The Second Shepard's Play Analysis

The plays of Hroswitha and the liturgical manual of Ethelwold are two events that mark the reentry of theatre and drama into Western Europe. Hroswitha was a religious leader and a noblewoman who wrote plays in Latin. Her plays celebrated “the laudable chastity of holy maidens.” These plays were performed at the court and at the monastery. It is uncertain if she

This is a must watch Broadway show that makes your fine, terrible, or even boring day, an absolute blast. The Play That Goes Wrong has finally made its way to America and right at the heart of New York City near Times Square at the Lyceum Theatre. Therefore, the experience is a win-win situation for the audience. The Lyceum Theatre’s architecture is astonishing as it is filled with ornaments, I also realized the letter ‘L’ around the theater, but the most interesting fact is that it is a landmark. It has a proscenium stage while the audience is in the orchestra, balcony, or the mezzanine seats, like where I sat, and there is barely any space if you are a tall person. My seat was near the far end of mezzanine, I couldn’t see a part of the left side of the stage, so I found myself bending sideways to see what was going on, but I saw nothing. I found the side stage lights and a side balcony blocking my view and yet I had a great time.

1. Shepard’s educational background come into play by him was more money conscious than most. I don’t think there were any times when his college degree was useful. Shepard was able to use his knowledge by creating different ways to save money. Throughout the book he made certain choices that helped saved his money. He created his own system of washing his clothes. He created a side job of celling cigarettes to people. Shepard realized his position and how needs to save before purchasing his own place. He wasn’t reckless while making finical decisions. He works jobs like shoveling feces out of yard for a church, and one of his bigger accomplishment was his job interview for a moving company. He would boast about himself and made a small speech rather than just had a mundane interview. These jobs pay more than the other ones he was offered. He refused to spend it and had an iron-clad will to save his money.

Junior’s family often lacked the basic necessities, such as money for gas or food in the refrigerator

Godspell is originally produce for the first time Off-Broadway in 1976 by college students attending Carnegie Mellon University.The collaboration aming team members is what bright to life the Godspell play. Godspell highlight intrigue the audience to asked themselves, How would the Gospel look like if jesus showed up to a group of theatrical clowns. The content of the Godspell is based on biblical context. Is composed of anecdotes told throughout the Gospels. Moreover the play is organized in two parts. First it starts of with many lessons in a particular order from the begining of Jesus’ministry. The stories are told and acted out among members like a live movie on stage. Jesus is portray as a an teacher also his role is to analogy of a clown.

Morgan Young Janis Roeton English Composition 2 April, 13, 2015 Paper Two Set In St. Nicholas Catholic Church and School in the Bronx in 1964, the play “Doubt” by John Patrick Shanley arose some major conflict between the nun, Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn. The conflict of the play lies in the constant belief of a strict nun named Sister Aloysius trying to jeopardize Father Flynn’s reputation in believing that Father Flynn, the Priest has done something unthinkable to one of the students that attended the school. Based on her own intuition the strict nun believes that the Priest has been molesting a young 12-year-old African American boy named Donald Muller. The nun goes through such lengths as to hire another woman who goes by the name

1. The Second Shepherd’s Play, According to its preface, contained in The Norton Anthology of Drama, was part of a cycle of plays performed as a celebration for the Feast of Corpus Christi, The feast of the holy eucharist. This means that it was only one play out of about 32 other texts. It was, like the other plays in this “Wakefield” cycle, written as a “Mystery Play.” A “Mystery Play,” according to a study guide put online by Dr. Debora B. Schwartz of the California Polytechnic State University, is a dramatized version of the bible. A “Mystery Play” was used to demonstrate the teachings of the Bible in a way that the peasants who didn't speak latin could understand. According to the preface of this play, contained in The Norton Anthology

The second play, The Second Shepard’s Play, is a play that stages a comical series of events that took place before the shepard’s are visited by the Angel telling them of the birth of Christ. The days that

