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As Athol Fugard approached his “60th Birthday Celebration,” an October-November festival of his works in Atlanta, Ga. , he had a last-minute twinge of misgiving. Girding himself for the revealing readings from his published Notebooks, adapted by Theater Emory, the prodigious South African playwright cracked to one of his hosts, “I feel as though you…

You’ve done a lot of lovely work on this scene since the last time. Tell me about it. What’s changed in your given circumstances?” With this gentle invitation, Michael Kahn lets his young actors initiate the discussion about the Romeo and Juliet scene they’ve just performed in his acting class at New York’s Juilliard School….

Gay-bashing measure fails in Oregon after intense campaign The arts gave, and they reaped. Ballot Measure 9–Oregon’s anti-gay initiative that was defeated Nov. 3 by 57 percent to 43 percent became a rallying cry for the arts. And the audience listened. Like the furor over National Endowment for the Arts funding which made Robert Mapplethorpe…

The play takes place in the dining room of the Birlings’ house in Brumley, an industrial town in the North Midlands. It is an evening in spring, 1912. Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter’s engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a Police…

Joe Keller had a habit of shifting the blame for things he did and also for not taking responsibility for his actions. He makes up excuses to justify what he did such as by saying it was for his family and he had the right intensions. Joe, in the earlier stages of the play, sticks…

A man who has broad intellectual interests and is accomplished in areas of both the arts and the sciences. That is the definition of a Renaissance man. Leonardo ability to observe and study, then demonstrate those things in his art, makes him a perfect example of a renaissance man. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of…

These two artist interest me the most because of their popularity even years after their death. To-date, we still talk about the Mona Lisa smile , and the Vitamin man with reference to the painting. These two paintings were done by Dad Vinci and Picasso respectively. Picasso was a Spanish Painter who dominated Western art…

Leonardo Dad Vinci was a man extremely ahead of his time, many of his remarkable studies and inventions still influence us today. He was a scientist, an inventor, a musician, and one of the world’s most famous painters. Leonardo had observed and studied all of nature, these observations inspired him to mimic nature and design…

Once there lived a man who was gifted with the power of looking at the same object in many different fashions sometimes as a painter would look at it, sometimes as a naturalist, sometimes as a physicist, at other times as a poet and not one of those fashions was superficial (Valley. 1958). With all…

Leonardo dad Vinci: Renaissance Man During the Renaissance, the ultimate goal of a person was to excel in all aspects of life. Leonardo dad Vinci is dubbed “the Renaissance Man” because he dabbled and succeeded in many different areas. Leonardo is most famous for his paintings, which captured shadow and depth unlike any other artist…