Theater Essays Examples For College & High School Students in PDF

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A Personal Review of Oleanna, a Play at the Cotuit Center (1103 words, 3 pages)

Play Review OleannaI saw Oleanna at the Cotuit Center for the Arts in the Blackbox theatre, in Cotuit, Massachusetts. I saw Oleanna on March 19th, 2015. The show is about a girl named Carol who transforms throughout the story into a different person based on self discovery. It is also ... Read More

Communication and the Significance of Crossing Cultural Borders in Translations, a Play by Brian Friel (724 words, 3 pages)

Translations by Brian Friel is set in Ireland in 1833. The play explores communication and the importance of crossing cultural borders. It looks at the clashing of Irish and English Culture through an interesting lens. Friel pulls in the audience through his engaging characters and the relationships that ensue. Gordon ... Read More

The Idea of Forgiveness in Joseph, a Play I Saw at Sight and Sound Theatres in Strasburg, Pennsylvania (1581 words, 5 pages)

Play Review Joseph I saw Joseph at 245 pm on July 16th, 2015 at Sight and Sound theatres in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The show is about a young man named Joseph, who has to learn the secret of forgiveness. This play follows the bible story of Joseph, which takes place in ... Read More

The Notion of Honesty in the Play, Josiah for President (1413 words, 4 pages)

Play Review Josiah for PresidentI saw Josiah for President on the Bird-in-hand stage in Bird-In-Hand, Pennsylvania on July 18th, 2015. The show is a musical about a man named Josiah, who befriends a young politician and ends up as a write-in candidate for president. Throughout the show two ideas really ... Read More

A Personal Review of Beauty and the Beast, a Play in Hollywood Studios (829 words, 3 pages)

Play Review Beauty and the BeastI saw Beauty and the Beast at Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida in December of 2014. The show is about a girl named Belle, who learns to fall in love with a beast. The show depicts the idea not to judge by ones cover, which ... Read More

A Review of the Beauty Queen of Leenane, a Play by Martin McDonagh (1243 words, 3 pages)

Play Review The Beauty Queen of LeenaneI saw The Beauty Queen of Leenane in the Blackbox theatre at the Cotuit Center for the Arts on June 18th, 2015, in Cotuit, Massachusetts. The show is about a woman named Maureen, who behind closed doors, is psychotic. Maureen wants love and acceptance. ... Read More

The Life and Work of Viola Spolin (981 words, 4 pages)

Viola Spolin Mother of ImprovisationViola Spolin was born on November 7th, 1906. Forty years later, she would be known as the Mother of Improvisation. In 1946, Viola Spolin founded the Young Actors Company in Hollywood, CA. Children six years and older were trained through the still developing theatre games system. ... Read More

An Analysis of Hearts Like Fist, a Play by Briannica Lynn Ponder and Adam Szymkowicz (605 words, 2 pages)

Hearts Like Fist written by Adam Szymkowicz and directed, this weekend, by Briannica Lynn Ponder. The show takes place in a crime muddled city, where a series of murders has occurred. Each one has been linked back to the evil villain Doctor X, who is taking out his broken heart ... Read More

An Analysis of the Play, An American Daughter (434 words, 2 pages)

An American Daughter ReflectionI thoroughly enjoyed this show. I thought the subject of this play incredibly well timed with everything that is going on with the election. It highlights the sexism and standers a woman must uphold while running for office. Her monologue at the end was incredibly empowering and ... Read More

The Theme of Complexity and Out of the Ordinary Circumstances in the UA Production of Falsettos, a Play by James Lapine and William Finn (696 words, 2 pages)

The UA production of Falsettos was set in New York City, which illuminated the theme of complexity and out of the ordinary circumstances in the play. It did this because New York City is known for being a place for all different types of people from all different walks of ... Read More

An Analysis of the Children of Mr. Lafayette in the Play Appropriate (792 words, 2 pages)

The play Appropriate is snuggled in southern history, and the modern attempt to cope with Americas dark, but nonetheless relevant, past. The main players in this mess of a family are the children of a now-deceased old man. The children of Mr. Lafayette are as follows Toni - the opinionated ... Read More

A Critique of Breaking the Code, a Play by Hugh Whitemore (309 words, 1 pages)

I attended the play Breaking the Code on Thursday, March 10. The play told the life of a codebreaker and a mathematician, Alan Turing. It started out showing Turings childhood lover, Christopher Morcum. Morcum shortly died thereafter of complications from tuberculosis, emotionally scarring Turing. Turing spent his time at school ... Read More

A Review of the CU Boulder Department of Theatre and Dance’s Production of Twelfth Night (678 words, 3 pages)

Twelfth Night ResponseThe following outlines a critical analysis on the production, execution, and greater theatrical significance of the CU Boulder Department of Theatre and Dances Production of Twelfth Night. Based on the original comedy script of Shakespeare, the play was directed by Lisa Wolpe and performed in the University Theatre ... Read More

A Personal Review of the Performance Cowboy at the 7 Stages Theatre (868 words, 3 pages)

On the 6th of November, I decided to go see the performance Cowboy at the 7 Stages Theatre. This performance was apart of the performance festival Exposed, which presented ground-breaking dance and physical theatre from Israel. I was attracted to this performance piece because it was different from what I ... Read More

The Good and Bad in UCA’s Theatre Department’s Performance of The Caucasian Chalk Circle (615 words, 2 pages)

