I have chosen to express the ways in which I would play the role of Peter; a big headed and outspoken character, in scene 13. I will make reference to movements, voice, gestures and facial expressions...
They are a wealthy midlands family. He is a straight talking detective. One minute they are having a family celebration the next, their cosy world is torn apart. Who is the mysterious stranger and wh...
Seattle’s Alice B. calls itself “a gay and lesbian theatre for all people.” Nothing the group has produced in its nine-year history better exemplifies what that phrase might mean than Sub Rosa. ...
Rediscovering the mechanics of life Essay
When V.H. Meyerhold was killed and designated a non-person by the Soviets sometime around 1939, it may have seemed to the director’s adherents that his revolutionary system of kinetic movement for t...
Rene Moreno: the actor that is Essay
In November 1991, after a near-lethal fall from a fifth-story window ruptured his aorta and damaged his spinal cord, actor Rene Moreno withdrew to his family’s Dallas home. For one bleak year, he mo...
Research Investigation: commedia dell’arte masks Essay
According to italian theatre historians, such as Roberto Tessari, Ferdinando Taviani, and Luciano Pinto, Commedia dell’arte, which literally translated as improvised comedy, developed as a response ...
Review of Theatre Performance Essay
Also the way she carried herself became a lot more stooped which was completely different to the way she was before. Towards the end of the show when it showed her descent in to madness, she seemed so...
Reynolds Price: on writing for performance Essay
TCG has just published Full Moon and Other Plays, the second collection of plays by award-winning novelist Reynolds Price. Like his dramatic trilogy, New Music (published by TCG in 1990), this new col...
Fund-raisers, including “prospect researchers,” are often viewed with disdain by many donors and people at foundations. They are seen as hucksters or snoops. But a strong case can be made for thei...
Road to recovery or road to nowhere Essay
Players Theatre Columbus has ceased all operations,” says the woman’s voice on the answering machine, sounding the death knell of the professional Ohio company, first founded as a community theatr...