Drama

Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter are two powerful dramatist of post modern times. They talk about existential crisis in their dramas. In fact, both Beckett and Pinter are associated with absurd movement. The absurd movement describes the meaninglessness and uncertainty of human life. This movement was influenced by existential philosophy of Sartre, Camus and Heidegger. Martin Asslin’s book The Theatre of Absurd is an authentic discussion on the theme of absurdism as presented by post modern…

Tone in Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” “Tone is the attitude a literary work takes toward its subject, especially the way this attitude is revealed through diction” (Mays, A12). Tone is important in drama because it has a vocal tone that affects the meaning of the words (Mays, 1445). The tone of “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller is sympathetic, honest and mocking. The tone of “Death of a Salesman” is sympathetic. It is sensitive to the very real pain and suffering of the…

Geese Theatre Company was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1987 by Clark after its success in American prisons. The company have since created drama surrounding issue-based performances and group workshops for male, female and young offenders as well as individuals on probation. Their philosophy is that theatre and drama are highly effective tools in identifying an offender’s behaviour and the process of change. It addresses the factors that may influence one’s actions, analyse the…

For millennium, live theatre, reading books, plays, and even viewing film has acted as a way for men and women alike to escape their dull lives, to get away from a world saturated with daily tribulations and see through the eyes of an observer rather than a participant. People could get away from the identity of the weaver, the miller, or even the all-powerful aristocrat to become a spectator. This is the point however, where the live theatre and the other forms of “escape” from reality separate…

Kelsey Hubbard Maureen Hawkins English 2200 February 28, 2017 Dance, Drink, and Coitus: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata In the plays of ancient Athens were topical reflections on the politics of the times, and according to Worthen, such relevancy was particularly present in satiric comedies (13). The works of Greek playwright Aristophanes were no exception in this regard. As Klaus et al. points out, Aristophanes lived and wrote his plays in turbulent times, and that perhaps influenced his literature…

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…

Through, long times the best place in the world is the theatre. The man who canshow some his problems through his life, and he tries to discuss these problems. Therefore he finds the stage best place to appear thesedifficulties or disadvantage as a sort of arts. He makes the balance between the advantage anddisadvantage,thus he puts some solutions for these disadvantages. The arts are such as a genre to solve these disadvantages thatit's appear in societies.Some writers try to put many ways to…

A Dollar, as the title suggests, is a play concerning a dollar bill. Seven people come up with ways on how to use the bill. In the final turn of events, the group uses the dollar…just not the way they pictured it. Like Clybourne Park, A Dollar shared similar traits to a play: it had a group of actors, audience members, sets, props, a stage, etc. However, there were vast differences. For starters, it was a downstage production, meaning the location was not on the main stage. The area was a…

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…

The present report is concerned with evaluating the assertions made by Warren Kirkendale with regard to the “birth” of opera, or how it truly originated. Kirkendale has written an article “The Myth of the “Birth of Opera” in the Florentine Camerata Debuked by Emilio de’ Cavalieri: A Commemorative Lecture” in effort to determine exactly where opera began and who created it. We will also compare Kirkendale’s article to Grout, Palisca, and Burkholder’s textbook “A History of Western Music” with…