move by the famous German choreographer Kurt Jooss and is without a doubt one of his most surely understood works. The music was masterfully coordinated by Frederick Cohen who was the German arranger best known for making the music for Kurt Jooss' clear artful…

at Florence University of the Arts. Tuition is $12,995 and includes housing, in either an apartment shared with other SAI students or a homestay, and many excursions including hikes, cooking lessons, day trips, biking tours, sporting events, and theatre performances around Italy. The program application deadline is November 1st. At the airport on the day of arrival students are met by an ISA representative who distributes apartment keys and an orientation schedule and directs you to a shuttle…

At the start of Act II, “Love and Marriage”, Wilder yet again skips ahead in time and explains changes to the audience, offering us not only a microscopic perspective, but also a macroscopic perspective. The Stage Manager’s monologue begins with him saying, “Three years have gone by. Yes, the sun’s come up over a thousand times”(46). With the intent of emphasizing the amount of time that has passed, Wilder uses the Stage Manager to then change perspectives by converting years into days. He does…

Bill Cosby is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, and author. He began his stand-up career in 1961 when he decided to leave his hometown, Temple, to book shows in New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. Since then, Cosby has won numerous of prestigious awards for his standup comedy performances as well as his comedy television series. In October of 2014, sexual assault and rape allegations against Cosby became public when the first woman, Andrea Constand, spoke out…

"Song Ji-hyo This is a Korean name; the family name is Cheon. In stage/pen name, the surname is Song. Cheon Seong-im (born 15 August 1981), better known by her stage name Song Ji-hyo is a South Korean actress, television presenter and model. She first made her acting debut in Wishing Stairs (2003), one of the films in the Whispering Corridors film series. Song gained international fame for being the only female member of the popular Korean variety show Running Man, which made her popularity…

the trailblazer of the modern grotesque theatre as we know it today. His plays have been characterized by a comic touch that stands out reminding us of the farce style. He once said “With comedy I search for the profound”. His witty atmosphere is omnipresent in “Ma Fina nedfa3, ma Rah Nedfa3”, one of his plays that has been adapted in colloquial Lebanese by Lina el Abyad who also took the responsibility of directing. It has been recently performed in LAU theatre in Hamra. Produced by Hala el…

MISE EN SCENE The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance…

Philadelphia Story was a play put on by the theater department at the University of North Texas, performed in a proscenium. This worked well because of the big stage you could have a big set, which in this play, was amazing. The play starts with the main character Tracy writing thankyou notes for the gifts she has received for her upcoming wedding, which happens to be the following day. After being introduced to all the characters you learn that this isn’t Tracy’s first wedding, but she use to…