Alyson Cummins: A Theatre Review

The designers’ availability allows the play to provide admirable performance. Whatever differed in their jobs, their performance in these design worthy to admire. Also, The director was the one how encourages them to determine the precise time in the

Another really effective aspect to the performance was the use of technology, including sound effects, projections, pod casts and voice overs. The scene which stood out most for me, concerning technology would be the scene where Al is trapped in the lecture theatre. Here, he begins to look through Ruth?s belongings of books, papers and passports. While he is doing this, actions too small to be seen from the audience, a live streaming is being projected up onto the whiteboard behind to show us, as the audience, what he is looking at. Al starts to read a page from a book which has been marked down and as he starts to read a voice over starts reading the same words, quietly at first and as that gradually builds up in volume, Al?s voice decreases in volume till its just the voice over reading out the words from the book. This is one of the first links to the past, a key theme in the performance, as the voice over is the voice of G H Hardy, the great mathematician reading from his own book.

As Joe said we going to discuss the readings upload on the course webside. In order to have a intersting discusion we will send you a sheet with question every week. They will be a guideline, so the answers have to be main ideas/facts or anothers question that you may have during the readings. Please write them and share it during the discussion.

As for the first theatre, I chose Book-It Respertory Theatre. Its location is at The Center Theatre in Seattle, Washington, and the address is 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98109. They have just finished with the show “Emma”, which came from the book that Jane Austen wrote. During May, they will start with a new show called “The Brothers K”, and it is written by David James Duncan. Although I have never read this book before, the review said it’s one of the great American novel one hasn’t read. As for the current artistic director, Myra Platt, she will be leading and directing the show for “The Brothers K”. The theatre started in 1990, and it has been able to continue operating for twenty six years with the hard works of its members’.

Name and background of presenter. What do they do for a living? Where do they do it? What is their education and experiences? Why were they asked to present this lecture? (Approximately 350 words page).

The production is co-directed by Casey Nicholaw and Parker. Nicholaw also did the choreography for the production. The following designers were involved with the production: Scott Pask (Set Design), Anna Roth (Costume Design), Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Design) and Brian Ronan (Sound Design). Stephen Oremus was the musical director and vocal arranger for the production. He co-created the orchestrations with Larry Hochman.

What from today’s session do you want to learn more about and why? How will you try to learn more? For example, who would you talk to, what online resources would you consult, or what experience could you arrange to learn more?

For many years, the principle ideas for acting were established by Konstantin Stanislavski, who was a Russian actor and director. Stanislavski’s practical ideas and theories which were called his “system”, were eventually altered by those who succeeded him. When Stanislavski’s former students brought Stanislavski’s system to America, it still hadn’t been fully completed, thus it it suffered alterations in Russia. The alterations made to Stanislavski’s system were contorted by Lee Strasburg into what came to be known as “ the Method”. This altered version of Stanislavski’s system became the standard for acting around the world. Stanislavski’s methods concluded that emotion couldn’t be the foundation of a performance, but rather it was to be the outcome. “The actor must understand

She used Prezi. I liked the colors and the way the slides moved from topic to topic. Her audience were parents at a parent night. The information she presented was to the point and not too much. The colors and the movement of slides of the presentation would keep the parents’ attention.

The design team set the tone for the production. They set the lighting,costume, and sound on the stage. The design team have to get a feel of the directors vision so the actors, stage, and costumes can match the interpretation of the scene. Production teams can collect ideas; this will benefit the collaborative process. It also will provide a first impression and clear outlook to the directors vision. Example ,If the screenwriter wrote a part in a play that cause for white hair ,but the director thinks red hair will enhance the actor features then compromise. Working together,being supportive and figuring out a way to produce results because collaboration is essential for

She notes the ability a designer has to touch an audience, impacting how they think, feel and act for years to come (Porter 2015, 7). Though we view theatre in the company of a group of people, as an individual, we reflect on the imagined experience of theatre for various lengths of time, letting it encompass us, interacting with personal experiences we may have had and effecting our world view. (Porter 2015, 5-6) In this section: theatre and design, Porter runs the risk with her statements on the impacts of theatre to come across as jaded, making sweeping judgments on the way individuals and groups interact with theatre and theatre design. However, through strategic word choices such as ‘have the ability’, ‘help to’ and ‘I believe’, Porter makes it clear to the reader that these tend to be just her viewpoints and she seemingly has no expectation for the reader to agree with every declaration she makes. Instead, readers can take her findings at face value and dissect them in a way that can positively impact the readers’ viewpoint on design. The term design, in itself, is never truly defined by Porter in her work, which is important to note as in her composition, she only goes into detail on the three types of design; scenery, costumes and lighting. This was an interesting choice as it makes it appear to the reader as these

The production designer is responsible for producing design ideas for costumes, wigs, props, special effects, make-up and graphics (AGCAS, 2013). In other words Jane is the blue print to the script.

When viewing the stage the audience can obviously tell that, while seemingly simplistic, there was a great effort put forth into the design of the production. At the play’s start we see Algernon Moncrieff (Andrew Fish) awaiting his aunt Lady Bracknell (Calin Nichols) and his cousin Gwendolyn (Roselynn Corrado) but is visited

The topic was playwrights, and Daisy asked us our favourite playwright. They were all varied, from Sophocles, to Lorca or Sarah Kane. What I learned about Sophocles from the lecture was the amount of plays he wrote (around 120), and that only 7 remain complete: Electra, Oedipus Rex, Ajax, Antigone, Philoctetes, The women of Trachis and Oedipus at Colonus, that was very interesting unknown information that I received. In addition, another interesting fact that I learned was that Sophocles introduced the third actor and the concept of Skenographia (scenery-painting). Another playwright mentioned was Tom Stoppard with plays like Arcadia or R and G are dead, crucial to make himself known. Federico Garcia Lorca was also mentioned, a Spanish playwright and poet that I already knew, but interesting to hear that other people from the seminar class share the love for him. Willy Russell with Blood Brothers, was another playwright named, it was the first time to hear it. In addition, it was the first time to hear about Arthur Miller, with plays like The Crucible, The Death of a Salesman or Tragic Hero. Samuel Becket was definitely a well-known name, and we talked about how different is Waiting for Godot. In contrast to the last statement, Alan Bennett is a playwright that I discovered in this seminar, with

Each week we will have an online discussion of the material assigned – text chapters, videos, audios, articles, etc. ‐‐by your instructor. These discussions are for the purpose of exploring the assignments, the ideas presented, your