I went to see the play called Doctor Caligari at Pointless Theatre. Attend this play was a wonderful experience because I had not seen a play since I was in High School. The title of the play caught my attention, as it tries to tell the audience that will be about a mysterious story. The story has a combination of obsession, manipulation, and paranoid that creates a powerful visual experience in the audience. The performers did not speak at all, actions and dialogues are not expressed through spoken words, facial expressions and body gestures were exaggerated in the story to convey the characters emotions and feelings. The role of the characters is transmitted through their physical appearance with the use of exaggerated makeup and costumes. Dr. Caligari, for example, is recognized immediately as the villain of the story with his black clothing and dark make-up. Moreover, the black and white background increases the climax of the mystery story. The background music intensifies the criminal events and plays an essential role evoking the audience’s emotions and reactions to …show more content…
The absence of dialogue increases the somber tone of the story. Likewise, the story escalates when Francis and his friend Alan attend to a carnival, where Dr. Caligari shows his sleepwalking friend Cesare, who claims can answer any question he is asked. Alan asks Cesare when he will die, and Cesare says he will die at dawn. Alan dies and Francis and Jane decide to investigate Dr. Caligari. At the end of the story, Francis is the madman and killed his best friend Alan. Francis suffers mental hallucination and invents a story that Dr. Caligari and Cesare are guilty of murdering Alan. Francis murders his friend to win the love of Jane, the beloved of his friend. This story has vivid images of the actions of the characters and their expressions speak of their
Fundamental to our understanding of El Médico de su Honra, and of any other play is the notion that it was for performance and not intended for reading. Therefore, the action, text and spectacle all work together in producing an overall effect upon the audience. Calderón is described as a `craftsman' of drama and is famous for the dramatic devices which appeal to the various senses in order to convey the play's message with greater profundity. However, the seventeenth century playwright was limited by the facilities available to him. The rudimentary nature of their theatres affected the way in which a play was staged and therefore its interpretation. Public theatres were situated in courtyards, or `corrales', surrounded on three sides by private dwellings. A basic, but nevertheless important point is that theatres were generally exposed to the elements. By necessity, plays were performed during daylight hours and inevitably this would affect the presentation of the play. Atmosphere and mood were of paramount importance in a play, and this is of particular significance in El Médico de su Honra, where darkness is crucial both to the plot and the underlying themes.
It was very nice to read something that had a lot of drama and suspense. This story has a mix of everything. It has a bit of suspense, drama, and comedy; therefore, it led it to be a very nice play. The people that would most like this play, has to be people who like suspense, drama, and thriller. These people would like it, because this story has a mix of everything, so the people who like to have a mix in their stories, they will love this story. It will suit them, and will give them a pleasure of reading a nice
First of all, I’m going to start with musical comedy murder of 1940. Before the play started I was skeptical about watching a play because I thought it was going to be boring. I had a long time not attending to a theatrical play so; I kind of forgot how it felt to be watching a live play. When I arrived to the theater I felted welcome pleasant from the people who welcomed everyone to come inside the theatre. The play turns out to be amazing through the whole play I was laughing, excited it really caught my attention because the actors did a terrific job playing each scene and lines. The setting and lights of the play was plan very well for example; in of the scene actors and actress talked
Cosi uses a wide range of Dramatic elements, all through-out the play. This play particularly highlights The Tension, the Role and the way the characters portray their selves on stage. The use of these techniques allows the audience to accept more readily the intent of the play. It draws everyone into a world, that in many ways is foreign to us, but the human interaction, with the characters, makes it seem more real.
The play that we read for this unit is Too Much Punch For Judy, by Mark Wheeller. It is a form of Verbatim Theatre, meaning that it is based on the spoken words of real people. This play is about the story of a young woman who kills her sister in an alcohol related accident. When I first read the play I couldn’t empathize with the story as I haven’t experienced such a shocking event before. In this essay I will describe, analyse and evaluate both my work and the work of other actors in my group, focusing on the mediums, elements and explorative strategies of Drama.
Such a series of tragic events has a great toll among the two main characters (Cox ) . For a vicious, careless indivi...
