Research the play your scene is from including; his/her place within the overall production, the history of the scene, the expected performance style, your character's relationship with the other character(s) in your scene.
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The Pirate Queen is a musical written by Claude Michael Schonberg and Alain Boublil. These producers are also known for their adaptation of Les Miserables. The Pirate Queen is based on the life of Grainne (Grace) O’Malley, an Irish pirate who resisted the English Conquest of Gaelic Ireland. The story of the pirate queen begins when Clan O’Malley is christening a new ship. Grace O’Malley is the eighteen-year-old daughter of Duhdara, the chieftain of the O’Malley clan. Grace has sneaked aboard on the ship with Tiernan, her childhood sweetheart. They chase each other around in a game of hide and seek, but Tiernan finds her and they engage in a serious swordfight. They play this game quite often, and over the years this has made her a pretty skilled fighter. On this day though, the heat of their love cannot be contained any longer. They drop their swords ...
My first choice in making this project was the characters whom I would chose to communicate with each other. I chose Vince Luca and Romeo Montague as my characters because I felt that they had much in common with each other, and would be the most
The Pirates of Penzance was an opera performed by the Southwest Texas Opera Workshop. The Pirates of Penzance, composed by Gilbert & Sullivan, is a light-hearted parody of the traditional opera. This opera takes place somewhere in the British Virgin Islands. It is about a boy, Federic, who is to be apprenticed by his nurse, Ruth, to become a pilot. Ruth mistakes the word pilot for pirate and apprentices him to a band of pirates. She, too, remains with them as a maid-of-all-work.
Many films are based on historical events or information. However, the movies typically romanticize the history that they are inspired by. In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides there are some elements of historical piracy, such as the use of privateers, women disguising as male pirates, and class on board ships. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a Hollywood film that is inspired by historical accounts which also uses drama and romanticism to appeal to the general public.
William Shakespeare’s plays included different characters and different methods of characterization. The two plays that will be compared and contrasted are William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet. As for the characters from each play, Beatrice, Benedict, Don John, Don Pedro, Claudio, and Hero will be assessed from Much Ado About Nothing and from Hamlet, Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, and Ophelia. The importance of the above characters from each play is that they serve as the basis for identifying characteristics.
preparing us for the tragedy. I will be focusing on Act 3 Scene 1 and
For my first scene I have chosen act 1 scene 5 in which Romeo meets
Galens, David, and Lynn M. Spampinato, eds. Drama for Students. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Print.
with what you feel are the main themes of the play that you want to
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
In Farewell, My Queen (2012), director Benoît Jacquot employs variations in camera shots and lighting techniques to convey the difference in social class and change in mood throughout the film. A recurring pattern that distinguishes the royal class from the common folk is the movement of the camera. In the beginning of the film, there are fast transitions and the frames move quickly from one character to the other. Fast horizontal pan shots trail Sidonie as she moves across the room and the camera seems to lack stability in its movements. Suddenly thereafter, the shots become much steadier and camera movements more stable as the vertical and horizontal pan shots present a panoramic view of the palace. Instead of moving with the characters, the camera stays at the same location as the marching band parades into the palace. In contrast to this, the scene that follows immediately thereafter has a hand-held news camera immediacy as Sidonie sprints past the trees on her way to the palace. Another noticeable instance that differentiates the royalty from the common folk can be seen in the maids’ interactions with and around the queen. The maids can be heard talking when they are not in the frame and focus is on the queen. These voices don’t seem to matter to the queen and go unheeded, showing that only the characters that the queen can see (i.e are in the frame) matter and others have no significance.
There’s many steps into making a fine play, the characters and choosing the right dialogue. Credibility is very important in working on a play because you have to be believable and convincing to the audience. The realistic of the play is what draws the audience. You also need to catch the people’s attention and keep the play moving. In order to intrigue your audience you have to write something that causes suspense. As you draw the characters into difficult/different situations. I think a great example, In Capulet’s house, Juliet longs for night to fall so that Romeo will come to her “untalked of and unseen”. Suddenly the Nurse rushes in with news of the fight between Romeo and Tybalt. But the Nurse is so distraught, she stumbles over the words,
The two scenes that the essay will be focusing on are Act 1 Scene 1
Once our cast had established, who was saying which lines, we then felt that we had the beginning foundation to our character. However, we were still not any closer to creating individual characters, with their own personalities. A way in which our cast approached this task was deciding an appropriate practition...
pirate as he is portrayed in the beginning of the text nor is he the
The main scene I have picked to discuss is Act five Scene one. At the