Ancient Greek theatre

Question: Does the amount of productions, (meaning musicals/plays), people have performed in have any relations to how much they like theater on a scale of one to ten? I want to know whether or not the amount of shows has anything to do with how much they like theater. Is it possible that a person who has been in a very little amount of productions versus someone who have been in more than a dozen can like theater just the same? Hypothesis: The amount of productions people have been in, has no…

The Importance of Being Earnest an Oscar Wild Playwright, and Tootsie by screenwriter Larry Gilbert have many similarities and differences. Even though the stories are set in 100's of years apart, they are alike in ways you would expect they would be different. The Importance of Being Earnest set in the 1890's, and Tootsie set in the 1980's. These comedies are set in different times but you can see similarities and differences in their themes, characters, and their treatment of love and women.…

Kramer vs. Kramer deserves a three star rating. The acting is one of the main reasons I give this film a three star rating. Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffmann did a great job at conveying the emotions their characters were feeling. When Meryl Streep’s character, Joanna, was putting her son, Billy, to bed, I felt as if she was the boy’s actual mother. Dustin Hoffmann also did a phenomenal job at portraying his anger all throughout the movie. At some points throughout the movie, Dustin…

The intimacy provided by the cellar theatre made the set all the more real; the audience was just as involved with the show as the actors were. Since the audience was so close to the stage, the actors had to be completely engaged the entire time (which they were). If there were any restrictions…

Stanislavski did not want his students to forget the audience, he just wanted them to have the appropriate awareness while on stage. He wanted the audience to still be aware of them as the audience plays a huge part in theatre. I think his idea of concentrating on something on stage, to keep the focus off the audience, is a good idea. He thought if his actors observed the object intensively enough, a desire would arise in them, to do something with it. Although, the actors lost basic faculties…

interaction, props and just full of character to name a few. I had the pleasure of viewing this piece with several apparent regulars to the Pocket Sandwich Theatre off of East Mockingbird, Dallas Tx, on 10/15/15. Overall, this show was fantastic. It had the element of audience interaction that not many plays really have and if they do, no theatre has it down like Pocket Sandwich. Before the show they have someone that greets you with a medium sized boat of popcorn that any newcomer would think…

I have grown up in a conservative, Christian environment, and I haven’t been exposed to much more. Since I was raised by Christian parents and attended a Christian school, I wasn’t quite prepared for my summer local theater experience. Being involved with Orange Community Players gave me an experience I will never forget. I’ve always had a passion for acting, so one summer I decided to perform for the local theater because they have summer workshops for kids and teenagers. After joining OCP we…

While some might assume that live performances of a story and an actual story are exactly the same, they actually differ a great deal from each other. Although, these people are not completely wrong. Plays and books always keep the same general plot, characters, and all the major details, while still differentiating on several things. Live performances leave little to the imagination, while stories allow readers to imagine innumerable details. In live theater, directors get to imagine how the…

I recently enjoyed the Frisco Community Theatre production of EVITA the musical. The message I took in while watching this play is follow your dreams no matter what. This message was perhaps very clear to the audience because the main character would not settle for anything less even though she was getting backlash for stealing the love interest of another character. The directors, actors, and designers were very distinguished in transporting us to where the story takes place. A theatrical…

One of the reasons “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanly was a very entertaining play was because of its text elements. The play was about a morally wrong issue at a New York religious school that took place in the 1960’s. It sets this up by portraying the possibility that one of the priests named Father Flynn had an inappropriate relationship with a black child. This idea is conjured up by two of the school’s nuns discussing the idea. One nun, Sister Aloysisus is convinced while the other, Sister…