Growing up, I have always been on the move. Living in a situation where a single mother was left to raise four unruly daughters on her own, meant that stability wasn’t necessarily something I was familiar with. Thankfully, I had the ability to transport: mentally, that is. I completely immersed myself into something that gave me the ability to live a different life everyday, give myself a “mental vacation” from my own being, and most of all, to become united in a type of family other than that at home. Acting, is that one thing that aided in the blossoming of who I am today. And because of that, I want someday to be able to take my knowledge and mentor young aspiring Theatre students like myself. I want to help the youth that are unguided …show more content…
A place where you can be a complete stranger, yet feel the wholehearted embrace of other like minded individuals like yourself. A place where no matter how wild an idea, someone is there to collaborate with and to critique you. Growing up, I always considered myself an actor; in fact there isn’t a time I don’t remember trying to “ham it up” in front of chuckling family and friends. For me, the theatre gave me power. This power is in the sense of how the ensemble of a cast can be in control of the audiences’ emotions. We dictate whether they laugh, cry, yell in anger, or maybe all of the above. Moving around meant that I had no steadiness in my home life. I managed, though, to harness my abilities as an actor to provide myself with a variety of acting mechanisms to cope. This I realized was because of the self-discoveries I made during the preparation helped me express my true feeling that had been pent up for so long. The intense emotional outpour I projected onto a crown during a performance is really an interpretive translation of my own true …show more content…
By bringing the knowledge in which I learn, onto a community of students who feel adrift. I will be able to mentor and bind them into the never ending family of theatre. Growing up, I have witnessed a lot of young students who feel lost. On the contrary though, I have seen these same students become extremely inspired and motivated people due to the arts. The problem is also that these people have no form of self-expression. I myself feel as though the theatre community has been able to draw me out from this dilemma. Drama gave me a voice, a very loud one too. But all in all, it aids in healing me from emotional wounds I experienced growing
My experience of attending the play Annie was different from watching a television show or movie because the play allowed me to get away from real life. As I watched Annie’s life as an orphan I became emotionally connected to her. When Annie was happy, I felt my emotions change to happiness. The same goes for sadness, anger or hopelessness. For example, when Annie felt optimistic about finding her parents that made me feel hope for her or when Annie felt wanted and not alone by having daddy Warbuck’s care for her, I felt joy. By having this emotional connection to Annie it allowed me to forget about my worries and focusing on Annie’s.
What started out as a hobby transformed into a passion for an art form that allows me to use movements and expressions to tell a story. Whether I’m on stage in front of an audience of just friends and family, hundreds of strangers and a panel of judges, or the whole school, performing over thirty times, has helped me build lifelong
Listening, I could hear them, the persistent sound of chatter and laughter. The roar of ambient joy rang from the house and into the ears of everyone behind the scene. You never know what to expect when you're standing backstage; you never know what's going to happen. Thousands of thoughts and worries are bouncing around your head. What if I mess up my life? What if I miss my cue? What if I forget how to speak? It isn't until that very precise moment when the audience's voices have hushed to a whisper and directly before the curtain has opened that your mind becomes clear. You forget all about the hundreds of people that came to see your show. You forget all about the friends you have in the audience just waiting for that moment when you have to do some embarrassing stunt on stage to capture it on film. You even forget all about who you are and all your worries. In that moment, you are an actor.
This professional use of acting skills reinforces the dramatic meaning of the production. The successful use of acting skills assists the exploration of how communities and families deal with upheaval and how we strive to
... in which all our emotions play a role. There are no small roles in this theatre; each feeling will lead to another. But we are playwrights, and we choose to tamper with our script merely to influence the way we want our life to turn out.
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Themes and issues that aren’t talked about in every day lives, the theatre brings out, which is why its such a raw and emotional journey when you take a seat and the lights dim. When watching theatre, it tends to ‘hold a mirror up to nature’ as the wise Shakespeare once said. Projecting our reflections to ourselves, and realising the authenticity of ourselves, our culture, and issues within society that perhaps need to be fixed, and musical theatre does just that. And these are such strong reasons as to why audiences love coming time and time again to the theatre, to be moved, opinionated, shocked, emotional, and overall touched by performances on Broadway. It draws people in, and they all come out telling their friends about this life changing show they witnessed and to not buy a ticket would be
The reason I find theatre to be so meaningful is because you get to encounter many different people that you would never actually think to associate with. Theatre is a place where everyone can be who they want to be, even if you are not performing on the stage. It doesn't matter if I have the talent to be on stage or organize props, I'm still a part of something.
Organizations continue to create themselves around the importance of educational theatre while playwrights and playhouses are forging progress through dedicated leaders. “...They look forward to a time when the best they have now will be multiplied and made available in all its diversities to the children of every
I’ve always been a creative person since I was born, but it wasn’t until August 14, 2013, that I really understood that part of me. That day changed me for the better it was the day I saw my first Broadway show. It was the day I fell in love with the “city that never sleeps”, New York City, Times Square to be exact. A couple months prior I had really been invested in the show Wicked. I guess seeing musicals on broadway was the hit thing, because I became obsessed. Broadway shows just seemed like this magical experience like Disney World or Christmas. Then one day my father had gave in.
I’ve learned to appreciate the beauty of how theater is more than a mere performance, but rather an artform with nuance and depth. My knowledge on theatrical styles has expanded and some of my favorites we have studied in class are Brechtian and Chinese theatre styles. I grew up participating in musical theatre, but never had the opportunity to truly learn the history and details of the craft. After studying RENT, I am inspired by the various possibilities for theater beyond acting, singing, and dancing. Theater can be used for activism or as a form of commemoration. Theater is relevant by communicating issues to the world. Theater is so much more than a dramatic presentation. The theater that I have come to appreciate the most are the performances that relay a greater purposeful message about society amidst the theatricals on
Applied Theatre work includes Theatre-in-Education, Community and Team-building, Conflict Resolution, and Political theatre, to name just a few of its uses. However, Christopher Balme states that “Grotowski define acting as a communicative process with spectators and not just as a production problem of the actor” (Balme, 2008: 25). Applied Theatre practices may adopt the following “theatrical transactions that involve participants in different participative relationships” such as Theatre for a community, Theatre with a community and Theatre by a community Prentki & Preston (2009: 10). Whereas, applied theatre one of its most major powers is that it gives voice to the voiceless and it is a theatre for, by, and with the people. However, Applied Theatre practitioners are devising educational and entertaining performances bringing personal stories to life and build
The survival of theatre lies in the very nature of humankind: its inner voyeuristic drive. The desire to watch other people dealing with their conflicts and fates challenges as well as reinforces values and the morality of society. The theatre provides an exciting opportunity to watch stories and situations as if they were real life, showing us the truth of our nature.
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
A mere mention of the term theatre acts as a relief to many people. It is in this place that a m...