Drama Essay Examples Page 41

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…

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…

“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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…