Drama Essay Examples Page 47

In Stave One when Marley’s ghost enters Scrooge’s home, Dickens give the reader a hint on what is going to happen by saying that ‘Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains. ’ This is because Marley had lived his life as a money grabber like Scrooge,…

What messages does Camus have for the readers and why do we think the book was popular with the people of his generation? Albert Camus was a man of many great potential prospects. In his books he captures the absurdity of living and “the idea that human life has no redeeming meaning of its purpose”…

Turkey, Santa and presents are just a few of the things we associate with Christmas. There are also many stories that have been written about or set around Christmas-We have read three: ‘The First Miracle’ by Jeffery Archer, ‘Memories Of Christmas’ by Dylan Thomas and ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. This is a summary…

Examine the roles of the female characters. In Willy Russell’s blood brothers the strong characters are the women, Mrs Lyons, Mrs Johnstone and Linda; they all play important roles, whereas the weak characters such as Mr Lyons and the absent Mr Johnstone are males. The play opens with the lines, “Tell me it’s not true,…

Our year eleven drama coursework classes have been studying a play written by Willy Russell called Blood brothers. Throughout studying blood brothers in our workshop, I have been able to dig beneath the surface of the issues and relate with the characters thoughts and feelings. I have also been able to interpret the text by…

In these poems, the horses are portrayed as natural and a part of nature while the pike are unnatural and don’t fit in with the rhythm of nature. Firstly, in ‘The Wild Horses’, Gilmore portrays the horses as having a beat or a pace which mimics their heartbeat. This is evident in the rhyme scheme:…

In workshop five we created a tableau which was then sculptured for the final piece. I played the role of a diplomatic police officer, one of my colleagues was carrying on beating a ‘have not’ I was opposed to this as the ‘have not’ was already dead, so my spoken thought for that tableau was;…

In workshop one there was two forms of drama; straight improvisation and teacher in-role. This was structured by having the class in a semi circle and the teacher walking in straight in-role as the manager of the youth hostel. The teacher said in-role that we were ‘experienced therapists’ this automatically made clear on the role…

The script is about a 25 – 45 (yet to be decided) year old alcoholic called Harry Slezington. He is actually drinking a bottle of bourbon in the opening scene. Harry has big nights and goes for mystery drives when he is drunk, avoiding the busy traffic so he can clear his mind and party…

After attending almost a whole term of drama lessons, and as stimulated by the presentations by Environmentalists recently, I have got an idea of writing a drama based on energy conservation. Below are the details of my proposal for a drama on this topic: Introduction With higher consumption of energy nowadays, people will not only have inadequate energy for use in…