Analysis Of ' At The Abbey Theater ' By Rory O ' Neill

1.) Shakespeare is considered the most important playwright ever because, according to the film Shakespeare on the Silver Screen, “he seems to deal with and discuss and dramatize most of the things that matter to most human beings.” What this means is that he was able to write about issues that individuals wanted to see and what mattered to them. He had a gift of observing people without judging them; he observed them for who they really were. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was able to discuss tragic love, something that most humans could relate to and love is something that mattered to a number of them as well. He was able to connect to individuals and connect to the emotions they were feeling.

Theatre is a collaboration of various forms of fine art which utilizes live performances presenting before the audience on a stage at a specific place within a scheduled time (Dugdale 10). The message is communicated through a combination of various channels like songs, speech gestures or dances. Stagecraft skills are combined with elements of art to make the performance more physical and near to real life experience. Theatre is categorized broadly into drama, musical theatre, comedy, tragedy and improvisation. Any form of these accepts integration of various production modes and collective reception to influence the artwork being presented. As a result of this cooperation of items in the theatre

For our critiquing assignment in our Introduction to Stagecraft 1, I ventured to downtown Toronto, to a small indie theatre called, The Unit 102 Theatre. There I saw the production of MISS; written by Dora Award-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert who wrote such works as Tough Jews, The Spadina Avenue Gang with the Storefront Theatre. The set takes place in the aftermath of a shocking accident in a boarding school classroom, the story explores the tenuous connection between a high school teacher, her fiance, and a troubled student whose lives have been irrevocably changed by tragedy caused by a miscarriage, an affair, and the fear of the consequences that are not yet revealed, and finally, murder. This is a one act showdown between three

Regardless of my lack of adequate educational opportunities during my childhood, as I progressed throughout my higher academic courses over the past years, I have learned that I have always been treated differently due to my sexual orientation. In other words, as a heterosexual Christiane male in the American community; I have always being treated with honor simply because I supposedly fit the acceptable identity of a male standard within the Liberian and American community. For example, as a straight man in the American and Liberian community, I have the freedom to use any restroom and I have the opportunity to walk around my community without fearing for my safety as compared to a LGBT person. Unfortunately, members of LGBT label do not get

Racism is an immense issue for everyone around the world. Although racial discrimination is normally thought to only be discrimination from outside of one’s community or culture, it surprisingly exists mostly inside of cultures in which people discriminate members of their own community. For example, In “"FOBs" vs "Twinkies": The New Discrimination Is Intraracial”, Grace Hsiang writes about intraracial discrimination in which Asian Americans who cling to their heritage and Asian Americans who want nothing to do with their heritage discriminate one another. In her article, Hsiang tells us about racism within a community, which is something most people aren't aware about. In contrast, Black Men and Public Space by Brent Staples talks about the author’s personal experiences with discrimination as a black male. Unlike Hsiang, Staples talks about being

On November 4th, 2016, my best friend and I went to see the play at the Charles Winter Wood Theatre. This play is set during the 1950s, and the scene takes place in a night club in Chicago. This play was sponsored by FAMU’s Essential Theatre, and it was quite entertaining. It presents realistic situations such as the affairs, jealously, and debt in relationships. The director, Maurice Kitchen, wrote this play to present the Black artists who used their talent to escape the difficulties they have faced. The main character, Billy Gamble, was a show host and performer, who used his patients with musical talents to be on his show. Important aspects seen in the play were love and fame. The musicians expressed their feelings within their music.

