The comparisons between American film and television and how it affected the Performing Arts
This essay is going to discuss about the transformation between film and theatre and how American film and television has affected the performing arts in general today. The essay is also going to look at when exactly did television became a huge influence in the American culture which led to changes in the whole Performing arts industry.
Performing arts consist of a variety of artistic disciplines such as musical, dance, music, stand-up comedy, theatre, and orchestras. Still, there is significance and serious issue affecting performing arts taking away the real essence of going out to the real theatres with real people and that is technology .In the past way before television, radio was one of the most popular forms of entertainment, having radio shows that were being broadcasted week to week very much in the same way that television is used in the present day. As Edgerton (2007, p.91) stated that “Television took America by storm all through the first decade of the Cold War era, alternately fascinating and consternation its viewers and critics”, in other difference of opinion it became the main influence on the daily lives of many of American people. TV sets slowly began to take over the living rooms in American households as a loud-mouthed, from time to time humorous, every so often shocking, regularly unpredictable guest. Looking at the current day television there is a wide range of daytime soap operas, melodramatic offerings, night time situation comedies, Hospital and police shows, as well as news documentaries. It all started in the early 1950’s when television became popular in America causing major changes and affecting the wh...
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To conclude this essay American television is to blame first for the society and also how only a few amount of people still prefers to go and see a live performance of as musical, dance, music, stand-up comedy, theatre, and orchestras without being bored. The essay also looked the different aspects of performing arts and how American people now prefer to just sit in the comfort of their own homes with a TV and a remote in front of them. The benefits of performing arts to the society is something that was looked at in this essay that it encourages not only the actors on stage but the audience also to be more engaged with the performance as they both rely on each other’s reaction, meaning to say if the audience does not show some sort of true reaction to what is on stage it ruins the actors character or performance.
People have dreams of what they want to do or accomplish in life, but usually musical theatre is just pushed into the non-realistic void. It isn’t a dream for me. In the past four years, musical theatre has been clarified as my reality. Musical theatre has been the only thing I have seen myself wanting to do. My first love was The Phantom of the Opera, seeing how I watched it almost every day and it was one of the first shows I saw. Of course, I started doing all of those cute shows in middle school and making a huge deal about it to my family and friends, but I have never felt so passionate about something. The minute I get up on that stage I throw away Riley for two and a half hours and it’s the most amazing feeling! Being able to tell a story
Modern professional theatre is characterized by the widespread challenge to established rules surrounding theatrical representation. This resulted in the development of many new forms of theatre. Such included modernism, expressionism, impressionism, political theatre and other forms of experimental theatre. It is also characterized by the continuing development of already established theatrical forms like naturalism and realism. As years went by, the reputation of modern theatre has been improving, after being belittled through the nineteenth century. However, the growth of other media, more specifically movies, resulted in a smaller role culturally.
The duration and cost of the production have been compared to other media which provide entertainment, such as television and film. A theatre performance is more expensive to attend than cinema. The play only lasted for 85 minutes, a film can go on for two hours or even more. This can have a big influence on why people would choose one medium over the other. Accessibility has also to be taken into account when investigating the relevance of theatre in the 21st century. Television is a medium which can be accessed from home, and usually doesn’t cost a lot of money, whereas theatre costs money and is harder to access. Although the production was Australian, the actors talked with an American accent. Bearing in mind that the play was written in America, which could make it harder for an Australian audience to familiarise with the dilemmas going on, on stage, while the themes discussed seem to be more relevant there than in Australia. Overall this play doesn’t contribute to the relevance of Australian theatre in the 21st century, due to the many other sources people can access for entertainment, and because the play seems to be more relevant for an American audience rather than an
My work proposes a broader view of the theatre-film interface, one that relies on intertextuality as its interpretive method. I believe it is valuable-both pedagogically and theoretically-to ask broad questions about the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological exchanges between the history of theatre and contemporary film and television. For example, this paper will study how the "Chinese Restaurant" episode of the sitcom, Seinfeld, intertextually reworks Samuel Beckett's modernist play, Waiting for Godot. In each text, characters encounter an existential plight as they are forced to wait interminably, and thus confront their powerlessness at the hands of larger social forces. As a pedagogical matter, this connection encourages the students to see academic culture in the guise of having to read Beckett's play for my course, not as foreign and alienating, but instead as continuous with their understanding of leisure activities like watching sitcoms. As a theoretical matter, this intertextual connection allows important ideological matters to come into bold relie...
