Year Title Author Director
... lasted for nine days. While it’s difficult to choose only one or two works from his prodigious output, his best-known play is Fuenteovejuna, a sprawling epic about the contrasting demands of peasants and corrupt nobles. His plays are noted for “capa y espada” (“cloak and dagger” in the original sens ...
... lasted for nine days. While it’s difficult to choose only one or two works from his prodigious output, his best-known play is Fuenteovejuna, a sprawling epic about the contrasting demands of peasants and corrupt nobles. His plays are noted for “capa y espada” (“cloak and dagger” in the original sens ...
The Libation Bearers Aeschylus / Tony Harrison Heinar Piller
... plays to stimulate us intellectually and move us emotionally, often generating new insights and new understandings of life's possibilities. ...
... plays to stimulate us intellectually and move us emotionally, often generating new insights and new understandings of life's possibilities. ...
DRAMA EXTRAS 1
... brought back, such as a dead body. Ancient Greek Theatre was not meant to be representational or pretending to be realistic. ...
... brought back, such as a dead body. Ancient Greek Theatre was not meant to be representational or pretending to be realistic. ...
The conflict between realism and idealism and the rise of the New
... whom felt the other had expansionist designs, Serbia was being backed by the Russian Empire. Each of the larger powers was supporting the quarreling countries with officer and supplies, the Swiss provided a large number of mercenaries such as Captain Bluntschli who is profited by, but cared nothing ...
... whom felt the other had expansionist designs, Serbia was being backed by the Russian Empire. Each of the larger powers was supporting the quarreling countries with officer and supplies, the Swiss provided a large number of mercenaries such as Captain Bluntschli who is profited by, but cared nothing ...
The Contradictions of Cultural (Theatrical) Memory
... Czech and Polish theatre. Despite the fact that in the does not have a definite form. Each performance is 1990s, young theatre critics and creative professionals different, although the production is fixed. It not only rejected en bloc the previous period of real socialism, depends on the audience a ...
... Czech and Polish theatre. Despite the fact that in the does not have a definite form. Each performance is 1990s, young theatre critics and creative professionals different, although the production is fixed. It not only rejected en bloc the previous period of real socialism, depends on the audience a ...
VCE Theatre Studies Resources 2014-2018
... Some of the print resources contained in this list may be out of print. They have been included because they may still be available from libraries, bookshops and private collections. At the time of publication the URLs (website addresses) cited were checked for accuracy and appropriateness of conten ...
... Some of the print resources contained in this list may be out of print. They have been included because they may still be available from libraries, bookshops and private collections. At the time of publication the URLs (website addresses) cited were checked for accuracy and appropriateness of conten ...
Brechtian Theatre
... What is Epic Theatre? Epic theatre was a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid‐20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners, including Erwin Piscator, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and, most famously, Bertolt Brecht. Although many of the ...
... What is Epic Theatre? Epic theatre was a theatrical movement arising in the early to mid‐20th century from the theories and practice of a number of theatre practitioners, including Erwin Piscator, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold and, most famously, Bertolt Brecht. Although many of the ...
file - Durham Research Online
... and the question of what distinctions should be made applied not only to the comparison of entertainment offered by the theatre with that at other venues, but to the varied entertainments available within the theatres themselves. The increasing popularity of such dramatic genres as opera, pantomime, ...
... and the question of what distinctions should be made applied not only to the comparison of entertainment offered by the theatre with that at other venues, but to the varied entertainments available within the theatres themselves. The increasing popularity of such dramatic genres as opera, pantomime, ...
Towards a Feminist Comedy
... (307). Regina Barreca corroborates Carlson's theory that feminist comedians' independence from the established dramatic tradition emerges in part through the endings of their plays, observing that the "endings of comic works by women writers do not, ultimately, reproduce the expected hierarchies, or ...
... (307). Regina Barreca corroborates Carlson's theory that feminist comedians' independence from the established dramatic tradition emerges in part through the endings of their plays, observing that the "endings of comic works by women writers do not, ultimately, reproduce the expected hierarchies, or ...
the scottish play, an irish play, a british thriller, an
... Writing at the same time as Shakespeare, Lope de Vega remains Spain’s greatest dramatist. Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562 –1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to th ...
... Writing at the same time as Shakespeare, Lope de Vega remains Spain’s greatest dramatist. Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562 –1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to th ...
Rev. of The Beaux` Stratagem.
