hamlet - McCarter Theatre
... productions that incorporated folk songs and indigenous characters from the Parsi tradition. By the same token, the role of Hamlet has invited an enormously diverse range of readings since Richard Burbage, the leading man in Shakespeare’s company, first assayed it. Thomas Betterton, the best-known H ...
... productions that incorporated folk songs and indigenous characters from the Parsi tradition. By the same token, the role of Hamlet has invited an enormously diverse range of readings since Richard Burbage, the leading man in Shakespeare’s company, first assayed it. Thomas Betterton, the best-known H ...
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... Femininity in the Early Stuart Court Masques, dealing with early English actresses in the 16th and 17th centuries. Oroszlán draws our attention to the radical dichotomy between the fact that, on the one hand, the women who performed in those times were regarded as corrupt and amoral, and on the othe ...
... Femininity in the Early Stuart Court Masques, dealing with early English actresses in the 16th and 17th centuries. Oroszlán draws our attention to the radical dichotomy between the fact that, on the one hand, the women who performed in those times were regarded as corrupt and amoral, and on the othe ...
About… Theatre in Luxembourg
... festive and theatre life of the fortress of Luxembourg. While the archives talk of balls that the city’s magistrate brightened up with “wine, bread and candles”, they also mention religious and mystery plays (“ … dat spyl van Marien und Joseph”), financially supported by the city’s magistrate. The b ...
... festive and theatre life of the fortress of Luxembourg. While the archives talk of balls that the city’s magistrate brightened up with “wine, bread and candles”, they also mention religious and mystery plays (“ … dat spyl van Marien und Joseph”), financially supported by the city’s magistrate. The b ...
Salome - Side Project Theatre
... McDermott serves up, unsurprisingly, an unconventional staging of this Oscar Wilde anomaly. The single-act "Salomé" is poetry as drama, a retelling of the biblical tale of John the Baptist-specifically, his death at the bidding of the seductive title character, who performs the legendary Dance of th ...
... McDermott serves up, unsurprisingly, an unconventional staging of this Oscar Wilde anomaly. The single-act "Salomé" is poetry as drama, a retelling of the biblical tale of John the Baptist-specifically, his death at the bidding of the seductive title character, who performs the legendary Dance of th ...
Guide - Clemens Center
... for prices as low as one penny. The groundlings were often loud and rambunctious, eating, drinking, shouting at the actors, and socializing during the performance. To keep the audience’s attention, playwrights incorporated of action and bawdy humor in their plays. In Early Modern England, new plays ...
... for prices as low as one penny. The groundlings were often loud and rambunctious, eating, drinking, shouting at the actors, and socializing during the performance. To keep the audience’s attention, playwrights incorporated of action and bawdy humor in their plays. In Early Modern England, new plays ...
ENG 362 English Drama
... This module examines certain aspects of the Elizabethan drama, which in theatre history, is considered the golden age of English drama. The module begins by taking you through the Elizabethan world view and the factors that influenced life and the practice of drama during this great period. In this ...
... This module examines certain aspects of the Elizabethan drama, which in theatre history, is considered the golden age of English drama. The module begins by taking you through the Elizabethan world view and the factors that influenced life and the practice of drama during this great period. In this ...
Lisa Dwan in Beckett Trilogy: Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby
... Ben Brantley said in The New York Times, “A deeply sobering and equally intoxicating experience. You will probably never have another chance to see these difficult but profoundly accessible late works from a master embodied as perfectly as they are here … [This] astonishing actress … doesn’t just ...
... Ben Brantley said in The New York Times, “A deeply sobering and equally intoxicating experience. You will probably never have another chance to see these difficult but profoundly accessible late works from a master embodied as perfectly as they are here … [This] astonishing actress … doesn’t just ...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
... almost unchanged, other sections, like the football scene, have been adapted to suit popular media as well as the various locations of the production. (It has been portrayed as a rugby, soccer, or Aussie Rules footy.) While the script published by Applause Books in 1994 was replete with references t ...
... almost unchanged, other sections, like the football scene, have been adapted to suit popular media as well as the various locations of the production. (It has been portrayed as a rugby, soccer, or Aussie Rules footy.) While the script published by Applause Books in 1994 was replete with references t ...
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
... almost unchanged, other sections, like the football scene, have been adapted to suit popular media as well as the various locations of the production. (It has been portrayed as a rugby, soccer, or Aussie Rules footy.) While the script published by Applause Books in 1994 was replete with references t ...
