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Midsummer Night Dream Measure For Measure
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1,100 wordsThere are many great American choreographers of our time. It is through their creative genious that musicals and movies are made memorable. If it wasn't for the work of these choreographers, musical theatre wouldn't be what it is today. It is because of these choreographers that musical theatre is what it is. These choreographers brought to musical theatre dance technique that was only once used in ballet. In fact it was because of this that ballet and jazz, as well as all the other forms of dan...
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Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare Wrote
1,584 wordsAround 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. They had dreams of one day becoming actors, but only one of these children fulfilled this dream. This child was the mayor's son, William Shakespeare. At this time, actors in England usually spent t...
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East Berlin Edward Ii
1,134 wordsEUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on February 10 th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died on August 14 th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an army hospital i...
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Waiting For Godot Theatre Of The Absurd
1,177 words... eloped. Many theater historians and critics label Alfred Jarry's French play, Ubu Roi as the earliest example of Theatre of the Absurd. The current movement of absurdism, however, emerged in France after World War II, as a rebellion against the traditional values and beliefs of Western culture and literature. It began with writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and eventually included other writers such as Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Edward Albee, and Harold Pinter, t...
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Royal Court Second Act
1,782 wordsWho is she and where did she come from? Caryl Churchill is one of England's most premier female, post-modern playwrights. She has strived throughout her career as theatrical personality to make the world question roles, stereotypes and issues that are dealt with everyday, like, violence, and political and sexual oppression. She has been part of many facets of performance throughout her almost sixty year career. Not only has she been a strong force on the stage, but has also had strong influences...
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Jean Paul Sartre Theatre Of The Absurd
1,612 wordsMan's fundamental bewilderment and confusion, stems from the fact that man has no answers to the basic existential questions: why we are alive, why we have to die, why there is injustice and suffering, all this serve as the impetus for such a thinking. Man constantly wonders about the truth of life and realizes that the more you expect from it, the more it fails you or may be the more we expect from ourselves the more we find ourselves engaging in a futile battle with the odds. May be the truth ...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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Forced Onto Reserves Successful Playwright David Williamson Australian
1,282 words... with stunning use of effective language. All his plays achieve moments of striking, non-realistic drama, challenging our attitudes to sexuality and life, but are said to be sketchy and undeveloped as drama. In 1968 Thomas Keneally, another renowned novelist wrote Childermas, a symbolic play dealing with the plight of children in Vietnam. This was one of the first plays to confront the topic of Vietnam. The 1960 s also saw a significant Federal Government contribution to the arts. A number of...
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Full Length Young People
1,916 wordsIt's Wednesday night at Chicago's most venerable coffeehouse, the No Exit. An improv group called Bang Bang has been playing here late on Wednesdays. They " re supposed to be hot. They " re supposed to be good. They " re supposed to have an interesting approach. The Chicago Tribune ran a friendly piece about them in the Sunday arts section. Which makes what I'm seeing now that much more puzzling. There may be times when these Bang Bang people really are all the things they " re supposed to be, b...
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Ancient Greek Theatre Architec
1,348 words... e used in various ways. The center door was where the priest or the leading actors would enter. The chorus, messengers, or servants would enter from either side door. The flat roof of the see was called the theologian. There, the main actors would act out their parts of the drama during the performance (Foundation 1). The theologian was also a place that was reserved for the gods. Along the back wall of the see was a narrow, raised platform, called the legion. The legion was a place designed...
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Romantic Period Visual Arts
1,601 wordsBaroque's Art Sites Art History Resources web This page is an art history page of a large site created by Dr. Christopher Witcomb: web The larger site covers the whole range of art history. I cannot begin to describe what is available on this site, which must have been a huge work of love. The site includes high resolution photos of sculptures, paintings and other visual arts as well as architecture, photography, textiles, icons and even comic book art. Virtually every visual art is represented ...
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Theatre Chorus Actor
651 wordsHow different cultures affected English Theater Theater unites the past and present in a unique cultural experience. Theatre continues to thrive and has become an important subject for study in schools and universities. Reaching back in time and across the world, this ranging new history draws on the latest scholarly research to describe and celebrate theatre? s greatest achievements over 4, 500 years, from festival performances in Egypt to international multicultural theatre in the late twentie...
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Midsummer Nights Dream Lord Chamberlains Men
6,344 wordsThe lost years 1586 - 1592 There is no documentary record of Shakespeare's activities from the birth of the twins, in 1585 until Robert Greene's complaint about him as an upstart crow in 1592. Biographers have therefore called these the lost years. In fact, there is nothing certain known about him from his birth in 1564 until 1592 except that he was married in 1582, fathered Susanna in 1583 and the twins Judith and Hamlet in 1585, and probably attended Stratford Grammar School. The lack of detai...
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Second World War Waiting For Godot
551 wordsExistentialism is a Existentialism Existentialism Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French play rights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play Saint Joan past the German censors because it appeared to be very Anti-British. French audiences however immediately understood the real meaning of the play, and replaced the British wit...
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Romeo And Juliet William Shakespeare
546 wordsShakespeare in Love is a fictional movie written about the great writer and poet, William Shakespeare. The story is of a young William Shakespeare barely making ends meet and trying to write a play for the local theatre. However, Shakespeare is suffering from writers block, and is seeking inspiration by having a muse. A muse is a power, in this case a female, used to inspire a poet. Of course, a love story proceeds. Although fictional, the real story line is the writing of Romeo and Juliet by Sh...
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Dark Ages Five Points
1,899 wordsOnline Roleplaying Rules Ver 2. 1 (character Creation) Online Roleplaying Rules Ver 2. 1 (character Creation) Welcome Welcome to the Theatre de More and our game of Vampire: The Past Returned in VP. Within this text you will find the ways to create a character for the game and how to submit yourself to engage in the game. If you seek more information on the Kindred a link named Vampire Homepage in the Theatre will take you to a very informative site A little background on the game. We are curren...
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Social And Moral Values Of Society
1,094 wordsRealism is the movement toward representing reality as it is, in art. Realistic drama is an attempt to portray life on stage, a movement away from the conventional melodramas and sentimental comedies of the 1700 s. It is expressed in theatre through the use of symbolism, character development, stage setting and storyline and is exemplified in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's A Dolls House and Anton Chekhov's The Three Sisters. The arrival of realism was indeed good for theatre as it promoted greater...
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1,456 wordsDid Shakespeare, in any fashion, influence the great novelist Dickens? That is the question that I have set to find out. I assumed so, but I really wanted to find the pure truth about these great novelists, perhaps the best people ever to have perfected this art form. I looked for specific reasons and certain examples about these two men. William Shakespeare is a genius of his art form, of that there is no question. His contributions and influence upon all literary movements to this day are innu...
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West Side Story 20 Th Century
2,203 wordsPresentation The eminence of the musical has been the most significant theatre phenomenon in the world over the last twenty years. It has not only given British theatres a greatly needed financial boost but has changed popular theatre indefinitely. Before this, they never throbbed with subtlety because someone was always bursting into song about how every thing was looking just swell. The musical not only wanted to sing away your troubles, but your thoughts as well. The old style musical theatre...
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