I went to the UCAs Theatre Departments performance of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a production by Bertolt Brecht, in the BridgesLarson Theater in the Snow Fine Arts Center at 730 p.m. on November 7th, 2013. Overall, I enjoyed my experience at the theatre. There were aspects of the performance and ... Read More

An Analysis of the Wonderful Revival of a Classic Tragedy in Kevin Moriarty’s King Lear (778 words, 3 pages)

Simply SpectacularWritten in the early 1600s, one of Shakespeares greatest tragedies, King Lear, has come to modern times. Set in ancient England, King Lear is the story of an elderly king who forces his three daughters to profess their love for him in order to receive their portion of his ... Read More

A Review of The Dallas Theater Center’s Musical Play Fly by Night (882 words, 3 pages)

Light and DarkThe Dallas Theater Centers new play, Fly By Night, is an excellent piece of musical theatre. Conceived by Kim Rosenstock, who co-wrote the script with Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick, the musical features a love triangle between two sisters, Daphne and Miriam, and Harold McClam, a young bachelor ... Read More

The Failures of the Wild West Shows in American Theatre (3068 words, 10 pages)

Imagine that you are a Native American and are looking to explore your ancestry. There are pictures, narratives, theatre performances, and many historical accounts with a majority slanted toward the noble savage image. They serve audience expectations rather than shining light on little-known truths of a widespread but heavily erased ... Read More

An Analysis of the Performance of UCF’s Production of The Vagina Monologues (546 words, 2 pages)

Performance Essay The Vagina MonologuesUCFs production of The Vagina Monologues successfully merged entertainment with social activism. Even though only small alterations were made to Eve Enslers original script, the performance felt interactive, fluid, and relevant to current events. Although the performance officially began at 7pm, the pre-show events blended seamlessly ... Read More

The Contributions of Roy Hart to the Improvements of Acting Through Theatre Voice Workshops (1284 words, 4 pages)

Roy Hart was born in South Africa in 1926 who studied under Alfred Wolfsohn. Hart and Alfred met while Hart was in London playing the role of Othello at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Wolfsohn was a singing teacher at RADA inspired by the cries he heard of soldiers ... Read More

The Impact and Influence of Ritual and Religion on Theater Performance (912 words, 3 pages)

When looking at the history of theater historians often argue that theater originated through religion and its rituals. Ritual can be defined as a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. This prescribed order is what links ritual to theater performance. ... Read More

An Analysis of the Production of The Insurgents by Raul Abrego (1038 words, 3 pages)

The set design, done by Raul Abrego, is as follows inside the Bank Street Theatre, the background appears to be an old brick wall, with branches of large tress breaching the inside of the house through glass-less windows. The scene in front of the wall appears to be a kitchen. ... Read More

Directing Decisions in the Show The Children’s Hour by the College of Charleston (802 words, 3 pages)

The Childrens Hour Directing DecisionsCollege of Charleston opened their most recent show, The Childrens Hour on October 30th in the Chapel Theatre located in the Calhoun Annex. The College of Charleston is doing a season of female playwrights this year and so they chose Lillian Hellmans play as a tribute ... Read More

A Review of Yasmina Reza’s The God of Carnage (690 words, 3 pages)

The God of CarnageThe play The God of Carnage, written by Yasmina Reza provides the reader with a very unique story. Four parents meet to discuss a conflict between their children, yet the parents themselves end up being more childish than their sons. This is humorous in the sense that ... Read More

The Art of Playback Theatre (580 words, 2 pages)

Playback theatre is an experiential form of theatre where the audience tells stories and shares experiences and watches it being enacted in front of them by a group of actors. In a playback event, someone in the audience tells a moment or story from their life, chooses the actors to ... Read More

An Analysis of the Boston Unscripted Musical Project (615 words, 2 pages)

Boston Unscripted Musical ProjectBy The sound of singing stops and is replaced with laughter and then silence as Pablo Rojas, the founder and executive director of B.U.M.P., Boston Unscripted Musical Project, announces that the box office is open. Visitors either show their 10 prepaid ticket or present 15 at the ... Read More

A Modern Reenactment of Oedipus the King by Sophocles (1076 words, 3 pages)

Theater has been around for thousands of years for the purpose ofentertaining an audience. Plays have a way of capturing a crowd andreleasing them from their current reality where they are then placed intothe universe of the characters in the show. From the first play in Greeceto those showing in ... Read More

The Battle Between the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story, a Musical by Stephen Sondheim (760 words, 3 pages)

West Side Story, written by Stephen Sondheim, retells Shakespeares famous and tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet. West Side Story opens in the 1950s with a face off between the two rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. This fight is broken up by two police officers, and both sides ... Read More

An Examination of No in the Japanese Performing Arts and in the Play Atsumori (576 words, 3 pages)

Early Asian Theatre and AtsumoriJapanese N Theatre I greatly enjoyed all three of the forms of theatre covered inThe Performing Arts in Japan,especially N and Bunraku. For this assignment Ill just talk about N. I enjoyed it most because I was easily able to recognize concepts covered in inThe Performing ... Read More

A History of the Transformation of Classical Greek Theatres, Social Position of Actors, and the Theme in Oedipus the King (969 words, 3 pages)

Classical Greek theatres didnt look much different from what you might expect today in their layout. The main parts included the skene, what we might call backstage today, the orchestra, what we call the stage, the theatron (audience), and the parados, what we consider the entrance (Wilson and Goldfarb, 44). ... Read More

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