Comparison Of The Price And Stephen King's Misery

Three most-produced plays in the last year were Constellations. Hand to God, and Disgraced. Out of the 3 plays, I found Hand to God to be the best one. This play was unique because I had never read a play that made me say in shock, “what the fuck” more than Hand to God. Before reading Hand to God, I for sure knew that Disgraced was the best play mainly because I could relate to it as a Muslim living in America post 9/11. I thought the play just fit me, because lots of issues that make up in the play were so close to home and relevant to my every day. The play Constellations is my least favorite play out of the three considering it being unresolved and confusing. I think the reason these are the most produced plays in the last years because

Like the majority of plays, stage directions play an important role in bringing the audience into the play; it helps the readers imagine the scenery. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams uses stage directions to bring the play to life, but also shows the physical and emotional perspectives of the characters through them as well. The stage directions of this specific play does more that just help imagine a scene; it also symbolizes characters emotions and in some scenes and parts the stage directions foreshadow the future events in the play. An example as to why stage directions have an important role in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ can be seen in scene one “the colored woman a neighbor,” (Williams 1), in which the ‘negro’ woman

The play of Our Town, had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. This play was one of the best plays that I have ever seen and it was definitely worth the price of admission. This was the best play that I have ever seen because most of the characters knew their lines and they did a marvelous job using the stage without any scenery in the background.

Our performance was effective because of how clear and straight forward it was, even though it was mime. The audience where aware of the setting and it being around a dinner table due to the two chairs being opposite each other with a ‘table’ in the middle, the audience where aware of which characters were which as we characterised the roles very well. For example, Anna was very giggly and hyper, contrasting Catherine’s formal demeanour and John and Maureen were a typical married couple. We used physical theatre for the oven and the stairs, which was stylistic and different for the audience to see, this fit in with the overall style of the lay as most of the stage directions involve physical theatre as in ‘The Brussels Sprouts Scene’ “the whole of this scene is performed stylistically with people frantically changing roles, playing scenery, properties and characters”. The use of thought tracking helped the audience to figure out which character is which. The use of gestures was also used, Maureen slapped Anna’s hand instantly giving away her very paternal and motherly role as Maureen. Our scene was effective also because the crackers being pulled apart in itself is representing the family being pulled apart for many reasons not just the economy, but the toll Catherine’s anorexia takes on the whole Dunbar family in different ways. Looking at Bleu’s group I could definitely see how they marked the moment: the tempo

In recent years, the trend on Broadway has been to adapt films and books into musical productions. Mel Brooks found huge success with a musical version of his comedy, The Producers. Off-Broadway plays have also found mainstream success, led by Jonathan Larson's hit show,

The scenic design in this play was extraordinary, and I could tell there was a lot of effort put into it. In this play there was a stairway towards the back of the stage. It brought in a new way for the actors to enter/exit the stage. I thought this was very creative idea that was easy to move on, and off stage if needed. There were many scenes that had the moon and the stars in the background. I loved this because it showed the audience when it was night time. I also love looking at the moon and the stars, I feel it creates a very romantic atmosphere. There were times the setting was inside a house or a pub, and then there were times that the setting was outside like the war scene, and the balcony scene. I

The play Our Town was something so unique and simple, but it somehow found a way to relate with everyone. Its simplicity seemed to be a hit or miss with many audience members. It was one of those plays that you relate so much with it you enjoy its minimalistic nature, or you find it too typical and boring. I happen to be among the group that found this play to be very appealing. I feel that at many times, little to no scenery and props make it hard to visualize the scene of a play. However, with Our Town the addition of a stage manager to give an explanation of each scene made up for that entirely.

The play I chose to analyze was Proof by David Auburn. The play as well as the author were very interesting. Auburn had a long and interesting past. The play itself was original and smart. This play also made me think a lot about the world and my own life.

This past week, I had the opportunity to experience a magnificent play called Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin. This performance was the third of three plays I saw at the Arizona Repertory Theatre. The other two plays were Epic Proportions by Larry Coen and David Crane and Hands on a Hardbody by Doug Wright. These were the first plays I have been to, not only while attending the University of Arizona, but in my generation as a teenager. All together, these performances were amazing and have brought a newly improved insight to my perception of theatre. The hard work and dedication by the actors, directors, producers, cast members, and sound developers were absolutely incredible and I have tremendous respect for their efforts during the overall sequence of producing the plays. The most recent performance I saw, Born Yesterday, can be described and reflected on through various topics such as lighting, sound, directing and producing.

Using Wright-Curtis Theatre, which is a stage ‘in the round’, was an innovative decision. To place an incredibly emotional play in a small theatre where everyone can easily see others reactions, made it easy to gauge how others are responding to a scene. There were definitely disadvantages to having it in an arena style theater, there were many times where the actors would have to freeze on stage. The actors would have

Death is sometimes an apparent factor in mystery literature. The passing of a character has a specific purpose in each story. The deaths can be physical or spiritual in manner. Such is the case for Bowman, the family, and the narrator. In their respective stories, “The Death of a Traveling Salesman,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and “The Other Side of the Hedge,” each character has a corporeal or metaphorical death.

F. Scott Fitzgerald has always been considered one of the best writers of his time because of his style of writing, but where does his inspiration for his tragic and fun books come from? Fitzgerald had a hard life growing up which he was later able to use this to his advantage and in turn become a very prominent figure of his time and future times to come. By examining his two books The Beautiful and Damned and The Last Tycoon the reader will be able to see how this style of writing works best for this writer. To start off, Fitzgerald does an excellent job portraying tragedy in his novel The Beautiful and Damned by how he expresses his characters having no loyalty or honesty or anything relating to these traits. A good example of this is when Gloria says “If I wanted anything, I’d take it…I can’t be bothered resisting things I want.”

There are many differing opinions on the continuation of the Harry Potter series in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, however, one thing that cannot be argued against is the profound beauty of the stage directions. J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany produced a play that is not only splendiferous to watch but exceptionally magical to read, specifically when nothing is spoken. Throughout the play there are moments and entire scenes in which the stage directions provide the brunt of the emotion. In an almost Tennessee Williams-esque length of direction Thorne and Rowling create a depth that is both lost and not lost in the live production of the play. The three examples I have chosen are key moments in the play that are stylistically

The theater gained popularity based on the plays they would have showing. In most cases the plays would consist of humor, tragedy, or histories. Shakespeare was one of the most popular playwrights at this time, and many of his plays were performed in the Elizabethan theater. Among him were some other famous play writers,

Stage directions are used as way of allowing playwrights to give direction as to what is supposed to be happening on the stage, and is used to enhance the audience’s experience and involvement in the play. Stage direction is used to great effect by both Arthur Miller and Brian Friel in their plays. In A View From the Bridge, Arthur Miller’s stage directions are very intricate, and detailed to the point of sounding strange at times, “After a moment of watching her face Eddie breaks into a smile, but it almost seems that tears will form in his eyes”. Brian Friel’s stage directions are very similar, as they too involve a considerable