Improvisational theatre

Theatre is more than people on a stage acting like someone else. What happens off stage is where the real magic lies. I remember my sophomore year I decided to join theatre, mostly to get my fine arts credit. At first I thought these people were all insane. They went above and beyond in creating a character and their world, even if it was for a short scene. When I got involved in my first play, I realized that there is so much more than just putting on a show for an audience. At first I swear I…

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…

Beau Lotto speech about optical illusion present that his intended audience for his discussion is adults that seemed older than forty years. Even though the audience is presented on camera during his speech, it is possible to know that his main audience were mostly adults because the topic that Beau Lotto chose and the way he expressed himself, including his vocabulary, was better directed to adults rather than young adults or kids. During his speech, B. Lotto included several strategies to keep…

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…

There were many parts in this play that I particularly enjoyed. One of the many parts of your play that I really enjoyed was when Romeo and Juliet first met. When they first met you decided to have them speak in sonnets. This was a really good decision because it showed that Romeo and Juliet had adapted this strong rich love for each other. Is that how you wanted the audience to feel? If not why did you choose a sonnet as the first words Romeo and Juliet speak to each other? I suppose using a…

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…