Korean drama

The namesake of the play, “Macbeth” is a man who faced a decision between his own personal passion and his moral obligations and duties. The two choices pulled at him and seemed to torment him even after he made a decision. Through the conflict that Macbeth felt because of his decisions, the reader can better empathize with him, and can obtain a more profound lesson from the story concerning decisions between personal passions and moral obligations. Macbeth is not what one would call “perfect.”…

Death of a Salesman: Symbols Miller uses symbols in Death of a Salesman to show meanings behind specific people, places, and objects. The symbols that are used are Alaska, University of Virginia sneakers, Dave Singleman, the flute, Bill Oliver’s Pen, seeds, and stockings. The theme of the play was the death of the American dream. Each of the symbols support the theme, because all of those have a cause of death, or crushed dreams. Ben (Willy’s brother) went to Alaska , and he became rich because…

To motivate audience members to address these problems with society, Miller creates characters they can empathize with. Because Death of a Salesman is a play, most characters are actors with a physical presence and capacity for human emotion rather than merely printed names. The theatrical realist movement inspired plays about middle-class characters and encouraged natural acting. Miller took this movement further; to maximize the chance of the audience identifying with his characters, he…

The play Ubudoda uses frames of the Actor/character, audience and space to portray a flowing series of events. The use of all these frames in a production helps to create a play that allows people playing each individual frame to interpret it differently. Ubudoda is a majority Xhosa play that explores the notion of what it is to be a man. It explores this core theme through Luyanda. Luyanda is coming back to South Africa after many years of studying in the United Kingdom. His reason for…

One of the characteristic genres of the time would be the comedy of customs that developed vertiginously with the reopening of the theaters. The preferences had changed and themes were demanded contrary to the Golden Age of English theater. Now the works are mainly in prose, although with verses in verse (in love scenes) and the arguments become complex with double or triple plot. In the plots, the behavior of society, especially of the upper classes, is represented and criticized. The tone…

The play revolves around the use of a single set, the living room of the bachelor Bernard. In order to capture the hilariousness of the comedy, I plan on using a small stage, a single set play set in the living room. The use of multiple entrances into the living room and the rapidity to which the characters come and go generate the timing of the play. That is as much a character Bernard Roberts and the stewardess themselves. The action of this play will be structured around Bernard timetable of…

Will Eno’s play “Intermission” is arranged as a play in between a play, with all of the action inserted during the intermission of a play that the characters are attending. From the beginning of this play it is noted that the four major actors have issues with time, reality, and boredom by their conversations. The same could be said for the intermission during Andrew Lee’s performance. In considerations of Eno’s play and Lee’s performance, what are the effects of and intermissions insertion or…

The Pillowman, the name of the play sounds like it's a sweet and warm play but it is not. The pillowman is a very suspenseful play that had my heart racing. Although the play was really well put together, there were some aspects of the play that held it back from its full potential. First is the play's story. The pillowman get its name from a story in the play about a pillowman convincing children to kill themselves in order to spare them from a hard life. The Pillowman is the story of…

The concept of personal identity arose arguably within the European intellectual tradition. It has etymological roots in the colloquial Greek term prosopon and its Latin equivalent persona, signifying “the mask worn in comedy or tragedy “or “the character an actor plays- dramatis personae.” (Chadwick 1981,193). As early as the sixth century, Boethius (480-524 C.E.), a Latin philosopher and Christian theologian, formulated the concept of personal identity as synthesis of the Aristotelian concept…

William Shakespeare makes clear his admiration and interests in the Greeks. Whether Shakespeare references Greek mythology, such as Hymen, the Greek god who led a wedding procession or incorporating G reek conventions, Shakespeare did not fail to include his Greek interests in his plays. In what is known as Shakespeare’s biggest play, Hamlet, Shakespeare definitely incorporates the Greek conventions of peripeteia and anagnorisis. Hamlet is seen as one of the first characters to be similar to…