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?
Venus in Fur is a sensuous, erotic yet sophisticated play by David Ives, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskanda. The play is currently being held at the DBS Arts Centre – Home of SRT from 15th March to 6th April and it is definitely a chance not to be missed. Venus in Fur is a modern day adaptation of the novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name inspired the term ‘masochism’ – a notion encircling the sexually-charged events that unfold between the playwright, Thomas (played by Anson Mount), and the aspiring actress Vanda (played by Steffanie Leigh), who turns up unceremoniously late (and drenched) for her audition for the lead role in Thomas’s play. On the surface, Venus in Fur appears to be nothing more than that of entertainment value, appealing to the general audience with its spectacle of sounds, lights, non-stop humor and delicious eroticism. Yet upon digging deeper, the savvy viewer would soon realize that Venus in Fur is more than what meets the eye.
“Zoot Suit” and “La Bamba” Film Commentary for Chic 3223 John Colosey 2/15/2012 La Bamba and Zoot Suit are two outstanding movies that take part in two different decades and while racism is portrayed in both movies, it is particularly evident in Zoot Suit. Zoot Suit takes place in the early 1940’s while La Bamba takes place in the late 1950’s. Zoot Suit is a movie that is seen through the eyes of an audience watching a musical inside a theater. Filmed in 1981, it was nominated for a golden globe award for best comedy/musical. The movie sets out to detail some of the factual occurrences related to the Sleepy Lagoon murder case in Los Angeles during the Zoot suit riots.
He popularized Broadway slang by writing it in his column as well as radio broadcasts. “He wrote in a staccato style, turning the page into a stage.” • Richard Rogers and Larry Hart were big fans of Britain’s Gilbert and Sullivan – liked the way the words were clever and fit the music. They had a big hit in 1925 – “Manhattan”. • A Connecticut Yankee used American vernacular. • Good News – “Varsity Drag” by DiSilva, Brown & Henderson WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN • 1927 is the height of Broadway.
The play “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare and the movie version directed by Julie Taymor in 2010 have several significant differences in the characters, relationships and themes. They both have similar themes, such as Good vs. Evil, Revenge vs. Forgiveness, Betrayal, Colonialism and the Illusion of Justice. These themes are both present in the movie and the play, but they are altered by the fact that the main character in the play is Prospero and in the movie it is a witch named Prospera. Comparing the play with the movie, there are several differences in the way the characters are chosen, how they act and how the surrounding is set out.
The story was turned into a musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, famous for writing the song “New York, New York”, which opened on Broadway in 2010. The musical used the format of a classic minstrel show in order to tell the grotesque story of the ‘Scottsboro Boys’. The minstrel show format, which once was the main form of entertainment, is now deemed highly offensive but is it possible for the format to be used to demonstrate racist stories and be an effective form of story telling. The story of the ‘Scottsboro Boys’ has been studied and analyzed since it first the 1930’s. Douglas O. Linder, a legal professor at the University of Missouri, writes: “No crime in American history-- let alone a crime that never occurred-- produced as many trials, convictions, reversals, and retrials as did an alleged gang rape of two white girls by nine black teenagers on a Southern Railroad freight run on March 25, 1931.
This is the setting for Shakespeare’s day, and these are the time and place the author of Twelfth Night the movie was created. However, the setting back in Shakespeare’s day was not modern like today and there are big differences between the two. For example, when Viola in the move She’s the Man is going to be disguised as her brother Sebastian, she just goes to a hair saloon and gets turned into Sebastian. This is deferent from Twelfth Night because both
Burlesque was often used to mock famous and well known classical theatre productions, such as ballet, which is a show seen by the upper class of the time. Burlesque performances where based on opera and ballet pieces but were adapted to be made more like a comic play or a musical play by using quotes from the originals and making them funny, almost taking the mickey out of the upper class. Parts of the history of Burlesque that I want to relate to our choreography is how it has never been taken very seriously and its having fun on stage, showing off and showing something about your personality to the audience. I think to have a successful showcase of
With each fluctuating scene came varied costumes; whenever the actors sported a different outfit, it was untroublesome for the audience to distinguish the change of scene. The performers dressed in royal garments of purple, gold and crimson to indicate when scenes involved the duke and duchess of Athens: Theseus and Hippolyta. Contemporary clothing was worn to represent the four lovers and the craftsmen (another way in which the Bell Shakespeare company modernised the play). Another modern twist on the play was how the fairies wore black clothing instead of multi-coloured and dainty costumes. With the present fantasy genre centred on dark and
Discovery is the act of finding or learning something for the first time and can also include rediscovering something that has been lost or forgotten. Shakespeare’s play of 1611, The Tempest and The Secret River by Kate Grenville written in 2006 presents several sudden and unexpected as well as planned discoveries in relation to the characters, the world and oneself. The social structure within the Tempest is destabilised by various discoveries due to the eponymous tempest in Act 1 which places everyone, including the audience, in Prospero’s power. This not only reveals the physical island but also the changes of the perspectives on such a social structure due to the reality of mortality viewed in Act 1 Scene 1 as Gonzalo forces the boatswain to ‘remember whom thou hast aboard,’ to whereby the boatswain replies ‘None that I love more than myself.’ Thus, the diction and careless connotation of the boatswains retort, allows the audience to discover the lack of authority as the royal court of Milan is rendered meaningless when they become shipwrecked on the island. Shakespeare, designs the island to be an allegory of the true hierarchal power which in context to the Elizabethan audience is nature as seen in Act 2 Scene 1 as Alonso, a king, relies upon nature to bring justice as he states ‘Nature should bring forth’.