Laurence Olivier

Stephen Sondheim’s works, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim is a composer and lyricist who was born in New York in 1930. He has won numerous awards: Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.2 A Little Night Music is a Broadway play based on a 1955 classical film called Smiles of a Summer Night. The play is about happily remarried lawyer, Fredrik Egerman, and his 18 year old…

In 1957, Monroe starred in The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, who also directed and produced the film. She often didn't show up for filming and her unpredictable behavior on set created a tense relationship with her co-stars, the crew and Olivier. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office hit in Britain, but not as popular in the United States. The bad production was the backdrop for the 2011 film My Week with Marilyn, starring Michelle Williams as Monroe. In 1959,…

To Walk Again in Manderley It was a wonderful day indeed when on May 13, 1907 British writer Daphne Du Maurier came into this world. How very different it would all have seemed if we hadn’t had the chance to read her fascinating and interesting novel “Rebecca” which she wrote in 1938. She was born in London, England and received her education in Paris, France. She was already born with creative genes I would say since her father was a well-known actor and theater manager. When Du Maurier was in…

few years before the 1940’s release of Rebecca. A film about a wealthy man marrying an orphaned women who only knows the wealthy life through her job as a companion. The young women is haunted by her new husband’s late wife. Maxim de Winters (Laurence Olivier) is a very calm and knowingly cool character. He knows how to take control of a situation like he did when Mrs. deWinters (Joan Fontaine) had to tell Mrs. Van Hopper that he was going to marry her “companion”. Although he is a strong male…

This essay will discuss the ways in which the 1986 Australian play Away, by Michael Gow, expresses the concepts of family conflict, grief and loss, and what it means to be an outsider. These concepts will evidently help in answering whether Away is still able to speak to modern Australian audiences. Despite historical references the play still speaks to a modern Australian audience. Gow has used a variety of literary techniques to develop his play such as allusions, colloquial, as well as using…

Almereyda’s Hamlet was filmed in the modern day and age, when technology was something everyone had to have, and big corporations made up the bulk of businesses in our country. This can be seen from the very beginning of the film. The mixed discourse of “The King and C.E.O. of Denmark Corporation is dead” announces the kind of Shakespearean adaptation we are entering. “King” and “Denmark” represent the Shakespearean language that the characters will speak, while “C.E.O.” and “Corporation”…

A heartbreaking imperfection is the falling flat of an unfortunate legend, a character who endures a ruin through the terrible defect in mixed up decisions or in personality.Hamlet's deplorable blemish is his powerlessness to act to vindicate his dad's demise, in spite of the fact that it must be said that he has legitimate worries that keep him from knowing the proper behavior as he clarifies when he examines the way of apparitions that can be sent to trap and ensnare a blameless in activities…

Marciniak points out that ‘fascination with performers’ is one of the aspects of adaptations that provide pleasure to the audience. Audiences often choose to watch a particular film adaptation because they appreciate the interpretation of a particular role. If we don’t love the actor who plays our favourite character, we might not be able to enjoy a film. This paper suggests that the use of well-established Disney characters in the 1983 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, “Mickeys’ Christmas Carol”…

On the Great River Shakespeare Festival website, it reads, “Teenagers make bad choices. It was true in Verona in the 1400s; it is true today. For more than 400 hundred years we’ve been telling this story, and we don’t appear to have any desire to stop.” Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, where there is a violent feud between the Montague and Capulet families. In the prologue, the Chorus foreshadows the plot of the play. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…What here shall miss, our toil…

Marilyn Monroe is one of the United States biggest sexual icons, even long after her death. Behind the beauty lies an extremely complex individual. Monroe lived a lavish lifestyle, one that most spend hours dreaming of. Regardless of her riches, on August 5, 1962 Monroe was found in her bed dead. The cause of death as determined by Los Angeles police and coroner was suicide. Monroe used antidepressants in her suicide (History.com, 2009). Throughout this assignment we will be taking an in-depth…