... almost unchanged, other sections, like the football scene, have been adapted to suit popular media as well as the various locations of the production. (It has been portrayed as a rugby, soccer, or Aussie Rules footy.) While the script published by Applause Books in 1994 was replete with references t ...
the berkeley rep magazine - Berkeley Repertory Theatre
... final subscription production of the season, I want to draw your attention to two special events that we’ll offer here at Berkeley Rep this summer. We are very pleased to host George Gershwin Alone on the Thrust Stage from June 8 to 23 and No Man’s Land, featuring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart ...
... final subscription production of the season, I want to draw your attention to two special events that we’ll offer here at Berkeley Rep this summer. We are very pleased to host George Gershwin Alone on the Thrust Stage from June 8 to 23 and No Man’s Land, featuring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart ...
With the lead actress, male producer, stage manager dead, it all
... members back to Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1959 and places them in the middle of a murder mystery. When they finally reach the curtain call of their opening night performance, all seems to be going well for the cast and crew, until the leading lady unexpectedly drops dead. After investigation ...
... members back to Boston, Massachusetts in the year 1959 and places them in the middle of a murder mystery. When they finally reach the curtain call of their opening night performance, all seems to be going well for the cast and crew, until the leading lady unexpectedly drops dead. After investigation ...
the Twelfth Night Study Guide
... Its superior subplot features Malvolio (whose name parses as “Ill Will”), Steward of Olivia’s household. A priggish Puritan, he deigns to squelch the partying of at least two of his social superiors, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek—both of whom also sport character-defining surnames (Belch, ...
... Its superior subplot features Malvolio (whose name parses as “Ill Will”), Steward of Olivia’s household. A priggish Puritan, he deigns to squelch the partying of at least two of his social superiors, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek—both of whom also sport character-defining surnames (Belch, ...
Amateur Theatre Report - Royal Holloway, University of London
... limited repertoire is available to amateur groups. Yet this has also ensured that there has been continuity in the performance of a twentieth-century canon in the regions (Priestley, Shaw, Rattigan, Brenton, Daniels, de Angelis), as cuts in subsidy has meant regional reps have become less able to pr ...
... limited repertoire is available to amateur groups. Yet this has also ensured that there has been continuity in the performance of a twentieth-century canon in the regions (Priestley, Shaw, Rattigan, Brenton, Daniels, de Angelis), as cuts in subsidy has meant regional reps have become less able to pr ...
Monologue Theatre, Solo Performance and Self as Spectacle
... an overview of types of monologue in theatre and performance or to copper fasten terminology, this collection of essays roams around various realisations and modifications of the monologue in plays and in solo performance. It is deliberately poly‐vocal and poly‐perspectival in i ...
... an overview of types of monologue in theatre and performance or to copper fasten terminology, this collection of essays roams around various realisations and modifications of the monologue in plays and in solo performance. It is deliberately poly‐vocal and poly‐perspectival in i ...
Remember Augusto Boal
... forms of systematic torture. In Theatre of the Oppressed Boal develops a theatrical method based on Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a book by the Brazilian educator and writer Paulo Freire (who was also a good friend of Boal). Boal's method (which has been implemented in various communities around the wo ...
... forms of systematic torture. In Theatre of the Oppressed Boal develops a theatrical method based on Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a book by the Brazilian educator and writer Paulo Freire (who was also a good friend of Boal). Boal's method (which has been implemented in various communities around the wo ...
Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, `Waiting for Godot` Transcript
... directions read: ‘A country road. A tree. Evening.’ The use of the indefinite article, ‘a’, has a generalising effect. All is ‘indefinite’. On this bare stage are two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. Their conversation, insomuch as what one says engages with what the other has said is mundane, but bec ...
... directions read: ‘A country road. A tree. Evening.’ The use of the indefinite article, ‘a’, has a generalising effect. All is ‘indefinite’. On this bare stage are two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. Their conversation, insomuch as what one says engages with what the other has said is mundane, but bec ...
Theatre and Language: Samuel Beckett, `Waiting for Godot` Transcript
... directions read: ‘A country road. A tree. Evening.’ The use of the indefinite article, ‘a’, has a generalising effect. All is ‘indefinite’. On this bare stage are two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. Their conversation, insomuch as what one says engages with what the other has said is mundane, but bec ...
... directions read: ‘A country road. A tree. Evening.’ The use of the indefinite article, ‘a’, has a generalising effect. All is ‘indefinite’. On this bare stage are two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon. Their conversation, insomuch as what one says engages with what the other has said is mundane, but bec ...
Contemporary Drama in English
... stamped a lasting mark on the interpretation of history and culture especially since the second half of the twentieth century. On the other hand, however, postmodernist thought has always been extremely controversial. An aloofness towards postmodernism is particularly grounded in the belief — which ...
