Essays About Drama
Choose a production you have seen during your course that made a strong emotional impact on the audience. A production I went to see recently was Blood Brothers, performed at the Alhambra theatre. Overall, this was an excellent play, and fully enjoyed by all. The whole play was excellently done, and I thought that the whole…
At this point Mickey and Eddie have their backs to either wing standing opposite each other, the two spotlights still separating them. Then Mickey continues, “I’ve been thinkin’ again Eddie. You an’ Linda were friends when she first got pregnant, weren’t y’?” at this point Mickey’s voice is raised and as he talks he shakes…
Dickens makes look Christmas enjoyable by introducing us to other people in the play who makes Christmas enjoyable. Fezzewing is one of the people who keep Christmas well, by having a Christmas spirit. Also Fezzewing closes his shop early so that labours won’t have to work long on Christmas evening and also that people will have…
Tennessee Williams uses a vary of dramatic techniques in Scene One, to encourage the audience to engage in what is truly behind this spectacular play. He uses mood music, lighting, symbolism, language and gesture, contrast in characters and also a screen device. These are very visual to the audience and help them understand what is…
The play ‘Our Day Out’ by Willy Russell depicts how the kids in the poorer parts of the country live. In the book a group of ‘progress class’ children are taken on a trip to Conway Castle. On the trip the also visit the zoo, the beach and the funfair. All of the children have…
Our day out is set in an industrial estate in Liverpool. The novel is based upon Willy Russel’s first hand experience of teaching at Shorefields Comprehensive School where he taught young adults for a year. The play is to my opinion very realistic, due to the fact that Willy Russel had the experience in life…
Though Tom narrates The Glass Menagerie and his sister Laura is symbolically the actual glass menagerie, the play belongs to neither of them. The play belongs to their mother, Amanda, as substantiated by the above quote from Joseph K. Davis. Amanda indulges herself in memories of the past and refuses to accept the present. The…
In the play Our Day Out, we come to see two very different personalities, as the teachers clash on a school outing to Conway. The teachers are Mr Briggs (a strict teacher, who is used to teaching more intelligent children) and Mrs Kay (a teacher who identifies with the children’s needs). There very different characteristics…
The Glass Menagerie is a tragedy by American playwright Tennessee Williams. In the play there is a scene which involves intense emotion, the intensity is shown through the dramatist’s use of techniques such as characterisation, stage direction/lighting, theme and dialogue. In Scene 3 intense emotion is displayed through a heated argument between Tom Wingfield and…
There are numerous differences and similarities between the two poems, ‘A Wife in London’ and ‘Come up from the Fields Father’. Both poems are about relatives losing someone in war and both share the message, not only soldiers suffer during the war, but families left at home too. They are also similar in the fact…
I am going to compare and contrast two poems that have a common theme of people’s assumptions and racial stereotypes. The two poems are ‘On Judgement Day’ by Sipho Sepamla and ‘”Telephone Conversation”‘ by Wole Soyinka. The poet of ‘On Judgement Day’, Sipho Sepamla, was born in 1932 and died in 2007 on January 9th at…
Based around true events, Accidental death of an anarchist explores the investigation into the death of a criminal via the fourth floor of a 1970’s police station, this is shown by the use of the blue heavy police uniform of the period, and the well used proscenium stage, decorated with the usual hideous wallpaper of…
Willy Russell’s play ‘Blood Brothers’ tells the story of twin boys separated at birth on the opposite sides of the social ladder. The play follows the twists and turns of each of their lives concluding in their final meeting, which results in their death. Throughout the play there are many musical scores, which enhance the…
“Whose life is anyway? ” is a play written by Brian Clark is about Ken Harrison who after a road accident is paralyzed from the neck down. After six months his condition is more stable but he feels he isn’t treated properly by the staff at the hospital. As the doctors battle to save him,…
In The Cherry Orchard, Gayev also follows the same pattern of denial and shattering of illusion. However, in contrast, Gayev decides to face reality once his illusion is broken. From the beginning, Gayev responds to the selling of the cherry orchard with denial. He rejects the possibility that the cherry orchard, a symbol of his…
The prince charming was a very weak character for me as he was not as believable, funny or dramatic as the other characters, but he had a strong rich accent, which made him sound and look like royalty, for example: ‘Pardon me may you excuse your hands from my buttocks’, the word pardon and excuse…
On February 27, 2009, holy trinity school performed a Midsummer Night’s Dream in the school theater. The play, directed by Ms.Greenway, Mrs. Thomson, and Mrs.Ganley presents a comedy set in the sixties according to the similarities of the themes of the play and the time period. The play takes place in Athens, starring the four…
From a production you have seen recently chose a scene or section which made a strong impact on you. Discuss what this impact was and how it was achieved. ‘Noel Coward’s A Brief Encounter” was adapted from the original film by Emma Rue; it was staged on a small proscenium arch stage at the Cinema Haymarket….
