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For my GCSE practical, we chose to create a piece of improvisation in which I was a performer. I had previously been a stage manager and so it was interesting to be in a position to see a play from a completely different perspective, as an actor. Our devised piece, Hangman was written and is…

On the 27th of June, we travelled down to the Phoenix Theatre in London, the play we saw is called Blood Brothers and is written by Willy Russell. The play is set in Liverpool and was written in the 1980’s. The 1980’s was known as Thatchers Britain. It was a time where unemployment was high…

For the opening of educating Rita, Russell needs to entertain and interest his audience, however, he also needs to quickly introduce his characters: Frank, a university teacher in his early fifties, bored with his life and Rita, a badly educated hairdresser with a thirst for knowledge. Russell begins “Educating Rita” with Frank searching frantically in…

Konstantin Sergeivich Alexeiev was born into a very rich Russian family in the year 1863. With a theatre built in a wing of his home, he was brought up with acting in his life and his family were very fond of the art. However, they were not the kind of people who would take kindly…

I in a heartfelt way love the movie and maintain that it’s one of the great images from the last 10 old ages. I don’t cognize what the manager of this film ( Spike Lee ) intended the moral to be. but my return on the movie has ever been that NO ONE does the…

In the reading Salvation by Langston Hughs, there are many different underlying themes. There is the thought that even though it may be safer to be non-confrontational, it is not always the best approach. The adults wanting the children to be saved, portrays this. Being “saved”, involves an inner peace that results in a faith…

Richard Wright s Native son demonstrates how evil can be created by power driven, racist white society. His novel depicts one black man, Bigger Thomas as being forced to commit violence by his social circumstance. The story is an eye opener, one who’s main purpose is to bring awareness to many blind and racist whites….

Everyman is an English morality play written by an anonymous author in the late fifteenth century. It is an allegorical play and may have been based on an earlier Dutch morality play. In the beginning of the play, a foreword describes the message the story will portray. A messenger tells the audience that people should…

Macbeth is a story about Good versus Evil on one mans mind. It is a tail about how a brave and intelligent man deliberately murders one of his fellowmen: his friend, his relative, his guest, and his king; as a consequence of his first murder, kill two other innocent men. Macbeth has lust for power…

The novel Native Son was published by Richard Wright in 1940. The book represents the tragedy of Bigger Thomas, a black boy raised in the Chicago slums during the great depression. Wright uses symbolism extensively in the novel. There is even symbolic meaning behind the titles of each of the three parts of the novel….