Ray Lawler's, "Summer of the 17th doll" captures the aura of a rapidly changing 1950s, focusing on the failures of a dilapidated Melbourne household, whilst illustrating the changing characters of the Australian nation. Built around the traditions of a "lay off" period Lawler's famous play, in...

On March 21, 1998, I attended a ballet of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at the Etheredge Center. The ballet began at 7:30 p.m. and lasted almost two hours, but the time went by so quickly because the dancers were so captivating in their performances. Two of the performers were students at th...

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...

I thought the performance of the play "Sugar" was an electrifying and exciting piece of theatre. Although my theatre experience is limited to attending live performances, I really enjoyed myself at the theatre. The personal exchange of chemistry between performer and audience was magical and left ...

Analysis of "Before Breakfast" by Eugene O'Neill The husband, Alfred, is intentionally kept off stage because Eugene O'Neill wanted the Plot, Action, and Conflict in "Before Breakfast" to revolve around Mrs. Rowland. The plot is not intended to show the life story o...

In the Eyes of God In Greek tragedy, the Chorus served a primary function in the play. In the oldest plays, the Chorus composed of up to fifty members. They were the only people on stage and they didn¡¯t enact the play but told the story of it. As time passed, the size of the Chorus was reduc...

In class, we watched the Russian folk music group perform. They were a group of graduate and undergraduate students and they sang seasonal folk music. In their performance, they sang nine songs. The first song was named "Come Let us Bow Down to Christ." The second song was from Tolstoy's "War a...

Act 3 Scene 3, the change in Othello Othello begins the scene as the most respected character in the play, yet finishes with the audience watching an out of control and vengeful man. Act 3 Scene 3 is the pivotal scene in Shakespeare's tragedy as it contains the incredible change in Othello&a...

In performing arts our first section was dance, we choreographed a short dance, which lasted about two minutes, which incorporated different elements of dance. We learnt about each element and how to apply them to dance, during a series of lessons. Firstly through improvisation we started to...