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Many Film Directors have produced versions of Shakespeare Plays. Some have succeeded some not. This is a study of how Franco Zefferelli and Baz Luhrmann have interpreted and dealt with the problems of presenting William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to a modern audience. The language that Shakespeare wrote in is known as archaic – old….

The opening of both versions of this piece sets the president for what follows, the Luhrman version perhaps more so than Franco Zefferelli’s attempt. They display glimpses of what is to come, drawing the viewer deeper into the story. The amalgamation of multiple ‘Big Close Ups’ and bird’s eye shot, as well as the incorporation…

In ‘Shakespeare in Love’ Tom Stoppard is trying to entertain his audience and show how Shakespeare made his plays in the 17th Century. Luhrmann is using Shakespeare’s play to create his own version of Romeo + Juliet for the 21st century lifestyle to appeal to young audiences mainly teenagers. ‘Shakespeare in Love’ shows us what…

Romeo and Juliet was written by British Playwright William Shakespeare. It was written relatively early in Shakespeare illustrious career. Romeo and Juliet has stood the test of time and is now a testimony to Shakespeare’s memory. The moral issues and tribulations created in Romeo and Juliet are still apparent in today’s society. Baz Luhrmann saw…

My Oral assessment revolved around how I would direct a modernised version of Romeo and Juliet based on Act3 Scene 1 to a contemporary audience. There were various strategies we used to develop on gradually coming up with a dramatic imagery of how we wanted the play to physically look and feel. I generally enjoyed…

You can’t help but notice Gregory Boyd’s sense of style. Whether he’s in an elegant Upper East Side hotel suite (complete with baby grand piano) in Manhattan or his windowless, black-and-gray, high-tech Houston office furnished with sleek furniture and large abstract paintings, the man has an unmistakable mode. Halfway through his fifth year as artistic…

A poor scholar and the daughter of a wealthy man fall in love. But she is betrothed against her will to another, and the scholar dies in anguish. Then, on her wedding day, he returns in the form of a dybbuk- a discontented spirit of the dead that resides in the body of a living…

As a teacher of singing for musically untrained theatre majors at Columbia College in Chicago, I’ve observed that the most daunting obstacle novice singers face isn’t lack of talent or technique. It’s lack of confidence–a paralyzing fear of failure that stems from more serious problems than musical inexperience. One method to combat this fear is…

Floods and fires play havoc with theatres’ economic stability July was the cruelest of months for the Iowa Summer Rep. Instead of audience members’ vehicles, the weekend of July 10 saw the parking lot of the Iowa City theatre filled with assorted carp and silverfish, none of whom had the slightest interest in seeing The…

Artistic health, institutional stability and the role of the federal government were the subjects of a Nov. 29 forum hosted by TCG at New York University, convened to enable theatre artists and managers to share their concerns about the current state of the field with newly appointed NEA chairman Jane Alexander. TCG executive director Peter…