The music correlates to the images because the slow-playing violin and soft-playing woodwinds complement the nefarious activities shown; therefore, molding a creepy and ominous tone in order to demonstrate the credulous attitudes of the audience. When thinking of demonic activities, the soul of an individual is automatically frightened, which is what the composer manipulates in the opening scene. Fenton takes advantage of this and incorporates melodic dark music to further intensify the fear of the “so-called” villain, Abigail Williams, in the
To realize the vision of the play, the script, set-up, costumes, stagecraft, sound design, and acting have to communicate a unified message with which the audience will relate. The script will be tailored to ensure that the audience can understand the play as it proceeds. This is in terms of the language and terms used. Though the language will not be modern, it will be English that can be understood by the audience. This will be English of antique England as it will give the play a feeling of ancient times. The scriptwriter will carry out research on the level of understanding the local people will have of ancient English so as to ascertain that the script matches this level. Although many plays of that era were sung and accompanied by dance, this play will be acted out with spoken word rather than songs. This is because speaking will ensure the audience hears the conversations as they go on and that they understand. This is ...
In conclusion, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a film that with its "Expressionist stylization functions to convey the distorted viewpoints of a madman" (Bordwell and Thompson, 408). This film uses the elements of mise-en-scene to depict the story through Francis eyes. We see the world of this film through the eyes of a crazy man.
Another aspect of mise-en-scéne is costuming, this can be manipulated by the filmmaker to form a perception of the characters within the viewer (Dix, 2008). Audience’s subconsciously affiliate different stereotypes to people based on how they are dressed (Piatti-Farnell, 2013), which is why costuming is an important element for filmmakers to consider. Morpheus wears a black leather coat, which shows the viewer that he is important; his eyes are unseen as he is we...
Brecht argues that the ultimate purpose of play is to induce pleasure and to entertain, and that--because of this purpose--play needs no justification. Plays should not be simply copied from or seen through older performances, but need to develop on their own to better relate to a new audience. Through the use of alienation which aims to make the familiar unfamiliar, play and theatre can be seen under a new perspective, and the actor can feel more free to perform under a new guise.
The majority of Das Kabinett des Doctor Caligari is told through a series of flashbacks, with the scenes having expressionist-inspired set design and deformed locations to emphasize the unreliable and deluded state of mind of the storyteller. The young protagonist Francis tells the...
He explains that his disease makes all his senses and especially his hearing, very sensitive as well as acute. The narrator then informs the readers of the events in his past to prove that he isn’t mad. He tells the readers that he loves the old man and has nothing against him, except the old man’s “pale blue eye, with a film over it” (Poe). The narrator explains how he hates the evil eye and whishes to kill the old man, so that he could be free from the eye. He goes on to say that for seven nights he would go to the old man’s room and watch him sleep, but on the eighth night, the old man wakes from hearing the narrator enter the room and from the shadows the narrator sees the evil eye prompting him to kill the old man. When the policeman come to the house, the narrator convents them that nothing bad has happened but because he was feeling confident he invites the policeman to the room to chat. All seems well until the narrator starts to hear the beating of a heart and freaks out and confesses that he murdered the old man. The story is littered with creepy symbols, horrific themes, and psychological effects of guilt and sin that embodies the Dark Romantic style shown through the insane nameless narrator who seeks to kill the old man with the evil
In this essay about The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920), I will explore the nature of the narrative structure in the film; I will look at how the conflict between the frame and narrative mutually contradict each other. I will also discuss the representation of madness and illusion in the film looking at the mise-en-scène. I will be looking at some scenes in the film to illustrate and reveal the significance and contradictory nature of the film.
It is an apartment office which also works as the professor’s dining room. At the centre of the stage there is a table which also works as a desk for when he teaches. There is a small window through which the town can be seen. The stage is empty when the curtain is lifted. The professor is a man who is around 50 years of age. He has a maid who keeps worrying about the health of the professor. The professor tutors students at his apartment for an examination which is the total doctorate examination. Initially the professor is very shy and meek. As the lesson advances he becomes more and more aggressive. He becomes irritated with the stupidity of his pupil. He becomes authoritarian and more intense. He becomes absurdly angry at her. He becomes more and more excited too going on and on about his lesson and disallowing any interruption by the student. The student behaves in an opposite manner. Initially she is confident. But she keeps becoming timid and quite. She begins to complain of health issues. It starts with a tooth ache but soon the ache spreads to her entire body. The professor attacks the student with words first. Then he loses all his control and finally stabs her to death. The maid is a first does not like what the professor has done but finally she is the one who offers the professor comfort, that too in the form of totalitarianism. At the end of the play the maid welcomes a