Dramas

The Era of the Teen Drama (Part 1) Picking a good television show to binge watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, or even ordering a DVD boxed set (we’re all guilty of it), everything. You know ten minutes in if you’re going to like it or not enough to fully make the commitment. Most binge watching begins and ends with none other than the teen drama. This concept of the teen drama is not a foreign one, and there is something about teens with insane, over-dramatic lives that has everyone hooked. It all started

The genre of drama dates back to 5th century B.C. Greece. Drama is a form of writing in which there are many layers, and meanings to a story. Drama is written in the expectation that it is to be performed on a stage for an audience. This is an analysis of dramatic theater, what it is and how it has changed over time. The Theater experience is walking into a room with many people sitting in the direction of a stage. As the curtain on the stage rises there is a set, a house, and the actors appear

Carthage College’s production of Urinetown offers an engrossing visual and aural experience that seamlessly combines spoken dialogue and musical performance to create a unique theatrical event. Playwrights Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis infuse their provocative subject matter with colorful satire and acerbic wit. By simultaneously exposing theatrical conventions and providing commentary on governmental and societal ills, Urinetown compels viewers to reflect on themes of oppression, deception, and rebellion

Athens of 5th century BCE was a place of economic growth and cultural flourishing. Specifically in the field of theater, these environmental conditions pushed ancient Greek tragedy to its thriving points. The Greek drama played with the limits of morality and even broke them down on staged performances that were never experienced before. In Ajax, Sophocles puts into perspective the old Greek heroic warrior through a character analysis of Ajax and raises the question of this figure is now needed to

Olivia Seeney ENGL 330 Studies in World Literature 11/21/16 Hubris and Drama in Antigone Hubris may be categorized as two things. As a part of the Greek theater hubris qualifies as being “the intentional use of violence to humiliate or degrade (Luebering).” However, a more modern qualification defines hubris as “exaggerated pride or self-confidence (Hubris).” Throughout Antigone both of these different characterizations of the word hubris can be found in specific events and characters. Being a Greek

Martin Esslin, an established drama director, scholar, and critic, approaches his analysis of drama by drawing on his practical experience as a director of plays. Esslin implicitly assumes that drama is the most elite of the artistic genres when he directly declares the purpose of his book, which is to answer the question "why should those concerned with art resort to drama rather than any other form of communication?" Esslin then immediately poses another question that he seems to take as a prerequisite

Drama at the End of Act Two in An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley What do you think is particularly dramatic about the section at the end of Act Two when Mrs Birling is questioned? In directing the drama how would you bring out the drama? The play of Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley is made dramatic because it is all about an investigation of a suicide and how each family member

of the word and one looking for magic and happy endings in a world completely devoid of theml. Melodramatic originally meant having to do with melodramas or plays with singing and acting in them. The melo for the use of songs in the plays, and the drama describing the plays themselves. The current use of the word, and the one used in this novel is an overwrought and sensationalized act or way of speaking. The original definition brings to mind a sense of walking around with beautiful music, and life

The full influence of Greek tragedy upon our modern theatre is incomprehensible, with the mainstays of theatrical convention largely demonstrating roots within Greek tragedy. The choric function is just one of these conventions. This essay hopes to explore various uses of the Chorus within Greek tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles, and then to analyse how traits of a Greek Chorus, and the choric function can be found within 20th Century Theatre. The Chorus in Greek tragedy was a large group (it

Supporting Notes. Play – My Mother said I never should, written by Charlotte Keatly. Skill - Acting Practioner – Max Stafford-Clark. Role – Margaret Section 1: -700 Max Stafford-Clark is one of the most influential directors to embrace British Theatre in the past 40 years. Nearly every play Max has directed is political, including themes such as Marxism (like