directors, and choreographers who held private auditions for the opportunity to make it in theater or even in Hollywood. The hotel, much to the maintenance department's chagrin, would be required to remove all furniture from every room on the first floor as these rooms were used for the auditions. It was a wonderful piece of business during a slow time of year. The hotel sold every guest room for a span of four days and served hundreds of lunches to all the participants. Upon entering one of the audition rooms Throwback and Silly were taken by surprise. They saw this beautiful young lady with her head firmly entrenched in the lap of a director. Apparently, these directors and producers were living up to their reputations of being complete dirt bags. Over the years, the staff learned that this was more of a common practice than anyone could have imagined. The entire industry, referred to by the operation servers as the “Empire of Sleaze”, gave everyone the creeps, and they cautioned all the young applicants to its pitfalls.
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This lady described a story about a young server that knocked on her door with a room service order. After delivering the order, this little server admired the woman's hair and told her that he was a professional hairdresser and would be happy to give her a haircut. The woman declined the offer and became so uncomfortable that she had to speak to management. Japes and Ho-hum were so dumbfounded by this revelation that they simply stared at the woman with open mouths shaking their heads in disbelief. Furthermore, she said the little server took it upon himself to visit her room two hours later and again solicit his hairdressing skills. Mouse was no hairdresser and in fact Japes and Ho-hum thought he had lost his mind. It was the last day Mouse was allowed to play hairdresser as he was sent on his merry way with a recommendation to seek
A new edition to the course lineup, this week's film classic, Sunset Boulevard. This film will focus on the culture and environment of the Hollywood studio system that produces the kind of motion pictures that the whole world recognizes as "Hollywood movies." There have been many movies from the silent era to the present that either glamorize or vilify the culture of Hollywood, typically focusing on the celebrities (both in front of and behind the camera) who populate the "dream factories" of Hollywood. But we cannot completely understand the culture of Hollywood unless we recognize that motion pictures are big business as well as entertainment, and that Hollywood necessarily includes both creative and commercial
Pause for a second and think about a play or musical that you have seen. Consider the plot, whether you liked it or not and if the experience was positive or negative. Think about the characters, the costumes, and the emotions that were emitted. The discourse community of theatre is unique in the way that it is so complex and there are many different parts that ultimately come together to create a dynamic whole. The term discourse community is rather broad, but John Swales in his article “The Concept of Discourse Community” gives six characteristics that define it. Swales lists them saying,
In Euripides’ tragic play, Medea, the playwright creates an undercurrent of chaos in the play upon asserting that, “the world’s great order [is being] reversed.” (Lawall, 651, line 408). The manipulation of the spectators’ emotions, which instills in them a sentiment of drama, is relative to this undertone of disorder, as opposed to being absolute. The central thesis suggests drama in the play as relative to the method of theatrical production. The three concepts of set, costumes, and acting, are tools which accentuate the drama of the play. Respectively, these three notions represent the appearance of drama on political, social, and moral levels. This essay will compare three different productions of Euripides’ melodrama, namely, the play as presented by the Jazzart Dance Theatre¹; the Culver City (California) Public Theatre²; and finally, the original ancient Greek production of the play, as it was scripted by Euripides.
When Karl Marx wrote “the Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,” he interpreted the historical stage and his writing of history as parts of a theatre: he writes;
(pg 78) I actually enjoyed this short story. I really like the way Margaret Atwood laces the humor into her stories, like making fun of the blond receptionist and the other blond, and how they compete with one another.
Elizabethan times in the 1600s was a progression for the world of the theater. A period named after Queen Elizabeth I of England, it is from this period that modern day society has its foundation for the entertainment industry. From the violence that was prevalent because of the Black Death, people turned to the theater for its poetry and romance. During this time period, there were two types of theatrical performances that were available for the people’s viewing, comedies or tragedies. These two genres were never really intertwined until the time of William Shakespeare. His play, Romeo and Juliet, is an example of both a comedy and a tragedy. It starts off as a comedy with Romeo weeping like a baby because of his love Rosaline, who did not love him back and ends as a tragedy when Romeo and Juliet, a pair of star crossed lovers, commit suicide because the lost of each other. It was also during Shakespeare’s time that writer were finally acknowledged by the people. Before this time, writers were not considered upper classman. Another group of people that began to rise into a higher social class were the actors. Actresses were not present back then because women were not allowed on stage. It was considered unladylike to have a female actor. Men played all the parts. Theater owners were dependent on actors to make them a profit. Rehearsals for the plays were fairly short, only lasting for about a week. The performances themselves would only show for three to four days.
