Theatre in the round

For it is only the Europeans who retain a high sense of culture available in form of an upper-middle-class cocktail party, sitting room conversation, and October evening visit to enjoy Chopin's music or see the movie and opera in well-furnished theatres. It is remarkable that Eliot's poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Preludes, Rhapsody on a Windy Night and Portrait of a Lady give us a recognisable locale of human beings at the crossroads of 20th-century industrialised society. However,…

“When do you guys want breakfast?” is the normal group text for the Wallwork study group on Saturday mornings. The group is made up of old friends that went to the same high school and some new ones we met along the way. The first responses come within the hour and as college students the time agree on is well past normal breakfast times at 11:30 am. With the time set, we head to Folgers dining hall. Some of us are wide awake and others look like they rolled out of bed the minute before. Today…

There have been many different versions of William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. Recreations range from plays to movies, and each one adds its own level of darkness. One recreation is the 2000 version of Hamlet starring Blair Brown, Roscoe Lee Browne, Campbell Scott, Lisa Gay Hamilton, and Jamey Sheridan, and directed by Campbell Scott and Eric Simonson. This version of Hamlet that we watched in class gives its own twist and darkness that the story needs. The opening shot of the movie is a close…

government organizations have become increasingly militarized. In the aftermath of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security was created. Rather than be a security agency, the DHS became more of a domestic army armed with millions of hollow point rounds it shares with its Immigration and Customs Enforcement office (Whitehead). The Social Security Administration has also requested ammunition and plans to send it to locations throughout the United States and collaborates with the DHS in police…

In Dancing at Lughnasa, an adult Michael narrates the story of one of his childhood summers, set in the house where he grew up, raised by his single mother, four aunts, a mentally sick uncle, and a father who occasionally dropped by. Although Michael, played by Wyn Moreno, is the main character, he was merely a voice on the stage. Moreno stood to the side, reciting the lines of a young Michael, whose presence was only implied by the other actors. Moreno had a very powerful voice with great…

fund contributions, mend political fences of the Texas Democratic Party fighting amongst themselves, and begin his journey into re-election of 1964. Kennedy began his day with these three goals wedged deep in his skull not knowing that a 6.5 Carcano round was the goal of another destined to the same place. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he traveled through a motorcade in an open-top limousine in Dallas,…

paced up and down his room. He was sick of his children, sick of the bank; he had no desire to go anywhere or to talk of anything” (Chekhov 2017). Finally, Gurov makes a desperate attempt to visit S---, to confess his love Anna. He catches her at a theatre with her husband and approaches her while he walks away. Gurov is relieved that Anna shares the same…

her and have a connection. That probably in the beginning Miss Daisy would have never allowed to happen. The Gospel at Colons was an African American version of f Sophocles's tragedy. It was created in New York City in 1983 by the experimental-theatre director Lee Breuer, The original script was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. This play had multiple musical numbers: live where you can, who's the man?, Lift him up, Never drive you away, and the list goes on. This play went on to be…

There is a gender amnesia that surrounds the American Revolution. For many Americans, the Revolution consisted of noble generals and brave citizen-soldiers. It is often portrayed that the American Revolution was exclusively an all-male event. When telling the story of the Revolution, one must not forget the complex role women took on during that time. Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence, writes the stories of many women and examines the…

GENDER AND MYTH The historical records show that the position of women in the society was varied according to culture, religion and geographical and scientific developments throughout many years. In general sense, women are supposed to be the submissive, obedient, self-sacrificing and “the angel in the house “as Woolf said. This idea of passive women is represented in approximately the same way in many examples of world literature. This research paper is a quest to identify the portrayal of the…