Theatre in the round

funny'. Curley's Wife is portrayed as a mean character in many readers minds, but when Steinbeck was writing he was envisioning her to be hardened from her tough childhood, but innocent. When she is first introduced in the novel, she is meant to be a round character sort of like a candy, hard on the outside, soft on the inside. When she is first introduced into the novel aside from being flirtatious, she is actually very kind to George and Lennie. The two ranchers, on the other hand were not…

Promyelocytic leukemia is a type of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a cancer of the white blood cells caused by a translocation between chromosomes 15 and 17. Promyelocytic leukemia is shown to cause symptoms of fatigue, easy bruising and bleeding and abdominal discomfort due to enlargement of the spleen. [1] The median age for this disease is approximately 30–40 years old. [2] This is a fast-growing type of leukemia which is a chronic illness. In My Sister’s Keeper, a 2009 film based on the…

their troops than the South because the South was focusing on cash crops like tobacco and cotton and did not produce enough food to feed the Southern population. “The arsenal in Massachusetts produced over one million rifles for the army and countless rounds of ammo by themselves.” The South was more agricultural. Even though, they only worked on planting their cash crops. Also, there were so many people fighting in the war, a lot of the farmland that was left was never used. “Food was so…

Hillerville Mansion In the mountains of Eastern Kentucky once existed the Hugarian community of Himlerville. In a way the house was so creepy, but also beautiful. I never understood why no one lived there. As I grew older everyone around town had the myth that the old house was hunted. No one ever knew much about it just thought it was a big house on the hill. All this took place because of one man, Martin Himler a Hungary immigrant. Himler was a hard-working man and had a vision and the…

American Culture? The origin of midnight movies started with the film El Topo in 1970. Alexandro Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and starred in the movie. Playing the lead role of El Topo, Jodorowsky had to transform with the character, taking on different physical looks, as the story plot drastically changed as well as the cinematic style. “The film begins as a western. Jodorowsky, bearded and dressed in black leather, comes cantering across the desert on a black horse with a naked child (his…

JSA Awareness Project In elementary schools throughout the country, the only arts programs acknowledged are the visual arts and choral programs. These, however, are not the only forms of art that a child should learn, or are capable of learning. Arts that a child could learn include, at least, dance, acting, and band. All of these art forms can benefit people as they grow older. There are ways to integrate the arts into any age’s curriculum, and despite the common stereotype, it is not a gender…

account everyone's convictions; it thus ridicules the philanthropists for protesting against everything for the sake of protesting, rather than coolly examining the validity of each cause and prioritising them. In the same way, Punch publishes the fake theatre play alluded to in the previous chapter, in which two exasperated friends, Bradshaw and Stokes, are listing, with rising anger, the humanitarian societies that might be created in the near future.4 These supposedly include the ‘anti every…

Center stage. A single actor in a pool of white light, his jaw opening to sing the first note of “Santa Fe” from the musical, NEWSIES. That is the director’s main goal, in my opinion; to captivate audiences within the first couple of seconds. One of the director’s main roles is to help guide actors during rehearsals. When I was younger, nine or ten, my elementary school teacher told me that I could be an excellent teacher. That has stuck with me through the years. A lot of the teachers that I…

she has to face. This is accentuated in The Song of the Great Capitulation, in which Mother Courage bitterly recounts how, although she had been “master of [her] fate”, before long she was forced to submit to financial pressures due to “two children round [her] neck and the price of bread”. While emphasising Mother Courage’s predicament, the song also highlights the struggle of the poor, and how they are forced to become a part of the capitalist cycle to fulfil their basic…

1. Fitzgerald depicts Gatsby’s celebrations as theatrical events by there being an orchestra, “admission tickets” and props. “By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived;” this is overdone as it is just a party and there is no need to bring an entire orchestra for it. Also, there are people that are “paying” to enter the event and usually events are free and one does not need to pay for a party but “People come for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own admission ticket.” Finally,…