The Director Is The Conductor And The Audience 's Feelings

The set used for Vernon God Little was highly symbolic and simplistic; when we walked into the theatre we could visually see that there were flowers, cards and memorable items attached on the audiences seats above our heads, which already created a sombre atmosphere around the theatre.

Theatre and Musical Theatre has been a form of entertainment since before North America was “discovered”. Broadway shows have been dated back to the early 1920’s and 1930’s. By 2016, over 25,000 tickets are sold to Broadway shows in a week. Thousands of people enjoy the shows that are featured on Broadway but have no idea the work and process that brought it to life. The process of getting a show on to Broadway can be broken down into three phases: pre-production, staging, and performance/promotion.

Pulp Fiction employs various devices such as dialogue and visual motifs that provide narrative clarity and unity along the lines associated with classical Hollywood cinema (Bailey, 52). The dialogue in the coffee shop indicates that the film has more to do with the mundane aspects of a life of crime than it does with the "glamour," "danger," and "intrigue" typical of thrillers or film noir (Howley). The film’s dialogue can range from absolutely pointless to completely captivating moments. These conversation establishes character and character relations early in the film in an entertaining fashion. This is depicted when Vincent and Jules are having a normal conversation about Amsterdam and foot massages directly before they are about to commit multiple murders. This organic conversation establishes the characters as reasonably ordinary people to the audience till they arrive at the apartment and appear stone cold. Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction clarity illustrates the style of mundane versus the extreme. A motif that remains constant in the film is the bathroom. Various of the film’s major events occur while someone is using the restroom. For a majority the film this phenomenon occurs to Vincent. When he uses the restroom in the diner, Jules has a heart-to-heart with the robbers, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny. Next, Vincent is using the bathroom at Mia’s and she comes across his heroin.

After read the Part II of Collaboration in Theatre about working together to create musical theatre, I felt that I was overwhelmed by the charm of collaboration. To me, I considered that it was such a significant process not only to musical theatre creation but also to other disciplines and industries, including Supply Chain Management (SCM) – the specialty that I am majoring in.

Dance is a universal language, there are no words being said but you can still feel something very powerful. Dance has been around for centuries, some of the earliest known records are paintings from nine thousand years ago in India. There are also some dancing figures from an Egyptian tomb that were found which were dated back to three thousand, three hundred BC. It is said that before the invention of written language, dance was the most powerful method to tell stories throughout generations. Is this why dance is still around after so many years, because it can portray amazing stories with no words? Today, we are going to explore the many reasons why dance, in the use of musical theatre, can make the difference between an amateur show and a Broadway show.

Everyone has a favorite movie they love to watch, which triggers their inner emotion for why they love that particular movie. Some movies may bring tears of joy to a person’s heart and some movies may keep the audience on their toes for what might happen next with action and excitement. Those action and excitement movies have different techniques which makes the movie stands out in a viewer eyes. In the 1994 film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Taratino and 2015 Mad Max Fury Road directed by George Miller are arguable known to be two of the best movies when it comes down to action and excitement. These two movie are both suspenseful, breath-taking, and thrilling that will keep your toes for what is about to happen in the next scene. Both of these movies use some of the same technique and tactual which makes the audience stay engaged into the movie.

Everywhere a person goes in today's world, there are bound to be differences. Whether it's race, religion, gender or even the music we listen to, diversity is all around us. Being from the rural community that I'm from, people may say it's hard to find diversity. Little do they know, they are a part of an extraordinary, diverse world. For example, I listen to numerous genres of music. However, orchestra music is not one of them. I went out of my comfort zone to listen to the University of Findlay Orchestra concert on November 8, 2015. To say that my eyes were opened is an understatement.

Here in this scene of Pulp Fiction, we see John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson as duo-ed hitmen with deep and philosophical conversations throughout the film. I think this scene after Travolta's character accidentally shoots a man, an intense scene, best displays Travolta and Jackson's contrasting styles as they clean up the bloody mess. Travolta, who studied method acting for years, always plays an easy-going and laid back type of character in his films ("Grease", anyone?). Samuel L. Jackson on the other hand, is famous for playing a very rumbustious character with colorful language in many of his films, and Pulp Fiction is no different. I feel that such differing styles, as both are playing main characters, works because it brings balance to

Tarantino likes to focus on scenes most directors would cut out of their movie entirely if it was running a little long for example the Hotel scene in Pulp Fiction. In this scene Butch (Bruce Willis) and Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) have lengthy conversations which are exclusively focus the character development of Butch. Tarantino even says “I wanted him to be a bully and a jerk, except that when he’s with his girlfriend, Fabienne, je’s a sweeetheart” (Tarantino & Peary 2013 pg. 50). Tarantino Chooses to film a scene like this over a big action packed scene that the run-of-the-mill director would focus on. A perfect example of this is the boxing match in which Butch literally kills his opponent.

