Royal Court Theatre

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…

all of the actors were men, and they had to play both male and female parts. HOUSES -The Houses of classical Greece were usually modest in scale and built with mostly cheap materials. They varied from two to three rooms clustered around a small court to a dozen or so rooms. City house exteriors presented a plain face to…

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…

From the play The Curse, one of the actors that I think shows some scenes of the play that quite amusing and shows a very good acting to draw other actors and the audience’s attention. Some scenes of the play did express a good idea of acting. The actor/actress is Kris Moe, who played the character as The Spirit of the Forest in some scenes of the play. From three moments of the play, Kris Moe shows some characteristics of being convincing and persuading other characters, not be manipulative,…

When I was younger, I got to know myself better through performing for others. Participating in dramas really brought out my theatrical side. About ten years ago, when I was seven, my siblings and I were part of a performing arts program called Divine Current Anointed Flow, or D.C.A.F. for short. I was excited to start our performance that day for I had watched my older siblings participate in this event before and I was finally old enough to join them. We all wore black-tees and long kakis,…

The way(s) that Shakespeare set(s) up the audience for the Battle of Shrewsbury is by Henry asking Worcester if he wants to make peace. Essentially, Worcester disagrees and says that he cannot do it even if he wanted to because of Henry’s doings—assuming that he is talking about what happened with Blunt in the last Act (Act V, Lines 1-114; Worcester and the King’s proposition conversation). Each character has a decision to make at the beginning of scene five and we really see how the decisions…

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…