The Voorhees Theater is an artistic necessity to the student attending New York City College of Technology. This theater is the host of many diverse theatrical and musical productions. The play production that I want to launch at this glorified theater is Sam Shepard’s masterpiece True West. True West focuses on the two brothers named Austin and Lee who are complete opposites. Austin is a screenwriter and the responsible one. He’s married with a wife and kids. His older brother Lee, on the other hand, lives in the middle of the desert. The setting of this play takes place in the kitchen of their mother’s home where they are reunited for the first time in five years. Lee continues to take advantage of Austin throughout the play by taking his car in exchange for something else. Lee intentionally sabotaged Austin’s meeting for a screenplay of a movie and intervenes with the movie producer Saul Kimmer. Lee then goes on to come up with an idea and present it to Saul who decides to drop Austin’s script for Lee’s instead, causing Austin to finally snap and become violent that leads to an altercation. True West is an excellent play that can not only relate to the student population but to the faculty as well.

The dramaturge used the arrangement of the sermon to inform the medieval Christians that they needed to live a Christian-like life in order to ensure an enjoyable after life. The ritualistic use of confession by Everyman as a way to teach the communitas the importance of freeing themselves before their final day of reckoning. The dramaturge’s use of penance throughout the morality play exemplified the importance of following the traditional Christian religion and reminded members of the communitas to not go astray to a reformist religion such as the Hussites. Everyman’s encounter with both the sacred and demonic teaches the audience that death is always upon them and that they must be ready for its call at any time. The desertion of Everyman by Cousin, Kindred, and Fellowship through the use of dark play provides the communitas with a understanding of what it would be like for them to die and have parts of their life torn away from them as Everyman lost the relationship with these characters when they would not follow him to his death. The location of the communitas breaks the wall of the typical separation of performers from audience members. The dramaturge uses the location of the communitas as a performative structure unto itself. Lastly, the dramaturge uses the setup of a traditional social drama in the design of his morality play. Both to ensure the communitas would understand how to live like a true Christian and to prevent the reform of other religions. Readers of traditional medieval dramas typically regarded the printed text as a

Lee-Cooney uses a fast paced script in order to cover the time spans of Juli’s life, and cleverly layer the numerous stories within these periods. Though effective and enticing it also leaves the audience slightly confused at what is happening, and which characters are currently on stage, especially at the start of the play, since numerous roles were played by a single person. The actors and actresses played multiple roles and did a fantastic job bringing their characters to life. Though there were many stand-out moments within the play, it was the scenes between that of Samuel Valentine as Juli, and Sandro Colarelli, who played numerous roles, but in particular as the caricature police officer. There is one scene within the play when Juli

I chose the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry because in my perspective the play symbolizes the struggle of the African American meaning we had to work twelve times as hard as a white person. Being an African American back then you had to live the stereotype of living in poor housing, poor education, poor jobs that paid almost nothing while the Whites lived the high, rich life with all the best schooling, jobs, pay and housing. The struggles of the African American family losing the main breadwinner also known as the husband means that the oldest son took on the responsibility of providing for the family which was the actor Walter. Walter had to face the world alone trying to take care of his mother, the character names Mama and his wife Ruth and the rest of the family. The $10,000 came from the deceased husband of Mama’s life insurance policy and she wanted to use the money to buy a house for the family and create stability for everyone, but everyone had their own idea of what they wanted to do with the money and not being on one accord. Now that I have given an overview, let’s start with the explanation of actors/ actresses, set (including venue,

There is a different society in every person’s perspective here in this world. There are also different societies that we all know about, or live in together. Violence, racism, sexuality, gender identity, and stereotypes, are certain images that can shape societies. We tend to focus on the flaws of our society. When theater engages the audience in a societal issue, there definitely is more attention drawn, because there problems that we all relate with.

Inspired by the church, Morality plays, surfaced in the fourteenth century and were focused on Christian worldviews by teaching moral values through dramatic, artistic

“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.