Critiquing Performance

On the night of the show, one is filled with anticipation of seeing the play laced with a hint of ambiguity because of not knowing just what to expect. Getting dressed and arriving at the theatre brings about more enthusiasm; once the mixture of people with different cultures and expectations is seated in the theatre one experience an ardor of emotions. The interaction with the crowd sounds of low chatter and sight of the person's attire add to the excitement of being in a place that can make the magic happen.

"It is clear that the dramatists desire to elicit a particular response from their audience has governed the way in which they have shaped the structure of the play" (Derek Chaverley)

The elements of production can influence the performance of a play along with the audience’s perception, as they convey information about the atmosphere, themes and characters of the play. The elements serve an important function in the performance of a play, as they can be used to emphasize particular themes present within the piece and can be altered to suit a particular production and target a specific audience. The effective use of the elements of production could help form a powerful theatrical performance, which can be used to connect the ideas explored within Shakespeare’s Macbeth with that of the contemporary society, the elements could also be modified to reflect a particular time period and the context of the audience. The technical

In this critique I will be analyzing the different aspects that go into producing a play such as, lighting, set, costumes, space, props, actors, etc., and how each served its own significance in the production of “Our Town”. Specifically, I want to focus your attention to the theme, set, costumes, and lighting of the play. Additionally, I further elaborate on the play, by including a brief summation of my opinion on the play and the effects that it had on me, at the conclusion.

As an ensemble our dramatic intentions are to shock and excite the audience with a mixture of impressive and dynamic physical sequences. We also intend to move the audience and make them reconsider their life. We intend to do this by writing deep and meaningful words at emotional moments of the play but also by doing slower, more heartfelt sequences to draw the audience.

Before exploring the nature of the situation, we need to distinguish between a situation, a context, and a structure. For this purpose, I will use the example of a theatre play.

Joy, anger, sorrow, victory, and surprise are the roller coaster of emotions we have when we watch a play. Plays have been through centuries a source of entertainment where people get attached to the characters and imagine them being reality. Theatre was the place where people could watch realistic situations and sympathize with the characters, or go into a fantasy world where the impossible is always possible. However, in the current days people do not watch plays that much and are usually satisfied with reading a written version of a play. This generation even lost interest in the concept of plays and turned into movies where sound and digital effects are the main attraction rather than the plot. Nevertheless, there is still one writer

As I took the course of “Introduction to Theatre”, our class has explored the enduring question of “what is the place of theater in the world and why?” To answer this question, we learned about the different time periods, including the BC time period all the way to the present time period. As we learned about the history of that period, we saw some reasons and answers to the question of what the function of theater is in the world. Our first step in analyzing plays was that we first examined the time periods of that play, and then how the events and lifestyles influenced the writers of the plays. For an example, through theater, the plays Fences and Angles in America were both meant to bring awareness about the social issues in society. During

The given circumstances are; ‘the story of the play, its facts, events, epoch, time and place of action, conditions of life, the actors’’ and director’s interpretation; and lighting and sound

The directors contribute in creating this response from the spectators, they continue to do what previous audiences had originally loved. They believe that this must be the correct way to perform a play and lack any creativity to change it. 'The Deadly Theatre' shows that both actors and directors do not invent any new ideas, they both rely on what they have done previously.

That alchemy has proved transcendently effective over the centuries since the plays were first written. The bard has a way of saying simple things and for others a simple way of saying complex things. For Brook, theatre is very much the latter; and, in a late work like Tierno Bokar, he is seeking, in his own phrase, to "go beyond" the immediate present. This likewise philosophy treats theatre less as a product than as a process: a collaborative means of exploring life's mystery.

Theatre can be described as an art form to show expression of opinion, empathize a phenomenon, or tell a story through dialogue, song and body language. With multiple aspects contributing to this art, theatre is truly multidimensional. Throughout the semester, I have watched productions to analyze and evaluate aspects in the productions. Within helpful resources and my own techniques, I achieved the course objectives in a successful way. Because of this course, I have truly learned a multitude of aspects that can further enhance my education.

But even though the characters are rather ridiculed, the viewpoints of every one of them, no matter how much and how obviously they are mocked are expressed with unchangeable philosophical and imaginative enthusiasm. And this rhetorical magnificence determines the close-wrought intellectual texture of the play. All passages are in a certain way exquisite and have this seductive eloquence that we cannot attribute to the character they

It is through the use of the semiotic elemets discussed within the essay, that allowed the audience to gain a deeper understanding of what the play explored. By linking charcters to objects, it allows them to have a continual presence on stage and reminds the audience of their development from the start. It is through this that we see how charcters have grown from their expericens or how some have allwoed it to isolate them from those surrounding. The truth can have a pwoerful impact on an individual and this importance is highlighted through lighting choices that essentally control and captivate an audiences attention. The two elements combined creates a performance that resonates with those watching and leaves them with an ending that can

"A central part of a play's meaning is the way it was originally designed to work on stage."