Proscenium

“Next Day. Same Time. Same Place.” Thus, with an assertion of uniformity, begins the second act of the play, titled En Attendant Godot, in English, Waiting for Godot: a Tragicomedy in Two Acts. The play was written by the French dramatist Samuel Beckett and was first performed 1953. One of it’s defining characteristics is it’s complete lack of plot, so much so that the second act of the play is almost an exact replication of the first, wrought with repetitions in the dialogue and stage…

August Strindberg’s play ‘Miss Julie’ is a master playwright that has been the basis of critical controversy. Written during summer in 1888, the play was censored entirely in Europe during the late Nineteenth Century. The play was believed to deal with situations that were deemed as socially offensive. As much as the play presents a dramatic method which is characterised by an urge to experiment, the innovation Strindberg sought to cultivate were designed with having a social and moral agenda in…

This essay is an analysis of The Theatre Practice’s production of I Came at Last to the Seas held at Singapore’s Esplanade Theatre, directed by Kuo Jian Hong. Written by playwright Wu Xi, the play inverses common understanding of Buddhist philosophy, exploring the unrest and instability of the six roots of sensation through the interwoven narratives of the play’s six central characters. The play is an inquiry into the ideas of belonging and identity: both culturally, as a Chinese in the Chinese…

local pub’s happy hour. Both performers and audiences will find an entirely new way of participating in the theatrical world. This low barrier of entry on both the side of the performer and the consumer will cause unique experiences not possible on proscenium stage. The name Scripts and Dip invokes a fun party atmosphere. It denotes the intended levity of the performances being produced and it indicates that there will usually be free chips and salsa provided at each…

the highlighted dancing was done by the soloists and duets. This reminded me of the Renaissance Era, how spatial arrangements were a prominent element of the ballets, due to the seating arrangement of the audiences. Although Jewels premiered on a proscenium stage, there was still much attention payed to the formations of the dancers from a bird’s eye view. The corps were onstage to create an environment for the soloists and duets who were performing several high calibre technical elements. In…

September 18, 2016 at 6:30pm, I had the privilege of attending Dirty Dancing, the classic story on stage written by Eleanor Bergstein at the Memphis, Tennessee Orpheum. Bergstein is an American writer who wrote and co-produced the popular film Dirty Dancing back in the 80’s. She wrote the story based partly off her own childhood. James Powell was the director, Trinity Wheeler was the producer, and Michele Lynch was the choreographer for this musical. With this being a musical there were many…

For my written review, I saw the musical The Producers with my family. The play was written by Mel Brooks in 1968, with the help of Thomas Meehan for the musical lyrics. I saw this play at the Chico Theater Company, and it was very well done. The Producers takes place in the year 1959, in New York. It is about a past-successful Broadway producer, Max Bialystock (played by Conan Duch) who almost pulls off a well planned Broadway scam with the help of his accountant Leo Bloom (played by Seth…

happiness of how the play was portrayed. But I will explain that later in my review of this mediocre play. I entered the theatre on Friday, October 16th. Being my first time witnessing what was inside the building. The play was held on a standard proscenium stage, with the audience seated exactly in front of the stage. I sat quite far in the back, so the frame of the theatre was…

On Wednesday 1st July 2015 I went to watch the play War Horse (directed by Marianne Elliot &Tom Morris) at the New London Theatre .War Horse, is a play that was performed in the and it is constructed from the novel that bears the same title by author Michael Morpurgo. The fictional story is about a foal that was brought into rural England in Devon to be auctioned. Wanting to acquire the foal for his son Billy Naracott, Arthur Naracott bids on the foal Ted buys him for 39 guineas in return for…

The play I decided to see for my theatre experience was the called Stupid Fucking Bird. Myself and two other from the class went down to Portland Center Stage theatre in downtown. Walking up to the play there had been a good about people walking in to the theatre as due to the fact that it was just about to start. As we walking into the main door I was actual taken back with how many people I had see inside the box area. The people who where here to see the play where on the older side of life…