Essays about Culture Page 250

The two plays that we have looked at were ‘The Terrible Fate Of Humpty Dumpty’ and ‘Blue Remembered Hills’. Both of these plays had a similar plot and theme. The themes that carried out throughout the pair of these plays were children, death, bullying, peer pressure and cruelty. The rough outline of ‘The terrible fate…

The first scene establishes character and personality. Eric begins by welcoming the audience; Eric being the one who introduces the play and who the audience first set eyes on conveys his authority above the other three bouncers. Eric continues with a rap, which illustrates the time of which the play is being set, the rap…

The opening scenes of The Godfather Part Three, (Coppola, 1991), we see the family compound in ruins on a grey wintry day. The lighting is dark and depressing and depicts the nature of what has passed and what might be to come. Something sad has occurred. You need not have seen the previous two films…

How has the period of the Vietnam War been portrayed in film? Forrest Gump (1) (1994) (Robert Zemeckis) This section of Forrest Gump shows little criticism of American involvement in the Vietnam War. It presents a ‘cosy’ view of the war by portraying it through Forrest’s innocent, uncritical, child-like eyes. The film honours the army…

Kneehigh theatre productions is back bringing it’s latest masterpiece, Don John, to centre stage at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Inspired by the legendry libertine, Don Giovanni, director Emma Rice has shaped and adapted this fictional character into many of Kneehigh’s visually captivating performance’s. We have the mind-numbingly dull vicars wife Anna, Zerlina the polish cleaner…

High Culture Linked with the elite, upper class society, those families and individuals with an ascribed status position. It is often associated with the arts such as opera, ballet and classical music, sports such as polo and lacrosse, and leisure pursuits such as hunting and shooting. Clearly, high  culture is associated with a small elite…

I don’t get it, why is it when you become a teenager everything gets so complicated and baffling? I mean, why are we supposed to know how to wear make up, get on diets, wear tight clothing, control our “calorie intake” and the list goes on and on and on. Is there some unwritten law…

According to italian theatre historians, such as Roberto Tessari, Ferdinando Taviani, and Luciano Pinto, Commedia dell’arte, which literally translated as improvised comedy, developed as a response to the political and economic crisis of the 16th century in Italy and, as a consequence, became the first entirely professional form of theatre [1]. It is believed that…

This essay will explain in what way globalisation affects theatre and it will analyse whether theory matters or not when globalisation is taken into account. In drama there has always been a lot of talk about theory, not actually theory of the theatre but just theory. People use this term in different ways but “what…

The Punk movement is often seen as a reaction to what was regarded as a blown up and stagnant, self-indulging music scene in the mid-70s. In wider perspective, it is considered not merely as a music genre, but more as a complex mixture of social, cultural, rebellious upheaval of the marginal, disillusioned young white generation,…