English Renaissance theatre

During the play of The Miracle Worker, the acting was very realistic. In the beginning, I thought that it was going to boring because it is a play then I just assumed that the acting will probably going to be bad, but I am glad that I was completely wrong with that assumption. Director Dr. Joseph Arnold and Dialect Coach Kennedy Brown collaborated really well for this amazing production because visualizing and defining the style and structure of this play from 1880’s is definitely not easy.…

The name Shakespeare is one almost everyone should know. His plays are classics that have been taken on by numerous directors, each putting their own spin and interpretations to the meaning Shakespeare tried to express in his writings. Having heard so many fascinating and great things about his plays in general, I was very excited to watch my very first Shakespearean play. Walking in to A Midsummer Night’s Dream with an open mind, what I was about to experience came to be a surprise. From the…

For a musical you need to have skill in sing, and dancing and act, or at least have the capacity to learn. Whereas in a dramatic play you would need to know how to act, singing and dancing might not be as important for that genre. For musical theatre actors a mentor is one of the best ways to develop your skills, they are one of the most vital tools to further your talent. Singing lessons and dance lessons would be a bulk of your training along with acting. For dramatic plays more vocal lessons…

On September 30th I saw the preview of the production God of Carnage. It was written by Yasmina Reza and directed by Siena alumni, Shayne Peris. It was shown in the Beaudoin Theater in Foy Hall at Siena College. The play is about two married couples. The child of one of the couples hurt the child of the other one. They decide to meet to discuss what to do about the situation. What starts as a calm discussion, turns into a very heated debate. It turns into a very crazy evening for the two couples…

productions including Jake’s Women and Rumors. This production was held by the Broadway West Theatre Company in Fremont, CA. After some research of Neil Simon, I believe Freeman stayed true to the original intentions of Simon’s playwright while putting together a wonderful production that I could laugh about but also learn from at times. First off, what caught my attention when I walked into the theatre was the soothing French music being played in the background as the audience was being…

Sugarland, written by Rachael Coopes with Wayne Blair, performed by the Australian Theatre for Young People, was open for viewing at the Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of Western Australia, on the 27th and 28th of May 2016, starting from 7:30pm until 9:00pm. It was directed by Fraser Cornfield and David Page, the costume design was by Ruby Langton-Batty, the set design was by Jacob Nash, the lighting design was by Juz McGuire, the sound design was by Guy Webster, and the overall…

Overall I thought the experience of The Musical of Musicals (the Musical!) was unique because of how they had the stage configured as a thrust with some audience members sitting on stage. Before the show began Brittney Hines who was the audience concierge came over to the group of people I came with and asked us our favorite musicals which was a nice touch. Although I have had the opportunity to see many musicals performed live or the movie versions, of the musicals mentioned I only understood…

Ashley Wilson Brown English 152 OM3 4 December 2016 The Glass Menagerie Stevenson University’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was a fascinating experience. The play’s setting took place in St. Louis in 1937 where a family of three lived in a small dingy apartment. The narrator and character, Tom Wingfield, desires to leave his mother, Amanda Wingfield, and his sister, Laura Wingfield but has a duty to support his family. Tom and Laura’s father happily abandons…

Question 1 In this semester we read many interesting articles, but the reading which I find easiest to apply to real life was The Actor as Object of Desire, by Don Shewey. In passage one, the author details meeting their idol and getting the opportunity to become more connected or intimate with them, but turn the opportunity down instead because “intimacy pulls the plug” on the idealization of another human being. This is a very true statement in my mind. Actors, whether on stage or in film,…

possibly the most important part of any theatre production. The modern control system is typically computerised as they have more features and can do more than the average manual lighting board. They began as manual single channel dimmer sets and have become multi-channel automatic control systems. This essay will explore all of the features of a modern control system and how they differ from the original control boards, the impact of modern control systems in theatre, and what could be next in…