The acting is spot-on in this film. Some other interpretations of Macbeth through film, or even in a theater production, can tend to be overdramatized and can really turn you off from the film/play from the get go. This is not the case in the Goold film. Patrick Stewart as Macbeth and Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth speaking these lovely verses bring just the right amount of excitement and coyness to their roles. Its elements such as this that hook you from the beginning and keep you engrossed until the very end.
“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.
IMPACT OF BUNRAKU ON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE The rise of Bunraku: Bunraku is a term commonly used for ningyo-joruri, which literally means puppets and storytelling. The combination of chanting and shamisen playing is called jōruri and the Japanese word for puppet (or dolls, generally) is ningyō. The term while describing a puppet performance, also alludes to its predecessors. In Japan, along with the tradition of travelling storytellers, who used biwa as their accompaniment, there were also travelling puppeteers. The period of confluence of these two arts forms is not known.
I like to see props so that the characters can stay engaged in what is going on. The costumes were very traditional and plain in all black with a hint of pink or purple. I did not like attire only because it was too plain. But, I understand why it was done because the actors were portraying different people and costume change would have been too
Previous to Elizabethan times, plays generally consisted of some form of religion, whether it be bible stories, or worshipping the many Greek Gods. Therefore, this time allowed audiences to see and relate plays to their own lives, as they incorporated our true nature as humans and our responses to different circumstances, including love and death. These discoveries have had a major influence on theatre today as when people go to the theatre, they want to be drawn into the play and almost believe what they are seeing is real. There are many plays today that deal with real issues people face, therefore it is easier for the audience to be convinced that the play real. However, what may have been considered “real” in the Elizabethan period, and what is considered “real” now has very much changed, so theatre has been forced to change with the times and adapt their representation of human nature to suit the audience of the present.
Most of the tempos are extremely slow and a mellow romantic tone. There is sound in movies that are not to dramatize the scene but to rather notify the audience that this is an important scene coming up. There are specific elements that should evident, the movement and tone of actors must be believable to convey a story. After viewing trailer, two films come to mind in which the music, narrative, and structure was changed to present two very different themes, one of cheerfulness and the other of horror. The costumes, expressions and music executed, to get the desired end.
"There is some scenery for those who think we need scenery" (Wilder 5). The scenery in the play mainly consists of several chairs and a vast array of pantomiming. The unostentatiousness of the set is used as an understated tool to further impress upon the audience that we as human beings tend to focus on material objects. By relieving the physical objects from the production it leaves the patrons with nothing but the human interactions and the lives the create with eachother, blatently with the the candidness of life. Another contributing aspect is the presence of the stage manager.
The aspect of the performance that I found most appealing was during the “Power Track Act.” The artists were performing incredibly high flips off the trampoline as the opera singers sang the story line. The fluid, unified movements of the actors at such an incredible pace was truly marvelous. Additionally the use of wardrobe, makeup, and props added to the performance. The aspects of the performance that I found less pleasing were during the “Russian Bear Act.” Although, the feats were amazing that this act lost some of the luster and excitement that the other acts possessed. The element that I was most aware of was the dynamics, or fluctuating degrees of dramatic intensity that continually captivated the audience’s attention.
Three of the plays, "TheLong Christmas Dinner, "Pullman Car Hiawatha," and "The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden," wereperhaps the most theatrically experimental written to that time by an American. "Pullman Car Hiawatha" inparticular shows that the ideas for The Skin of Our Teeth had been in Wilder's mind for a long time. Explain howWilder's ideas about theater develop and change between 1931 and 1942.8. The Skin of Our Teeth is sometimes described as a "tragi-comedy"; look up tragi-comedy and decide to whatextent The Skin of Our Teeth is one. What plays might it be compared to?
The title of the play, Twelfth Night, is the reference to the 12 days of Christmas which is the festive and fun season. It begins on the 25th of December and ends on the 5th of January. During these twelve days, people during Shakespeare’s time, spent them drinking, and partying, which often led to folly and excessive behaviour. The title then suggests a night of human folly, the biggest night of them all, the Twelfth night. Shakespeare also explores human folly, by using the characters, all characters have an excessive behaviour, all except Viola and her brother and of course Feste, whom is supposed to be the fool.