English Renaissance theatre

Before registering for this course I didn’t think anything about children’s theater. Growing up I was always into sports, I tried every type of sport imaginable. In my town, people were separated by those who played sports and those who were in drama. You would never find someone who did both. So the impact drama can have on a child never even grossed my mind. Now after going to college away from home, and taking this course my opinion on theater has changed greatly. I now believe that adding…

The relationship between theatre and religion contains many similarities. The origins of theatre are in religion. Theatre is believed to have evolved from many different religious rituals. In religion, often there are rituals to be had (Concise). For example, a wedding is staged and there are “actors.” It is a ritual; they go through their lines and it has a beginning, middle, and end. As time went on, theatre more dealt with legends or history but there was still a religious or moral…

Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright who leads huge influence on theatre development. He mainly wrote comedies. His comedies based on Greek comedies and it’s fascinating because of its humorous. Meanwhile, Plautus was also engaging in social criticism because the five plays reflected some social problem of the Roman society. The first play of the five assigned ones is “The Pot of Gold”. The main theme of this one is the process that how Euclio changed to a good man, or the evolution of…

1. Choose one of the following with which you are familiar: a film that is a remake of a previous film, a novel that is a response to an existing novel, or the staging of a play you have read. Analyze the differences between the two versions and argue how the adapted version adds meaning to the original. Support your argument with evidence from both versions. (10 points) I choose a staging of a play I’ve read Balinese interpretation of The Tempest. In Balinese’s production they use traditional…

A matinee performance on Saturday, May 20 (officially titled Here/Now No. 9) was perhaps the single most dispiriting afternoon I've ever spent at NYCB. The program presented six different works. By the end of the fourth week of the Here/Now festival the number of injuries was staggering -- every week had a multitude of casting changes. The dancers, usually so chipper on social media, had resorted to venting and more venting. Georgina Pazcoguin's wry line "To those who fell, to those who made it…

in powdered white wigs, it’s a contemporary piece with scores of music in pop, hip-hop, R&B and only uses Black and Latino actors. In theatre, the concept of colorblind casting has been used for a long time but it is still a debate whether or not it’s an effective practice. Even the celebrated Black playwright August Wilson, in his speech addressed to the Theatre Communications Group National Conference “The Ground on Which I Stand” states that, “colorblind…

addresses the brutal murder of openly gay teenager Matthew Shepard in a small town of Laramie, Wyoming in 1998. The chronological structure of the play draws together interviews conducted after the event by Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theatre Project. Additionally, Kaufman uses these journal entries to retell and reconstruct what happened on the night of Matthew's assault, addressing the issue of gay hate crime. The play itself was structured into three acts. The first act…

Othello which was written by William Shakespeare. This play has been remade countless times. It's been produced on the big screen and local stages around the world. Two of the most recognizable versions are by Tim Nelson and Oliver Parker. Both directors attempted to grab the attention of an audience comprised of different people and what was going on in society during the time of production. Parker tried to appeal to people who love Shakespeare. On the contrary, Nelson tried to appeal to a…

As a person who has only attened two other plays in their life, people might call me “unqualified” to review a play; these people are wrong. My qualifications for play review come solely from an “excess” amount of musicals listened to, pirated videos, and animatics watched on youtube. Seeing Guys and Dolls live was a great experience as a whole, and I enjoyed myself throughly. Understandably there were a few things that I disagreed with, so I will nitpick and pretend that my qualifications…

represent the people of France and England in the Siege of Calais. The English are running out of food because the French are cutting off their supply routes. The English the surrender to get their supply routes back. The French want 6 hostages, all men, with white shirts and rope around their necks to arrive by sunset the English then send 5 men and 1 boy, all of them having a high place in society. The French thought that the English were going to send people with a low place in society. The…