Broadway theatre

Stock Characters Stock characters are people who are stereotypical and are easily recognized by the audiences due to their many recurrences in particular traditional literary. They are not individuals but types based on social prejudices and clichés. They are mostly comfortable aims for parody. In the anonymous Everyman play, the stock characters are kindred, cousins, Fellowship, discretion, and beauty. These characters are portrayed as giving moralistic advice to the main protagonist. They are…

Comedy, like every good theatrical performance, needs to engage the audience by evoking emotions based on what is shown on stage. However, a comical play calls for laughter, which tends to disengage audience’s attention from the play’s context. This self-contradictory nature of comedy seems to work against the aim of theater. This makes comedy a difficult theatrical art to work with because since it should find the right balance in its nature. Woodruff points out that “the paradox of comedy is…

was seen (Leicester 2000: 78). Postmodernism also reached out into the theatre; many theatres started housing productions of a postmodern nature. Performance itself attempts to show the ‘real’ on stage; an imitation of life by identifiable acts taking place on stage and creating another world on stage in order to expose certain ‘truths’ about the ‘real’ (Stevens 2004: 99). When engaging about acting performances in the theatre (stylized in a postmodern way) there is usually a dissonance between…

For this assignment I chose to watch the musical movie Rock of Ages. This movie is high energy and has fun and frisky choreography. With professional dancer Julianne Hough as our leading lady in the film it is tough not to get caught up in how the movement tells the story. After watching it I did realize there were several moments where they stopped dancing and that seemed to work for the story as well. From the start we get the urge to move with the opening song Paradise City. This number…

The next artistic device is very closely related to physical exaggeration and directly interlinks with the first artistic device (McPhee 2011: 20). The process of alienating face or body by assigning animal or object features to the person the satire is aimed at, or overemphasizing size, weight, or qualities the person in particular is well known for (McPhee 2011: 20). The process of replacing parts of a person with animal elements, or the animal's characteristics and behaviors basically…

In today’s world, humor is portrayed through many different outlets of society. Whether it be on the radio, in person during stand up, or on television, comedy is an easy way to lighten the mood and make easy conversation out of controversial topics. In Humor as a Technique of Social Influence the author states, “Humor may indeed be used to influence others, and suggest that humor may be a powerful agent of change in everyday life” (O’Quin and Aronoff, 355). Comedy in television is a crucial…

Fear, screams, and nightmares are what haunt military members after war. It’s called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Eight percent of Americans have it, which results in twenty-four and a half million people. The Warriors is a play about PTSD by William P. Bradford and was performed at Trinity high school. The production was a reflection on PTSD combined with a plot line to make an interesting twist on a play. Coupled with the controversial topic is a spectacular set, amazing actors, and…

In today’s world our entertainment industry is dominated by pre-recorded theater like television and movies. The necessity of Theatre, the real time performing art, is beginning to be questioned. Despite the claims of the theatre being obsolete, it’s influence penetrates deeper into our existence than many would suspect. Theatre’s social footprint is one of its most recognizable factors; according to the 2012 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), forty-nine percent of adults that…

A theatre set should: suggest the style and tone of the whole production create mood and atmosphere give clues as to the particular time and place of the action offer (showing the ability to create interesting new things) possibilities for the movement and grouping of the actors The set may also need to be designed so the backstage areas used by the actors and stage crew are kept out of sight from the audience. This will depend on the effect the director wants to create with the staging…

what makes this plays significant and outstanding is that both reality and the appearance of reality are put into play on many different levels. Acting is therefore central to the maids in many different ways.adds many different layers The play is a performance in many different ways. First of all this is a play written by genet the playwright to be performed and enacted by actresses and watched by the audience. It doesn’t end here. The maids, just like other people in reality, are demanded to…