Response Introduction To Theatre

The use of language, stage directions and dialogue.

The Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal plan, administered by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), during the Great Depression. The FTP came about during the height of the Great Depression, 1935, only four years before the Depression came to an end. The Great Depression has been referred to as the greatest economic disaster in the United States and lasted from 1929-1939 (history.com). During this time, nearly 13 million Americans were unemployed (history.com). The FTP was administered by the WPA in hopes to send many unemployed theatre professionals back to work.

Also, I loved how between Act 1 and Act 2, the set switched to a backstage view. That engaged me even more because then I felt as though I were actually part of the production process. It was definitely relevant when the opening night of the play began. It looked great and it

While both stage and screen portrayals were highly acclaimed there are some similarities as well as some marked differences in each interpretation. On the surface, the first difference noted between the stage and screen versions are the sets. The stage version describes the setting of the play, the Younger family living room, as a

To illustrate, time was limited, I had stage fright, and because we unaware of what was to come. This debate project was adding to my list of worries because I still had 6 other classes to balance as well. Thus since my team and I all share homeroom together, we had used that time to rehearse, plan, and effectively communicate with each other. Although, I also had to overcome my stage fright, that I have had every since I had a negative experience in 7th grade, presenting to my health class. Being that, I had to practice consistently to stay focused, to block out negative thoughts, and eliminate self doubt.

TIPS/REMINDERS: Grab interest at the beginning of your essay using one of the strategies that we covered in class. Make sure that your prongs are about the prompt’s topic and that you have a universal theme. Be sure to select CDs that span throughout the play so that you can address the full scope of the work. Feel free to paraphrase anything that is not on your prep sheet.

The Wizard of Oz and Wicked are both very successful and well-known broadway musicals. Both of these musicals are based off of the same story, but each give a slightly different meaning to it. While they are both based on a similar tale, these two broadway musicals have many characteristics that are similar and differ from each other. This paper will compare and contrast the characters, theme, and plot.

The productions of this play were successful through stage design, lighting crewing, and acting. Those three aspects made the quality of the play stand out to me, as an audience member. The production of the set design of the play was a good effort. The set design for the play staging aims for the sweet spot between feeding adult nostalgia and satisfying a new generation of children.

“The Play That Goes Wrong” required a very detailed strategic plan of the arranged props and set design that actors need to follow in their performance. I believe the performers did a marvelous job in following the detailed choreography of the show. One of the most memorable cast members was Nancy Zamit. She played Annie the stage manager, who took the spotlight when she was forced into playing Charles’ fiancée named Sandra because the original female lead got "knocked unconscious” in the middle of the play. As terribly shy as she was, Zamit intensified the enjoyment of the audience as her character was reading off lines from pages of the script very awkwardly and awfully in an unfitted red dress and wig.

The group could’ve tailored their performance to be able to include more elements. This could’ve meant having another space with split staging or splitting the desks and lighting only the people in conversation. Another element of drama is accents. So the girls should’ve taken the opportunity to utilise this element. Allowing the plot to make better sense as some were just using their own voices that didn’t fit.

A Chorus Line was different from any of the plays that we had seen during the semester, given that it was a musical. This is definitely what I am more accustomed to from watching my friends through the years preform this style alone essentially as well as my sister playing any Broadway musical soundtrack she could get her hands on for weeks on end. This felt so drastically different from anything else we had seen in the semester because it seemed that there was no end goal or resolution, it just ended. Sure, a handful of characters grew but a lot was left to the imagination at the end of the play. One thing that always sticks out within a musical are the songs itself.

Both Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare require audience and cast imagination. In Our Town, the set is minimalistic and there are very few props. Because of the lack of stage decorum, the cast must make their characters believable through their actions as well as their words. For example, there is no Webb or Gibbs house in Act 1: there are no walls to take aprons off of, no stove or sink. To give the illusion of a kitchen and house, the actors playing Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs must pantomime a morning routine and rely on other cast members to be the walls when props are needed.

A lot goes on behind the scenes, so here are three ways that acting requires grit with perseverance, passion and F.E.A.R. First, one must be perseverant to act. To begin, one must have perseverance to learn their part in a play. For example, memorizing lines takes a lot of time. Thus, I have devised a technique specifically for memorizing lines.

2015, 129). Each performer acquires roles which contain expected behaviours that are appropriate to the performance of that role (Willmott, 2018). When we perform our roles to other actors and to our audience, we view them as theatrical productions. Our performance displays

There’s an unexplainable joy in hearing an applause go from polite clapping, to a full throttled roar of appreciation; especially when the roar is directed towards you. The specific tidal wave of clapping that I’m talking about is from the time I starred in my school's production of Oklahoma, I was Curly McClain, chap wearing, cattle wrangling, hero of the west. The applause isn’t what made the show for me though, the standing ovation at the end was just the cherry on the top of the star studded cake. What really made the show a life changing experience was the culmination of a month's worth of more than 100 people working toward a common goal in the form of opening night. A show makes people but that can’t happen if people don’t make the show.