Julie Taymor

“Frida” the movie was released in 2002 and directed by Julie Taymor. The cast included Salma Hayek as (Frida), Alfred Molina as (Diego Rivera), Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton, Mia Maestro, and Geoffrey Rush. The film is a biography of the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. She is a woman who came from a very simple background. Kahlo rose to fame as an artist with an unique vision for her craft. She endured a difficult relationship with her husband/mentor Diego Rivera. Many of her paintings

“Frida” the movies was released in 2002 and directed by Julie Taymor. The cast included Salma Hayek as (Frida), Alfred Molina as (Diego Rivera), Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton, Mia Maestro, and Geoffrey Rush. “Frida” is a biography of the life of Mexican artist Frida Khalo). She is a woman who came from a very simple background. She rose to fame as an artist with a very interesting vision for her craft. She endured a very difficult relationship with her husband/mentor Diego Rivera Many

Julie Taymor, a director and playwright, was the first women to a Tony Award. Her works in opera, theater, and film has gotten her many awards, including Academy awards, an Oliver award, and much more. Julie Taymor was born on December 15, 1952 in Newton, Massachusetts. She is the youngest of four sisters. Her father, Melvin Lester Taymor, was a gynecologist. Her mother, Elizabeth Bernstein Taymor, was a teacher in political science. She like international folklore and mythology, and developed

4. The most recent version of The Tempest by Julie Taymor changes Prospero to “Prospera,” a female figure played by Helen Mirren. Consider both 17th-century gender issues and more recent ones in examination of the play’s discussions about virginity, marriage and femininity. In the 17th century, the issue with the gender roles being switched would be presumed as something different. I use ‘different’ because it could go both ways, it could be perceived as something good or bad to the audience. We

Julie Taymor was born on December 15, 1954 in Newton, Massachusetts to a doctor and a politician. The youngest of three children, both more than six years older than her, she had a “tremendous amount of freedom” (Molina). She lived through the turbulent 1960’s noticing how new circumstances caused by the Vietnam war influenced the behavior of those around her and how these changes developed as time passed. This close observation of what people went through and how it shaped them had a large influence

What musical theatre does best is to be abstract, not literal reality. Julie Taymor director  of The Lion King, did exactly this when she directed the musical The Lion King. The Lion King  Broadway show in 1997 won six Tony awards, eight Drama Desk awards and the Theatrical  World Award. Everything in this show including lighting, choreography, orchestration, scenery,  costume design, and performance all came together to make an unforgettable masterpiece.  Director,choreographer, and designer Judith Taymor transformed the staged musical The Lion 

Julie Taymor’s Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's first tragedy has been a topic of discussion since the day it was written. Titus Andronicus "was staged on 24 January 1594 by the Earl of Sussex's Men at the Rose Theatre" (Welsh 1). Though this tidbit of information seems somewhat irrelevant to Titus, we must note that there are certain standards and practices established by a play from its first performance. It is also important to establish the general attributes that audiences attribute

“Titus” (1999) is a movie adaption of one of the earliest and least known plays of Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus”. Directed by Julie Taymor, the movie takes you to another reality, and you can’t quite understand whether it is a dystopian future or a time-mixed world. From soldiers using swords, to using guns, from riding horses to motorcycles and tanks, you are left with the unanswered question to which point in time the story is taking place. The movie, as bloody and gruesome as the play is visually

Titus Titus is a film adaption of William Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy, Titus Andronicus. Sponsored by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Sky Productions, director Julie Taymor and produces Conchita Airoldi and Jody Allen were able to bring Shakespeare’s vision to life. The main characters Titus and Tamora were played by Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Throughout the film the audience experiences how destructive revenge can be and the effects it has. A few important quotes that applies to this film

the world by storm (The Lion King, 1997). Regarding the process of the musical, Artistic Director Julie Taymor’s first thoughts for choosing the Lion King as the next big thing on stage, was classed as ‘impossible’ due to the film’s lack of theatrical material (The Lion King, 1997). Therefore, staging this particular work contained a great deal of uncertainty and the need for taking huge risks. Taymor (1997) suggests how ‘the Lion King was the worst idea possible to create a stage show.’ It has become