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America is an evolving place as ever but this casting against that author's intention or if you change the authors casting choice can lead to the authenticity and themes of the play to be ineffective or completely changed beyond their original intent. Some suggest a perfect way to open further roles for actors and people of color is: What I am probing is the possibility of detaching role-characteristics from actor-characteristics. I am not arguing that Juliet’s gender or age or Othello’s color,…

Acting for the Camera vs. Onstage What is the difference between acting in film and on stage? In this article we are going to consider different aspects of acting on stage and in front of the camera, which may be of value to aspiring actors. Refine the nuances It is self-evident that the two mediums are distinct and relatively autonomous and each requires a unique and nuanced skill set. For stage performances, it is gesticulation, movement and physical presence of the actor that are essential,…

The scenes from the play A Midsummer's Night Dream Performed by our senior theaters was the most hilarious set of scenes I have seen all year. In Jonell's and Al'Rasyah's half of scenes the comedy was very natural and was not over done, that is what makes a play funny, Kaitlyn whitehead had great character choices that were very funny. All of the actors had really good projection and annunciation, but Kennon's annunciation was superb. Jonelle could have used more variety in her voice, doing that…

Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” is a very interesting story. It is about a girl who dresses like a guy, who falls inlove with a guy, who loves the girl who loves her. Act two Scene four The duke (Orsino) is telling Cesario (Viola) that he can tell hes inlove with a young woman named Olivia. Cersario is trying to change Orsinos mind about it I saw two different short clips of this video, similar in content, but almost completely different. Each video had its own techniques, and feeling. The first…

Intimate Apparel- Theatre Critique On Tuesday, April 4th, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., I attended a theatre performance, Intimate Apparel, by Lynn Nottage, but was directed by Melissa Maxwell. This performance took place at Texas State University in the Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre which intended to be a thrust type of stage. With the set, lighting of the play, and the thoroughly thought costumes, specific performances, and comical performance style, I would say that the Texas State Universities’…

After taking a year off, the Theatre Department has decided to bring their famous Haunted Theatre back this Halloween. The theme of the event remains a secret, but soon enough the advertisements will come out revealing the scary theme. Everyone from school was invited to participate in the theatre classes; Advanced Theatre and P&P that are organizing it. Auditions were held on September 19th and 20th after school and during class. The theatre teacher asked for each student to improvise different…

on the audience without losing concentration of the performance. As Stanislavsky recognised the audience as co-creator of the performances it shows that the audience are very a very important part of theatre and to forget about them during a performance would truly be contradictory to the art of theatre. However I can understand how Stanislavsky could feel that basic ability and talents could be lost in front of the audience as performance can be better when rehearsed because the actors don’t…

A small classroom at the basement of The New School building on Greenwich Village turned into a space for a group of college students who are passionate about musical theater. The discussion was the word on everybody’s lips on Broadway this season: diversity. The class, Musical Theater and Race, was led by Dan Dinero, a theater scholar and director who won Best Director at The Fresh Fruit Festival for his work on “The Austerity of Hope”. Discussions ranging from the underlying racial tension on…

A character without mood is a play without plot twists. Setting defines the mood of a character by providing new scenarios that only a change of setting could provide. Feelings, thoughts and ideas are produced through setting changes. The use of setting in the plays As You Like It by William Shakespeare and A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen portrays how characters respond to central ideas and controversies regarding the concept of love. Rosalind's relationship with Orlando faces substantial changes…

In the play “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” the main plot of the storyline begins when a young man named Hero falls in love with a courtesan named Philia. The only problem is Philia lives in the house of Lycus; a dealer of courtesans. Soon after Hero entrusts the slave Pseudolus to handle the manner of bringing Philia to him in exchange for Pseudolus’ freedom. This becomes problematic in the play due to the girl being promised to a general, thus unfolding countless of moments…