By 1600, international trade routes, which had been centered around the Mediterranean Sea for centuries, were almost entirely based around Northern Atlantic countries like Spain, France, and England. The economic explosion and widespread circulation of money that came with this were accompanied by ...

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...

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...

To fully explain the conditions governing Classical Greek Theatre it is first necessary to go back in history to understand its origins. Greek Theatre began over 2,500 years ago – 2,000 years before Shakespeare – in its earliest form it took the form of religious rites, involving songs and danc...

Brecht was reacting against the theatre of the time; this was because traditional theatre had fantastic sets, elaborate costumes, sentimental music, and sloppy emotion. He thought this type of theatre was aesthetically wrong as he felt a good story had been taken and made sentimental. He also believ...

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...

A brief look at the history of dramatic representation shows a long and tumultuous past. I am just going to briefly touch down on medieval times. Because of its pagan associations, early Christians regarded the theater as disgraceful and held it in low esteem. Actors were forbidden to become memb...

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...

As society dives headfirst into the 21st-century, one cannot deny that there are a number of apparently frivolous concepts which are being sacrificed in the name of technology. Peripheral ideals and out-dated innovations such as LP\'s, tie-dying, and the ozone layer are being rightfully pushed asid...

Perfect Beginning No one is perfect in the beginning. When watching television, a beautiful and famous actress appears. This actress makes it look like her career is the best thing to do. It takes much practice to become a professional actress. Role models are the beginning of forming an inspiratio...

In Jackson\'s Victorian Theatre (1989) he discusses how during the nineteenth century the British theatre was pretty much exclusively commercial and was central to popular culture and to the entertainment industry of an urban industrial society. Its purposes and effectiveness were argued over by cri...

Every now and then an innovative play will come along and astound the theatre world. Sometimes the play will triumph for pleasant or ghastly reasons, but only a chosen few will be earmarked as an immortal classic. The plays that end up being classic are plays that frequently focus on a universal a...

In southeastern Europe, along the Mediterranean Sea is the mountainous peninsula called Greece. It is a small country (only about 50,000 squares miles in area) and almost the size of New York. Greece is a very beautiful land. The long coast line is so broken that the deep blue sea seems to be every...

Aristotle's key principles as found in Oedipus the King Drama was an important way to transmit culture, education, morality and religion during the Golden Age of Greek theatre, which lasted from about 500bc to 400bc. There were three main tragedians in Greece at this time. Aeschylus, also k...

Theatre is a form of art created to express the ideals or feelings of various groups of people. Widely held beliefs state that it began as a ritual, and through the performers' repetition of a certain event in front of an audience, the ritual became a performance and theatre was born. In ancient G...

?Can Oedipus the King play be adapted to moderns firms and still be successful. Twenty-five hundred years ago, two thousand years before Shakespeare, Western theater was born in Athens, Greece. Between 600 and 200 BC, the ancient Athenians created a theater culture whose form, technique and terminol...

Form and Structure in Streetcar Named Desire There are a few points that a well made play should to end up being successful whether the play was being played at a theatre or for an appearance on television. 1.) Exposition (introduction of characters and situations) 2.) Conflict (a huge pr...

The viewer positioning in television dramas play a very important and critical part in how the drama is portrayed to the audience, and hence this gives an idea on how successful the show will be. Dawson's Creek is a relatively new TV drama aimed at teenagers and the issues they face and have...

The viewer positioning in television dramas play a very important and critical part in how the drama is portrayed to the audience, and hence this gives an idea on how successful the show will be. Dawson’s Creek is a relatively new TV drama aimed at teenagers and the issues they face and have t...