Theatre Essays

Witches: “Fair is foul, and fair is foul,” (I, I, 10) Comment: This introduces the idea of deceptiveness of appearances throughout the whole play. King Duncan: “What [the Thane of Cawdor] hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.” (I, II, 79) Comment: King Duncan calls Macbeth noble even though later he …

Executive Producer: The individual responsible for the funding and financing of a particular production. Producer: The individual responsible for the managerial and administrative aspects of the production. This includes, and is not limited to, hiring creative personnel, manages financial aspects of film, liaising with cast and crew and to ensure …

The recently released Les Misérables earned £8.1 million in its opening weekend, making it the largest opening weekend for a musical film in history, proving that the genre is still alive. But how exactly did this powerful art form originate? And from then on, how did it evolve to become …

Bertolt Brecht was a poet, a playwright, and an influential leader of theatre in the 20th century. Berthold Brecht was born in East Germany in 1898. His first play, Baal, was written while Brecht was a medical student in Munich. His first success, ‘Drums in the Night’ was written while …

Korean Drama, who don’t know about it? Korean Fever is infecting the world. Korean dramas are very popular with good story, fun, and always make us curious. It could make the people who enjoyed drama infatuated with Korean Drama and can not wait to watch the sequel. Some people even …

The film Birdman directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu stresses the importance of cinematography in filmmaking and creates fluid transitions from one scene to the other, making the movie seem like it has been filmed all in one take. He also uses the motion of the camera, whether shaky, fast or …

Please choose the best answer for the following questions. 1.The theatre may be considered a conservative institution because it conserves or preserves a.a consistent ideology characteristic of political parties. b.the history and conventional way of working as a theatre. c.the political and economic views of the time. d.the moral attitudes …

Expressionism is an attempt to discover a technique and method which will express what the dramatist imagines the inner reality of his drama to be, more perfectly and impressively than any of the other dramatic styles of theatre are capable of doing. The dramatist attempts to show not objective but …

Some may ask what Vaudeville is, as for me I didn’t know the word even existed. It is sort of a variety show with many different acts seeded within it. The American Vaudeville Theatre was one of the most prominent Vaudevilles because since August 1996, the American Vaudeville Theatre has …

1. The Transformation of Prospero In Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” the figure of Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, forms the key element of all actions and developments throughout the play. He incorporates absolute power over the other characters and generates the plot of the play almost uninfluenced. For an in-depth …