The Importance Of Theatre Performances

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.

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?

Middle School Theatre as a student is really interesting. I have an amazing teacher and I learn everyday. We learn about lot’s of things in theatre that helps me grow in theatre. In this paper I’m going to talk about all the things I’ve learned so far in Theatre and my favorite unit this year.

The acting in this play is very virtuoso.There are some other performers in the play did stand out in the production. Jimmy Fernandez, one of the performers who played Mrs. Bumbrake by expressing his humorous attitude in his character in the production. Brian Frink is another performer that played Captain Stache (later known as Captain Hook) did show his swashbuckling side of a pirate and cowardly parts that he fears about the crocodile in later play. Also, Gabrielle Blackhurst is another performer that played Molly Aster (nee Darling later in the play) shows the altruistic, physically adept, and adventurous side in this play. She expresses her character who is willing to help Peter and the other boys and also her father on a mission to stop

According to Boal if you desire your play to be great, then theater should be about becoming. If on the other hand, your wish is to be a terrible play writer, then yes you should make theater about being. When the flaw or error of the character is presented right from the beginning, the audience does not feel much of an effect. There is virtually no conflict and no story. When a play portrays the current state of a person all throughout, the audience is being told what to do, similarly to being instructed directly, and as a result, the spectator disregards the information after the show is over. However, when theater is about becoming, they audience member is figuratively taken through a ride. As the character changes from a state of happiness

Throughout theatre history performances have changed to become more than the mere spectacles for audience to go and mindlessly observe, there have been many different factors effecting this change either through environmental, political or economic circumstances which has resulted in theatre becoming more meaningful whilst providing a wide range of genres. However in this essay I will be discussing the importance of feminism in modern theatre through the beginning and height of modernism, and how waves of feminism have influenced theatre today.

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

This semester in World Theatre we have covered different theatres from all over the world dating back to the beginnings of theatre to the present. We’ve studied how theatre is different everywhere in the world and the groups we’ve gone over the most are Western theatre, Asian theatre, and African theatre. We have learned about how theatre has changed over time, and that in some areas such as Asia it has stayed the same for thousands of years. Each theatre has its own style and each have set of elements that define what the theatre is truly about. In this paper I will be writing about what elements and pieces of each theatre that we have learned about that I believe together would form a type of theatre that would be a universal and would work in any given culture.

The plays of Teatro Campesino were performed to diverse audience primarily farmworker. These plays reflects the circumstances of the primary audience in the plays: using the names of the characters in the plays, the theme of the plays, and the performance of the plays.

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.

The art form of Pantomime began as early as Ancient Italy. Comedy shows were put on where there would be little talking and rely on over the top actions accompanied by music. Also in many cases gender roles were switched. For example women would play stoic men, and men would play the damsels in distress. After Roman times the Pantomime form moved on to more parts Italy in the 15th Century. It incorporated famous characters such as well known simpletons and jolly men, that acted out scenes. This form is called Commedia dell’Arte.” This was a "comedy of professional artists" travelling from province to province in Italy and then France, who improvised and told comic stories that held lessons for the crowd, changing the main character depending

While we may study drama by reading its text, it is often easy to lose sight of the fact that the playwrights intend for their work to be performed on stage and not simply read in a classroom. In this light, the performance of actors and indeed the production

The company name which our group chose was Vivid Theatre. I chose this because it reflects how we were a professional theatre company, and I wanted our performance to be vivid, and engaging. This is why our group chose this name for our company.

In, The Necessity of Theater, Paul Woodruff writes “Good theater carries wisdom, but the wisdom it carries is human and in disguise… a wise audience is able to unmask a piece of theater and glimpse the wisdom that hides in the form of entertainment” (217). Woodruff then states “Human wisdom is not an acquisition; it is a process sustained by frequent reminders of the wonders and terrors that we are" (219). The two plays I chose that correlate with these quotes include: Young Vic's "Nora" short film and the Shakespearean play Richard III. I feel that the two plays directly relate to what Woodruff is trying to convey to us as readers and audience members. First, Young Vic’s “Nora” short film was immediately the first film I thought of when