How to Conduct a Theatre Audition When conducting auditions for a play‚ it is of utmost importance to establish an attitude of professionalism from the get-go. One must pay attention to detail and manage human resources well in order to make accurate casting decisions. Like any employer‚ directors must be careful to cast each role with the right candidate. Therefore‚ it is crucial that producers and directors preemptively take care of logistical issues so that they may focus on each actor’s audition
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Iroquois Theatre Highly advertised as being “absolutely fireproof”‚ The Iroquois Theatre was as fireproof as the Titanic was unsinkable. On December 30th‚ of the year 1903‚ five weeks after The Iroquois opened‚ The Iroquois Theatre did indeed burn. The fire was so bad that in just under 8 minutes it roared through the theatre claiming 602 lives and injuring at least 250 others (Foy‚ 1995). According to the National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA)‚ this fire is by far the deadliest theatre fire
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new-york-city.com) Then why when people hear this street name‚ do they think of theater? That’s because this street‚ commonly referred to as the “Great White Way”‚ has 36 theaters. These 36 theaters‚ along with 4 other‚ make up what is called the Theatre District. Broadway history dates back to the late 1600 ’s‚ when a coffee house called ’The King ’s Arms ’ opened in 1696 on Broadway. Some scholars think this may have held Manhattan ’s earliest theatrical performances (Kenrick
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truth to it. Theatre of the absurd is an esoteric avant-garde style of theatre based on the principles of existentialism that looks at the world without any assumption of purpose. Existentialism and Theatre of the Absurd became identified with a cultural movement that flourished in Europe in the 1940s and 1950s‚ after the Second World War. The idea that man starts with nothing and ends with nothing is a common theme amongst most absurd plays. Despite this strange philosophy‚ Theatre of the absurd
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Theatre is not just about conveying the written text; rather that through the body‚ by trying to find a simple language of gestures and sounds‚ we can communicate at a much more powerful level; that there is a universal language for the theatre‚ regardless of cultural differences. There is a recognition that if you want ‘realistic drama’‚ television and cinema are far more effective than theatre. What is unique about theatre is its relationship to its audience: the fact that actor and audience
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stand out from the rest. The theatre department‚ overseen by Michelle Bayer‚ can be described as a whirlwind of activity‚ with 10 official productions each year. My group researched it for the education unit‚ but the majority of them were unfamiliar with the activity‚ and I felt the overall presentation was unrepresentative of what high school theatre is. It can be characterized‚ primarily‚ by an abundance of drama‚ both in the acting sense‚ and in the social sense. Theatre kids are infamous for their
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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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Religion in Asian Theatre From 350-1350 c.e. theatre began to die off in the western countries due to Christianity and the fall of Rome. At about this time‚ the performing arts began to emerge on the Eastern hemisphere. The creators of Asian theatre new nothing of the theatre in Rome or Greece so there was no influence during the fabrication of this new form of theatre. Eastern theatre is much more stylized in that they believe in “total theatre‚” which is using every element of theatre be it music
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had never had the opportunity to attend a musical theatre master class. On the other hand‚ I am extremely accustomed to dancer master classes and I found it interesting to compare and contrast the way classes are held. Each Friday the dancer department takes a master class with a different professional dancer. Besides the specific dance genre‚ the classes possess numerous similarities to each other. This was not the case for the two musical theatre master classes I attended this year. I found it intriguing
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What is the Theatre of the Absurd? The theatre of the absurd is a term that was created by a Hungarian Critic Martin Esslin. It is a term that represents a few European playwrights in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Some characteristics of the theatre of the absurd include broad comedy‚ mixed with horrific or tragic images‚ characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meanlingless actions‚ dialogue full of clichés‚ wordplay and nonsense: plots that are cynical or absurdly expansive;
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