The play Midsummer’s Night Dream is no exception. There are several secretive characters that change mortals’ fates. The 3 main characters that symbolizes godly beings that change the mortal’s fate: Titania the Queen of the fairies, Oberon the King of the fairies, and mischievous Puck. Shakespeare enjoys using characters that are supernatural, for example in Macbeth, he chose the 3 witches to act our as ‘fate’ while in Midsummer’s Night Dream, there are the fairies. They are both imaginary figures which might be the reason why they are given the power to modify human’s fate and lifestyle.
In 1990, Stewart began his career as a freelance choreographer in Sydney until 1998. During this time, Stewart created works for some of Australia’s most notable contemporary dance companies, such as Chunky Move, and Sydney Dance Company. In 1998, Stewart established his own company known as Thwack! He created two dance works including, Plastic Space (which premiered at the Melbourne Festival and subsequently toured Australia) and his first stage development of Birdbrain, a deconstruction of Swan
Four shows were featured in “Show Business- The Road to Broadway”, including Wicked, Avenue Q, Taboo, and Caroline, or Change. Each production with its own plot and story, which we learn are two very different things. Plot, is the show its self. It refers to the script, and the story that it tells, while the production’s story refers to the road a cast and crew travels while creating and performing a show. Wicked is a musical based off of a novel written by Gregory Maguire, titled “Wicked- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.” The Novel corresponded with the ever popular story of the Wizard of Oz, but rather than following Dorothy and Glinda, it followed the life of Elphaba, the wicked witch of the west, and her choices.
Williams 1 T.J. Williams Mrs. Schofield. English 9H December 19, 2012 Edward de Vere and the fame he deserves. For many decades, Shakespeare is known to be the greatest authors ever to walk on earth. All of his work is well known by many people all around. With every legend, there is always is theory, did shakespeare really write all of his work?
From the very beginning of the play, suspense was already introduced. The opening scene of Macbeth was with the three witches. This scene is very short but that is what fills it with excitement and tension. The whole scene is written in rhyme which suggests that the witches are chanting. This creates a mysterious and mystical atmosphere, which creates suspicion as to why they are using their powers.
Tonia A. Sambola Music 101 Richard Sayers November 9, 2010 Live Performance Review I attended a musical play at the Opera Company of Philadelphia where they acted out one of Shakespeare’s most popular stories of all time, Othello. Opera is truly not my style of music but after seeing the play and how it connects to music, I will definitely say there’s nothing quite as exciting as attending the opera in a professional theater like the Academy of Music. These are the real names and of the performers, next to it is the name that they use in the play; Clifton Forbis(Othello a Moorish General), Norah Amsellem (Desdemona, his wife), Mark Delevan (Iago, Othello’s ensign), Margaret Mezzacappa (Emila, wife of Iago and maid of Desdemona), Jason Collins(Cassio, Othello’s captain), Cody Austin( Roderigo, a gentleman of Venice), Jeremy Milner (Lodovico, ambassador of the Venetian Republic), and Joseph Baron (Montano, former Governor of Cprus). The performance was held at the Academy of Music, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 6:15 p.m. At the event there were over a thousand individuals mostly high school and middle school teenagers who attended the opera as a class trip or project; Ages range (10-16). Unlike actors on television or in the movies, the performers onstage are aware of the audience.
Why Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is Targeted Towards an Elizabethan Audience Shakespeare is without a doubt, still one of the most famous playwrights to have ever lived, and likely will be remembered forever. One of his most famous plays is “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”. Believed to have been performed for the first time in the spring 1601, it remains one of the most well-known plays to date, bearing lines such as the famous “To be, or not to be, - that is the question” (Shakespeare 3.1. 56), and “Alas, poor Yorick!” (5.1.189). However, the play itself is specifically meant to be presented to an Elizabethan era audience, despite some of the more modern adaptations of the play.
Shakespeare and Baz Luhrmann both tell the story of the 'Star Crossed Lovers' but in rather different ways. How does Baz reinvigorate Shakespeare’s play in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for a late twentieth century audience? Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a timeless masterpiece due to its universal themes, strong relatable characters and beautifully crafted dialogue. It is arguably his most successful play, being played and studied worldwide for the past half-century. However, Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 epic Romeo + Juliet was the first film of its kind, a film that re-told the classic story in a modern day setting.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare shows the futility in trying to control love. Not even the person in love can control it. Shakespeare constantly demonstrates the issues in trying to control love. Hermia attempting to control her love and she also has other people attempting to control it. Laws and social expectation can control people’s actions but they cannot control people’s feelings.
In a Midsummer Nights Dream Shakespeare offers insight on mans conflict with the emotional characteristics of human behavior. Athens represents the logical side and the fairy world represents the wilder, irrational side where nothing seems to follow any sort of structure. Bottom character brings these two elements to the play in many ways. Nick bottom first introduced in the casting of “Pyramus and Thisbe”(1.2). Bottom is ready to take on anything.