Stagecraft

them someone to talk to. One of the people I was most helpful to was my stagecraft teacher at CPMA. In seventh grade I first took stagecraft because it was linked to my theatre class. Stagecraft is working backstage at performances and I thought that it would just be a fun class to take to get a credit but I fell in love with it. In eighth grade I decided to take stagecraft for a whole year. Since I had already taken stagecraft the year before I knew what we learned in the

The scenery and stage properties involved in Kent State University’s production of Little Women, directed by Terri Kent, helped to portray a specific vision as well as the entire world of the show. While issues still occurred even with the use of the proscenium stage, the civil war time period was never dropped. Stage properties can be extremely necessary when creating the world of the show (Pauna, KSU THEA 11722). Throughout this production, they were used sparingly and were only placed on the

Stage Machinery of Baroque Theaters The theater’s combination of music and acting made them extremely popular with the whole of Western Europe. The baroque theaters, however, not only wanted to entertain their audiences but also captivate and astound them. Theaters started using special effects to amaze their audiences with the visual as well as the auditory; this made theater the most treasured art form of Europe. In order to amaze their audiences, theaters used extremely elaborate stage machinery

This play was sponsored at The Topeka High School and attended on Thursday September 21st, 2017. The director of this play is Derek Jensen, one of the drama teachers at Topeka High and the technical director is Amanda Porter, she is Topeka High’s stagecraft teacher. The story begins with two crates and two ships, a young starcatcher along with her nanny goes on one ship, the girl befriends three orphans there, while on the other ship her father, another starcatcher finds himself stuck with pirates

Drama 160 Term Paper: Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun is a monumental play in the theatrical world. Produced in 1959, it became the first play written by an African-American woman to hit the stage and was later nominated for several Tony Awards. The play touched many controversial themes of the time including racial discrimination and poverty. The design of Raisin in the Sun, including scenic, costume, lighting, and sound elements, were crucial to developing the plot

On October 12th, 2017, the Averitt Center produced “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” at the Black Box Theatre in Statesboro, GA. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is based on the story by Washington Irving and was dramatized by Kathryn Schultz Miller. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” was directed by Bathany DeZelle. Main actors were Zac Davis, Edward Preble, Grace Jarrell, John Parcels, Edy Kaleta, Aubrey Roberts, Sofia Costantini, Kenzie Cannady, Kian DeVine, and Ernesto Moina. Other actors included were Xavier

In this theatrical production- Aunt Raini, directed by the playwright Tom Smith and produced by Pacific Lutheran University, has successfully perform theatrical elements within different perspective of the performance, while the performance has connected and integrated the content based from the script stories. For instance, from a stage production perspective, the constructing style of the scenes, walls, flats or hand props and the accurate placement of stage properties on stage has specified the

Shakespeare was a master at creating worlds through words that were performed on stage. Musical theatre has been an entertainer for years. This leaves no question as to why Lurhmann pays tribute to such a master and a great gene. In sequence 14 in Romeo and Juliet, entitled Romeo Sneaks Back In, Lurhmann takes a new angle to the famous balcony scene. There is a long shot of the Capulets’ balcony by the pool and Romeo in the middle ground. The lighting is dark as it suggests secrecy. Romeo triggers

In the fine arts community there are many options of occupation from drawing and painting to singing and instruments and even the Theatre. In theatre there are many options past acting. You have lights, sounds, makeup and costume, set, stage manager, assistant stage manager, house manager, ushers, and director. As a theatre technician I would want to do it all but mostly costume, set, and sound. With costume design comes clothing design. You are given a character and you have to show who they are

Hey there, everyone! As the Christmas season comes to a close, I thought it was time for me to do another post about theatre education. Earlier in the year, I did a few posts on education, including a quiz about what theatre major to choose in college, out-of-state schools for theatre, and why it is important to participate in youth theatre. Today, I wanted to do a post about the diverse theatre personnel. A lot of time when people think about theatre, their minds immediately jump to actors, director