Broadway musical, flashy lights and choreography. It is an memorable night at New York City during christmas to someone, and it is a life time dream to make true to some people. According to American Theatre Wing, 80% of shows open on Broadway end up losing money. However, Broadway investors and producers do anything they can to make “the show”, the show will have years of run on Broadway, the show will tour around the nation, and the show will make millions of dollars. They adapt new trends and style to become a “hit”. Broadway is constantly changing and adapting new things, which is healthy for its existence.
Theatre has heavily evolved over the past 100 years, particularly Musical Theatre- a subgenre of theatre in which the storyline is conveyed relying on songs and lyrics rather than dialogue. From its origination in Athens, musical theatre has spread across the world and is a popular form of entertainment today. This essay will discuss the evolution and change of musical theatre from 1980-2016, primarily focusing on Broadway (New York) and the West End (London). It will consider in depth, the time periods of: The 1980s: “Brit Hits”- the influence of European mega musicals, the 1990s: “The downfall of musicals”- what failed and what redeemed, and the 2000s/2010s: “The Resurgence of musicals”- including the rise of pop and movie musicals. Concluding
For the first concert report, I have decided to attend the Divan Consort performance. As I entered the Meng Concert Hall, I noticed that the whole building has a round shaped theme. The sides of the walls are shaped into cones and the seats are set up along the same design, which is circumnavigated around the stage. Above the stage is another few rows of seats that may include vocal performers. Also, the venue appears to be extremely wide and high.
In this paper, I will be focusing briefly on my knowledge and understanding of the concept of Applied theatre and one of its theatre form, which is Theatre in Education. The term Applied Theatre is a broad range of dramatic activity carried out by a crowd of diverse bodies and groups.
In the seventies, we could do anything. It was the rainbow coalition, anti-Vietnam, all of those elements. And then we morphed over to where it became extremely straight-laced and non-risk taking. I think we are beginning to take risks again but within those societal norms.” Theatre only goes so far as society will allow it, as showcased by the Conservatory and it being influenced by the culture surrounding it. The mirror that is theatre reflects a culture and what it may want or not want to know, depending on how far it is allowed to
Theatre as we know it now was born more than two thousand years ago and has gone through many streams until it reached the current modernity. Among these streams is the avant-garde theatre. This theatre achieved a break in the traditional theatre and became the forefront of a new experimental theatre. Therefore it is necessary to ask how this theatre started, what impact it had on society and if this type of theatre is still common in our modern era.
Nevertheless, the question at hand is whether theatre will have a role in the society of the future, where cinema, digital television, and computers will continue to expand and grow. The answer to this question is yes. Heading into the 21st century, theatre will only be a fraction in a solid media industry. However, despite all the excitement technology brings with it, they will never replace theatre because it has something that can not be recreated or offered anywhere else. The cinema and its larger than life world appeals as an affordable alternative. Digital television provides digital interaction between the viewer and the producer. Theatre on the other hand, and its contents may take on a larger dimension, but we receive it directly in flesh and blood – one to one. The magical atmosphere between an actor and spectator who are constantly aware of each other and the theatre’s level of engagement is fundamentally more human and far more intimate.
Despite the innumerable variations in performance pieces a theatre can show, they all have one central goal: to bring together the surrounding community in whatever way possible. The performing arts center may be focusing on culturally relevant pieces, blurring the distinction between art and reality or trying to push the boundaries of the medium. Regardless, the community’s needs are first in this modern environment. Throughout the decades, these centers and their connections to their community morphed according to numerous factors. The technology changes advance the centers into the modern realm while the managers and producers organize new, more efficient ways to bring the arts to their community. This paper will delve into the many facets of an evolution such as this.
The aims and intentions of this essay is to discuss and evaluate the ways of how social change exists in applied theatre in non-traditional settings, as well as the educational, social and therapeutic mission of this change. We will do this discussion by under-taking an evaluation of theatre companies such as Crag Rats and organizations which work under Open Clasp theatre, Forum and Reminiscence theatre.
For thousands of years, people have been arguing that theatre is a dying art form. Many people think theatre is all just cheesy singing and dancing or just boring old Shakespeare, but there is much more to theatre than those two extremes. Theatre is important to our society because it teaches us more about real life than recorded media. Theatre has been around for thousands of years and began as a religious ceremony that evolved into an art form that teaches about the true essence of life. Theatre can incorporate profound, and provocative, observations of the human condition that can transcend time; lessons found in Greek plays can still be relevant to the modern world. People argue that the very essence of theatre is being snuffed out by modern