The Theatre

On the evening of July 27th, I attended a production of “Carrie: The Musical” based on the novel “Carrie” by Stephen King. The musical was performed by Near West Theater in Cleveland and directed by Devon Turchan. The main character who name is Carrie White is an outcast through the entire play and her entire life you learn this when the other students talk about past experiences with Carrie. The main antagonist in the play is her very own mother Margaret White. Ms.White is a very religious woman

Thomas Lincoln Tally, proprietor of arcades and phonograph parlors, opened his Electric Theatre in Los Angeles during the spring of 1902. The actual date of the theater’s opening varies among sources, the most often cited being April 2nd, 6th, and 16th. Before Tally’s Electric Theatre, motion pictures were often exhibited in existing storefronts or vaudeville theaters. Tally’s was the first building constructed for the sole purpose of showing movies. The theater was open from 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

“The world of the theatre is a world of sharper, clearer, swifter impressions than the world we live in.” (Jones 115) It is hard to describe the feeling of helping to create a new world and seeing it come to life in front of an audience. It’s like watching a book come to life, or a film happen right before your eyes, but more real, more tangible and exciting and extraordinary. Robert Edmond Jones’s book The Dramatic Imagination focuses not only on the technical aspects of theatre and how it should

languages and perspectives of Physical theatre, as well as heightened Realism, to effectively re-contextualize the play for a modern audience. The re-contextualized play is very successful whilst still being true to the original text, combining parts of the Shakespearean script with an array of music, dance and movement resulting in the creation of a unique contemporary physical theatre. The elements of drama, along with conventions of both physical and Elizabethan theatre, were used by Frantic Assembly

dramaturgy as either being a ‘dramatic composition; the dramatic art’ or as ‘dramatic or theatrical acting.’ However, words such as ‘composition’ can be highly vague, leaving itself open to broad interpretations and debates via the scholars of drama and theatre studies. Similarly, we are left to question what exactly the role of a dramaturg is, and whether they perform this role alone or share it; as no one has actually established a clear definition of what

group that remained. That accident was the genesis of a brand new passion. From starting off as an average stage hand to becoming a full-fledged member of the high-school tech program, I was hooked for life. Since starting in the field of technical theatre, it seems like it’s been show after show. A grand total of fourteen shows in two years, being involved in almost every technical aspect of each show, has solidified my career decision. No matter how stressful the shows have become, whether it was

delve deeper into the realm of physical theatre for our devised creative adaptation. The main reason for this was our success in unit 2 were we used Frantic Assembly, an innovative physical theatre group, as a Practitioner. We now want to work on the basics that we learned last year but also extend our skills to more challenging and advanced physical movements and sequences. Now that the shackles are off we are interested to look into other physical theatre practitioners such as ‘PUSH’ who use a

the interpretation of audience-in-performance that I will put forth. Therefore, the pieces I have chosen are a kind of Invisible Theatre (a term that I have co-opted from Augusto Boal), this Invisible Theatre serves as the foundation of the analysis I will offer and is crucial to the discussion of the role and effect of audience (277). Invisible Theatre is “public theatre which involves the public as participants in the action without their knowing it” (Boal xxiii). The three pieces which I will

turned him from a wealthy man into a poor one. Stanaslasky was born into a wealthy manufacturing family. This meant that he was a privelaged as a child and went to see many plays,ballets and operah. He was able to expresses his love for the theatre through the theatre his dad built in 1877 and as he grew older he used it for acting and also directing. He financed many artistic experiments and also financed t'society of art and literature'. He then op

State Theatre Company’s Macbeth is a modern take on a Shakespeare classic. In its best moments, Macbeth is an adrenaline-packed and harrowing psychological thriller. It leaves the audience on the edge of their seats as leads Nathan O’Keefe (Macbeth) and Anna Steen (Lady Macbeth) intoxicate the theatre audience through their pursuit of the “golden round”. However, the play as a whole doesn’t match up to its best moments, as Brookman’s butchering of the original text leads to some serious pacing