Troupers By Maverick Theatre Company: Play Analysis

For our critiquing assignment in our Introduction to Stagecraft 1, I ventured to downtown Toronto, to a small indie theatre called, The Unit 102 Theatre. There I saw the production of MISS; written by Dora Award-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert who wrote such works as Tough Jews, The Spadina Avenue Gang with the Storefront Theatre. The set takes place in the aftermath of a shocking accident in a boarding school classroom, the story explores the tenuous connection between a high school teacher, her fiance, and a troubled student whose lives have been irrevocably changed by tragedy caused by a miscarriage, an affair, and the fear of the consequences that are not yet revealed, and finally, murder. This is a one act showdown between three

On November 4th, 2016, my best friend and I went to see the play at the Charles Winter Wood Theatre. This play is set during the 1950s, and the scene takes place in a night club in Chicago. This play was sponsored by FAMU’s Essential Theatre, and it was quite entertaining. It presents realistic situations such as the affairs, jealously, and debt in relationships. The director, Maurice Kitchen, wrote this play to present the Black artists who used their talent to escape the difficulties they have faced. The main character, Billy Gamble, was a show host and performer, who used his patients with musical talents to be on his show. Important aspects seen in the play were love and fame. The musicians expressed their feelings within their music.

On September 24th, I went to see Sister Act at Great Theatre. This show is about Deloris van Cartier, a singer, who witnessed a man named Curtis commit a murder. She was then put under protection at a local convent. Deloris did not want to be at the convent, and Mother Superior didn’t want her to be there either. However, Deloris made the most out of the situation and decided to help their choir learn how to properly sing. Due to to the choir drawing so much attention Deloris was removed from the convent, which pleased Mother Superior. Eventually, Deloris did come back to sing with the choir in front of the pope, which is when Curtis the man she was hiding from found her, but all of the nuns stood up to Curtis with her and he landed himself in jail. Then Deloris and the nuns sang in front of the pope and all went well.

Theatre is a collaboration of various forms of fine art which utilizes live performances presenting before the audience on a stage at a specific place within a scheduled time (Dugdale 10). The message is communicated through a combination of various channels like songs, speech gestures or dances. Stagecraft skills are combined with elements of art to make the performance more physical and near to real life experience. Theatre is categorized broadly into drama, musical theatre, comedy, tragedy and improvisation. Any form of these accepts integration of various production modes and collective reception to influence the artwork being presented. As a result of this cooperation of items in the theatre

Recently I went to the CU Boulder’s Department of Theatre and Dance and saw their play production of 44 Plays for 44 Presidents. This paper is about my critical and analytical response to this play. This historical tragi-comedy was written by Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloë Johnston, and Karen Weinberg. The production was directed by Emily K. Harrison, and was performed in the University Theatre. Harrison 's use of comedy juxtaposed with serious moments caused me to understand the importance of the presidential office, and the important role we play in the election.

“Tick,” played by Jonathon Contreras, who I would place as the protagonist of the play has found himself in quite the pickle, aside from that he is also getting a gig.. His wife Marion, although totally okay with his Drag Queen lifestyle, has had enough. She wants him to perform at her casino in central Australia; which is a ways off from Tick’s Sydney. The real pickle is when we find out about Tick’s son. Marion wants Tick to come visit his son and try to start some sort of communication with him. Bernadette, performed by Jay Stratton, is an old(er) drag Queen who knows the ropes and quickly is enlisted for the trip to Alice Springs, Australia. Bernadette feels iffy, but sure of herself and her performing abilities, that is until Tick relays the news that someone by the name of Adam/Felicia will be joining them. In a huge hail of colorful glitter bombs we are introduced to Felicia, played by Allen Thompson. To add to the already

Cabaret (1998) by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb is a thrilling tale set in pre-WWI Berlin. The first showing of Cabaret on Broadway was in 1966, but an earlier rendition of the play, entitled I Am a Camera premiered in 1951, in London, England (Smith). Each version of Cabaret has differences, the 1998 version specifically has a darker edge than the earlier versions. Cabaret has long been one of my favorite musicals and I felt very honored to get to be a part of CMC’s production. The main theme of the play is adaptation.

