Bolshoi Theatre

Katie Trumbull is a Senior soon to be graduate at Toledo School for the Arts who has been involved with theatre for most of her young life since she was eight years old and is planning to study Musical Theatre or Vocal Performance in college as a professional career. Recently she has appeared in some of her favorite musicals yet including The Music man (Marian) with Toledo School for the Arts, Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), The Lion King Jr (Zazu), Children of Eden (Yonah) with Waterville…

For centuries, people have ambled into the Globe Theatre delighted, waiting for the performance of a lifetime. What will they be a spectator for? Will they get to witness a uplifting show that makes them forget all of their current problems? Or will they be captive in a show of melancholic being? What are the types of shows that these high class individuals with pearls and dresses would have been present for? Shakespeare, the man whose work all these people came in to devour had an abundance of…

It is a normal night, just like every other night. You are sitting on your couch flipping through the channels, and you see a scene that catches your eye. A documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling. Then the documentary starts showing pictures of the possible effects of oil drilling. The pictures of an oil spill. Pictures of animals coated in oil.…

Picnic Performance Critique Picnic as directed by Jack Wright, was the first play that I had ever gone to in my life. As far as a first time experience, I’d say that Picnic left me wanting more from the actors and the production overall. The two actors that I chose to focus on were those who played Hal Carter and Millie Owens; James Kern and Melissa Berger respectively. I closely examined the voices of both of these actors as well as each and every one of their movements and what they did to…

The Curate Shakespeare: As You Like It Throughout the play “The Curate Shakespeare: As You Like IT” one actor whose character choices I enjoyed the most and they come across as the most natural to me were made by Chelsea Hart-Cantabene. In the first act of the play she brought to life a cynical character, who really wants to be a part of something great, but will not allow herself to see the good that could possibly come out of her current situation. During the first act when the troop began…

I have seen a good amount of plays in a number of different venues but this is the first college performance I have ever experienced and it surprised me, both because of the acting and portrayal quality. It appeared that Louis Nowra, Cosi’s playwright, was trying to challenge our perspective of “insane” people and get across the message that they may be more alike us than we are willing to believe. The director, Steven Pearson, seemed to be trying to convey this message with the simplistic…

I attended The Nutcracker Christmas Carol at the campus’ Humanities Theatre. I was not sure what to expect from this play since I did even know the nutcrackers storyline. I was worried that I would not be able to write a concert report on this musical since I had never been to a live musical play, but it turned out very successful. They performed a musical skit for each storyline of this play. The live musical play was intertwined as the story was acted out. Some of them were solo performances…

Literary Strategies that Revealed the Purpose of Clarence’s Speech William Shakespeare’s play, Richard III, is an example of literature where different writing styles and forms of rhetoric told tell a story with many meanings. The play involved numerous characters with their own speeches, that all had different purposes. Shakespeare utilized various literary strategies that allowed the speaker to convey the meaning of their own speech. The most effective strategies used by Clarence, in his…

participate in the global theatre community. As a stage manager, my role was integral in my theatre department at The Prout School in Wakefield, Rhode Island. I decided, at the age of sixteen, that this was what I was to do as a career for my adult life. I did all the right things in my initial college process, which led me to attending Emerson College, located in the heart of Boston. It was at the tail end of my winter break that I realized that maybe my passion for theatre had diminished, and…

Things we learned in the class that is reflected in the play of Macbeth includes hand and body gestures, facial gestures, appearance, ethos, pathos, and memorization. The first point, hand and body gestures, was represented throughout the play. In the first scene, people were fighting with each other. They were fighting with invisible swords. Although the audiences did not see the sword, the way the actors were moving their hand and body they could infer it. Their hands were wrapped around an…