Program A was one of the best shows that I have attended in the Theater at Marietta College. In this paper, I would like to talk about three important elements: actor performance, dialogue and delivery, and audience reaction.
First of all, the use of actors was different in each play and that what made the audience didn't feel boring. In the first play, which is “Tainted Love”, all the actors were women. When I talked to the Asst.Director “Nick” about this play, he told me that the real play was performed by man and women, but they decided to make it in this way because they couldn't find any actor for this play. Actually, the actresses in this play did a really good job by showing us a similar idea of the original play, especially that there were lot of kisses in this play, which means it is important to have an actor to give a clear emotional message to the audience. On the other hand, the second play “The Last Yankee” performed by actors only. This play did not have all my attention because the actors did not show me the required emotions that each character should p...
The play that we read for this unit is Too Much Punch For Judy, by Mark Wheeller. It is a form of Verbatim Theatre, meaning that it is based on the spoken words of real people. This play is about the story of a young woman who kills her sister in an alcohol related accident. When I first read the play I couldn’t empathize with the story as I haven’t experienced such a shocking event before. In this essay I will describe, analyse and evaluate both my work and the work of other actors in my group, focusing on the mediums, elements and explorative strategies of Drama.
When it came to the dialogue of the production and the understanding of it the performers again did an excellent job. Their gestures and vocal elements all aided in the production’s success and were all fittingly used by the characters. For example, when Lala was talking on the phone with Peachy she casually twirled the phone cord in her hand, leaned against the banister and childishly flirted with Peachy.
Woolway, Joanne. Drama for Students. Eds. David Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 292-94. Print.
Powerful theater combines intellectual ideas and artistry of language with the visual power of movement and physical strength. The theater I most appreciate involves the actors’ equal commitment to their bodies as to their voices. This theater makes art of the entirety of our evolution—biological, linguistic, and cultural—and represents the ultimate artistic elevation of the human spirit. This is the theater I strive to create. I believe the director is ultimately responsible for providing the distinct, guiding perspective of a production. A strong director brings the audience a cogent, well-reasoned interpretation of the play and ensures consistency among the actors and design elements to create a production that is clear and effective. To do this well, a director must explore the history of the play and the playwright's inspiration as well as look for corollaries to the play’s style and subject in other media, culture and intellectual ideas, and ultimately, compile this information into a coherent blueprint for realizing the world and presenting the themes of the play. It is precisely this studied, integrative aspect of directing that I am most attracted to, and, I believe, that makes me a strong director.
The use of original practices, the costumes and male characters used to play the role of female characters are due to the different gender identity attributes and sexuality concerns from the play. Although the producer insists that the use of male characters to play female roles was mainly to show case the original set-up and forms of acting it can also be attributed to the producer wishing to raise different sexualities from the audience. The different actors who play the roles of females while they are male characters have been used by the producer to raise different sexualities since the heterosexual people in the audience view of the audience since gender as asserted by Bulman is performative rather than
The acting for this play was successful in its goal. The actors were more than successful in making their characters seem credible and convincing. As each actor played their numerous amount of characters, I was convinced that each character was different and it wasn’t someone acting as someone else. I truly believed the actors were their actual characters. What benefited
Watching a play is completely different than watching a movie. When watching a movie there are two options, either watching it at home on the couch with a bag of chips, or going to a movie theatre with a bucket of popcorn. Why do we even waste two hours of our time to sit and watch a movie? Primarily, we do watch movies to waste time. When people get bored, we watch movies to pass the time. Well, before they could make movies, people would go watch a play which is an entirely different experience than going to a movie. Many of these plays that people went to watch were written by a man named Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is probably the greatest play write of all time. Two of his plays, Much Ado about Nothing and King Lear, are both wonderful plays with different, but similar narrative structure, or plots. Much Ado about Nothing is a story about Hero and how the love of her life Claudio is planning on marrying her, however a few envious people try to ruin everything which lead to Hero faking her death and Claudio thinking Hero was unfaithful and then passing away. Yet, by the end of the play, Hero reveals herself; Claudio realized that people were lying and that Hero was being faithful and the play ends with a double wedding. In King Lear, two different families are being betrayed and two different fathers make bad decisions about their children that eventually lead to one man being blind and the other father’s demise. Yet, this isn’t all of the play according to Arthur Rosenblatt, “Besides, the plot line, involving two older men and their respective family problems, is only a small part of the play.” (Rosenblatt, Arthur S.). In Shakespeare’s plays King Lear and Much Ado about Nothing, their narrative structures have similar qu...
Galens, David, and Lynn M. Spampinato, eds. Drama for Students. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Print.
The performances being compared in this critique are By the Way, Meet Vera Stark originally directed by Jo Boney, and the film Chicago directed by Rob Marshall. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark premiered Off-Broadway at the Second Stage Theatre on May 9th, 2011. The University of Washington Drama Department produced its own version of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, directed by their School of Drama Faculty member Tim Bond and located at the Meany Studio Theatre. The film Chicago, set in the 1920’s, came out in 2002. It was streamed on TV in the evening on October 28th, 2017. Throughout this paper, these two performances will be compared from the perspective of an audience member based on the elements of live versus film performances. Analysis will
In each and every culture theater exists. However, they are not always portrayed in the same way and could take up many different forms. What differ them from others is influenced by the convention of what governs them. What happen on stage depends on the conventions of the theater. Convention is define as “Rules governing a given style of theater, such as fourth-wall verisimilitude or bare stage. These rule should not be violated, but often are, as when actors “break” the fourth wall by delivering a line directly toward the audience” (Altshuler and Janaro 208). The condition governing the staging and performance are known as theatrical conventions, in which what the audiences agree to accept as what is real (Altshuler and Janaro 173). In comparing an Elizabethan and a modern theater to each other there are many differences and similarities between the two. By comparing William Shakespeare “Hamlet” to Lorraine Hansberry “A Raisin in the Sun”, we can see that there is a major difference between the two
Lazarus, Joan. "On the Verge of Change: New Directions in Secondary Theatre Education." Applied Theatre Research 3.2 (July 2015): 149-161. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1386/atr.3.2.149_1.
In this essay I shall concentrate on the plays 'Road' by Jim Cartwright and 'Blasted' by Sarah Kane with specific reference to use of language and structure of dialogue as examples of dramatic techniques.
Worthen, William B. Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater. Berkeley: U of California P, 1992.
Garner Jr., Stanton B. "Theatricality In Mankind And Everyman." Studies In Philology 84.3 (1987): 272. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 Apr. 2012.
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.