Despite the fact that Tarantino defied many traits from classical Hollywood narrative, he was still able to connect the audience with the film. In the same scene where Vincent first encounters Mia, the film introduces Mia in a mysterious way, the audience meets mia at the same moment as Vincent. There are many other characteristics that Tarantino uses in Pulp Fiction that connect the

In the film Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino creates a nonlinear plot by writing several scenes out of order to create a film that ultimately assembles into a comprehensive and exciting conclusion. He does this by delivering an important briefcase to the protagonist’s boss. The briefcase acts as a McGuffin, or a device/thing that’s sole purpose is to push the plot along. As a result, the movie is split up into three different stories, which on their own could not be long enough for a movie, but when put together, they make a full-length feature film. Tarantino also manages to add small chunks of symbolism in a majority of the scenes in his movie. Therefore, with Tarantino’s unconventional approach to developing plot lines and devices to move

In the words of Gay McAuley, “for an activity to be regarded as a performance, it must involve the live presence of the performers and those witnessing it…” (McAuley, 2009, cited in Schechner, 2013, pp.38). This statement recognises the importance of both the actor and the audience for something to truly function as a performance. In addition, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones highlights the significance of the theatrical space and how it can influence an audience stating that “on entering a theatre of any kind, a spectator walks into a specific space, one that is designed to produce a certain reaction or series of responses” (Llewellyn-Jones, 2002, pp.3). The relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space is no less important today than it was at the time of theatre during the Spanish Golden Age and the creation of Commedia dell’arte in Italy. Despite being very close geographically with theatre thriving for both in the same era, sources that explore the social, cultural and historical context of these countries and the theatre styles will bring to light the similarities and differences. This essay will analyse the staging, the behaviour of the audience as well as the challenges the actors faced, and how this directly influenced the relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space.

Next on my list was a regional stage manager, Ruth Kramer. Ruth is based out of New York, however her last job was in Pittsburgh. As of right now Ruth is “between adventures” as she so cheerfully put it. However, the last show she worked on was Equus. Equus was a big show, and the hardest part was keeping the actors’ safe. The men played horses, so they had horse masks and hooves which made it difficult to see and walk around on stage. As for Ruth, the hardest part was learning the text and material, because this show was about psychology so she had to research to fully understand the production. Besides that, she said that everything else went well during the show. However, her director decided to leave for a week instead of the 2 days

Real people don’t talk like characters in a movie, no matter how eloquent we believe ourselves to be. We shout, rant, go off topic, and stumble over our words. In essence, we don’t speak “cleanly.” Most writers who try and pull off “realistic” dialogue fail, and it comes out terrible because it’s a precise dance to allow room for naturalness. A movie that pops into my mind is Juno. It aimed for realness but came off as try-hardy. Sorry to anyone that likes the film, but no one talks like that. Or better yet, no one should. Anyway, I love that he mentioned Reservoir Dogs, because if you’re looking for any type of realness in dialogue, Tarantino is your guy. He is the master of dialogue for a reason. The car scene from Pulp Fiction comes to mind, “royale with cheese,” but while it was a great scene that piece of dialogue isn’t as memorable as Jules’ bible verse scene, not very realistic – not to mention he took liberties with the bible verse in question. But when we think of great dialogue in film, we most likely think of an epic monologue, Gordon Gecko’s “greed is good” speech from Wall Street, or a catchy one-liner, “This is Sparta,” 300. Memorable and catchy don’t always go hand in hand with realness. So that begs the question; Is there room for truly memorable dialogue that allows for realism? I honestly don’t know. Hopefully writers in the future, maybe even some Full Sail grads, can come up with some memorable and genuine

THE ROLE OF THE CHORUS AND ITS IMPACT ON THE AUDIENCE IN OEDIPUS THE KING