Over the weekend, I attended a one-act play competition to see the high school I graduated from in their presentation of Act IV of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors." I didn't know what to expect, having never read or seen the play, but I was excited because Shakespeare is always entertainin...

Different Types of Movies Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. Whether it is drama, comedy, or suspense, it seems like they are all equally preferred. The three best movies of the year were the comedy, Meet T...

What's A Black comedy Turns Green Welcome to Hollywood's version of Ireland! A happy place where the grass is always greener on the other side! The plot of this amusing tale takes place around two local Irishmen who start work on a film set as extras, this film set is temporary home t...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is an excellent, humorous play written by Shakespeare. It is highly characteristic of Shakespeare, bringing several subplots into one masterful story. I have seen this play presented in a classical format and I found it thoroughly entertaining. Directed by Robin McKee, ...

The Importance of a Good Screenplay Mike Nichols' The Graduate is a hysterical comedy that has become this memorable classic that even to this day our generation can relate to. It wasn't just Nichols who made this great movie but Calder Willingham, the screenwriter for The Graduate, also...

Woyzeck, I thought all in all was quite a dry play, regarding its plot and movement. The only really interesting aspect was that of some of the actors, namely "Captain" played by William Heafer and Karl played by Sean Connealy. William did a wonderful job playing the part of Captain. From the fi...

I did my project on Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" I just so happened to see the movie and the play and will be using both for my comparison. "Much Ado About Nothing'' is a postwar love story. Its principal subject is that of romance that may settle over the land after ...

The production I critiqued is "Fairy Tale Follies" by A. J. Jacobs, done by the high school students of Foothills Academy. Despite the fact that they had a small cast and crew, the production was quite enjoyable. The play itself did not really follow Aristotle's components of drama,...

The 4 criteria I used to judge the movie Me, Myself, & Irene are acting, dialogue, music, and sound. This movie is a hilarious comedy starring Jim Carrey and René Zellwigger. Both of those actors do an excellent job, but some of the best and most comedic acting comes from the wide range of ...

"An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and mind, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the oth...

Max Reinhardt can be described as one of the greatest theatrical directors in history. A great innovator and a master of spectacle, he staged gigantic productions full of pageantry and color. Reinhardt became one of the first theatrical directors to achieve widespread recognition as a major creativ...

Nurse Betty Nurse Betty is a movie that has received numerous great reviews; will it live up two it? The Boston Globe gives it three and a half out of four stars and says it's lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances and off beat fun. The Chicago Sun Times gives it three out o...

>From Class to Sass Contrasting Hepburn and Stone's Sexuality In the 1950's and the 1990's, Audrey Hepburn and Sharon Stone respectively, achieved their sex appeal through extremely different acting styles. Hepburn established her sex appeal by projecting a mesmerizing image of elegance and beaut...

Commedia dell'Arte is the name for a group of professional actors who traveled together around Europe. These professional actors helped nurture and grow some of the world's most commonly used acting styles and ideas. They defined and set the standard of skills that an actor needs to develop and us...

Scene Eleven from the play "Mother Courage and Her Children" and Act One, Scene Four from "Summer of the Aliens" are scenes that are performed very differently, according to their theatrical styles and using conventions relating to those styles. The context in each scene is diverse, too, however...

MARKETING AND PROMOTING A FILM. A film is the source of most of all our comedy and entertainment which all sorts of ideas come from. One film inspires another and so on and so forth. Once a rough draft of a script has been written, the writer has to see a director who will forward the film to a...

Movies play a major role in our lives. This form of art is designed to educate and entertain our souls. There are different types of movies; comedy ,drama, action, romance and etc. A large number of movies are very creative and interesting, while other are a joke. This essay will examine the good, b...

When you go to the theater you may never see your name in lights but your role as an audience member is just as important as the star of the show. A play never really exists until it is performed in front of an audience. That makes an audience what the art of playwriting is all about, it's th...

Greek Theatre There have been many artistic achievements that have had a substantial role in shaping outlooks and tastes for cultures and generations for 1000's of years. Of all the different kinds of productions the Greeks have established, the tragedy is the most extraordinary of t...

A critique on Thirty Three Swoons In the play Thirty Three Swoons, which is a collection of four farces written by Anton Palovish Chekhov. The play consists of these short productions in order, Swan Song, The Bear, The Proposal, and The Wedding. Each of them their own unique plays that pokes...

" [In Cloud Nine] the audience's interpretation relies far more on reading signs in contradiction than in combination [...] The overt theatricality of Churchill's presentation works against a conventional reliance on plot and character and instead asks more general operations of cultu...

Very early in history, the Greeks began to collect poems that had been written in honor of their brave ancestors. These poems were often recited in public and almost everyone in the city would come to listen. Many people think that Greek entertainment evolved from these poems, but actually it did ...

Dead Again, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a film full of mystery, fascinating puzzles, romance, wit, with plenty of twists and turns. The film starts with headlines screaming "Murder!" Roman Strauss is on death row for the conviction of the murder of his wife, Margaret. Forty-five years later ...

Two Can Play That Game M (15+) STARRING: Vivica .A. Fox, Morris Chestnut DIRECTOR: Mark Brown CRITICS WARNING: Sexual References, little offensive language, but great storyline. Colour 123 minutes Is your man playing up? Showing signs of infidelity or as Shante Smith (Vivica. A. Fox) would ...

A sword between two stones can turn out to be a problem. Two forces working against one another are the reasons for the dilemma. This predicament can be overcome, and the sword can be free if the two forces work with one another. An additional dilemma is deciding how these two forces are going...