Musical theatre

Things we learned in the class that is reflected in the play of Macbeth includes hand and body gestures, facial gestures, appearance, ethos, pathos, and memorization. The first point, hand and body gestures, was represented throughout the play. In the first scene, people were fighting with each other. They were fighting with invisible swords. Although the audiences did not see the sword, the way the actors were moving their hand and body they could infer it. Their hands were wrapped around an…

After reading about P. T. Barnum and his show business, I was intrigued by how the public responded to exotic acts and how Barnum’s understanding of this desire made him a fortune. Since my young age, whenever there is a circus performance on the television, I am always most eager for the magician’s part. There is something out summoning a rose from thin air that captivates me much better than a clown’s juggling. Hence, in this paper I will explore the history of magic to seek to understand how…

In Cather’s short story, “Paul’s Case,” Cather depicts a dispiriting story a high school boy named Paul with a severe case of depression. Paul is irrationally and foolishly obsessed with theater and the performing arts and often flees from the bitter reality of school and work into his own imagination, using the arts as means of achieving this. “Paul half closed his eyes, and gave himself up to the peculiar stimulus such personages always had for him” (75). However, instead of entering the art…

That night at the silent film I really enjoyed the way you carried yourself in front of the audience Donald. You introduced into the gateway community college silent film with grace and in a very elegance manner. The Theater organist was such a beautiful peice of artistic attribution to the silent film. the clean sound flowed with tranquility throughout the presentation from inception to ending. In the beggining of the film the “The Navigator” (1924), starring Buster keaton,Betsy O’Brien (kathy…

A great deal of present-day postmodern theatre simply constitutes one piece of a large evolutionary historical puzzle from which playwrights are able to apply and adapt various styles, techniques, and examples. Although traditional Native story-telling and customs bear many signs of early theatric components, contemporary Native playwrights find themselves working in an unprecedented industry, where very few precursors to their craft exist. Therefore, some of the most renown plays in Western…

These cultural memories become stable, reliant on the need for critics to enter productions with preconceived notions of what to expect when critiquing revivals of plays that have, by canonization, received mythic status. Yet the first actors who performed the famous roles written by Tennessee Williams did not have to compete with canonized interpretations. The original performances of Laurette Taylor’s Amanda, Marlon Brando’s Stanley, and Burl Ives’s Big Daddy were acts of creation, rather than…

A minor character contributes heavily to a play, particularly by revealing information or giving additional insight into the major characters. Tartuffe, by Molière, is a French satire which is over exaggerated and critical towards the upper class and ridicules hypocrisy. Molière’s unique choice of using a stock character to contribute to the technical development of the work aids in the explanation of the minor characters role in the play. Dorine holds the role of the Zanni, the servant who…

Group Performance Evaluation a) Our farewell party at a ramen restaurant gained positive feedbacks from the class thanks to the collaboration between everyone in the group. As a person who seldom participates in drama performance, this was a fresh experience to me. I enjoyed the process in which we create the story by ourselves and perform it in front of the class. Also, I liked our simple props made the scene hilarious and more understandable. The applause from the audience at the end of the…

Acting is about you either make it or you don't. Acting has always been my passion ever since I was a little girl . I could recall watching soap operas all day with my mother , and going to sleep really late because of it . I just love the feeling of portraying another character's life and story and relived it yourself and make it your own . The thrill of bringing a writer's vision to the stage and give an outstanding performance. To have the ability of connecting a whole audience and making…

Thornton Wilder, a playwright, was very influential on the world of theater. He found an artistic way to introduce the public to different ideas about theater which were not really portrayed in the plays of that time. In Our Town, the unique role of the Stage Manager displays and exhibits these ideas. Thornton Wilder’s use of the Stage Manager is one of his great concepts. Physically, there are no specific requirements of this part. He always has a hat on and may smoke a pipe (Austell 95). He…