Theatre Essay Examples Page 4

The Shakespearean play, Much Ado About Nothing, is traditionally portrayed over the theatre, but there is also a film version. Although there are a few similarities between the film and the play, for instance the script of the film is virtually the same as the original play, there are apparently more differences between the two versions. Firstly,…

    Fighting was partly a continuation of the Austrian War of Succession of the 1740’s and spanned form America to Europe, and from the West Indies to Africa. India was also partly involved in the conflict. This has led historians to name the American theatre of war as the French Indian War 1754-63 (Including…

This issue interested me because of its historical aspect and I felt like I could use my knowledge in pre historic material in favour of writing this essay. I started by looking for exact definition for ritual, I found out that although I could find books that try to define theatre and ritual, most of…

Discuss the dramatic functions of music in two works of Music Theatre, including some consideration of the relationship between music and other elements of the performance event. Music and drama have the capability of not only integrating to create spectacular visual and aural events in theatre, but they have a distinct capacity to support each…

The murder mystery genre was first recognised as a major genre during the 19th century. Pioneers of this genre include the Norwegian writer Mauritz Hansen as his novel “The murder of machine operator Rolfsen”, published in 1839 is considered to be the earliest known novel of this genre. Another pioneer of the genre includes Edgar…

Thank you for accepting the role of Sheila Birling in our theatre company’s version of John B Priestley’s ‘An Inspector Calls’. I have enclosed the entire script to help you prepare for the role. Also, in this letter you will find some notes that I have done for you to help you play the character…

The year is 1912. The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, when an Inspector Goole rudely interrupts them. The inspector goes through the characters one by one and interrogates them about the suicide of a young woman, named Eva Smith. When the realisation of how each of them supposedly has had a part…

On the 22nd of May, I went with the school to the Royal Shakespeare theatre, in Stratford upon Avon; to see the Matinee performance of Williams Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’. The play contained a cast of seven main characters. There was a father in the play called Baptista who had two daughters which were called…

History is back. Playwrights are bringing it back, urging the theatre from its obsession with the self and family to an investigation of the nation and its legacy. Even the names ring out with a sense of moment and place, regional or national rooting: The America Play, The Kentucky Cycle, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Angels…

The opening scene of William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ is a dramatic significance for many reasons. The name of the poem is linked into the story straight away because these men are trapped on a ship in the midst of a storm which is the literal meaning for tempest. The tempest itself is like an…