Spring Shorts is a collection of short plays by John Cariani, Craig Pospisil, Don Nigro, Paul Dooley, and Winnie Holzman and was directed by Shezwae Powell. The production took place at Mt. San Jacinto College’s lab theatre at the Menifee Valley Campus which provided a black box space and the props were good at changing the setting of the play from a living room, outside on a ledge, at the Super Center, in an apartment, in the kitchen, and more! The design aspects of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound were good. The overall script was written nicely, the characters were very relatable, the point of view was from a third person point of view, allowing the audience to accept the storyline and really participate in it.

Natalie joined the theater group at her school for the first time this year. She is nervous and excited about being on stage.

He takes the role of persuading the actors by complimenting them. His role is very similar to a camp counselor as displayed when Bottom doesn't want to be Pyramus and instead the lion, “I grant you, friends, if you should fright the ladies out of their wits, they would have no more discretion but to hang us. But I will aggravate my voice so that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale” (Lines 76-80, 28). Peter Quince knows the only possible way to persuade Bottom to fulfill his assigned role is by treating him like a child. Instead of telling Bottom he would be a terrible lion and there's now way he'll let Bottom be the lion he says, “You can play no part but Pyramus. For Pyramus is a sweet-faced man, a proper man as one shall see in a summer’s day, a most lovely, gentlemanlike man. Therefore you must needs play Pyramus” (Lines 81-85, 28) Peter Quince has to pay Bottom fake compliments like, “lovely” and “gentlemanlike” just to make sure he plays the role of Pyramus. Bottom cannot handle the truth because of his lack of humility and maturity and has to be lied to. This behavior attributes to Quince's depiction of a more mature and teacher figure to the

On December 1, 2017, the One Acts performance was at Cheshire High School by the classes of 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018. Each grade came together to create a play, with that they went up against the other grades and competed to see who had the best play. The freshmen’s play is called, Lord of the Skits: Based on a True Story. All the characters were themselves and it was about how they were trying to come up with an idea for the One Acts play. The sophomore’s play is called, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon. The characters played a specific role which they were assigned to and it was about different characters and how they are all linked together. The junior’s play was Touch it Part 2 with two characters. This play was about a box, the character

For my performance review, I chose Trevor Nunn’s 1996 film production of Twelfth Night. I decided to watch and review the play for its comedic nature, and the production for its quality and rave reviews. Immediately, the first thing I noticed while watching the film is how much the visuals add to the entire production. The sets throughout the entirety of the movie, including Nunn’s decision to set the production in what seems to be the 19th century, add new, interesting components that are not part of the original play. Another aspect of the film that added to my enjoyment of the production as a whole were the amount of scene changes when compared to the play. The scene changes kept the pace of the film quicker, and allowed more beautiful settings to be incorporated into the entire production. The music throughout the film also adds another layer of emotion to the production, something that is often missing from a stage production. The many details and aspects added to this production, because it is a film, made me, personally, enjoy it more when compared to the production

I decided for my play review that I would go see Mary Poppins The Broadway Musical at the Jefferson Davis Fine Arts building this past weekend. The play is based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film; the original music was by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, the book written by Julian Fellowes, and the co-creator of the original was Cameron Mackintosh.

Starting off my group tried to use the list of movement vocabulary. That didn’t work out so instead we decided to focus on what our theme or story would be. Eventually we settled on two topics, unrequited love and love at first sight.

Rituals and theater, which are both cultural performances, have similarities such as serving the purpose of entertaining teaching the audience, belief from audiencce, use of props, use of space, and repesentaion. Since during this time period many commoners did not know how to read, the church had to present these rituals in order to teach them about events in the bible like the Crucification of Jesus Christ. Similaritly, a play will serve the purpose to teach the audience a certain idea that the playwright believes is necessary for the audience members, the audience vary depending on the time this play was written, to learn or understand. Unlike a play, which has no certain time frame to be perform, a ritual is perform during certain time of the liturgical year; for example, the passion of the cross