He soon became famous in his own right, and was known for intimate story telling that spoke the hearts of the characters. Until this time, Chikamatsu Monzaemon's work had mostly been in the Kabuki Theater. Drawn to Bunraku by Gidayu, he worked as a bridge between old-style joruri and Bunraku. While often keeping much of the fantasy of older tales, Chikamatsu's works are distinct for adding human elements. His dramas usually revolved around the Confucian concepts of the importance of loyalty (to one's feudal lord, family, etc.)
AS Level Drama Supporting Notes Section 1 The chosen practitioners for our AS Level drama performance of ‘Stolen Secrets’ by Finn Kennedy is the Kneehigh Theatre Company. We read books about Kneehigh, watched video clips of their performances and discussed their methods. The key aspect of Kneehigh that inspired was their unique way of storytelling that is woven into each of their plays. Kneehigh has been called ‘the company that has put the soul back into storytelling’. Kneehigh use physical theatre and eccentric characterisations to add to the quirkiness of their storytelling which was appealing to our group as we wanted to push ourselves to find new strengths enabling us to create challenging, innovative, emotionally-charged work as Kneehigh
In the play, this was especially evident because fate led Joey and Albert back together after they had struggled through so much. The realisticity of the events in the play was conveyed with the help of the projections, puppetry, and the Song Man. Part of the set is a giant banner shaped and designed to look like a piece of paper ripped out of a journal or a letter, probably Albert or Lieutenant Nichols’. Projections were then put onto the banner. By using the projections on the stage, we could see the dates as they happened, special effects like explosions, and even part of the set.
This strict code of honor was further evoked with the concepts of Song Confucianism, which was the official ideology of the period. The two main principles from Song Confucianism were ri (rational principle) and vital energy. Ri (rational principle) as the importance of one’s accomplishment of duties to their family and filial piety, as well as loyalty to a master. Since these principles were important to observe and accomplish in society, Chikamatsu’s plays of conflict between giri and ninjo were in a sense, controversial. His puppet plays about recent scandals thus provided the internal conflict for the main characters who had internal conflicting thoughts between what was right by following one’s duty, and what was wrong, by following one’s feelings to disobey his or her obligations.
Key features of my chosen practitioner and justification for our choice of Ashputtel to illustrate their influence. The Practitioner which my group chose to use as a result of their surrealist and stylized theatrical style was the theatre Company Kneehigh. Kneehigh aim to recreate well known stories and focus on recreating moods, environments and feelings In order to create, as the Artistic director Mike Shepherd put it, “theatre of humanity on an epic and tiny scale”[1]. Kneehigh use many techniques which we felt personally drawn to as actors and wanted to use throughout our piece. They use a mixture of physical theatre, live music, visual imagery and puppetry to reveal different aspects and feelings of characters and situations
William Shakespear is a wonderful writer that uses different methods to get his message across in a creative and interesting way. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” he uses the different categories of the English language to bring to the audience attention that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed” and fate brings them together. Inevitability of fate would be one of the main themes of the play. Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another brings them closer together but the fight between their two sides would lead to the death of these two lovers. William Shakespear often us motifs to paint a picture of what’s going on in the story.
Joseph Candido wrote an article entitled “Theatricality and Satire in The Country Wife,” which is a scholarly article based on William Wycherley’s play The Country Wife. In the article he talks about different references the characters make to going to plays and the theater. Candido also talks about the aspect of double meanings as a satiric device, as well as Wycherley’s continual use of duel awareness throughout the play. The duel awareness that Wycherley uses contains a spectator and a focal character. Candido explains in his essay the significance of these characters and how they affect the scenes.
Literature is where emotions can be evoked, numbed, exposed or created. Sympathy for people, characters, that we do not actually know are usually one of the most common and one of the most powerful. Shakespeare's greatest quality is being able to create bonds between the character and the audience or reader. Why does one cry when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves at the end of the tragedy? It's emotion, the bond, the sympathy but why do Romeo and Juliet kill themselves?
Miss Campbell March 28, 2011 English 2201 Adam loder Comparison Essay The movies Twelfth Night and She’s the Man both have some similarities and differences that the Authors expressed in their own ways. The ways the author uses these is through setting and tone. The movie Twelfth Night was a play written by William Shakespeare. The setting is the time and place of where the action takes place. The setting is a main point in this movie because when Viola discovers her brother is missing and she thinks he is dead, she goes into disguise as her brother.
“Japanese Theater” On our trip to the Japanese workshop I learned many things about Japanese culture and theater In particular Noh. The word “Noh” literally means “accomplishment,” “talent” or “skill. “Noh”, Created in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and climaxed in the 1400s, is a highly stylized, abstract, and philosophical Japanese dramatic form that emphasizes the spiritual aspects of human action and emotion. Noh plays are somber performances that combine elements of dance, drama, music, poetry, and wooden masks into a very creative and ritualized stage performance. The plays are distinct too by emotional intensity and crisis, with the trials of human emotional and supernatural experience developed in slow, mystical rhythms.