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...

Drama is an art, and the artists are actors. Just like any other art form, proper training in theater is essential to gain mastery in the skill of acting. There are many approaches to teaching acting. Gordon Phillips, a seasoned professional in the field, has developed a very interesting method. ...

Tonight I saw the play \"Overruled\" by George Bernard Shaw. I was so impressed by the ascents they used and the dialect they developed for each of their characters. All of the actors seemed very well-rehearsed and prepared for their roles. They all had direct actions and used the given circumstance...

The date was January 17th, 1863. The place was Moscow, Russia. The event was the birth of Constantin Alekseyev Stanislavski, the well-known theatre practitioner whose theories behind acting became a major turning point in the history of theatre. Born into a wealthy family, Stanislavski\'s natural...

Ballyhoo is a play about a Jewish family in the south around Christmas. The play takes place in a house, mainly in one room, the family room. There are four people who live in the house. A working man who looks to be in his early fifties, his sister who is probably in her late forties, her daughte...

Standing in front of the crowd, all dressed up in their costumes, everything is just clicking. The crowd loves it, and the play comes to an end. You feel the energy building up in the theatre, an energy that you\'ve never felt. The lights go out and the curtain closes, then the actors come out to bo...

Closer, performed on November 26, 2000 at the Mark Taper Forum, was an excellent show. The play is about two men and two women who are thrown together by chance. Throughout the play, they connect, disconnect and reconnect in bewildering combinations with each other as they try to get \"closer\" All ...

1) What was the play about? (brief synopsis) Mr. Kipps, the protagonist, has engaged a professional actor to help him learn to act out and reveal his play onstage to his family and friends. By the second act, a shy, timid, and nervous Kipps transforms into the superior actor. At this point, t...

I had never been to a theatre setting such as the Goodman Theatre before and it was exciting. The building was enormous. When I first entered I thought I was at an Opera House. The shape of the theatre was huge. It had high ceilings and high seating. Balconies went on for days. The shape of the ...

Dinner with Friends In the play Dinner with Friends, the main conflict was between Beth and Tom. This is revealed in the first scene while having dinner at Karin and Gabe's house. Beth cries out about Tom not loving her anymore and wanting to divorce her. She confides in Kar...

I approached this first rehearsal having written detailed notes on my directorial plans. The notes contained step-by-step stage directions as well as help with characters, and were given to the actors at the start of the rehearsal. My thoughts in doing this were that it would hopefully make it easi...

Account of live performance: Abomination On Friday 24th, I watched a production of the book 'Abomination' in the school assembly room at Bitterne Park School. To perform the play 'abomination' I thought the actors and actresses would have to be good as I had heard from fr...

Irony is another staple tool of wit in Style acting, and it often seems to come effortlessly to British actors because the British rarely say what they mean. \"The speech we hear is an indication of what we don\'t hear... One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nak...

In a Hollywood movie the hero has great importance because he is the one who will capture the audience. When writing the script directors have always been preoccupied to paint a very attractive character with distinct qualities, almost perfect. Andre Bazin was a very important French film theorist ...

"After Mrs Rochester" is based on the life of the novelist Jean Rhys, best known for her 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea. The novel is the prequel to Jane Eyre and tells the story of the earlier life of Mr Rochester's wife Bertha Mason, the "mad woman in the attic". The play begins with the older Je...

The greek playwright, Sophocles, was born around 496 B.C., and died in 406 B.C. During his life, he wrote many plays, one of which was Oedipus. Sophocles was the first dramatist to add the third actor to the play. Actors were able to perfrom many different parts, but the play was limited to only...

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,...

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, ...

Pop fiction is extremely popular with readers in the USA and also in Britain. Surprisingly, the sales statistics reveal that 33% are thrillers, 28% romance and 5-6% are written on science fiction, horror and fantasy. Pop fiction makes a good read because they ask the reader to read the book with sus...

We watched the movie Secondhand Lions in class. I really enjoyed the movie because the actors are superb, the characters endearing, and the plot has an "I can't wait to see what happens next" quality that keeps everyone laughing, gasping in surprise, and amused in disbelief. The first reason why I l...

\"The Fabulous Fable Factory\" by Joseph Robinette is a work children\'s theater. An individual unfamiliar with this genre of theater might simply assume a work of children\'s theater to be a dumbed-down version of adult theater. This might be particularly the case in terms of \"The Fabulous Fable...

The Red Deer College Theatre Studies presentation of Richard III by William Shakespeare was excellent. The production really brought the book to life adding everything from a few different twists and turns than in the original script to Richard being quite comedic but still extremely sinister. Altho...

Creating sympathy is a very delicate and skilled task to perform in a motion picture. Filmmakers have to take factors in to account in order to get their message across. There are many techniques, ranging from an actors' or actresses' clothes and possessions to the environment in which...

The main character in this play is Shelby a woman who usually falls for the wrong type, romantically linked to Tyrel, a promiscuous man. Also supporting characters are Debra, friend to Shelby, married to Leonard, friend to Tyrel. The play was written in 1999 as a subsequent to the successful novel...

Did William Shakespeare ever foresee that his play Hamlet would be later modified into several film adaptations? Did he ever have any visions of how the film would be produced? When Hamlet was created into a film, the version of the play that would best uphold Shakespeare's vision would be Fran...