Theatre Essay Examples Page 5

Discuss the ideas of Community and responsibility for our fellow humans in ‘An Inspector Calls’. How successfully does the National Theatre Production convey this idea? “We don’t live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that a time will soon come when if men will not…

“Discuss ways in which Playwrights use the possibility of theatre to convey the meaning of a story” A: Playwrights can use the possibility of theatre very effectively to convey the meaning of stories. The book “Kes” was written by Barry Hines in the 1970’s but was performed by a group of school students at Colley School,…

The most acclaimed events in the marathon 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival were productions by Ariane Mnouchkine’s Theatre du Soleil and Giorgio Strehler’s Piccolo Teatro di Milano. Their L.A. performances of Shakespeare and Goldoni were theatrical blockbusters. One was thrilled and envious to experience stage virtuosity that has no counterpart in our own country….

Frederick Neumann looks happy. Ruddy and white-haired, the 67-year-old member of Mabou Mines, New York’s legendary avant-garde collective, breaks into a grin so beatific that, like the Cheshire Cat’s, it seems to linger in the room long after its owner has departed. For that matter, Neumann’s conversation has a slightly Carrollian cast. Ask him a…

1. The audience. I like to go to the theatre as much for the audience as for the experience of the play. I am as moved by the concordance of individuals, sitting quietly and facing in the same direction, listening, as I am by the energy coming off of the stage. When I write a…

Ronald Reagan, miraculously recuperated from an assassination attempt, was gearing up his second Presidential campaign – against a Democratic ticket with a woman, no less, in the V.P. slot. Los Angeles was sprucing up for a XXIIIrd Olympiad summer extravaganza. Glengarry Glen Ross was a gleam in the Pulitzer committee’s eye, but The Real Thing…

My Oral assessment revolved around how I would direct a modernised version of Romeo and Juliet based on Act3 Scene 1 to a contemporary audience. There were various strategies we used to develop on gradually coming up with a dramatic imagery of how we wanted the play to physically look and feel. I generally enjoyed…

Artistic health, institutional stability and the role of the federal government were the subjects of a Nov. 29 forum hosted by TCG at New York University, convened to enable theatre artists and managers to share their concerns about the current state of the field with newly appointed NEA chairman Jane Alexander. TCG executive director Peter…

Performance studies is the ideal field of study for the intellectually promiscuous. In what other academic program can you research the death rituals of the Yanomamo tribe, compare them to the construction of the self in a Jane Fonda exercise video, and then present your findings in the form of a modern dance piece? This…

We have been working on Romeo and Juliet for some time now. We were asked to write an essay on act 3 scene 1 At the start of the play I would have a narrator to tell the audience what happens. He would explain the background of the feud between the Montague’s and the caplets….