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In His Own Write - A Creative Look at George Gershwin

In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...

Film, Theater, and Rhetoric

both about rhetoric and about the nature of its tradition. Further still, the true rhetoric of any age and of any people is to be...

Feminist Theatre as Reflected in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls

of the feminist critical theory. The author has a long history of reaching out and inviting her audience to experience with her t...

Lysistrata and Pleasure

or reader cannot help but smile when Lysistrata demands the women repeat the oath: "To husband or lover Ill not open my thighs th...

Theater Costuming and Rigging

In eight pages this paper discusses the people who work 'behind the scenes' to make theater a very entertaining experience. Three...

Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper examines Moliere's satirical morality tale and its open theater impact. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Purpose of the Chorus in the Tragedy Theater of Ancient Greece

In seven pages this essay analyzes the many functions served by the Chorus in ancient Greece's tragedy theater. Three sources are...

Ballet Theater and Peter Tchaikovsky

In eight pages this essay analyzes Peter Tchaikovsky's life and focuses upon his many ballet theater contributions. Five sources ...

Japanese Kabuki Music

In five pages this paper examines Japanese kabuki theater and music in an historical overview. Five sources are cited in the bibl...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Gender Relationships

In five pages this paper discusses the portrayal of men and women within the context of this work as it has been presented in the ...

Setting and Acting in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In this paper consisting of five pages the uses of setting and acting and how it may have either assisted or harmed the production...

Apocolypse Now

Coppola also uses the aspect of theater, which acknowledges that each member of the audience will bring with them, to the theater,...

Overview of Improvisational Theater

According to the Los Angeles Times (1974), "The games emerged out of necessity," Spolin said. "I didnt sit at home and dream them...

Throne of Blood Film by Akia Kurosawa

In five pages this paper examines Kurosawa's film within the context of the Noh traditions of theater it features. There are no o...

Independent Theater Concept

In six pages this paper discusses the concept of independent theater and how the movement evolved. Four sources are cited in the ...

Forum Theater Experiences

requires that the face be covered in public. Then, consider that in order to get a drivers license one is required to uncover ones...

Spanish Theater in the 17th Century

his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...

Postmodernism and Ariane Mnouschkine and Pina Bausch

discontinuity and fragmentation, as well as by an overall destructured and decentered subject (University of Colorado). H...

Experiencing Invisible Theater

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...

The Royal Family Depression Era Comedy by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber

between a life in the theater and the offer of a stable marriage to a sensible stockbroker. Fanny Cavendish is the family matriar...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

Failed Government Funded Theater Project of the 1930s

program had fallen apart and Congress eliminated it altogether (2003). While it never lasted, the funding of the arts has alway...

The Open Theater Movement in Argentina

theater (Graham-Jones 7). Theater listings in the daily newspapers typically advertise fifty or sixty plays being staged at any gi...

Investigating the Concept of the Theatre of Cruelty

the aims of all serious dramatists, especially with reference to the way in which the stage becomes not only the central focus for...

Truth and Documentary Theater

call to action. Bruskin explains that "The essence of the period is that we were galvanized to do something." (32). While docume...

Greek Theater and Women's Role

has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...

Movie Theater Evaluation Report

are handed an envelope with instructions that they will be attending the next brush-up class in hospitality/customer care (Barsky ...

The Escape or A Leap to Freedom by William Wells Brown Analyzed

days schooling in my life, I owe the public no apology for errors" (ii). Escape; or, A Leap For Freedom is a five-act play featur...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...