Audience

Non-fiction is something we consume everyday: in the news, in history books, on the television, or in everyday conversation. What makes the choice of nonfiction for a performance interesting is how the performance subjects are often already known by the audience. How can a performer on a stage hope to compete against a new story, a photograph, or a video clip? This need, an abundance of available information and documentation to scrutiny a performance against, make construction of the…

believe that it must be difficult to balance audience awareness within the actors performance for many reasons. Firstly, the aim of incorporating the audience into the performance means that its easier for them to empathise with the characters and feel involved in the performance, thus adding to the overall affect. However this could lead to actors getting distracted by the audience around them and especially new actors found it difficult to block out the audience enough to perform confidently…

With irony and humor, his admission to being a college dropout is received with laughter emanating from the audience. Signifying a directional change,…

Darkness, Light, Darkness directed by Jan Svankmajer is an interesting, thrilling, and impressive short film. While only seven minutes long, Svankmajer is able to project creative yet disturbing images that many critics struggle to give single meaning. The short is full of attractions created with stop-motion editing that creates a strong narrative on humanity. The film begins with darkness just as the title suggest. A door creaks and suddenly a light appears that is shown to be turned on by…

effectiveness of a message delivered through public speaking depends greatly on the first impression the audience receives from the presenter himself. To accept a presenter’s argument requires for a certain type of trust to be established between the presenter and the audience. When given the opportunity by Durham University give a series of three-day lectures in 1943, CS Lewis first established to the audience his authority on the various subjects found through his discussion, such as moral…

shows how the audience can get involved with out having to spend money. The main focus is for the audience to focus on the volunteering aspect of our campaign. Our group is focusing on the importance of time and human connection within the campaign. Time and human connection are two things that money can’t help a sick child recover from. The overall theme our group chose for this campaign was “Lift Them Up.” What…

styles of dance have derived from other forms of traditional dances such as ballet. Every style of dance performed in a studio has some element of ballet in its movements; even the most diverse pieces such as tap still use forms of ballet. When audiences are watching a hip hop routine, they don’t immediately see the ballet elements, but when examined closely,…

by providing her audience with credibility, emotional appeals, and used language, and delivery. First, building credibility is an important component of a speech. Credibility is the audience’s perception of whether a speaker’s is qualified to speak on a given topic. Other refers to it as ethos, the name given by Aristotle. Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. Before you can convince an audience to accept…

had. There was much sexual humor present throughout the show especially from the actors that sat in the audience. They kept up the sexual humor so the actors on stage could go somewhere with their scene and create a plot. There was much audience interaction because of the prop bags (that was a great way to help the audience be involved), and with the whole play starting with Magenta in the audience and ending with the dancers doing the Time Warp in the aisles. It lived up to the naughtiness with…

‘’How is the relationship between Raleigh and Stanhope presented in ‘Journeys End’?’’ The relationship between Stanhope and Raleigh is shown throughout the play. As the play progresses we the audience realise we have only just scraped the tip of a large and complex ice berg. In the play we are shown Stanhope and Raleigh have a complex relationship but it is only till Osborne talks to Raleigh when we find out that this is because they knew each other before. Sheriff displays the relationship to…