... stamped a lasting mark on the interpretation of history and culture especially since the second half of the twentieth century. On the other hand, however, postmodernist thought has always been extremely controversial. An aloofness towards postmodernism is particularly grounded in the belief — which ...
The Debate Over Theatre in Post
... Republicanism meant freemen should have the right to choose their own entertainment, yet it also meant freemen had the right to be protected from dangerous elements of society. Theatre is a social art. Therefore, theatre’s right to exist was contested since the establishment of the American colonie ...
... Republicanism meant freemen should have the right to choose their own entertainment, yet it also meant freemen had the right to be protected from dangerous elements of society. Theatre is a social art. Therefore, theatre’s right to exist was contested since the establishment of the American colonie ...
Language, Character and History in Postmodern
... that appeared in 1988 under the title A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, merits the most serious critical attention. The strength of Hutcheon’s theoretical model can be attributed to her appropriation of the seminal ideas of the leading French poststructuralists including Derrida, ...
... that appeared in 1988 under the title A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, merits the most serious critical attention. The strength of Hutcheon’s theoretical model can be attributed to her appropriation of the seminal ideas of the leading French poststructuralists including Derrida, ...
Albert Einstein - Invisible Theatre
... returned to New York and studied at the prestigious Actors Studio with the honored Method master, Lee Strasberg. Metzger never expected, years later, that his scientific education would be used in drama. He created his first one-man show, "EINSTEIN: THE PRACTICAL BOHEMIAN," which had its Los Angeles ...
... returned to New York and studied at the prestigious Actors Studio with the honored Method master, Lee Strasberg. Metzger never expected, years later, that his scientific education would be used in drama. He created his first one-man show, "EINSTEIN: THE PRACTICAL BOHEMIAN," which had its Los Angeles ...
Small Town Montréal: Critical Preconceptions and
... Both Tremblay’s dialogue and Pryde’s direction are littered with incongruous juxtapositions of personality and action which simultaneously go to dramatic extremes and touch the audience close to home. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is Cuirette, Hosanna’s lover, a paunchy, leather-garbed bi ...
... Both Tremblay’s dialogue and Pryde’s direction are littered with incongruous juxtapositions of personality and action which simultaneously go to dramatic extremes and touch the audience close to home. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is Cuirette, Hosanna’s lover, a paunchy, leather-garbed bi ...
Developing embodied pedagogies of acting for youth
... in the compound term. I find it obvious that in the artistic work of a professional actor the embodied ways to work and the more conventional, text-based ones co-exist. Instead, in my experience of young people interested in acting, acquired through more than twenty years of working as a theatre tea ...
... in the compound term. I find it obvious that in the artistic work of a professional actor the embodied ways to work and the more conventional, text-based ones co-exist. Instead, in my experience of young people interested in acting, acquired through more than twenty years of working as a theatre tea ...
Understanding the Intrinsic Impact of Live Theatre
... • Several theatres within the sample presented the same, or similar, productions. Both Arena Stage and Berkeley Repertory Theatre surveyed audiences at Ruined (different productions of the same play), yielding strikingly similar results. The same two theatres presented the same production of Anna D ...
... • Several theatres within the sample presented the same, or similar, productions. Both Arena Stage and Berkeley Repertory Theatre surveyed audiences at Ruined (different productions of the same play), yielding strikingly similar results. The same two theatres presented the same production of Anna D ...
this PDF file - Journal of Global Theatre History
... and American troupes did not introduce theatre per se, they did offer a new and apparently highly attractive variation of the medium. Its stories, its illusionistic scenery and special combination of spoken word, music and dance all combined to provide a new technology to accompany the telegraph, th ...
... and American troupes did not introduce theatre per se, they did offer a new and apparently highly attractive variation of the medium. Its stories, its illusionistic scenery and special combination of spoken word, music and dance all combined to provide a new technology to accompany the telegraph, th ...
Actor
An actor (actress is sometimes used for females; see § Terminology) is a person portraying a character in a dramatic or comic production; he or she performs in film, television, theatre, radio, commercials or music videos. Actor, ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), literally means ""one who interprets""; an actor, then, is one who interprets a dramatic character. Method acting is an approach in which the actor identifies with the portrayed character by recalling emotions or reactions from his or her own life. Presentational acting refers to a relationship between actor and audience, whether by direct address or indirectly by specific use of language, looks, gestures or other signs indicating that the character or actor is aware of the audience's presence. In representational acting, ""actors want to make us 'believe' they are the character; they pretend.""Formerly, in some societies, only men could become actors, and women's roles were generally played by men or boys. In modern times, women occasionally played the roles of prepubescent boys.