Drama therapy

Performance Analysis, Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave, Theme, Tiffani Buck The professional theatre production I saw was called carried away on the crest of a wave by David Yee and Directed by Frank Miller. This play was performed at the Georgia State University Theatre and acted by "The Players" of Georgia State University. "In a series of vignettes, carried away on the crest of a wave illustrates the ripple effect of one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history and ponders…

laughter and comedy – which she examines as two different things with a few overlapping parts – she shows what exactly makes a comedy a comedy. A common theme in Nevo’s writing was how the Greek philosophers viewed comedies. The Greeks appreciated the drama and integrated it into their lives. They made it part of many festivals, many of which were to celebrate and pay tribute to Dionysus, god of fertility and civilization. But…

Adaptation of Our Town Of the three versions of Our Town that we viewed in class, the PBS 2003 version best portrayed what the author Thornton Wilder wanted. Our Town is quite a unique play due to the fact that unlike most play’s the Stage Manager is on the stage rather than behind the scenes. The Stage Manager is also a character in the play itself and acts as a narrator in the play, so he talks directly to the audience the majority of the time. This unique characteristic allows a director to…

1. In Freytag's pyramid, what is rising action? Rising action is the when there is an event that let's say begins at the bottom of a plot, and slowly as things occur within the time period of its starting, then that event or situation will rise in anticipation. 2. In the classic Hollywood structure, who is the hero and what does the hero do? In the hollywood structure the hero is one who has a physical action goal and one personally, the hero gets blocked by barriers that are usually caused by…

Robert Cohen and John Harrop begin their creative directing instruction Creative Play Direction by presenting a brief history of the advent of directors. In their first chapter “The Directorial Function,” the authors make a clear emphasis on one definite role of directors; they should have a diverse knowledge of everything in a theatre, ranging from the script to various production elements. Separated into ten chapters, the book explores script interpretation, theatrical compositions,…

The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare uses rhetorical devices such as logos and pathos. A group of people, the Conspirators, killed Caesar out of their love for Rome. Mark Antony was Caesar's best friend and when he learned about Caesar's death he was very sullen. Antony vowed to get revenge, and he used pathos and logos to convince his audience that Caesar was killed out of spite. Pathos and logos are two of the rhetorical devices used my Mark Antony in his eulogy to Caesar.…

Sleep no More is a play. Immersive theater is generally guaranteed to have turned around the customary force relationship between the entertainer and people in general, setting the group of onlookers in control of the creation. In this manner, it satisfies, minus all potential limitations degree, Jacques Rancière's vision of the Emancipated Onlooker, which showed up in 2007, the ideal minute for it to be used as a noteworthy hypothetical supporting for creations like Punchdrunk's Sleep No More.…

Aristotle once had said that, “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall” (Gerald). A tragic hero can be defined as a person of noble birth with heroic qualities that is fated to great suffering. Often, a tragic hero is commended for his/her honorable traits and is depicted to be the victim in most situations (Ley). The tragic hero dies a tragic death, falling from great heights and making an inevitable mistake; suffering more than should have (Santora). Michael…

In the radio drama “War of the Worlds” produced by Orson Welles had the genre of drama. The main idea of the radio drama was just a theater that was broadcasted in live. This radio drama was a theater held by H.G. Wells. The theater was performed by the Mercury theater. It was made to be realistic and made to make people believe it and that is exactly what happened. Although most people believed it was all real, if they would've listened until the end they would've known that it was a theater…

This week’s reading topic is about dramas. In the HuffPost article “ Are You Addicted to Drama” by Tom Ferry, it discusses the central question: “Why are there so many drama queens? The article states that the common mistake that people make when dealing with dramatic events is to allow themselves to get stuck into it. At the end, it is how you feel that determines your attitude. Then the attitude determine your actions which determines the outcomes. In addition, there is a perceived benefit…