Radio drama

The stage, the most important and definite fact, when it comes to stagecraft and theatre, there is no play without a stage, unless of course you are a mime, The stage has changed over the years, as well as the materials, technologies, and knowledge needed to create fully functioning theatres. Dating back to early Greece, marks the beginning of Theatre as a whole. The city-state of Athens is where western theatre originated.It was part of a broader culture of theatricality and performance in…

Jane Fonda said it perfectly, “As an actress you spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.” I’ve always been fond of the performing arts. The stage draws me in. I enjoy exploring methods from Michael Chekhov, like imaginary body, and balance and form. As someone who greatly appreciates the theatre, I feel that it is important to educate others on the difference between a play, and musical. For both a play and musical, dialogue is used to convey the story. Plays…

Dramatic irony is when a speech or situation is understood by the audience, while the characters in the play are oblivious to the truth being told to the audience (Dictionary). This literary device is present in Act I Scene V, when the ghost of Hamlet’s visits Hamlet and informs him how he had actually died. During this scene, Hamlet follows the ghost that has been roaming around the castle and throughout their encounter, the ghost admits that he is the spirit of his father and came back to…

The Tragic Hero of Antigone: Creon How far would a person go for what he/she thought was right? Would it be the right decision? How will it affect his/her loved ones? In Sophocles’ tragic drama Antigone, King Creon is forced to answer these questions. He is a very stubborn man and did not take anyone’s opinion into consideration, even when it affected his family and also his country that he is expected to make smart and also correct decisions for.. Even though Creon loves and adores his family,…

Fantasies provide an escape from the daily hassles of life. When one thinks of a fantasy, one may conjure up things like unicorns flying in the wind, elves dancing around a Christmas tree, or like the poem expresses, touching dragonflies and stars. All incidences are unreal, imaginative. Ernest Bormann, however, had another perspective on fantasy altogether. Fantasy is dimensionally acquired through dramatization and rhetorical vision. “Rhetorical vison is considered to be construction of a…

In 1938, Antonin Artaud brought to light the important factors that should be involved in making a play. Antonin Artaud was a French dramatist, poet, actor and director. In 1931, after watching a Balinese dance at the Paris Colonial Exposition, Artaud was inspired and wrote The Theatre and its Double. Mise en Scene is the set design and surroundings involved in a play, according to Artaud it has an import role in theatre. In his manifesto, he discussed theatres lack of images, dynamism and he…

Realism is the movement to represented truth as it has, Realistic drama is try to describe life in the point that we were in , that movement left from the rule melodramas of 1700s. It is spoken in theatre through the appeal of symbolism, character development, stage setting and is show in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House , Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters and more important one is Noel coward' Vortex. The Vortex was the play which was written in 1924 by Noel Coward and this play…

A Dollar, as the title suggests, is a play concerning a dollar bill. Seven people come up with ways on how to use the bill. In the final turn of events, the group uses the dollar…just not the way they pictured it. Like Clybourne Park, A Dollar shared similar traits to a play: it had a group of actors, audience members, sets, props, a stage, etc. However, there were vast differences. For starters, it was a downstage production, meaning the location was not on the main stage. The area was a…

According to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy as it is stated by McManus (1999), tragedy is the replica of one’s actions as it is brought in a dramatic way and not narrated. It is also mentioned by him that tragedy is much more profound than history simply because history just state facts or figures of what happened during that time while tragedy exaggerates of what may happen in that certain situation. The aim of tragedy is to consummate its catharsis of such feelings like “Fear” and “Pain”.…

happening inside because currently we can see it for ourselves and make our own judgments about it. This extraordinary staging gave the sense of the audience being a fly on the wall in this personal family animosity. However, the domestic, inside drama meant that we lost the greatness of the ultimately public characters of Greek tragedy, and their monologues as these factors are not suited to the factual setting hoped for in this production. The color scheme of the clothes is an insight into…