Theatre Essay Examples Page 3

“Theatre of the 21st Century should be looking forward, not looking back. ” Discuss the above statement in relation to the play you have seen in performance and with reference to its original performance circumstances. In discussing the statement “Theatre of the 21st Century should be looking forward, not looking back”, it is necessary to…

Last Thursday, I had seen the Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning play “Clybourne Park,” written by Bruce Norris and directed by Ralf Remshardt. “Clybourne Park” is the spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun. ” The stage was setting up as a truly house. “Clybourne Park” is an allegory about racial problems. In…

In the following essay, I am going to write about the development of drama and theatre from the English to the French Renaissance. There is a few important aspects that I am going to focus on: The influence that the English playwrights Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare had on Elizabethan drama, the public outdoor theatres…

I went and watched the play, “Grease,” a few years back in Columbus. It depicted the 1971 musical, and later 1978 hit film, based on the students of a 1950’s high school. The broadway stars Max Crumm and Laura Osnes, as Danny and Sandy. Their journey to the lead roles were documented on the NBC…

Performance studies is sort of a discipline that works with other fields. These are anthropology, gender studies, folklore, religion even art and more. Eventually none of those disciplines can’t work on their own. Like Performance Studies need to establish its roots on those branches. It examines artistic performances and cultural performances. Traditions and rituals seem…

Theater and drama in Ancient Greece took form in about 5th century BCE, with the Sopocles, the great writer of tragedy. In his plays and those of the same genre, heroes and the ideals of life were depicted and glorified. It was believed that man should live for honor and fame, his action was courageous…

“The arts of the western world have been largely dominated by the artistic standards established by the Greeks of the classical period” Spreloosel 86. It is from the Greek word theatron, meaning a place for sitting, that we get our word theater. According to James Butler, “The Greeks were the first people to erect special…

Commedia dell”arte is a truly popular form of theatre – of the people, by the people, for the people. Discuss this statement with specific examples of Commedia dell”arte scenarios, stock characters, performance features and circumstances. Commedia dell”arte is definitely an artform centred on people and their world. Although its origins are hazy due to the…

Dickens seems to have a highly developed sense of theatre, and this is proven countless times in his works. The three ‘stages’ of Pip’s life could also be called Acts, because if you were to make Great Expectations into a play, the three stages would most certainly be divided into Acts 1, 2 and 3….

“The Romans are often characterized as loving violent and cruel entertainment in the amphitheatre. It has been suggested that the games served the dual purpose of providing entertainment for the people and maintaining the political status quo.”   In today’s society, the killing of humans and animals usually means a jail term, and seeing someone…