After decades of sociopolitical mobilization by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their allies, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage this year. Despite the landmark ruling, black and other nonwhite members of the LGBT community criticized the movement’s narrow focus, and its failure to acknowledge the racial inequality, class cleavages, and marginalization within the community.1 My research addresses how black LGBTs’ experiences of discrimination affect their perception of the salience of same-sex marriage.

example, I am a gay black male. I face scrutiny from society as a whole for being

The modern queer community exists with fine lines of privilege and distinctions of status. Factors that determine power and influence in mainstream society are perpetuated within the LGBTQ community and serve as indicators of division. Throughout my life, I have experienced privilege and I understand that as a white, gay man, I hold disproportionate influence. I understand that the factors of race and sexuality have held a considerable impact on my life and my experiences as a member of both the white and LGBTQ communities. Though I understand my racial advantage as a gay person, I do not feel shameful; instead, I feel a responsibility to further the condition of intersectional equality.

Because sexual orientationism, or homophobia, is something that is unconsciously encouraged since our youth by the media and its lack of representation of the queer community, there is often a lot of work that has to be done internally in order to understand and accept homosexuality, regardless of whether you identify with or simply wish to be an ally. My understanding of my privilege or oppression with sexual orientation comes from many years of internally restructuring my own understanding of societal norms. I had a much easier time of accepting the community from my mother who was always there to encourage my acceptance, and growth not only of, but within the community. As an individual who identifies as a pansexual male, my deconstruction of what was proposed as the norm, and reconciling that with my own understanding of what I felt inside to be true was fairly straight forward, but no less substantial. However, I do recognize my own

The struggle is real for blacks. Things must suck even more for women. Shoot, think about how much life blows for gays. Now imagine being all three. For now, we’ll call this the good ole triple negative. Gay, black, and female are the least benefitted sexual identities, ethnicities, and genders. Benefits in this context refer to rights and privileges (equal pay and representation) in society compared to the opposite: straight white male. A big chuck of this is a result of our (me, identifying as a triple negative) position in society, unseen and when seen subordinate to our male counterparts. This invisibility isn’t by chance and if one looks hard enough, figuratively speaking, these absences become almost obvious. There is a clear downfall

Treating them like the lesser and interacting with them like they are diseased strictly because they are being their true self puzzles me. These are the same people who get upset when discriminatory remarks and acts are done to diminish their racial identity. As a community who experiences discrimination on a daily basis, we should be more understanding of the LGBTQQIP2SAA community and forms of discrimination they face. If you look to racism as a mathematical equation (x+x= y), homophobia and transphobia will be relatively similar structure with different variables involved (z+z=y). However, as I continue to reflecting how the LGBTQQIP2SAA community perpetuates anti-blackness and how homophobia and transphobia presents itself within the Black community, I often have to remind myself that everyone is at different stages of decolonizing their minds. Many of these racist, homophobic and transphobic thoughts are so deeply engraved into our society, we are unable to openly identify them as wrong and now perceive it at being

A few weeks ago, I had a chance to watch Les Miserables at Imperial Theater. Les Miserables is play based on Victor Hugo’s award winning novel. I must admit that the play made me realize the great stories that will continue be told in mass media for years to come. Much to my astonishment, the characters in the play essentially delivered a great show, ranging from their acting to their singing.

“In roughly built playhouses and cobblestone inn yards, an extraordinary development took place in England in the 1500s.” (Yancey, 8). At that time, an opportunity combined to produce literature achievement never before witnessed in the history of drama and theater. The renaissance, helped spark this movement by inspiring scientific and artistic creativity throughout the land. Models began writing dramas that portrayed life in both realistic and imaginative ways. This created work later captured the attention of the world that changed the English drama. The many aspects of Elizabethan theater helped to shape the acting and theater world forever.

Eugene O’Neill is widely considered the most influential of American playwrights. He is called the “founder of modern drama in the United States”, and holds the title of the first American playwright to earn a Nobel Prize in literature. (O’ Neill 794) His play, The Emperor Jones, is credited as being one that provided” several firsts in American theatre history: the Provincetown Players first major hit, the first major role for an African American actor on the legitimate Broadway stage (in houses where the audience was still racially segregated), and the play that secured O’Neill’s place as a writer for the high-art, experimental theatre worthy of international attention. (Steen 343) Basically, The Emperor Jones made Eugene O’Neill.