Anti-semitism was highly prevalent in the time when Elizabethan drama was popular. The type of anti-semitism during that period of time was more religious than racial. This was due to the fact that the early church believed that the Jews had killed Christ and thus were in league with the devil. The ...

From an early age I had a great love for theatre and performing. At the age of 8, I took my first steps onto the stage in Newry's Pantomimes. Since then I have become more involved through drama groups in Newry and my love for performing and everything surrounding it has grown and grown.I am a keen ...

In 500 B.C., Greek theatre was the most popular form of entertainment. It is important to understand that drama began in the Greek world as a form of religious ritual, but it was good entertainment especially if it contained a lot of blood or gore. Greek drama was not only performed in the theatre b...

"Drama and Theatre in their content and style reflect the society from which they spring"The issues and happenings of contemporary Australia are reflected in contemporary Australian Theatre, the same way as Shakespeare was reflected in Elizabethan Theatre in the 18th Century. The idea of most theatr...

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT While the language and historical setting of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy is distant from the contemporary teenage experience, the universal issues are applicable and enticing. Fighting, first love, defiance of parental authority, and death are the experiences Shakespeare...

Modern drama began by turning toward realism and away from the fantasy of nineteenth-century melodrama and farce. Realism gave rise to various innovations that served to express the dramatist\'s vision of what reality is. These attempts to be \" more real than real\" can be called expressionism. ...

The stylized theatre found in Japan that incorporates drama, dance, and song is known as Kabuki. This traditional theatre has been a part of the Japanese culture since its first performance in 1596 and most active when Japan passed into the modern age (Powell 4). The theatre has inspired all Japa...

In "Six Characters in Search of an Author", Luigi Pirandello demonstrates how he took advantage of classical drama by creating the difference between the characters and actors in the play. Pirandello uses many staging approaches and techniques to merge drama and theater, into real life, while feat...

"The stage but echoes back the public voice./The drama's laws the drama's patrons give./For we that live to please, must please to live" -Samuel Johnson The fundamental purpose of drama is to tell a story and to entertain. In order for this to ta...

The fifth-year had seen a theatre production called Noises Off. The production was held in The Piccadilly Theatre on the 17th of September. The play was about the cast of Noises Off performing another play, \'Nothing On.\' We, as the audience saw act one of the play three times but from different a...

There are a wide variety of different types of theatres in accordance to the different types of genres that exist. One particular theatre that is known as the Theatre of the Absurd exhibits the idea of something that does not follow or answer to a logical explanation. Its philosophy is to take on th...

\"Monkey,\" a play from the 1970s, was recently performed by Grin and Tonic. Writer/director, Bryan Nason manipulated themes and issues, such as self-discovery, family, good against evil, and acceptance. The performance used and demonstrated many elements of drama as well as roles, relationships, sp...

Asian theatre is comprised of more than one geographic area, consisting of India, China and Japan. Each brought their own uniqueness to Asian theatre. Asian theatre, as it pertains to China, will be discussed in this chapter. Ancient Chinese chronicles mention other theatrical activities such as ...

It has been said that tragedy is not depressing because the audience sees a noble conception of human character. Argue for or against this view.Tragedy as a theatrical art form is merely a play that has a bad ending, usually catastrophic. The drama is portraying a conflict between the protagonist a...

Good drama is built on conflict of some kind -- an opposition of forces or desires that must be resolved by the end of the story. Streetcar Named Desire employs exactly that. An opposition of forces, and desire, all of which must come to some sort of resolution or conclusion at the end. This is the...

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) a non-conformist German playwright, was the most important single influence in the development of epic theatre. His political beliefs and experiences were his motivation to try to change the world through drama. Through the theatre he created, he made people realise the wr...

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, ...

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...

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...

The White Devil is atypical of a revenge tragedy play. As a result, the action has to be ingenious and at times gruesome, whilst also being translatable to the stage. Webster uses many techniques and methods whether it is in staging, language or characterisation, to bring the action closer to the au...

MOTHER COURAGE: A LEGACY OF SURVIVAL Mother Courage is an unbraidable knot of contradictions: both fearless and feckless, wise and uneducable, maternally caring and emotionally aloof. A camp-following trader, she picks the bones of a war-withered economy to feed her fatherless children. Yet her ...

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...

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 ...

\"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...

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...