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    A Trip to the Roman Theatre Morning at last! I have been waiting for this day for so long. Today is March the 15th. Today is the day when the whole of Italy will celebrate the festival of Anna Perenna -the goddess of the year. I love festivals, because everyone is on holiday and all the citizens are forbidden to work or do business. I am thrilled because I am going to the theatre to see a play. I am very fortunate that my father has paid for the actors and producers

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    paper. APA style is a format for academic documents such as journal articles and books. APA style is most commonly used to site sources within the social sciences. This style is a formal way of writing an official document. The essay should be typed, double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5"x 11") with 1" margins on all sides. The essay should use a clear font that is readable. APA recommends using 12 PT and Times New Roman font. The essay also includes a page header at the top of every page. To create

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    Elizabethan Era were not allowed to wear whatever they like or desired. Their Fashion choices had to be followed by a strict law! The English people chose to establish social classes by the colors they wore and this had an affect on costumes used in theatre. Queen Elizabeth I followed the sumptuary laws, which was only certain classes were consent to wear specific fabric and colors. Therefore in plays the actors could only wear certain colors for their costumes that displayed what role and class their

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    Another play in this series was Hayavadana which elevated women on a pedastal higher than that of the man. Its theme was borrowed from Kathasaritasagar, a collection of Sanskrit stories. It has a complicated, bizzare plot consisting of two close friends Devdatta and Kapila. It is based on a tale from Vetala Panchavimshika but Karnad borrowed it from Thomas Mann's Transposed Head. It is a play on the mad dance of incompleteness and a search for identity in a world of tangled relationships. Devdatta

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    world of theatre, and he was drawn in immediately. O’Brien struggled for a long time trying to find work, working as a stuntman on films such as Carry On, Cowboy and Casino Royale. His first breakthrough, however, came when he was given a small part in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Though his performance was miserable, his true highlight was when he met with the director of Superstar, Jim Sharman. He presented to Sharman his early draft of Rocky Horror, a rock-inspired musical theatre production

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    The city has several great theatres and concert halls, including the Palace Theatre right opposite the Palace Hotel. SUMMARY Other useful information for your stay The closest train station is Manchester Oxford Road Station; it can be reached in about two minutes by foot. Trains connect Manchester

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    By the mid-1930s Reza Shah 's dictatorial style of rule caused dissatisfaction in Iran, particularly among religious and intellectual elites. Contradictory to strong will of modernization, Reza shah believed in monophony. A closer look at the period between 1930 and 1941 furthermore reveals a concentration of important changes around the mid 1930s: The political climate became more restrictive, as reflected in the decree against collectivist ideas in 1931 or the Gowhar Shad incident in 1935; the

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    how do typical customer service “best practices” fit into the customer-centric marketing tactics that we as consumers demand and how are businesses starting to re-think their strategies? Movie Theatres: Rethinking Customer Experience The initial design of the movie theatre was drafted from original theatre or live productions. With this model, majority of sales were produced by the actual selling of tickets. Being a live performance, there was a time for intermission and that is where additional

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    Queensland Theatre Company’s production of Happy Days attempts to present a re-imagining of Samuel Beckett’s 1960’s surreal masterpiece. Happy Days is an existential absurdist tale that focuses on the struggles of an aging woman buried up to her waist, and later head, with only her handbag, parasol and seldom seen husband for entertainment. Through the utilisation of characterisation, tension of relationship and design, Happy Days attempts to engage a 21st century audience and remind audiences of

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    My wife and I attended the performance of Romeo and Juliet at The Drake Performance Center on 20 October 2016. Upon entering the theatre, I saw a familiar site. I am currently taking Theatre 2000 sound practicum and have previously and frequently worked in this theatre with this set. I will give a fair analysis of the different design areas and their effectiveness. The story of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an age old classic. It has been told and retold many times with each iteration having

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