Character Analysis Of The PlayFrom The Mouths Of Babes

For my final Macbeth project I decided to do a dramatic performance in which I was required to memorize and perform at least 10 lines from the original text. My group and I came to the agreement that we would do our performance on Act 4 Scene 1 from Macbeth. The group I worked with consisted of Dulce, Giselle, Laura, and Kelly and we all got together at Laura’s house to film our presentation. We all chose the lines we wanted to perform and memorized them for our final performance. During our rehearsals most of us started to get frustrated due to not being able to memorize part of our lines. However, we all encouraged each other to be patient and help one another with the lines. Furthermore, once we got our lines together we started to film

Annie is a play set in the great depression about a orphan who manages to spend Christmas with a billionaire while trying to find her biological parents. Many people attempt to fake being Annie’s parents, to get a reward but none of them succeed, and Annie finds her real family in the Warbucks, the billionaire that cares for her, and gets adopted by him and lives happily ever after.

In the short story, “Wallace Playlot” written by Billy Lombardo, a boy's realizations about human interaction in his life is shown. Lombardo uses characterization and point of view to establish that a person will never truly know another person’s character until they associate themselves with that person's personal feelings and thoughts. In every aspect of this story, there are always characters perceiving each other in certain ways. Petey is the narrator, and because of that, everything told to the reader about each character is filtered through his brain. Each boy’s parents don’t know as much as they able to about their sons. And every person watching the game of “Kenney catching 100 balls”, form their first impressions about each boy playing.

Acting on stage with the lights, props, and sets is all surreal. But with that being said acting is much more intricate than to just memorize lines and go on stage and recite them with simple blocking. To combine people and ideas, adding natural movements and gestures, to take the playwright's' words and turn them into your own is the beautiful art form of theatre and acting. To be able to become another person, to feel what they feel, to live their life, is very magical and astounding to me. While acting I lose myself, I am solely whoever I am portraying and I take all matters

As I have seen some performances prior to this one, my expectations are kind of not that high. As the play was prepared and performed by a team of theater students, I just expected there will be basic elements a play should have. I also did expect some extraordinary performances from the main actors because I got that every time I attended the plays on campus. LMU actors and actresses / theater-majors tended to surprise me every single time I attended their plays. I know they will eventually act for a living but the fact that they could memorize pages of script, successfully get into character and act all at the same time still baffled me very much.

Since I have prior knowledge about this famous play, I did not have a hard time figuring out which actors played a specific character. When all the other characters came onto the stage, it was easy for someone to believe that they were the character stated in the program due to the costumes. The actors were attempting to make you believe they were the real characters, something that could have worked if the execution was better. If the actors practiced more and thoroughly knew their lines, making the character their own without losing the integrity of each character, the audience would be gripping out of their

The Play of Sweet town is set in a small country town in the mid-1960s, Sweetown explores Australia’s uneasy relationship with the darker aspects of our national history. It deals with themes of, Australian history, memories, change, denial, reconciliation, identity, guilt. The writer Melissa Reeve’s purpose for its creation was to bring to attention and satirise the history that happened and was forgotten many years ago. The set is minimalistic, sparse and Non-realistic, with open space in the middle to reflect the outback and the use of some 1960s set pieces such as chairs to indicate the era. The style of the play is a satire, which is a form of comedy that can also be found at the heart of more serious drama. Its

Another character in the novel in the story is Piggy and he is one of the major characters in the novel. He plays a big roll in the decisions that Ralph makes and he is constantly being bullied because of his poor sight, his big body and his asthma.

Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones, paints a dark, mysterious picture at the beginning of the novel and emits a suspenseful mood. Susie Salmon, the protagonist, is a young teenager who gets tragically raped and murdered. She looks down from heaven where she is the only one who truly knows her killer. The murder of Susie Salmon becomes an interruption and disturbance to those that were linked to Susie in a way that the mystery of her murder drives them to the edge. The irony of Susie’s feelings of her “perfect world” is that she grows lonely in a place where all her wishes or desires become a reality. Even though Susie is gone and alone in heaven watching the life she used to know, she has a lasting impact on the lives of her friends and family

Immediately I was inundated with an unexpected freshman workload that took away from precious reading time. In the spring, I took a chance and I auditioned for the upper school play, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. I was first introduced to Shakespeare on my fifth birthday when I received a book called Tales from Shakespeare by Tina Packer, and the vibrant illustrations immediately captivated my young mind. Ever since, I have been drawn to his plays. Despite having no previous acting experience, I was cast as Caliban and I was immersed in the magical world of theater. Caliban is the monstrous child of a sea-hag who inhabited a magical island until the wizard Prospero arrived and enslaved him cruelly. Playing an abused sea monster-like creature who later discovers alcohol was a definite stretch from my innocent 14-year-old self. I had to unlearn how to be human. I watched videos on gorillas in order to embrace my animalistic nature, spent many hours discovering the range of my voice, and wore out my kneepads on stage. My love of Shakespeare as an actor enriches my experience as a reader. I am fully immersed in all of the character’s interactions and I am able to understand the story line better. In English classes when I had to read Hamlet or Twelfth Night, I performed “one woman shows” in my bedroom while I was

I knew the actors could show their sense of comedy and wit from the first play and I was eager to see how they would carry out the dismal aspects this show. This production was a drastic change in the cast’s acting abilities, but they presented the production extraordinarily well. This was the first live production of the written story I have seen and I have faith that they did a superb job at depicting the insanity that Robert Louis

There is no theatre without an audience. The audience is as much a part of the playmaking experience as the artists—so how do we incorporate them more actively into what we do? We must work with them – and I’ve learned, in so doing,

Where Shakespeare's tragedies will tell the story, chiefly, of a single principal character, this is rarely the case with his comedies. The comedies are more social and deal with groups of characters. In the case of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the principal groups are, at first, introduced severally. Though, one group may interact with another (as when Puck anoints Lysander's eyes, or Titania is in love with Bottom) they retain separate identities.

Lainie is portrayed as a very strong and forward character, she is told by Mr. Bariss that he cannot tell her what's going on in the circus because it is not his place to discuss. She however does not back down and takes the leadership and determination to find out what happened to her sister and what is going on in the circus. Her dominant and strong traits as well helped her overcome the circus illusion that made everybody else, including her sister blind. In addition Lainie is also portrayed as just an option for marriage or property. Mr Bariss asked her for her hand in marriage only after her sister had died. There was no remorse or even consideration that she was his second choice, in his eyes that did not matter. Mr Bariss subjected her

As act I of “A Doll’s House” begins, the scene is set to impress the audience “with vivid descriptions of a room “furnished with taste, but nothing too extravagant”. (Ibsen) The first to enter is Nora. Nora walks in with her arms full of bags after shopping, and her husband, Torvald calls from another room to make sure it is her he hears coming through the door. Torvald sets limits on Nora’s spending; he treats her as both a child and a doll. The way in which the characters in the play treat, and react to one another, shows the selfish intentions in which the expectations of society hold of them.