Drama therapy

Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary tale against Man’s attempt to transgress his myopia. Mirroring the Greek traditions of architecture and tragedy, Hardy impassively elevates the catastrophic accident to an cosmic ‘intelligent design’ - an orchestrated ‘convergence of the twain.’ Hardy presents this tragedy of human “vanity” through a detached, almost reportorial tone, developed from an omniscient point of view. Particularly, he uses sophisticated diction and wordplay…

Gossip Girl (CW, 2007-2012) is a drama television series about a group of fictional wealthy teenagers living on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is based off of a book series by Cecily Von Ziegesar. Though the characters all attend the same prep school, the show mostly focuses on what they do in their non-academic lives. The drama portrayed in this series is more extreme than other comparable teen drama shows, such as The O.C or 90210. This is due to the controversial topics that are…

Many plays have content that is arguably political and often plays that seem the farthest from politics have elements that some viewers see as a statement of political opinion. Political plays often do not deal directly with political officials but with current events and political standpoints regarding those issues. Both Rent and The Accidental Death of an Anarchist deal with issues current at the time of their creation and though focused on different issues they use very similar tactics like…

Theater has always been part of historical analyses because it gives insight into the lives and interactions of members of a society. Whether the purpose of a theatrical event is to communicate ideas or purely for entertainment, the development of theater has existed since ancient times. Most historians believe that the Greeks were the first to utilize theater socially and culturally. The Romans were greatly influenced by Greek tradition and culture, and especially theater, but nevertheless,…

The purpose for the structuring of this concert comes from the nature of the title of the concert. “The Lords” is a characterization of the Nizetich ideal from the book, The Birth of Tragedy - the book articles on the Apollonian and Dionysian duality. The duality that describes the difference between what is seen - the Apollonian - and what lies behind the walls that is the inner workings of what is seen - the Dionysian aspect . Furthermore, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche describes what “the…

something that you don’t normally find in theater productions, although it was very amusing. Whittier College’s production of Big Love was definitely something that will be hard to forget, and it was really cool to see a sneak peak of the Whittier drama department in…

in that it stood for theatre as collective creativity in which the person temporarily functioning as playwright served as a first among equals.” (Sarlós) The Players did more than live up to this mission: they exceeded it. “Scholars of theatre and drama generally recognize the Provincetown Players as one of the most influential theatre groups in America,”(Black) Robert K. Sarlos has deemed the company “the single most fruitful American theatre prior to the Second World War: it introduced more…

TV show because it has the perfect balance of scary and drama,there are so many interesting creatures and monsters, and it takes everything you know and believe in and flips it on its head. Supernatural’s balance between scary and dramatic is amazing. The creatures…

Time has altered the way people think, behave and interact. Satire films is an effective representation of those transformations. Satire falls under the major genre category of film, comedy, a ‘professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh’.() The reason is that satire often use comedy to portray then discredit whether a person or a social idea. Parody at the same time has many similarities compared to satire that they both incorporate…

The film’s budget for special effects, costumes, sets, etc., was exceptionally greater than that of the theatrical production, so its overall aesthetic is much more polished and credible. The whole experience is immersive and the visuals impressively believable to behold. The overall effect, regardless of the magical elements, is much more realistic, and the setting looks like part of the real world, not a fictional land. Taking this into consideration, it is not surprising that the film had to…