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Annotated Bibliography Hope, Harry R. "Form in Chekhov's Short Stories." Short Story Criticism, edited by Sheila Fitzgerald, vol. 2, Gale, 1989. Short Story Criticism Online, db15.linccweb.org/login? The play "The Brute" written by Anton Chekhov, where a woman with severe depression tries to stay faithful to her deceased husband. Chekhov is not a traditional writer, he is a writer and influences other contemporary authors with his writing. In his plays he regularly reuses characters, and…

modern theatre. The actor, author, playwright and theatre director belonged to a family of Russian-Jewish background, and therefore added the ‘off’ back to the end of his name and opted to go by his middle name. Berkoff had a troubled childhood and often felt like he didn’t get what he wanted and in 1952 he was sentenced to a stint in borstal for stealing a bike. He used theatre as an escape. Following more training at the Webber Douglas School of Drama, he worked extensively in repertory…

One difference between stage sets for theater and settings for motion picture is that stage sets aren’t usually as detailed as settings for motion picture. Audiences can’t pick up on small details they’d be able to see in film. “The director…must generally work with fewer sets, one per act” (Giannetti 302). Stage directors are a lot more limited and must be conscientious about how their scenes will play out with the few sets they have. Whereas settings for motion pictures can have virtually any…

The work of Shakespeare is something most adolescents experience throughout their high school years, as Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest writers of the English language. A viewing of the John W. H. Bassett Theatre’s production of Macbeth, directed by Charles Roy, gives an insight into one of the many styles of execution that can be done for a play. Many elements of the play were executed very well, such as set design, lighting, and sound production. However, the play falls short of…

Trivia time: Which Shakespearean play actually happened, with some artistic liberties of course? It is of course the story of Macbeth! Not all of the play actually happened, which is fairly apparent when considering the presence of witches within the play, however there actually was a king Macbeth of Scotland who killed a person named Duncan, only to be slain in battle. He lived from 1005 to 1057 and seems to be a very clear inspiration for the story of Macbeth. Yet, the story of Macbeth within…

Theatre of Cruelty was developed by Antonin Artaud to show to audiences that the theatre wasn't necessarily an escape from the world but actually realisation of their worst nightmares and deepest fears. I believe both groups did this extremely well even though one was more subtle than the other. Each group used various techniques to enhance and manipulate the atmosphere of the performance. In the first piece we watched, the audience was blindfolded and lead into a room. There use of space and…

Legally Blonde 2 is about a young woman who learns, through trial and error, about the process of getting a bill passed into a law. Elle Wood travels to Washington D.C. to get “Bruiser's Bill” passed. Bruiser’s Bill is a bill that Elle wrote to help change animal testing laws after finding her dog’s (Bruiser) mom in an animal testing facility. Elle needs 218 signatures from congress to get the bill passed. Elle and her friends go through several troubles to get the votes needed by the…

Moving Theatre October 24, 2015 Joshua Chong It gets interesting when you take a play, put it outdoors and stretch it out over 3 kilometres. Even more so when each scene is written by different playwrights. Some may call it original, others may call that weird. My Lakeshore My Home (MLMH), produced by Sirius Theatrical is one of these plays. Performed in partnership with the City of Toronto and the Etobicoke-wide year long festival Cultural Hotspots, it is a…

33 Variations: Critique With the commencement of the play I was indeed confused to say the least. Without prior knowledge about “33 Variations" I walked in with a clean slate unsure about any general idea or theme this play had to offer. My confusion was due to the century gap in clothing. Although it became apparent rather quickly that the modern day clothing represented the present of Dr.Katherine and her daughter Clara, and the romantic style clothing represented flashbacks to Beethoven.…

Anya was so beautiful and talented and I could feel her pain and her happiness. It was truly breathtaking seeing this show. I heard other sniffles around the theatre so I know I wasn’t the only one who was moved by her performance. The audience was really in tune with the characters and could relate to them in such a real way the our reactions were just as genuine as the actors story. Everything that the characters…