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Wilder's Our Town
380 wordsThornton Wilder's Our Town provides the audience with an informal, intimate and compelling human drama. Wilder was dissatisfied with the unimaginative, stilted theatrical productions of his time: " [They] aimed to be soothing. The tragic had no heat; the comic had no bite; the social criticism failed to indict us with responsibility". Our Town, with its far-reaching theme and unmistakable symbolism, was a far cry from the typical bland depression era play (though, ironically, "the magic of the m...
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Setting Of His Play
866 wordsShort Answer #1- In Susan Glaspell Trifles, the dialog between characters creates the deep meaning of the story. The attitudes of the men is much different than that of the women, thus adding to one of the major themes. The speech of the women when they are alone conveys a completely separate attribute of the play. The men in this play treat the women as if they were nothing more than senseless little creatures who live their lives to do housework. The County Attorney and Mr. Hale speak of the w...
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Epic Theatres
1,116 wordsEpic Theatres "Epic Theatre turns the spectator into an observer, but arouses his capacity for action, forces him to take decisions... the spectator stands outside, studies". (Bertolt Brecht. Brecht on Theatre. New York: Hill & Yang, 1964. p 37) The concept of epic theatre was brought to life by German playwright, Bertolt Brecht. This direction of theatre was inspired by Brecht's Marxist political beliefs. It was somewhat of a political platform for his ideologies. Epic theatre is the assimilati...
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Use Of Mistaken Identity
913 wordsThe Taming of the Shrew: Mistaken Identities Throughout the play 'The Taming of the Shrew,' William Shakespeare has utilized several ingenious techniques resulting in an effective piece of work. One of the more unique and creative methods is the use of mistaken identity. With the use of mistaken identity, Shakespeare has successfully given the play an element of humor from the beginning to the end. The mistaken identity within the two induction scenes must have been quite humorous for the upper-...
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Play The Devil And Daniel Webster
373 wordsThe play 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' was boring as watching grass grow. The audience struggled to find a comfortable position to stay awake. This disappointing production was stale and went nowhere. Unfortuneltly the audience was unable to develop any emotional relationship with the main characters. THe play created an atmosphere of. Stephen Vincent Benet obviously was having a bad day when writing this script. Benet uses his three main characters as symbols of mans struggle with good and evi...
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Inspector In The Play
724 wordsJ.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" is a well-made play that attacks the social mores of his time; it contains all the ingredients of a well-made play, this is because it is captivating, and it holds the attention of the audience. It achieves this by the use of climaxes, the slow unravelling of the plot and the use of the detective-whodunit style. Despite this Priestley is concerned with the darker side of Capitalism. "An Inspector Calls" is Priestley's call for reformation. Priestley sees the...
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Very Nice Piece And A Great Selection
1,102 wordsJazz Showcase The concert I attended was the Jazz Showcase in Rudder Theatre on Monday June 21, 2004 at 7: 30 p.m. Surroundings Rudder Theatre is a large venue for this Jazz Showcase. There are five sections with fifteen rows deep in each section. The theatre is decorated modestly with solid colors and nothing too spectacular or eye catching. The chairs were covered in a yellowish fabric. The initial backdrop behind the stage was a white backdrop with red and blue lighting. This backdrop would c...
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End Of The Play
1,619 wordsI agree that Arthur Miller engaged the audience to a large extent, and he also manages to get across a historical story at the same time and prove a point. I believe that through extensive character detail he has made it possible for us to understand exactly how the different characters are feeling, and why they behave the way they do. Miller also plays on our emotions by amplifying our own faults through the characters, as in the case of Abigail using the whole situation to her advantage, and b...
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End Of The Play Mickey And Eddie
671 wordsBlood Brothers is about two twins separated at birth, into an Upper class family and a lower class family. The Twins eventually find out they are twins when it is too late. Their separation is used to good dramatic effect to keep the audience in suspense for what's to come. When you are of a lower class you tend to be superstitious. For example, because of the little opportunities and low fortune a person of a lower class has they tend to believe in fate and bad luck. This is a dominant theme wh...
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Audience's Interest Translations
1,683 wordsHow successful is act one of Translations in engaging the audience's interest Translations is about the relationship between people who speak different languages and come from different cultures. The notion of communication is at the forefront of the play and is used to generate audience interest. Culture and language are also topical issues in the play, and are used initially in this chapter towards the interest of the audience for the preceding events in acts two and three. The story is set in...
