The Theatrical Experience: Compare & Contrast Never before have I experienced both a theatrical experience in a thrust stage theatre along with a black box theatre all in the same month. Being able to witness two different performances with vast differences was an opportunity where I was able to value the rewards that come along with each individual location. At the Denver Center for the Performing Arts‚ Hamlet was presented in a thrust stage space which I felt was the most appropriate manner
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THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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The News: Realism‚ Narrative and Form ________________________________________ The questions of Realism‚ bias and representation take us back to the material we looked at in the first two weeks of the course. As I have tried to stress‚ when we look at the issue of "realism" and the "representation of reality" in the media we have to be aware of the fact that the media always presents a "mediated" version of that reality‚ on its own terms. Sociological‚ political‚ cultural and ideological
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Lectures 11 & 12 American Short Stories: From Postmodernism to Dirty Realism John Barth on the short story ‘Less really is More… there are narrative ideas suitable only for a short story: quick tales‚ epiphanies that even a novella would attenuate…. You can hold a short story in your hand‚ like a lyric poem; see it whole; examine the function of individual sentences‚ even individual words‚ as you can’t readily do with Bleak House’. Ihab Hassan: Modernism vs Postmodernism (from
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Epic Theatres "Epic Theatre turns the spectator into an observer‚ but arouses his capacity for action‚ forces him to take decisions...the spectator stands outside‚ studies." (Bertolt Brecht. Brecht on Theatre. New York:Hill & Yang‚ 1964. p37) The concept of "epic theatre" was brought to life by German playwright‚ Bertolt Brecht. This direction of theatre was inspired by Brecht’s Marxist political beliefs. It was somewhat of a political platform for his ideologies. Epic theatre is the assimilation
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A Country With Absurd Laws A shocking new law In January 2014 a new law was signed by the president of Nigeria with no announcement. According to the law‚ all same-sex marriages‚ gay groups and public show of same-sex affection is forbidden. The law also affects those who assist gay people‚ which means that this law will endanger the HIV programs in Nigeria. A fact that is worth mentioning is that Nigeria runs second in the number of people suffering with HIV and that is 3.4 million people.
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Theatre History 1. Theatre and men are as related as mirror and reflection as self and shadow and study theatre of a particular era‚ and you learn the religious‚ social‚ political and economic influences of that time and also learn people’s desires‚ ideals and needs and gain insight into the present from what has gone before. 2. A) drama means to do or act B) Drama was born out of the dance of primitive man‚ when his instinctive rhythmic movements evolved into pantomimes that told or showed
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‘Beware: the kingdom of the Hopcroft is at hand’. Explain‚ with close reference to Absurd Person Singular‚ why Ayckbourn should deliver this warning about the rise of Sidney and Jane. Absurd Person Singular is staged in three successive Christmases. The three Christmases show the change in status of the Hopcrofts. The Hopcrofts move up the social ladder each Christmas;‚ starting in Act 1‚ whenre they are at the bottom‚ through to Act 3 whenre everyone is dancing to their tune. The Hopcrofts are
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Modified Realism Realism in the theatre is when the actors move and talk in a manner that resembles every day life. It became important to create a complete imitation of natural life. But it became apparently that life was not so simple. Realism was adapted and changed to become modified realism. These plays tried to maintain truthfulness to life; however‚ it was artistic truth rather than photographic truth. Theatre artists took the simplification of modified realism a step further and
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Community theatre enriches the lives of those who take an active part in it‚ as well as those in the community who benefit from live theatre productions. On either side of the footlights‚ those involved represent a diversity of age‚ culture‚ life experience‚ and a strong appreciation of the importance of the arts. Economic impacts are perhaps the most widely touted benefits of the arts. The literature on economic impact studies of the arts tends to fall into two categories: on the one hand‚ advocacy
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