“All the world’s a stage. And all the men and women... merely players.” This quotation
This citizen had a peg leg and an extremely stern face. “Say, is that poor donkey your beast?” He asked the miller. The Miller smiled cluelessly, “Why yes, he is.” The stern-faced man looked taken aback. “You’d do better carrying him than he you!” He said sarcastically. Unfortunately, the simple Miller did not catch the sarcasm in the man’s voice. Him and his son tied up the donkey’s leg and attached the ropes to a long pole so that they might carry it on their shoulders. It was not long before many towns-people saw the poor, tied up donkey and began to sneer and laugh. Naturally, the donkey became very humiliated and uncomfortable . With several swift kicks, the donkey loosened the ropes. The Miller and his son were unfortunately carrying the donkey over a bridge at the moment. The ropes came undone and the poor donkey fell into to the rushing river. The donkey was drowned within seconds of struggling. The pain of this moment hit the Miller like a stone to the stomach, he instinctively dropped to his knees and began to weep With no donkey to sell now, the Miller was distraught; never before had he been so
In this paper, I will be focusing briefly on my knowledge and understanding of the concept of Applied theatre and one of its theatre form, which is Theatre in Education. The term Applied Theatre is a broad range of dramatic activity carried out by a crowd of diverse bodies and groups.
This essay shall identify the elements of a permanent Elizabethan playhouse and stage and discuss how these elements supported the drama of the day. These elements include the shape of the theatre building, the auditorium, the projecting stage, “hell”, the tiring house, and the superstructure.
Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time.
Margaret Jane Kidnie states “an area significantly impacted by William Shakespeare, Renaissance Theater developed into an influential period of drama deviating upon various elements of perception in each performance” (456-473). Many scholars wrote responses about renaissance drama and staging. There was a diversity of focus portrayed throughout each presentation, therefore resulting in differentiation between performances. Jealousy, gender, and spectatorship were some of the many topics that were represented in theater throughout the Renaissance Era, influenced greatly by William Shakespeare. Having written numerous plays performed during the Renaissance era, “Shakespeare’s influence on drama and staging can be shown through the language of performance criticism,” (Masten 341). interpretation of the drama, different focal points, and the way these plays were performed in relation to the text.
The twenty-first century is developing into a time of technological developments and the beginning of the Modern Era. The early Modern Era was known as a time of exploration and globalization. Globalization is the interconnection of countries; there is an active exchange of commodities, ideas, and philosophical thoughts. With the development in technology such as cell phones, airplanes, Internet, and social media; it has made the growth of transportation and communication networks possible and much more advanced. In other words, people and countries can exchange information, ideas, and goods more quickly and efficiently. The worldwide spread of technology
At large, theatre as an art form has always been a hybrid, an amalgamation of other artistic endeavours. Arguably after all, the true essence of what actually constitutes theatre is the human voice and spoken text; an actor’s live presence in an empty space: a stage. But if we were to consider theatre on the whole we would find that actually, there is often a lot more going on than these basic qualities that theatre embraces. When we think of theatre, we cannot help but think about the connotations that have become synonymous with it, for example a cluster of lights illuminating an intricate set on a grand stage and more recently perhaps, a large screen with projected images on it. Of course, these production elements are almost seen as a necessity in order to create a dramatic production, however we must remember that they are merely borrowed theatrical tools working towards the remediation of theatre.
My experience watching a live theatre performance on stage was a fascinating one, most especially since it was my first time. I attended a staged performance of “The History Boys” in a small theatre called “The Little Theatre of Alexandria” at 8:00 pm on Wednesday June 8, 2016 in Alexandria, Virginia. The overall production of the play was a resounding experience for me particularly the performance of the actors and the design of the scene made the play seem real.