... estoration comedy has returned triumphantly to The Stratford Festival, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre. George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem, staged during the 2014 season, is the first Restoration drama produced in nearly twenty years by the company since The Country Wife (199 ...
... estoration comedy has returned triumphantly to The Stratford Festival, North America’s largest classical repertory theatre. George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem, staged during the 2014 season, is the first Restoration drama produced in nearly twenty years by the company since The Country Wife (199 ...
Catharsis in an Augustinian Context: Towards an Understanding of
... his brother Abel in Towneley’s Murder of Abel. Some actions are not from specific Bible stories, but other Christian narratives, like The Creation and Fall of Lucifer, or English folk tales, such as the various Shepherd’s plays. Although they are not typical Aristotelian tragedies, they nonetheless ...
... his brother Abel in Towneley’s Murder of Abel. Some actions are not from specific Bible stories, but other Christian narratives, like The Creation and Fall of Lucifer, or English folk tales, such as the various Shepherd’s plays. Although they are not typical Aristotelian tragedies, they nonetheless ...
STUDY GUIDE - Signature Theatre
... collided kitchen-sink realism with blackface minstrelsy, exploding centuries-old attitudes toward race and social progress. In An Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins fused contemporary vernacular and pop music with the plot of a popular nineteenth-century melodrama. His Obie Award-winning Appropriate, the firs ...
... collided kitchen-sink realism with blackface minstrelsy, exploding centuries-old attitudes toward race and social progress. In An Octoroon, Jacobs-Jenkins fused contemporary vernacular and pop music with the plot of a popular nineteenth-century melodrama. His Obie Award-winning Appropriate, the firs ...
Flora Ulysses Flora Ulysses
... and got to be on TV! That was in Iowa, on Bill Riley’s Talent Search. Each week, kids performed on the show and, if they won, they got $25 and a chance to compete at the Iowa State Fair. I made it to the State Fair several years in a row and loved watching all the talented kids. Even then, I knew th ...
... and got to be on TV! That was in Iowa, on Bill Riley’s Talent Search. Each week, kids performed on the show and, if they won, they got $25 and a chance to compete at the Iowa State Fair. I made it to the State Fair several years in a row and loved watching all the talented kids. Even then, I knew th ...
Abstract: Boy Players` Theatre and Acting Skills in the Ho! Plays
... What is most useful about the bad poet, I will suggest, is that he lets playwrights have it both ways, combining the sonic pleasures of out-dated verse effects (doggerel, alliteration, Latinate puns) with a developing sense of poeisis as a sort of craftsmanship with words, perhaps nonchalantly tosse ...
... What is most useful about the bad poet, I will suggest, is that he lets playwrights have it both ways, combining the sonic pleasures of out-dated verse effects (doggerel, alliteration, Latinate puns) with a developing sense of poeisis as a sort of craftsmanship with words, perhaps nonchalantly tosse ...
London Sample Internship List – Theater
... provincial tours. Their work includes theatre, dance and musical theatre. Productions include Fame, Another Country and an all female version of Othello. They also produce for the Edinburgh fringe. The King's Head is London's oldest pub theatre with a diverse programme of both old and new production ...
... provincial tours. Their work includes theatre, dance and musical theatre. Productions include Fame, Another Country and an all female version of Othello. They also produce for the Edinburgh fringe. The King's Head is London's oldest pub theatre with a diverse programme of both old and new production ...
word do - The Open University
... the conference theme, the different meanings it has been given by various participants, and the possibility that its use may close off avenues of critical discussion rather than open them up. The extension of the scope of classical reception studies (CRS) - or even of ‘classics’ as a discipline – to ...
... the conference theme, the different meanings it has been given by various participants, and the possibility that its use may close off avenues of critical discussion rather than open them up. The extension of the scope of classical reception studies (CRS) - or even of ‘classics’ as a discipline – to ...
Follow me to the ancient theatre of Dionysus
... presented for the first time the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. The “didascalia” (teaching), that is, the presentation of the plays to the audience, had a competitive character. It took place in the framework of theatre competitions during the five-day festival of the Gre ...
... presented for the first time the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. The “didascalia” (teaching), that is, the presentation of the plays to the audience, had a competitive character. It took place in the framework of theatre competitions during the five-day festival of the Gre ...
Example programme ()
... Five Kinds of Silence has proved to be a popular choice for One Act Play festivals as it provides the actors with incredibly well written dialogue on a topic that is, tragically, always in the news. The piece is set in the 1980’s but does not date at all and could be set at any time in modern Britai ...
