Theatre in the round

Angels in America: Millennium Approaches exhibited a dynamic performance at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. The deep character development, plots, themes, and spectacles meshed together to create a theatrical experience that I thoroughly enjoyed. To begin, Angels in America had multiple messages throughout the show due to the different conflicts that existed amongst characters. One main theme and message that I felt was to stay true to yourself and always be who you really are. I feel this is a…

Can there be a life without mistakes? Yes one who leads a perfect life. One who has attained Perfection? No life will be monotonous. What are these mistakes for? Is it as a lesson or as an experience.? How many times one is allowed to make before he learns a lesson out of it? yourYour misery is optional. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.. When adults make most of the decisions and rules we deprive our children of the…

The origins of the Cold War are basically the United Staes against the Soviet Union, capitalism verse communism. The United States and the Soviet Union have ideological differences, they believing in running the government different ways. America believes in a democracy basically a free market government. On the other hand, Russians believe in communism basically a dictatorship. George Kennan is most famously known for the “Long Telegram”, he lives in russia at the time and sends a telegram back…

Vera Stark: A Pioneer in the Battle of Racial Prejudice in Hollywood Underrepresentation of African Americans in both theatre and film remains a prevalent point of strife in our society, and has been since the emergence of these entertainment forms. Additionally, the few roles that are available to people of color are often extremely stereotypical, such as the ‘black best friend’ the ‘thugs’ or, in earlier entertainment, ‘the maid/servant’ or ‘mamie’. Playwright Lynn Nottage highlights the…

This was an attempt to round up all the Japanese until the war was over with Japan after the incident with Pearl Harbor. Additionally, from the University libraries of the University of Washington, talks about turning portions of Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and Alaska into a militarized zone and a Theatre of Operations for the Western Defense command. Along with that, it also talks about how…

kitchen, on a lake in the woods somewhere in southern New England (in other words, the perfect 1980s slasher movie setting). My other dream is to own the kind of business that I would love to visit on a daily basis: a record shop/diner/tea room/movie theatre. Picture it... you walk in the front door and to your right there's a small, diner-type area set up. At the counter there are seven or eight stools, and in the remainder of the space there are three or four booths. The smells from the diner…

One newspaper described it as "a mop effect that covers the forehead, some of the ears and most of the back of the neck." The New York Times reported that, "One shake of the bushy fringe of their moplike haircuts is enough to start a riot in any theatre where they are appearing." The haircut quickly became known as the "mop top."(graf).Each year they return like lemmings: bare-legged, high-heeled, Hermes-toting fashionistas along with a flurry of harried reporters, buyers, celebs and others, to…

Literature during the first half of the Twentieth Century reflected the disorder that had engulfed the entire world. There was a feeling among the common people that humanity had achieved the material progress at the cost of spiritual values and this loss was the root cause of the entire chaos. Instead of moral and spiritual themes, the works of art were full of themes like anxiety, chaos, boredom and emptiness in human life. Commenting on the change that was distinctly visible in Europe and for…

in multiple instances in the film. First it turns out that Walter, the gardener, has been lobotomized with the brain of Walter Armitage, who was a sprinter in the 1936 olympics and lost to African American sprinter Jessie Owens in the championship round. It becomes clear that Walter was chosen for the lobotomy because of his speed and the Armitage grandfather always lived with the idea that Black people have superior genetics, which caused him to lose his most desired race. Similarly, both Chris…

Mopes) scatters halfpence to Tramps and such-like.” returned the Landlord, “and of course they pick ‘em up. And this being done on his own land … why it is regarding the halfpence as gold and silver, and turning the ownership of the property a bit round your finger, and there you have the name of the children’s game complete.’” Further research reveals that Tom Tiddler’s Ground was a children's game created before Charles Dickens wrote the short story. In the game, one player named Tom Tiddler…