Outline of theatre

Ancient Greek Theatre What makes up greek theater Actors audience masks Skene (backstage) chorus orcester Backstage audience Greek theater history and techniques In ancient Greece, theatre and drama took very big parts. Drama was the way they honored their gods. The majority of the festivals were about Dionysus who is the god of grape harvest, these festivals were called City Dionysia.In this festival men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus.These plays were only performed at…

Schematic Play If you are from the UK or if you were there sometime between 1997 and 2001 then you will not have escaped the phenomenon that was the Teletubbies! Like Marmite you either loved them or hated them. The theme tune infiltrated adult brains and could be heard being whistled along most supermarket shopping aisles at any given point during the week! However there was one catchphrase that resonated with me at the time and that was ‘again, again!’ At that time I was working with under 3s…

The location of the play was at the University of North Texas in the Radio, Television and Film building. Inside of the building there was a black box, and a smaller room to the side, that had a set that perfectly portrayed the time period. The couches and chairs really seemed to fit with the era that the play was set in. Also, to the sides of the set there were large representations of windows that lights shown on throughout the play. Each set of lights depicted a different part of the day to…

For Entertainment in Greece theaters in towns were used for festivals, usually for a holiday or to honor a god. On these days, everyone in town except the slaves went to the theater to watch four plays that were comidies, or tradgedies. Actors in the plays played more than one character in each play. They wore different mask so that the audience knew which character they were playing. The masks were very important becomes all of the actors were men, and they had to play both male and female…

Private Dancer As I was added to the schedule early in the week, I was not quite prepared for how different things were on Friday night. First of all, there were so many more dancers on the floor. After a couple of hours, we transitioned to a rotation where two dancers are on stage at the same time. Each dancer basically has half of the stage; first song is performed around the back pole, second song the dancer moves up to the front of the stage while a new dancer joins them in the back. So…

participating in theatre as a worthless activity and a waste of time. In fact, my Cinema professor just had a conversation with another student about how live theatre is a dead form of art and has no value to anyone anymore. However, the performing arts actually have many benefits for the performer and the community. For example, from my own experience and observations, I know that performing increases one’s confidence, self discipline, and ability to converse with adults. Being in theatre…

Katie Trumbull is a Senior soon to be graduate at Toledo School for the Arts who has been involved with theatre for most of her young life since she was eight years old and is planning to study Musical Theatre or Vocal Performance in college as a professional career. Recently she has appeared in some of her favorite musicals yet including The Music man (Marian) with Toledo School for the Arts, Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), The Lion King Jr (Zazu), Children of Eden (Yonah) with Waterville…

For centuries, people have ambled into the Globe Theatre delighted, waiting for the performance of a lifetime. What will they be a spectator for? Will they get to witness a uplifting show that makes them forget all of their current problems? Or will they be captive in a show of melancholic being? What are the types of shows that these high class individuals with pearls and dresses would have been present for? Shakespeare, the man whose work all these people came in to devour had an abundance of…

It is a normal night, just like every other night. You are sitting on your couch flipping through the channels, and you see a scene that catches your eye. A documentary about oil drilling. You decide to start watching and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop. You keep watching more and learning more about what happens during oil drilling. Then the documentary starts showing pictures of the possible effects of oil drilling. The pictures of an oil spill. Pictures of animals coated in oil.…

Picnic Performance Critique Picnic as directed by Jack Wright, was the first play that I had ever gone to in my life. As far as a first time experience, I’d say that Picnic left me wanting more from the actors and the production overall. The two actors that I chose to focus on were those who played Hal Carter and Millie Owens; James Kern and Melissa Berger respectively. I closely examined the voices of both of these actors as well as each and every one of their movements and what they did to…