Drama therapy

other, but at the end of the day, it is only you that knows what the right and wrong thing to do is. I believe that there is a message throughout this entire play, that against all odds, love always prevails. But, although there seems to be a lot of drama in this play, A Mid(Winter) Night’s Dream is not a romance, it is a comedy, in which the audience is invited to laugh out the different ways in which love can make us blind, foolish and even desperate. So, although some may see the inner…

Commonly paved by either asphalt or concrete, streets are often viewed as undervalued, yet practical commodities that help ease the day-to-day lives of human beings. Rarely are they appreciated as avenues that connect people to one another, just as it was shown in the play General Tinio St. by Atong Rodillo. The show was held at the PGH Science Hall back in September 31, fog and dimmed lights signalled the start of the show, and a dance number to a special rendition of Beep Beep by Juan dela…

“Slapstick” is classed as a style of humor, which involves exaggerated physical activity that takes human common sense to a further level of their mind. The phrase “slapstick" belongs to the Italian language word batacchio. In England it is known as a club-like object combined of two wooden slats used in commedia dell'arte. If the battacchio is struck it makes smacking noise loudly and with such little force it transfers from the object through to the person acting like they have been struck.…

Dario Fo has distinguished himself as being the trailblazer of the modern grotesque theatre as we know it today. His plays have been characterized by a comic touch that stands out reminding us of the farce style. He once said “With comedy I search for the profound”. His witty atmosphere is omnipresent in “Ma Fina nedfa3, ma Rah Nedfa3”, one of his plays that has been adapted in colloquial Lebanese by Lina el Abyad who also took the responsibility of directing. It has been recently performed in…

MISE EN SCENE The arrangements of all the elements, whether it’s the actor, the lighting, decoration, props or anything which has to come in the frame and which is shown in the frame is known as mise en scene, a French word meaning placing on stage. One of the scenes, which represent mise en scene in a good manner, is the last scene of The 39 Steps, As Robert, Carroll, and the police gather backstage around the dying Mr. Memory, on-stage behind them visible from the stage wing we see performance…

Performance Analysis For Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew scene that our group had to perform, we made several key decisions in order to more accurately reflect the true personalities of our characters. These decisions affected the tone with which we spoke, the way did blocking on stage, the props in we used as well as the disguises we wore. To begin, our group decided it would be wise to go through the reading several times without acting out the scene first in order to get a feel for…

“I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget” (“Top Nine Arthur Miller Quotes”). This interesting quote is from Arthur Miller. He was an American writer who focused many of his plays on real life issues like racism and discrimination (“Arthur Miller”). His play The Crucible takes place in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1692. This was the time of the Salem witch trials. The play The Crucible may have been written 64 years ago, but it is still widely read in…

Antigone and the Death of a Salesman Most plays focus on a central theme. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and Antigone by Sophocles are two examples of plays which use betrayal as their central theme. Antigone is a Greek play by Sophocles. It is a Greek tragedy full of loyalty, betrayal, love and death. The play Antigone features many central themes with betrayal being the main theme of the story. The theme of betrayal is evident in the beginning of the play when the king Creon betrays…

Love can manifest itself in many ways, but some types of love are socially unacceptable, like a romantic or erotic love between family members. This type of taboo love occurs in the ancient Greek play Hippolytus and the 1962 film Phaedra when a stepmother falls in love with her stepson. And although the situations and themes appear similar on a surface level, when analyzing them further, it becomes easy to see that they are quite different. Hippolytus, written by Euripides and first performed…

Should there or should there not be a social class system? That is the question at hand in George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion; even though Shaw does not directly state this question, nor the answer to this question in the play’s five acts. It is blatantly made clear, though, that one of Shaw’s primary goals was to influence society to question itself for what it had developed for a social class system. Shaw himself states: I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary…