Essays 61 - 90
working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...
they were concentrating on TV, "one of their sketches did make it to Broadway in the 1956 revue New faces, starring Maggie Smith (...
between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...
his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...
requires that the face be covered in public. Then, consider that in order to get a drivers license one is required to uncover ones...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Victorian theater was impacted by new technology in terms of staging and social culture. ...
program had fallen apart and Congress eliminated it altogether (2003). While it never lasted, the funding of the arts has alway...
her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...
few sentences. This is very helpful to the reader because the "plot" for this nonsensical work is easily lost and shows that there...
spectator into the action, Brechts goal was to place the spectator outside the action as an observer, but one who is actively invo...
on and allows the couple to finally kill themselves, crying "Long live the emperor!" he is unable to pass on their final, desperat...
is that of the set design and the supporting aspects of theatre production that has evolved along side the development of the writ...
going on. We can be a person with a small child and we drop all our bags in the street, begging for help. We are only acting and t...
discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...
incorporating drama in the classroom but it also provides us the ammunition to move the impact of that drama from the classroom an...
heart, but this appears to be unlikely. Dobbs needs to overcome the differences in opinion, as such we will advice another approac...
role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...
to work to include everyone. Now lets consider a scene from Oedipus Rex and how it could be staged, and what that tells us about...
is familiar to them from their own experience of life. If however the audience suddenly finds itself at Hogwarts School of Witchc...
in drama, as well as two of the most destructive. This paper compares and contrasts the plays that bear their names. Discussion H...
of course is the task of all actors, but here, they have to do it in real time, in front of an audience. They have to be so far "i...
while there is some variance within the industry, it is not terribly significant. Barriers to entry within the movie theatre indus...
This essay first addresses the features of the Theatre of the Absurd, and then offers an overview of how these characteristics app...
This 12 page paper gives an overview of the history of the theatre in ancient Greece and the connection with mythology. This paper...
mimicry and metaphor (Braunmuller and Hattaway 93; Kennedy 64). It is interesting to note that drama was using similar tools othe...
This research paper describes five websites that pertain to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and can be used in instructing students in...
The Gayety Theater in Brooklyn operated from 1892-1932 and featured vaudeville acts. This paper offers an overview of its history....
Before the particular works are examined, however, it can be useful to attempt a brief examination of the concept of irony in lite...
This essay discusses the history, cultural contributions and reputations of the National Black Theater of Harlem. Three pages in ...
This paper compares historical revision through theater and other factors to the way the various stories differ in regard to incid...