Proscenium

Throughout most written plays, they usually have films or stage performances. Usually the two are very different from each other. Many of the times the scenes are different. In Our Town the stage performance is very similar to the written play. There are a few differences with the written play and the stage performance. There is more comparisons than differences between the two. The differences are minor and did not change the overall play. There were no major changes at all so the stage…

A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most successful plays written by the celebrated American playwright Tennessee Williams. It was first performed in New York, New York on December 3, 1947 at the Barrymore Theatre. The setting of the play is in and around a corner building in New Orleans, Louisiana named Elysian Fields. The main characters are Blanche Dubois, a talkative and seemingly prim and proper lady; Stella Kowalski, the laid back and more casual younger…

Many people felt that Realism was not capable of revealing the whole truth. Realism could only show the physical flesh and blood world, the world of the five senses. Symbolists argued against Realism, saying that more significant aspects of truth are found in mystery and myth rather than reality. They advocated a drama composed of images and symbols, which would become known as Symbolism. Stephane Mallarme is acknowledged as the leader of the Symbolists. He only wrote two plays, but as a critic…

Domain Context: Cultural influence & Architectural influence 5.4. Basically Wyly theatre is a cultural building. Its role is mainly to create a place for acting and performing different types of art. Actually, building design has gone beyond this by providing a space that expands potentialities to unexpected level. The cultural impact of the building is intensive and deeply effective (Wise 2015; 2010). Otherwise, the building design has received great support and high cheering from architects…

“Loving is Art, and Art is Love. (...) In love and in art, the only constant is inconstancy (Boal 19).” This project gave me the ability to create without pressures and to cherish in the inconsistencies of art. I was able to see how art is forever changing and reworking. Art like love is fluid, the person you love and the art you create are constantly growing, moving, and developing. Normally when I am the director of a project I try to make sure that everything is constant, unique, and…

Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx’s direction brought Circle Mirror Transformation to a sweet spot between real and surreal. Annie Baker’s true-to-life writing style was taken and injected with movement to spark the creative mind. An ever changing stage was a clear foundation for the experimentation. Additionally, more movement between actors effectively clarified relationships and the tone of the play. However, with some major and minor tweaks to clean up Jonathan’s actor’s patterning and adjust the…

audience in the excitement of the play. It also gave the audience the option to watch the play in a unique and scarcely used way. I personally liked that I had the option to watch the performance from a side profile rather than straight-on as a proscenium stage would offer. I loved the acting and directing styles used in Richard III, but honestly, the play the way too long to hold my interest and by the time the intermission came around I was ready to leave to go right to sleep. If you are a…

An Octoroon Performance Critique I had the opportunity to attend Theatre UCF’s production of An Octoroon at the UCF Theatre in Orlando, Florida. Throughout my life, I have had the experience of going to productions at the secondary school level, club level, collegiate, and professional/Broadway level. In my opinion, Broadway shows have always amazed me and continue to bring the highest level of acting and musicality. However, shows at the secondary, club, and collegiate level all have the…

in the Ankney Auditorium. This was the first play that I have attended in over ten years and it was a great play to watch. Before the play I didn’t not get to look around, but I did get to look at the setup that is on the stage. The stage was a proscenium and it was a lot larger than Delta’s stage. A couple adjectives that describes the atmosphere of the theater is Lively, Playful and Joyful. I chose these because there was bight colorful lights on the stage. That caused them to make the…

Futurity I was shocked for a moment after I watched the show Futurity because I didn’t expect it as a musical show. My classmates who sat next me were also confused. In order to understand what the show is about, I found a brief summary from their website: “Two people try to imagine their way out of impossible circumstances in FUTURITY – an avant-Americana musical by indie band The Lisps. Julian is a Civil War soldier dreaming of a technological utopia. Ada is a mathematical genius thousands…