Drama therapy

This play will be put on a stage. This will not be a completely normal stage, it will be on a thrust type stage. I like this kind of state, because it is interesting and not a boring normal stage where the audience just site right in front of the stage. There will be a curtain in between each act/scene, to allow out backstage members to change the background of the scene. I think that this stage type will be perfect audience. Out backstage crew will have 60 seconds to change the…

Laura Keyes History Dr. White October 14, 2015 All the Worlds a Cinema: a comparative look at Shakespeare’s plays and their film counterparts. Shakespeare has been done so many different ways, by many different people. Some do modern adaptations, set in different towns, even completely changing the words, and those are just on the stage. There has also been many film adaptations. Some are good, such as Mel Gibson’s 1990 adaptation of Hamlet, and some are not as good, such as Baz…

When I went to see the international spelling bee I expected what you would of some run down high school version of a play. At my school we didn’t really have a vast drama club so my expectations were sort of low for this piece. It was kind of like when you go to attend a film in theatres you see all of these commercials and then attend the movie to just rewatch the key parts that they already presented to you in the commercial. One does not have this with live theatre I did not know what to…

Boal theater is political, traditional. Aristotle tragedy is oppressive. Boal aim is to break the wall between audience and performance. Chapter 1. Aristotle’s Coercive System of Tragedy • Aristotle’s philosophy/tragedy (obey rules, no rebellion) - character of the tragedy would be antisocial, rebellious. His characteristics and ambitions lead to tragedy happening to him. Through the theater, Aristotle would fear members of audience who share the same qualities as the main character does.…

The Consequences of Uncontrolled Emotions The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell, Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller all illustrate how the lack of control of emotions not only cause the of ruining relationships, but can also cause self-harm or death and can cause the destruction of personal reputation. When reading these plays, the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their…

That is called dramatic irony. Dramatic Irony is when you know more about the story that the character does. The drama Oedipus Rex is full of dramatic irony. For example we know Oedipus killed the king of Thebes but he does not nor does he know the man he killed was his father, we also know he married his mother. The fact that Oedipus does not know any of these things makes this drama dramatically ironic. The reader feels dramatic irony when Oedipus kills King Laius, when he marries his mother,…

An American Dream Tragedy In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, protagonist Willy Loman is a salesman with a wife, Linda, and their two children, Biff, and Happy (Miller). Loman seeks approval from everyone and thinks everyone must like him for him to be successful. He is also hard on his two sons, Biff and Happy, and disapproves of their dreams. Loman sees how socially accepted people who play sports and have fame are, and so he tries directing their life by wanting Biff to be…

The modern tragedy is much different from the other tragedies like Shakespearean and Aristotle, for a very few reasons such as the main character having a positive outcome weather through death or realization of their downfall. The hamartia of the tragedy has more to deal with the responses from society on their flaw or flaws rather than the internal and personal flaw that they have committed. The literary model of a tragic hero can also be applied to real life people and characters such as…

I believed that you assigned us this reading for multiple reasons. One reason is that we should find a calling that we actually enjoy and that we don’t do it just for the money. If we do it just for the money we could end up depressed and have a tragic ending to our lives. Willy Loman couldn’t realize that he was chasing the wrong dream. He was in a race to catch that dream, but his lungs expired and the dream left him in the dust. As in the poem “The Road Not Taken,” we have one chance to…

Finding Yourself The musical’s central theme was searching for identity through the transition between childhood and adolescence. The teenagers are all learning about their sexuality through conversations, letters, and dreams. The scene at Moritz’s funeral with his father is one I found especially moving. Gabe Calleja, who played many characters, did an awesome job of being very distraught which was believable to me. One production element I spotted that reinforced the central theme was the…