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Reason For Brecht Plays
1,262 wordsBertl Brecht was a playwright from the late 1800's who sought to put a message out through his theatre performances. Brecht used many dramatic devices and techniques to do this in a very different and individual process, so that the audience would not become attached to the characters he used in his scripts. Why you ask is it important for the audience to remain unattached to the characters? Using the Caucasian chalk circle as an example to explain why this is important, how its works, and what ...
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Brecht's Theories Written Into The Scripts
777 wordsThe statements made about Bertolt Brecht as a playwright and Bertolt Brecht as a theorist are both true and false depending on which angle you choose to look at them. His different theories on alienating his audience, ways of staging his plays and using his own techniques of 'Epic Theatre' are often not consistent with the plays that he writes. However, he does use some aspects of them religiously. These aspects could be anything from a style of speech to his minimal use of set and props. 'Mothe...
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Main Goal Of Epic Theatre As Brecht
1,165 words'Epic Theatre' is a term used to define a form of theatre that utilises various eccentric devices to produce plays that aim to evoke thought over feeling. "It turns the spectator into an observer, but arouses his / her capacity for action, and forces him to make decisions... the spectator stands outside and studies" (Brecht, B. 1964: 37). The main goal of Epic Theatre, as Brecht described it, is to employ didactic and other techniques as well as entertaining theatre to promote political awarenes...
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Setting Of The Play
2,331 wordsRusty Bugles, written by Sumner Lock Elliot was written in 1948. It is set in an ordnance depot in the Northern Territory in 1944. Whilst in World war two it's characters are sixteen Australian soldiers who are bored to the point of going "Troppo" with the stagnation besetting the outpost. The play is about the boredom of life in a remote Northern Territory army camp far from the progress of the real war, grown out of the author's real experience. It is a clever, funny play full of closely obser...
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Birling And Inspector Goole
2,371 wordsohn Boynton Priestley was a socialist. He believed that whether we acknowledged it or not, we are in a community and have a responsibility to look after others. He wrote "An Inspector Calls" to highlight these beliefs and share them. In writing this essay, I intend to show Priestley's aims in writing the play, how he showed these aims and how successful he was in conveying his ideas. You can only speculate on the aims of a playwright in writing a play. In the case of "An Inspector Calls", a vali...
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Purpose Of The Inspector In The Play
1,630 wordsAn inspector calls was first performed in 1945. Priestley wrote the play to express his views through the characters, this makes the play educational. Because the play is set in 1912 the play is filled with dramatic irony, because the Birlings express their views on the future but the audience already know how stupid they are being, this and the drama of the inspector help to keep the audience entertained. The play was set in 1912, life in 1912 was very different from life today. In 1912 the cla...
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Audience The Unfairness Of War
1,848 wordsWorld War I was triggered by political issues. It was confidently believed that the war would be over by Christmas, however it lasted for four long years. During those bitter years of fighting millions of young men lived and died in the trenches either side of no-mans land. Although millions lost their lives the British public threw massive parties celebrating their victory over Germany and the Triple Alliance. At the time the British public were unaware of the horrific nature of the Great War; ...
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Juxtaposes Edward And Mickey's Education
978 wordsDear Sir / Madam, I am writing to apply for the job of director in the new production of "Blood Brothers" in the Old Vic Theatre. I feel that I would be perfect for this position because I have already directed several Willy Russell plays, including Stags and Hens and Educating Rita. I have also directed other plays to do with the issue of class. I hope you choose me to direct this play, as I understand the story quite clearly. "Blood Brothers" is quite a simple play about two brothers separated...
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Common Man And Sir Thomas More
2,445 wordsRobert Bolt deliberately chose a subject that would prove to be difficult for other authors but Bolt managed to get round this and write about it in a very skilful way. The problems that this play may have posed for Bolt would " ve been how to compress several years of history into a few hours of theatre and the idea that it is highly unlikely that a play which was written in the late twentieth century about a political argument in the fifteenth century, five hundred years earlier, would be appe...
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Roles Of Mercury And Sosia
1,048 wordsThe play Amphitryon, by Plautus, revolves around a small circle of characters. The major roles in the play are those of Amphitryon, Jove, and Alcamena. Two slightly lesser roles, though of equal importance, are those of Mercury and Sosia. These two characters act as main intermediaries for their masters. This is one of the similarities I found in their roles. However, I also found many differences in these two characters. I believe the roles of Mercury and Sosia to both be important ones, with s...
