Personal Narrative-My Journey To Granada Theater

When I was little, I was very shy around new people. I usually only showed who I actually was around my family. I didn’t have a friend who I could be myself around, they were usually just friends who I would play with at recess. That was until everything changed, and I moved across the town of Derby.

In the essay “The Theatre As It Was and As It Is”, by Robert Edmond Jones, the author attempts to give a comical look into how the theatre may have originated in the times of the Neanderthal. Jones uses five cave men, Ook, Pow, Pung, Glup, Little Zowie, and the rest of their tribe to illustrated what may have been the first play ever performed. In this analogy, the play is a retelling of how a lion was killed by the leaders of the tribe. Although quite literally primitive, the play includes several of the elements associated with a theatre production. In order for the part of the lion to be represented, a cave man wears the lion skin, representing what may have been the first theatrical costume.

The Globe Theatre became what it is today because of its history. What was its history exactly? Unfortunately, those are two questions many people don’t have an answer to. So, what is the history?

Here’s a little about myself hopefully it can spark inspiration for an ideal costume. My physical features include longer brown wavy hair with brown eyes and that’s about all I’m going to say. Personality wise, I am outgoing and love talking to different people. I am involved in a campus organization called the Cougar Counseling Team. I love volunteering anywhere available such as orphanages, animal shelters, etc. My favorite sport to play is volleyball; I play at every opportunity given. I come from a small town and am a Christian, however, I am a liberal. I am very open minded and accepting in all aspects. The things that are most important to me are my family and friends. I adore my pets including my cat: Cinderfella,

As I was scanning the crowd in The Bolshoi Theater through the lenses of my decrepit Galilean binoculars, waiting for the opera to commence, I noticed something strange: a distinguished, young man looking particularly anxious, fidgeting continuously with the opera play bill. Unconsciously, I grabbed my grandmother’s ancient broche and I held it tight. It was my good-luck charm and the only memory I had left of her.

All my life I have enjoyed the art of theater, so when my assignment was to watch a show I was excited. My friend Sigrid was doing a production in the theater of the Florida International University that was a mixed medium show. Not only was it a play but it was also a dance and concert all at the same time. Not technically a musical but it did have each element one at a time. The show was called A Sea Challenge, A Response to Global Threat.

For my cultural experience, I decided to attend a comedy show at the old Capitol Theatre. The comedy show was entitled, “Not Today Satan” by the well-known drag queen, Bianca Del Rio. Bianca Del Rio, or also known as Roy Haylock, is an insult comic who was the winner of the sixth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. I arrived one hour early to the show so I could talk to some of the people attending the show.

The impact that theater has had on my life I will always be grateful for. It allowed me when I was younger to be creative and have an imagination. This is something I feel our society is lacking when it comes to raising children now a days. We are taking away there creativity and right to have an imagination at such a little age. Being in theater when I was younger allowed me to be my own person and to think outside the box and that is something that I will keep with me forever.

Throughout my entire childhood and even part of my adulthood, I have been a performer. I sung in choirs, performed in theater ensembles, and even sung solos. Because I have had so much experience on the stage, most people wouldn’t suspect that I am terrible at speaking in front of people to the point of nearly throwing up. I’ve never had that problem with singing or with speaking other people’s words like I do in theater, but I always have this problem when it comes to voicing my own ideas in front of an audience. Deep down, I know I’m not an unintelligent person, but I fear that if I say the wrong thing, other people will think I’m not smart enough to listen to. Calming my nerves for this speech was especially difficult this time around because

There’s something about opening night, spending hours in rehearsals, having a ten second costume change, putting as many bobby pins in your hair as possible, having mic tape residue for a week after closing night, and saying “Thank you five.” Theatre. An actor/actresses playground. A place where you will remember most every line you said, and every dance you were taught. A place that will hold memories from every cast, and every show you ever performed in. An atmosphere that will hold memories today, and memories for years to come. I was once asked what theatre means to me. Here are a few of my favorite things about theatre, and what it means to me.

The theater that Cuthbert Burbage built for the Chamberlain's Men had a total capacity of between 2,000 and 3,000 spectators. Because there was no lighting, all performances at the Globe were conducted, weather permitting, during the day (probably most often in the mid-afternoon span between 2 P.M. and 5 P.M.). Because most of the Globe and all of its stage was open air, acoustics were poor and the actors were compelled by circumstances to shout their lines, stress their enunciation, and engage in exaggerated theatrical gestures. What would seem most striking to a modern (Broadway) theatergoer about the productions staged at the Globe is that they were completely devoid of background scenery. Although costumes

“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.

The first ever aspect of designing light on a play was in the late roman period, they would have built their theatres facing from east to west so that they could perform their plays in the afternoon with the sunlight lighting the stage for the actors but not hitting those in the orchestra. The most modern iteration of this technique is the globe theatre in London, this was used in Elizabethan times as one of the main playhouses that Shakespeare’s theatres would be shown in. There were no more prominent changes to stage lighting until theatres moved indoors in 1576 and the need for artificial lighting became more prominent, the use of candle light introduced the concept of mood lighting to theatre.[1] In the 1600s under Oliver Cromwell theatre was suspended resulting in no

I had been in Anaheim for the second time attending vidcon, a convention where famous YouTubers go and you can meet them. The only other time I had been there was for one day attending Wondercon. It had been Wednesday and nothing was really happening. There had been a concert at 7 pm which I had won wristbands to go to. My internet “friend” ( I had only known them because we were all added to a group chat for VIdcon) had a VIP pass to go to the front of the line. She texted all of us that whoever is there first could get it. Sadly I was in line to get my actual badges for the convention, so someone else got it instead of me.

     There have been many dramatic plays over the centuries. Many of these plays have died in their time, while others have lived on. What makes these plays endure time and continue to be influential over time? Perhaps it is the storyline or the interesting nature of the play is what makes these dramas last. I think that it is the focus on human nature and its essential truths that keep these plays alive. Most of the plays, still enacted in theaters today, deal with social issues that people can learn from and relate to.