The Drama Club

The evolution of theater through the centuries has been a gradual yet inevitable affair. It is through the constant globalization of ideas, creations, and concepts that theatre has expanded through the years; many times not losing its original essence. In this paper I will discuss the various staging conventions in different periods of theatre history, such as the conventions of the Greek, Roman, and Elizabethan eras. I will continue to discuss staging conventions by analyzing and comparing…

Hegel begins by describing poetry as a form that manifests ideas into concrete actuality, rather than abstract feeling (p. 960). From the inner imagination comes the formation of material in poetry–but this material is not made poetic by being harboured in ideas, but that it is being harboured in an artistic imagination. Here, Hegel defines the artistic imagination as to keep the abstract universality of thought separate from the sensuously concrete objects. Poetry employs language as an…

After the play was performed for the first time in the year 2000, a year after Kane’s death, the play drew polarizing reviews. The drama critic, Michael Billington, described the play as the, “75-minute suicide note,” however, this is not the approach Troyanovsky took when it came to stage his own production of the play. When asked Troyanovsky about whether he thought the audience still…

Through the “Where Am I?” and “When Am I There?” portion of The Gister Method Alberti gives us some very practical uses and ways to discover the where is the character is and when they are there in order of expand the wholeness of a character. We have started to discover the importance of the given circumstances through monologue rehearsals and the impact that it makes on the overall tone and objectives in a piece of text. Throughout this chapter we are exposed to many aspects of the “Where Am I…

Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House” features complex characters who are different than they appear. Nora and Torvald each undergo a transformation of their character from the start of the play until the finish. Torvald begins the play appearing very strong and confident, but by the end he is broken down to a scared and unhappy man who is holding onto an image of himself to receive respect from all he encounters. Additionally, Nora experiences a similar transformation of moving from a wife who…

In the text, “The Norton Introduction to Literature 12th Edition” by Kelly J. Mays, you will find a poem written by Linda Pastan on page 838 titled “Marks”. This poem’s poetry genre is Dramatic. It is considered a Dramatic poem because it gives off a tone of the narrator explaining a situation rather than writing or telling a story. In this poem, Linda Pastan used metaphors as her literary device. The whole poem is one big metaphor because her family is using a grading system to rate her as a…

Reflective Journal During this reflective journal, I will be speaking about the work in which I posted on my York St John blog, focusing on the feedback that I received following my initial ideas and the way that I will develop my writing further in order to make it better. Within this, I shall speak about how the process develops from an idea and then further when somebody has read the work. Within the module, one of my favourite lectures and workshop was “Stage and Radio” that was taken by…

Medical drama has always been a fairly popular genre on television, but it has grown so much within the past few years. What exactly is medical drama? A medical drama is a televised show that has a setting of a hospital, or surgery room, and typically has characters acting as doctors or nurses. During these medical shows more events happen beyond the medical part, and goes further than the events that pertain to the characters’ job. A typical medical drama portrays some aspects of characters’…

There are many qualities that make a character in a story a trickster. Some of these qualities include Humorous/Clownish elements, Uses of Anthropomorphism, and the characters use of Brain over Brawn. All three of these qualities need to be demonstrated in the three Trickster Tales provided, as well as the other qualities that are not mentioned. All three of the characters, Anansi, Master Cat, and Coyote, possess each of these qualities. The use of humorous/clownish elements is in all trickster…

In plays, asides are often used to portray the thoughts and emotions of actors to the audience. It gives the audience insight through the use of dramatic irony because the audience knows the character’s thoughts and feelings while the surrounding cast does not. In the play, The Beast Within, three characters, Okonkwo, Jack, and Holden have different intentions for hunting a beast. Their different purposes are the cause of an interesting relationship and actions that occur throughout the play.…