Broadway theatre

Twin Falls High School performed William Shakespeare’s, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which is set in Athens, Georgia around the time 2029. They performed this play in the Roper auditorium and the director was James Haycock. I went to see this play on October 8th, and the performance dates were October 7th-10th. I believe that the purpose of this play was to entertain the audience. A mother that didn't approve of a love and a sister that was jealous introduced the beginning conflict.…

1935 at Fefu’s Country House. It was written by Maria Irene Fornes and originally produced by the New York Theater Strategy. Fefu and Her Friends speak of themes during the 1930s that the characters were dealing with in society. Walking into the theatre room, it was set up as a black box. The set-up of Fefu’s Country House used realistic furniture and had a kitchen to the left of the stage. The actor’s utilized all of their space that they had and used several different exit and entrance. The…

Stanislavski was extremely concerned that the actors would get distracted by the audience when they are performing on stage. Stanislavski came up with a way to make actors observe in a way in which it would help them develop their acting making them more focused and aware. The audience is very important to the overall piece, however he did not find them a ‘crippling factor’. Stanislavski came to realise that actor’s lost control of their basic acting skills on stage. Moreover it was recognised…

1) After reading the script, but before seeing the show choose a moment from the script that you are most looking forward to seeing staged. What about this moment do you think makes it an interesting moment to stage? Please, cite the moment by page and, if necessary, quote directly from the script. After reading the script, I looked forward to seeing the moment that Amir gets outraged by Emily and hits her. I was looking forward to see how they would act out the hit because the actors could not…

On March 17, 2016 at eight o'clock pm I attended the play at the Wells Theatre put on by The Virginia Stage Company entitled Grounded. The play writer of this one women show wrote exactly twenty-one plays in his lifetime. Some which include, Grounded of course, Elephant's Graveyard, All Talk, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime just to name a few. His plays have been…

Theatre has played a vital role in the history of the world. Theatre was founded upon explicit basic structural features which have evolved into what is seen in modern theatre. Although many of the structural features from its original founding have transformed, the basic rules needed to stage a production have not changed. Euripides’ Medea and Andrew Miller’s Death of a Salesman are plays from different times but the basic format and the roles needed to stage a production are quite similar. The…

common? What happens when mad scientists meet groupies? The classic cult production, The Rocky Horror Show, brings together elements of glam rock and Horror B-Movies. This winter, the University of Colorado Theatre Department brought the classic science fiction and campy humor to the University Theatre stage. Directed by Hadley Kamminga-Peck with musical direction by David Nehlsthe, the musical captured the essence of Richard O’Brien’s 1973 musical. The story begins with our straight-laced…

The most effective aspects of the play were the music and costumes worn by the actors. The music helped to set the mood of the play. For example, when the two witches entered there was a drum that was used and when they talked long metal tube was played that sounded rather eerie and mysterious, much like the witches. Their costumes also helped me to understand the play better. They were wearing all black with mesh covering the faces to help conceal their identity, which was rather vague in the…

In the opening lines of the prologue, the audience is told the basic plot of the play along with the tragic ending. What purpose does the prologue serve? Why tell the audience up front how the play will end? When the two lovers are professing to each other their love and their hopes for a long life together later in the play, how might the knowledge of the ending events affect the audience’s reaction (mood)? The prologue catches the viewer’s attention by giving exciting plot events and by…

Stanislavski’s work has not only helped people to become better actors, but also have helped others to become better people by helping them understand themselves. He has provided a system to help actors process of characterization which can also be applied to one’s everyday life. The first way Stanislavski’s work that stood out to me was the first proposition he makes for having actors become like the characters. He mentions how one must believe that that he or she is convincingly in the same…