Mariinsky Theatre

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…

Titus Andronicus is full of characters that are complex and confusing. These two passages however help decipher the two ways characters present themselves: as victims who cannot make sense of their situations or characters who present themselves as victims who have made sense of their situations. This is important because it shows how the characters control the tone of the play. Titus’ speech in act three creates a gloomy, tragic tone, which is part of a tragic play’s characteristics: the hero…

3. There are many things that a movie can do that a stage performance can't. Movies contains many visual and special effects that cannot be mimicked by a stage performance because it's simply not possible to be reproduced. For example in Macbeth the ghost of Banquo that haunts Macbeth could be easily reproduced by special effects, but in a stage performance it would a lot harder to reproduce the visual of a ghost simply because it's not possible to do so. Movies also have an advantage over…

When there is drama used in a story or a play, this usually adds a suspenseful effect that takes place in this story. Usually there is a mystery and with sound effects, this gives us a visual of what happened or what is happening. In this story “The Hitchhiker” all these sounds add a different variety and meaning to it. The sound effects give us imagery of what is going on with Adam and the hitchhiker. The music gives us mystery and suspicion every time Adam sees or meets the hitchhiker on the…

I was quite confused and surprised to see the the backdrop of the stage. It was what seemed to be a large torn strip of paper. The reason why i was quite confused was due to the fact that it made me and the audience feel as if we were about to enter a gap of time. It was very fairytale like. This confirmed to the audience and me that we were going to view something very special. We are later shown the relevance of the tear in the backdrop as Albert tears a sketch out from Major Nicholl’s…

Stanislavski was worried that actors would become distracted by the audience. However he did not want them to forget about the audience entirely, because they were a vital part of the performance. On stage, it was common for actors to lose their sense of natural psycho-physical union as they can be under a lot of pressure, when performing in front of thousands of people. Therefore, I feel it could be difficult to balance the concentration on the stage with the appropriate level of awareness of…