... Five Kinds of Silence has proved to be a popular choice for One Act Play festivals as it provides the actors with incredibly well written dialogue on a topic that is, tragically, always in the news. The piece is set in the 1980’s but does not date at all and could be set at any time in modern Britai ...
Old Vic press release - Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation
... theatre through paid placements with The Old Vic’s front of house team). These initiatives unlock creative imagination in people of all ages and backgrounds, building close relationships and friendships, developing strong communities, and enhancing employability. The Old Vic is committed to working ...
... theatre through paid placements with The Old Vic’s front of house team). These initiatives unlock creative imagination in people of all ages and backgrounds, building close relationships and friendships, developing strong communities, and enhancing employability. The Old Vic is committed to working ...
From the Dean and Vice Principal Academic,
... century, with exceptions like Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which some may consider the first of this genre. This evolution may also have something to do with Garrick’s goal to make characters in plays more “naturalistic.” My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou ar ...
... century, with exceptions like Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which some may consider the first of this genre. This evolution may also have something to do with Garrick’s goal to make characters in plays more “naturalistic.” My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou ar ...
Reframing Immersive Theatre
... These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: * In what way is writing itself a performance? * How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? * Are w ...
... These many possible worlds circle around questions that include: * In what way is writing itself a performance? * How do we understand the relationship between real performances that engender imaginary reflections and imaginary conceptions that form the basis for real theatrical productions? * Are w ...
Altar And Stage: Liturgical Drama in Three Theatrical Traditions
... group of sages that forms the work’s content. The first story that Bharata shares with the sages is the origin of drama as the fifth sacred Veda, or scriptural enlightenment, which could be used to promote right behavior and provide opportunities for worship even to the lowest castes. “ ‘Long, long, ...
... group of sages that forms the work’s content. The first story that Bharata shares with the sages is the origin of drama as the fifth sacred Veda, or scriptural enlightenment, which could be used to promote right behavior and provide opportunities for worship even to the lowest castes. “ ‘Long, long, ...
RESOURCE GUIDE – My Mañana Comes
... My Mañana Comes is a story of four men living in New York City attempting to survive on the unlivable wages they earn as bussers at a high-end restaurant. Peter is an African-American man working a job he is overqualified for, and is not making enough to support his girlfriend and daughter. Jorge is ...
... My Mañana Comes is a story of four men living in New York City attempting to survive on the unlivable wages they earn as bussers at a high-end restaurant. Peter is an African-American man working a job he is overqualified for, and is not making enough to support his girlfriend and daughter. Jorge is ...
Syllabus - Boston University
... Postwar British theatre: the National Theatre and the RSC 1) Overview of the 1960s: the struggle to set up the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. How the century-old struggle to set up a national theatre finally achieved its aim, and how Britain ended up with two major giants, the R ...
... Postwar British theatre: the National Theatre and the RSC 1) Overview of the 1960s: the struggle to set up the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. How the century-old struggle to set up a national theatre finally achieved its aim, and how Britain ended up with two major giants, the R ...
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of narrative, typically fictional, represented in performance. The term comes from the Greek word δρᾶμα, drama, meaning action, which is derived from the verb δράω, draō, meaning to do or to act. The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. The early modern tragedy Hamlet (1601) by Shakespeare and the classical Athenian tragedy Oedipus the King (c. 429 BC) by Sophocles are among the masterpieces of the art of drama. A modern example is Long Day's Journey into Night (1956) by Eugene O’Neill.The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. They are symbols of the ancient Greek Muses, Thalia and Melpomene, the Muse of comedy represented by the laughing face, and the Muse of tragedy represented by the weeping face, respectively. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.The use of ""drama"" in the narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the 19th century. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example, Zola's Thérèse Raquin (1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov (1887). It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film studies adopted to describe ""drama"" as a genre within their respective media. ""Radio drama"" has been used in both senses—originally transmitted in a live performance, it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio.Drama is often combined with music and dance: the drama in opera is generally sung throughout; musicals generally include both spoken dialogue and songs; and some forms of drama have incidental music or musical accompaniment underscoring the dialogue (melodrama and Japanese Nō, for example). In certain periods of history (the ancient Roman and modern Romantic) some dramas have been written to be read rather than performed. In improvisation, the drama does not pre-exist the moment of performance; performers devise a dramatic script spontaneously before an audience.