PDF-The 200 Plays That Every Theatre Major Should Read

Aeschylus The Persians 472 BC The Orestia 458 BC Prometheus Bound Sophocles Antigone 442 Oedipus Rex 426 BC Oedipus at Colonus 406 BC Euripdes Medea 431 BC Electra 417 The Trojan Women The Bacch. Presented by : Hilary G., Kalau F., Isaac N., and Ben Y.. Oxford Dictionary definition: . Drama. using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world.. Overview. History. The ‘Players’. Noteworthy Playwrights. Types of Elizabethan Theatres. English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, but usually as Elizabethan theatre, is the era of theatre in England between 1562 and 1642.. What did you learn doing Pantomime and Commedia?. How did you communicate in both?. Why do theatre in middle school?. What can you apply outside the theatre classroom that you have learned so far (or might learn)?. Anton Chekhov. By: . Linda Bashinskaya. Pamela Whitcomb. Anton Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a famous play writer born in Taganrog, Russia on January 29, 1860. Chekhov attended a school for Greek boys before his father moved their family to Moscow due to bankruptcy. After grammar school, Chekhov enrolled into Medical school and later became a doctor. His experience in this field explains a lot of the tragic characters in his plays. While attending medical school, Chekhov wrote and publish comic stories which he used to support his family, in little time his gained him wide fame. He regularly contributed to St. Petersburg papers and even wrote 2 full novels. His novel, “The Shooting Party” even got translated into English. In 1888 Chekhov was awarded with the Pushkin Prize. The failure of “The Wood Demon” was a drawback for . Humans have a basic need to imitate (that is how we acquire most of our learning). Imitation is the basis of all theatre. One definition of theatre is a person or persons imitating the actions and words of others for the benefit of others (actors, plays, audience). Theatre History. Bell-ringers. What are some events the prehistoric people may have pantomimed in their early storytelling?. Imagine sitting around a prehistoric campfire listening to a story. What are some of the sounds and lights which may have naturally added to the drama of the story? How can this image be used to enhance drama today?. Theatre 101. Drama. Greek word meaning “to do” or “to act”. Born out of the dance ceremonies of primitive people before Greek civilization. Egyptian Theatre. Ritualistic rites = our idea of a play. The Earliest Form of Theatre Recorded. Historians found that Ancient Egyptians performed a three-day pageant (performance) about four thousand years ago. The pageant explained the story of Osiris, an Egyptian god. Week 15. [Part 1]. Introduction to Theatre. College of the Desert. Realism. Realism in the last half of the 19th-century began as an experiment to make theater more useful to society. . The . mainstream theatre from 1859 to 1900 was still bound up in melodramas, spectacle plays (disasters, etc.), comic operas, and vaudevilles. By Robert Cohen. Chapter 2 . Definition. A play is, essentially, what happens in theatre. It is not a thing but an event.. The play is the theatre’s . dran. (something done).. A play, unlike a drama, is ACTION, not words in a book.. How did theatre, as we know it, come to be?. Greek Theatre. Rooted in Dionysian hymns -in honor of DIONYSUS, god . of . wine and fertility. . Play festivals were so popular entire towns would shut down for days! Local houses would sponsor plays for competition. . Presentation of Edgar and Gloucester. Significance of Edgar’s verbal depiction of the cliff top scene. Gloucester’s prayer. The absurd/ grotesque. Paired questions. In many ways this represents the climax of the subplot. Discuss how you would best stage Gloucester’s ‘suicide’? Is there a danger the audience could laugh? Does this matter?. And Realism in ‘A . D. oll’s House’ by Henrik . I. bsen. GREEK THEATRE. (From 7. th. Century B.C.E). Greek theatre was created to celebrate religious festivals.. A chorus was used to either sing or chant the script.. By: . Linda Bashinskaya. Pamela Whitcomb. Anton Chekhov. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a famous play writer born in Taganrog, Russia on January 29, 1860. Chekhov attended a school for Greek boys before his father moved their family to Moscow due to bankruptcy. After grammar school, Chekhov enrolled into Medical school and later became a doctor. His experience in this field explains a lot of the tragic characters in his plays. While attending medical school, Chekhov wrote and publish comic stories which he used to support his family, in little time his gained him wide fame. He regularly contributed to St. Petersburg papers and even wrote 2 full novels. His novel, “The Shooting Party” even got translated into English. In 1888 Chekhov was awarded with the Pushkin Prize. The failure of “The Wood Demon” was a drawback for .