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Kimberly Belflower is an original playwright as she shows her dark thoughts through her two main characters. With its great use of imagination, the lights, costumes, and background music do a great job of portraying its wildness; however, the script itself needs more background and smoother…

segregation in the United States of America. It is signifying a time when black, Chicano and white Americans were detached from one another. These years symbolize a moment where interactions among the races appeared morally corrupt. Which led to the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun, where the author portraying the relation of her play to the racism that white Americans have toward the black. The play explored not only the tension between white and black society but also the strain within…

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to link William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet with the concept of metatheatre, is the play which is staged by young Hamlet to confront his uncle Claudius with the murder of the old king Hamlet. Nevertheless, even though nothing qualifies more as metatheatre than this particular scene, the play-within-a-play is not the only significant device of metatheatre in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are several more metatheatrical plots that can be detected in the…

Scene 2, of A Street Car Named Desire, in the movie and the playwright is a particular scene that stood out. This is the part when Stanley questions Blanche about losing Belle Reve and if there were papers to prove it. Stella asked Stanley not to question her sister because she is under a lot of stress. This part of the play is important because the main characters’ personality and relationships toward each other start to stand out. Stanley’s aggressive nature starts to develop as starts to get…

political issues that I am ignorant of. This play opened my eyes and made me realize that I rarely ever consider the serious issues that could be transpiring outside of my own country. Even though my response to Ruined may not have been what the playwright intended, I still feel like I got a significant experience with this play. It made me realize that my knowledge of the world is much more limited than I initially thought and that I should make more attempts to learn about international…

actor, poet, and playwright who wrote many tragedies and comedies. One of his most famous pieces is Romeo and Juliet . Romeo and Juliet is a very famous tragedy that has impacted our society by leaving behind many legacies. It has left legacies in film, music, literature and art. Also, it has impacted our society and culture. Romeo and Juliet has a vast legacy on modern day society. Romeo and Juliet has left a vast legacy in film and art. The play has influenced many playwrights to write…

Realism which deals with the presentation of things as they are in reality, has found immense presentation in the works of several poets and playwrights especially from the late 19th century to the present day. These writers are in a sense iconoclasts, who want to bring before man the real picture of life and society in their true hue and colour. For them life is never a bed of roses, in fact, they always intend to focus on the hardships and struggles of common man. The Romanticists have always…

Absurdist Theatre, for many of his plays imitate the insignificance of life which characterizes most of the works of the Theatre of the Absurd. Since the triumphant performance of his first play, The Room, which established his status as an absurdist playwright, various criticisms, from supreme tributes to harshest critiques, have been made about Pinter and his works. The Theatre of the Absurd is originated in Europe and represented by such dramatic giants as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean…

of the development and purpose of theatre within a culture I believe that theater’s purpose and responsibility in my culture is a way to overcome the struggle black individuals faced, to demonstrate the creativity of art, and to integrate black playwrights into the main stream of American dramaturgy. To begin, blacks used theater as a monument and empowerment to overcome their struggles. Black theatre flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. Among these was the Ethiopian…

Harold Pinter one of the most prominent and influential British playwright of the second half of the 20th century. His plays are distinguished from all other by their sense of suspense, mystification and ambiguity. Pinter has a specific technique to explore and elicit the mystery of human relationships. Pinter plays are characteristic of minimal plots and limited characters but the dialogues filled with powerful tension. He uses pauses, three dots and silence in his plays. They are the very…