Posts

UNIT 12

  UNIT 12:                         Love & Information For my final major Project the actors and dancers will be performing in the play 'Love and Information' by Caryl Churchhill. This play looks at many different stories made into short scenes with some stories connected to previous scenes. As this play transitions into different stories and some are connected in previous scenes I found that there are many themes in the play such as; Mental health, love , obsession, secrets, science, family , truth ,lies, loss, religion and pain.  As Stage manager I have read through the script and have watched other productions of 'Love & Information' to gain ideas for lighting and some stage props and sets that could be used for our final major project. Research: Playwright Caryl Churchill was born in London September 3rd 1938. She then attended Lady Margaret Hail, Oxford university, where she wrote her first play 'Downstair...
Post a Comment
Read more

UNIT 10

  UNIT 10: The Pros and Cons of Higher Education. After researching the pros and cons of HE there are many advantages and disadvantages that I had come across. Many people go into HE to develop more in their skills and knowledge for their upcoming career and success in future employments.  One of the advantages of going into HE is the ability to develop your skills after getting a diploma in college and going further to get a degree in your chosen course for your future employment. HE is very useful way to grow your knowledge in the area aspire to be in the future. HE also gives you an opportunity to research more about your chosen area of work and also gives work experience/placement to get use to your working environment, also you develop other useful skills such as team work and leadership skills that can make employability more easier for you when its time for you to look for work, you would stand out from the other candidates applying for jobs because you have developed m...
Post a Comment
Read more

UNIT 11

Image
  UNIT 11: 'Art is not a mirror to reflect society but the hammer with which                                       to shape it ' - Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht  was born 10 February 1898 in Augsburg Germany , he was known professionally as  Bertolt Brecht,  a German theatre practitioner , playwriter  and  poet .  When Brecht was 16, the first world war  broke out.   As a young man, he studied medicine and  serving as a medical orderly  in an army hospital during World War I and  appalled by the effects of the war.  After seen the terror, the violence and the wrongful act of war, Brecht started questioning the society and politics.  Brecht grew a strong political voice, He was heavily influenced by Marxist ideas, which  is a method of  socioeconomic  analysis that uses a  ...
Post a Comment
Read more

UNIT 9

  UNIT 9:                              Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Shakespeare was born in April 15th 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon and attended school at the age of 7. Shakespeare grow up in a privilege home as his father was an equivalent to a mayor in his home town.  At the age of 15 Shakespeare had left school and fell in love and got married at 18 with 26 year old Anne Hathaway and had 3 children by the time he was 21. In 1592 William arrived in London as he wanted to pursuit his writing in the city. When he got to London he worked as a writer and player and his plays were played at The Globe. In 1599 the original globe was in Shoreditch on Park street, theatre was called 'The Theatre', the theatre caught fire in 1613 a theatrical cannon had been set of and ignited causing a fire and burnt down the whole theatre. The theatre then had been rebuilt in 1614 , a year after the fire.  Like...
Post a Comment
Read more