Ancient Greek theatre

Imagine being taken away in tornado not knowing what’s going to happen next .Well imagine what Dorothy felt like as she was being picked up by the gigantic storm. If you don’t know what I’m talking about I’ll give you a hint, The Wizard of Oz! By viewing the play it helped me enhance my understanding of the written version of The Wizard of Oz in three ways the first way is the setting. the setting starts off in Kansas, a dry, gray looking and feeling place. That’s with the play helping you to…

Tap Dogs is a professional Australian dance company whose grungy, yet casual costuming reflects their upbeat and exhilarating style of tap dancing, loose, fun and charismatic. Torn between labour and love, founder and choreographer Dein Perry uses dance to reflect his journey of becoming a professional tap dancer as a young boy. Getting down and dirty to the soul of this performance, there is no doubt that Tap Dogs Beams is far from the more traditional style of tap dancing. With a contemporary…

Legally Blonde, the musical, has proven that the amount of talent we have here at CHHS is great. The cast and crew dedicated hours to make this event happen, and it paid off. Director Mrs. Kerry Rupe, did a stunning job coordinating the show as well as Kevin Gasio as the musical director, Bob Erbst, as the set director, Mel Taylor as the producer and Kolbi-Rae Edrey and Kerry Rupe as choreographers. The star of the show, Mia Roberts, plays the lead character Elle Woods who admitted that playing…

Friday evening September 9th, I attended the Musical “Songs for the New Word" at the Trinity Street Theater in Austin Texas. The musical used songs to describe differing events in one's life leading up to that one moment in one's life when you hit the wall and have to make a choice to press on, or to run away like coward (http://www.mtishows.com/songs-for-a-new-world). The actors would sing of trials, tribulations and poor choices then use the repetition of the uplifting song of hope, a "New…

The Art of the Theatre Unit Two Assignment Answer each of the following questions completely. Each answer is worth 5 points, for a total of 25 points. 1. The movie The Majestic tells the tale of a movie writer who is blacklisted by the HUAC. After a spell of amnesia and mistaken identity, he finally testifies before the HUAC. a. In your opinion, what impact does theatre have on society? Theater is so important for our society today because it gives not only growth, but also character…

I represented Mr. Shatner in this week’s simulation. The first thing we talked about in our negotiation was how many characters from Star Track would be in the play. My original strategy was to inform the theater that Mr. Shatner did not want any members from the Star Track franchise to be in the play. However, the theater informed me that there had to be some characters from Star Track in order for the play to be successful. The theater then asked me why I did not want characters from Star…

I have recently had the pleasure to attend one of the best plays of my life. The Title of this play is 16 Wounded written by, Eliam Kraiem. I had the fortune that the producing entity was the Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College, therefore It was right here at the Glenwood Springs College and I saw the show on Thursday night of the second week. I recognized some of the major participants in this production such as that it was directed by Wendy S. Moore, whom I thought did a…

Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre, the Asia Society Cultural Achievement Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist, and the Steinberg Award for playwriting. In 2014, Hwang was named director of Columbia University’s School of the Arts' M.F.A. program in playwriting. Currently, Hwang is living in Brooklyn with his wife and two kids working as the residency one playwright at the Signature Theatre in NYC, where they are getting ready to put on a…

(Fiona Mountford, 2015) In Peter Pan Goes Wrong, by Mischief Theatre, the much-loved members of The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society battle against collapsing sets, flying mishaps and numerous miscues on their way to Neverland with hilarious and disastrous results, much to the dismay of any stage manager. I watched this play on the 17th of November mid-way through their second Christmas run at the Apollo Theatre, London. Here, Mischief Theatre cleverly time perfect mishaps playing on the…

Tartuffe is widely considered Moliere’s finest comedic play, written in 1664. It was considered quite scandalous at the time and King Louis XIV censured it (Scott 2000). The play was subtitled ‘The Imposter’, or sometimes ‘The Hypocrite’. So deeply woven into our intellectual culture is the play, or rather its protagonist, that in both French and English ‘Tartuffe’ has officially become a word. The definition in English is ‘a hypocritical pretender to piety’. This essay will examine Moliere’s…