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538 wordsA Modest Essay ESSAY: IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON? I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethni...
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Theater Performance Of Marat Sade
1,747 wordsPeter Brook and the Film Production of Marat / Sade It is noted within Margaret Croyden's book, Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets, in the extremely interesting and informative tenth chapter, entitled "The Achievement of Peter Brook: From Commercialism to the Avant-Garde", that near the start of his career, Brook was attracted to both plays and techniques that expressed human contradiction. He often wondered, though, whether there were any modern playwright who could possibly equal the richness and com...
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Ira Aldridge's First Performance
1,919 wordsIra Frederick Aldridge was born on July 24, 1807 in New York. However, his birthplace remained questionable until 40 or so years ago. It has also been listed as Senegal (Africa), and Maryland. However conclusive evidence was found in the 1950's that he was born in New York. Included in this evidence are his British Naturalization papers and Death Certificate. His father was Reverend Daniel Adl ridge, a straw vendor and preacher in 'Old Zion'. His mother was Lurranah. Ira grew up in a house on wh...
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Mary Nessinger Voice
832 wordsOn Sunday afternoon November 21, 1999, at 2: 00 p.m. at 419th Concert Worldwide, 330th in New York, 218th in Carnegie Hall I attended a Mid America production that presented the New England Symphonic Ensemble. This concert contained several different compositions by large groups of musicians, including an orchestra band, and chorus. This concert was divided into three different parts. First there was the Vivaldi which was divided into 12 sections. Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse was the music director...
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Their New Homes Salt Lake City Plays
2,010 wordsSoon after the American Revolution, Americans began their expansion to the west. It was our Manifest Destiny to tame the wilds of the west and expand our nation from coast to coast. Families from all over would load up their belongings and travel to the newly purchased lands. People from New York, Philadelphia, Boston and all parts of the new nation brought with them their language, culture and belief systems. Along with this they also brought the theater. It was not long after people would begi...
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Serafina From Performer To Audience
4,978 words"El traje de hombre": Costume as performance in Tirso's El vergonzoso en palacio. In her discussion of commedia dell " arte, Kathleen McGill argues that the appearance of women drastically changed how performance functioned and what type of drama was staged: "Whereas prior to the participation of women, male troupes generally performed simple farces, women performers, according to the report of their contemporary audiences, demonstrated a facility for eloquent dialogue which surpassed that of th...
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Performance Of A Very Famous Play
1,561 wordsIt had been a few years since I had last attended to play. I had just seen the movie version of The Crucible and was incredibly excited about getting a chance to watch a theatrical presentation of it. When I first heard that I'd get the chance to see it I was very excited that I could hardly wait. I must say, however, it was well worth the wait. Everything and everybody inside the auditorium was much more professional than I had assumed. I figured that this play would be nothing more than colleg...
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Live Performances And Some Video Productions
1,094 wordsComparison and Contrasting Experience of Drama Everyone has a preference when entertaining one's self with a drama. Live theatrical performances, video production, and reading novels or poems are a few examples of how an individual may want to expand the mind. Personally, I feel that reading a drama is the best way to experience a story, depending on the author. The mind can produce extraordinary images that a live performance or video productions are limited to. In this essay, I will be discuss...
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Theater Of Dionysus The Theater Of Dionysus
1,112 wordsThe Theater of Dionysus The Theater of Dionysus was Europe's first theater, and stood immediately below the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was originally built in the late 5th century B.C. The theater was an outdoor auditorium in the shape of a great semicircle on the slope of the Acropolis, with rows of seats on which about eighteen thousand spectators could comfortably seat. The front rows consisted of marble chairs, and were the only seats in the theater that had a back support. The priests ...
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Lighting In The Play
931 wordsThis play was the resounding voice of the dead. The direction of the play closely followed the original direction of the script. By that I mean that the unity of the play was contingent on the premise of the original writer. I believe that the director of this play was trying to uphold the message that Irwin Shaw first presented with this play. The play was directed very well. It seemed that it drove the intended message home well, which in this case I would consider an appreciative success. The...
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Written After Paganini
1,087 wordsBy Nick Carroll Let my work benefit all! Again, to Pryor High School Students: Plagiarizing this would be dumb, because I can almost guarantee you will be caught! Part I: The Life of Paganini Niccolo Paganini was born in the town of Genoa, Italy, on October 27, 1782. Paganini had poor health which followed him his entire life. In fact, he was almost thrown away when he was four by his parents, who believed that he had been killed by disease. Only by chance someone heard him breathing, and he was...
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Absurdist And Existential Philosophy Through The Characters
1,119 wordsOne of the objective of my drama performance was to a have a variety of different absurdist conventions such as circularity, menace, black humour, symbolism and pauses. Furthermore I tried to link it with the existential philosophy behind the absurdist play. I portrayed circularity through the way I entered and exited the stage using Lucky's walk from waiting for Godot. Lucky is a character who has made the choice to be told what to do as live a life as a servant. This links with the existential...
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Play A Bit
1,152 wordsDRAMA ASSIGNMENT- PLAY REVIEW JUICE Juice by Stephen Davis was written in 1997 after a series of workshops with South-East Queensland schools including Ipswich Grammar, Nudgee College, Somerville House and several large State Schools, in which students and teaching artists' collaborated the ideas, issues and desires relevant to students in the 14-15 age bracket. The purpose of the play is to educate young people about the hidden dangers of alcohol. Juice is a play about the trials and tribulatio...
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Little Like A Lot Of Today's Theatre
748 wordsThe Influence of Patronage on Theater During the Shakespearean Era and how this Practice is Reflected in Theatre Today When Henry V was in power the first sign of patronage was seen, this was during his Reformation. He was married to Catherine of Aragon but through marriage difficulties he wanted to divorce her. Unfortunately this was made impossible by his Lord Chancellor, as he could not persuade the Pope to allow the divorce because of Religion. So the Chancellor was replaced and he divorced ...
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Playing Of The Taiko Drum
1,025 wordsTaiko reflects the spiritual side of Japan in that it combines irregularity with simplicity, suggestion with perishability. There is nothing else that sounds like a Taiko drum yet, the rhythm, which is said to be like a heartbeat, is so simple. It helps one confront their fears and overcome obstacles yet, while doing this it suggests a beauty never seen before and emotions never felt. Taiko, which means "big drum" in japanese, has been apart of the Japanese culture for hundreds of years and is c...
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Paganini's Concerti For Violin And Orchestra
2,334 wordsPaganini This benefit concert marks only the second time in history that the legendary violin, made by Joseph Guarneri del Gesu (pronounced "Jez u") (1705? - 1744) in 1743, which belonged to Nicolo Paganini (October 27, 1782 - May 27, 1840) will be played in a full recital on the American continent. Eugene Fodor will perform. The first time it was heard in the U.S. was in 1982, in New York, as part of Paganini's bicentennial celebration, when his 24 Caprices for unaccompanied violin were played ...
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R Kelly
732 wordsRobert Kelly was born in January 1969, in Chicago Illinois. Kelly grew up in the housing projects of Chicago's south side. He overcame the peer gang and other negative influences in his surroundings. "He had a strong determination never to settle for any l's (loses) in his life". (Lisa Knazze) That might explain R. Kelly's ability to bounce back form situations that could permanently damage anyone's career. Kelly had a natural flair for most instruments, eventually becoming more by accident then...