‘An Inspector calls’ is a well-known play, it is also a well-made play due to it’s progression from ignorance to knowledge, not only for the audience but for the characters as well. The date set is 1912, 2 years before the First World War. The place; a wealthy families dining room. The family consist of…
The play was written at the end of the Second World War, and performed a year later; it tells the tale of how a middle class family from the midlands are tied up inexplicably with the fate of a young woman who tragically commits suicide. It is set in 1912 (two years before the First…
In my essay it will be necessary to look at how each character can be held to blame, the kind of crime committed, the girl herself and, most importantly, why Priestley wants us to think about who is responsible. To answer the question now, I will say briefly, that you cannot exonerate any character, however…
Eva was a young pretty girl residing in Brumley. She was unfortunate to meet the Birling family. The circumstances around Eva were so bad that they led to her death. She was a working class woman in her mid twenties. However she had no family to support her when she most needed help. Mr Birling…
Priestly deliberately set his play in 1912 because the date represented an era which was very different from the time that he was writing. In 1912, rigid class and gender boundaries seemed to ensure that nothing would change. Yet by 1945, most of these boundaries had been broken and Priestly wanted to make the most…
“An Inspector Calls” was set before the First World War, but it was released after the Second World War. One of the main reasons for this was that Priestly wanted to give the audience hindsight so they would know what really happens when the characters are discussing ideology beliefs. Priestly also wanted the audience to…
Priestley’s message is that everyone should be careful what they do because he thinks that everyone is connected so it could affect other people not just yourself. He thought that we are all part of one big community. I think Priestly tried to impart this message in 1945 because it was the end of World…
An Inspector Calls, by J.B. Priestly, tells the story (in a form of a play), of a young girl, Eva Smith. Who, has a ‘chain’ of unfortunate luck brought on by one family, results in her death. The story in more depth tells ‘us’, the audience, to think about others, and the way we treat…
Sheila shows her reactions very clearly and it appeared that she could not hide the fact she was simply shocked she was involved, as she had always been used to a higher-class life without these types of situations. Also before she had been guilt tricking her father for firing her, “I think it was a…
Preparation: We read the play ‘ A VIEW FROM A BRIDGE’, we watched the video of the play and then discussed the roles of the characters. We also did a hot seating exercise. Task: Take one of the characters in the play ‘A VIEW FROM A BRIDGE’, describe their personality throughout the play and say…
The Final Act is John Proctor’s Stand in Court Against the Evil in his Society. Examine why he makes his individual Sacrifice and Explore how Miller Creates Dramatic Tension in this final act The Crucible set in 1692, tells the story of a witch-hunt in Salem Massachusetts, a small Puritan community. Written by Arthur Miller…
Perhaps one of the most dramatic sections in the play is the last one, where all the tension that has built up throughout the play is finally released in a terrible climax. So far in the story, Rodolpho (an illegal immigrant from Sicily, staying in Eddie’s house) has taken Eddie’s daughter, Catherine, from him (Eddie’s view),…
