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Part Of The Play The Duke
1,081 wordsMeasure for Measure: Textual Analysis of (1.3. 19-54) and study of the motives behind the Dukes imminent absence. In this part of the play the Duke meets Friar Thomas and explains the reasons for his temporary retirement from office and also speaks about the laxity into which the laws of the city have fallen in the past. The Duke makes it clear that Vienna needs a new figure of authority to implement the reinforcement of the long forgotten rules regarding sex before marriage and other moral issu...
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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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Valdez's Experience In A Farm Worker Family
895 wordsBased on the infamous 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder mystery and the resulting "Zoot Suit Riots" in Los Angeles, playwright Luis Valdez weaves fact and fiction to depict the fate of 22 young Mexican Americans brought to trial for a murder they did not commit. "Zoot Suit" brings together unforgettable characters such as the irreverent El Pachuco and the charismatic Henry Reyna, an unsuspecting gang leader who finds himself caught in the middle of the racially turbulent events that rocked Los Angeles...
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Very Intense Moment In The Play
2,143 wordsJourneys End by R. C Sherriff is a play which gives a realistic picture of life in a First World War trench. Performed in 1928 when the bitter memories of war were still fresh, it made a profound impact on those who saw it. It was uncompromising and showed the awful truth to those who had been given the diluted version. Until then, the harsh reality had been hidden and a brave front of victory and triumph put on, masking the truth about the suffering of the soldiers. They had also had a stretch ...
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Two Main Characters Rosencrantz And Guildenstern
627 wordsKatrin Bachmeier Robertson Intro to Theatre 1131-01 10/26/00 Do you want to play Questions Tom Stoppard's, "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" was directed and produced by Michael Robertson, in a two act show performed at the Whitney Fine Arts Theatre on Loring Park. Colored and patterned with existentialism and feelings of absurdity, the two main characters Rosencrantz (played by Michael Snyder) and Guildenstern (played by Kyle Bowe) emerge and encounter a world where their meaning is arbitra...
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John And Lorraine
446 wordsThe Pigman by Paul Zin del The Pigman is about two teenagers (John and Lorraine) who make friends with an elderly man (Mr. Pignati). They then abuse his trust in them and the elderly man dies. I found "The Pigman" to be a very interesting play. The start of it was a little bit confusing but the audience soon learns that they are watching the story of the Pigman as it is being written. "The Pigman" would be a fun play to watch with a very serious and important theme. In John's opening line the au...
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Most Profound Psychological Truths O Surrealist Play
700 wordsRealism has become the dominant theatre form in western culture. This obsession to present real life on stage has reached an extreme with the introduction and huge popularity of reality television. Realism has reached plague proportions in the western world over the last few years, with the explosion of television shows such as "Home and Away" and "Neighbours" and more recently with the "Big Brother" phenomena where Realism TV is taken to new lows. These shows and many more are a form of drama t...
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Most Momentous Scenes
842 words"The Lion King" has tastefully been brought to stage in the theatrical recreation of the widely respected film. Although most of the audience could already mimic the lines and knew all the words to the songs, Julie Taylor (director) was able to make the musical a new and exhilarating experience. The archetype of the difficulties of growing up and self acceptance were reserved but the play did twist the plot ever so slightly to make it its own. A new side story concerning Scar and Nala arises, ca...
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Central Concerns Of The Play
1,136 wordsLoot by Joe Orton The Central Concerns of the Play and How they are Dramatised Loot is a satire: the normal moral conventions of behaviour in civilised, Western, society are turned upside down and the rules are broken down. This is epitomized by Truscott as a symbol of law and authority doing what he should not do. He does not uphold the law and he breaks the law in his investigation by deception, violence and dishonesty and corruption. Orton wrote the Play in the 1960's which was a time of soci...
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Play Pyramus
2,018 wordsObviously the main characters in this scene are the mechanical's, although the lords do add to the dramatic effect of the scene and influence the other characters. In order to make this scene so funny, Shakespeare has used a lot of literary devices to emphasise the humour. The play is a parody of "Romeo And Juliet". The star of the play is Pyramus, who is played by Bottom. In contrast to most of the other characters, Bottom is not at all nervous, and should come across as boastful and big-headed...
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Audience For Some Minutes Before Lloyd
853 wordsThe San Francisco Jazz Festival's "Sacred Space" series is one of the city's best annual jazz events. For this year's concert on November 2, two of the most highly respected musicians in their fields came together for a historic first meeting. Saxophonist Charles Lloyd has long been a favorite of critics and fans alike for his ever-evolving approach to jazz, which led to the million-selling Forest Flower album in 1966 and a recent string of intensely personal records for ECM. Zakir Hussain is wi...
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Elvira's Spirit
1,087 wordsBlithe Spirit written by Noel Coward was first published in 1941. Noel Coward was known for his sophisticated comedies of modern life (Seymour, Smith 261). It is sophisticated yet hilarious to the readers. Seymour and Smith stated that Coward's plays, ? are within their admittedly-but unashamedly-extremely narrow limits, accurate truthful, cynical and funny? (261). It is one of the greatest farces ever written. Blithe Spirit is the story of Charles Condo mine who loses his wife, Elvira, at a you...
