Improvisational theatre

After comparing his music to modern art, where context helps to determine meaning, she spoke of how “his melodies and his lyrics are so wed together. As this book will demonstrate more fully, Sondheim has spoken often and freely about the music, theater, and films. The present book shows a particular bias toward analyzing Sondheim's music. Character is the most important element in the play because it makes up a story which is within the work of art. The characters builds a better…

The fourth wall is the supposed imaginary wall, also know as the screen, is the thing separating the actors and what’s happening in the story there and not in the real world. Normally actors don’t give off that they are in a film but in the comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, directed by John Hughes, the main character, Ferris Bueller played by Matthew Broderick, breaks the fourth wall randomly throughout his day that he skips school by faking being sick. This movie is one of the more well known…

One of the biggest slaps to the face for America was The Great Depression. This time period served greatly as a reality format due to the dream-like era that was the roaring 20’s. The play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is the perfect example of realistically showing how people lived during the time of The Great Depression. Not only does this play about Tom’s memories elucidate the time period, but also how him, his mother, and his sister have gone forth with their father withdrawn…

What if you woke up on Christmas Day, excited for all the gifts you expect to receive, to find out Santa might not be able to deliver gifts to all the good children? In “Hurry Up, Santa!” The Musical, by Bob Kempf and Andy Philpot, people find out Santa has overslept, and news reporters are only making the situation worse, causing kids around the entire globe to fall into sadness. “Hurry Up, Santa!” The Musical performed by the actors of The Empty Space Theater is well written because actors’…

This play doesn’t speak much about me as a person, but as you narrow down to the characters, it does. The theme of this play is what I assume happens at a big Halloween house party. There were characters I chose resemble my traits such as easy going and laid back. I'm also typically a person who is really can take a joke and can talk about almost anything, and because of these characteristics, I'd classify myself as a person who is can easily befriend. In life, I want to be work my way up to…

Twelfth Night Opinion Essay Many people argue that Twelfth Night is a play that shouldn’t be taught in schools. Although Twelfth Night should stay as a teaching guide to grade nine students. The morals, English skills and humor taught in the book can help students not only in school academically, but also in real life situations. In this day and age many adolescents do not know what the word loyalty means nor do they know how to demonstrate it. However by reading Twelfth Night students can…

Lindsay-Abaire was hosted in the Knox Performing Art theatre. Initially after reading the play itself, I found the play somewhat interesting with few moments of having me at disbelief because of how straightforward some of the scenes can be. But after watching the play at the theatre, I’ve been left with a more bitterness than happiness of how the play was portrayed. But I will explain that later in my review of this mediocre play. I entered the theatre on Friday, October 16th. Being my first…

purpose of our presentation was to highlight and become familiar with all the creative and technical elements that contribute to a successful theatre production. As a constantly evolving art, our group got to create and develop the innovative creative process for portraying the story to the audience. While all of us had minimal to no experience with working in theatre, we each got a taste of what the different jobs are like working in this business. Although we each had an individual job, it…

Godspell Analysis Attending a collegiate play was both a new and exciting experience for myself. Any sort of performance that I had previously attended had been through my times in middle school. To go along with this previous experience, I had absolutely no idea what to expect coming in. Generally speaking, the plays in middle schools are obviously uncoordinated and it’s obviously expected for many mistakes to be made throughout the duration. Through my attendance of a rehearsal a few weeks…

I cannot remember a moment of my life where theatre has not been important for me. Being involved from a young age, I was destined to be on stage. It was not until I entered high school when I realized how difficult theatre can be; actors cannot go on stage without understanding the play, designers cannot outline anything without the proper information, and a director cannot direct without a grasp on the themes and ideas of the show. It all comes down to the research for the production. Without…