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Slide1
Slide2

Theatre Amazement and Joy of the PastSlide3

What did you learn doing Pantomime and Commedia?Slide4

How did you communicate in both?Slide5

Why do theatre in middle school?

What can you apply outside the theatre classroom that you have learned so far (or might learn)?Slide6

What plays have you seen?

Someone list them on the boardSlide7

What is the message these plays are trying to spread?Slide8

Theatre vs. TheaterSlide9

Origins of TheatreSlide10

Let’s blow your mind….Slide11

Define Performance

Play, musical, film, acting, dancing, singing, ceremonies, religious acts/rituals, brushing your teeth, everyday conversationSlide12

Mind………blownSlide13

But…how was performance in the beginning?Slide14

Early “Performances”

Ceremonies (still continue today)

Dances: tribal, religious

Movements: gathering food, making a fire, etc.

Speeches

Rituals: religious

Storytelling: legends, histories, etc.

Any others?Slide15

GreekSlide16

Theatre in the Traditional SenseSlide17

Aesop and Aristotle

Who was Aesop?

Who was Aristotle?Slide18

Aesop’s Fables and Aristotelian Plot StructureSlide19

Let’s review Aristotle again

Aristotle created a structure for a WELL MADE PLAY including the various parts of a plot. He studied Greek plays from festivals to create his structure which we will talk about later.Slide20

Aristotelian Plot Structure

Exposition

Inciting Incident/Hook

Climax

Rising Action

Falling Action

DenouementSlide21

Other Elements Needed for Theatre

Actor

Audience

Place

LightSlide22

Historiography

The

study of the way history has been and is written

— the history of historical writing... When you study 'historiography' you do not study the events of the past directly, but the

changing interpretations of those events in the works of individual historians

."

The study of the way history has been and is written

The changing interpretations of historical evens in the works of individual historians

ESSENTIAL

: it is looking at history either through someone else’s perspective, opinion, etc.Slide23

You: Interpreting History/Styles

When you watch the performances today, you will look at them through your lens (your understanding or view on things)

Basically: you are

all

historians who understand or see history based on your own opinions, understanding, ideas, etc.

Some styles may seem silly, “bad storytelling”, bad acting, hard, etc. But, you label them yourself.

Note: the actors are also “historians” who are interpreting their style according to their own understanding and even desiresSlide24

GreekSlide25

Greek Playwriting/Festivals

Greek plays were written:

Mostly in trilogies

(3 plays to tell 1 story: think The Lord of the Rings or Hunger Games)

Written for festivals

. Main one being the festival for Dionysus, the god of wine and merrimentSlide26

Types (genres) of Plays

Tragedy

Comedy

Satyr

modern day satire (make fun of society)Slide27

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL8LcV_PohA

40 secondsSlide28

Thespis

We know little about him

Won play competition: festival of Dionysus

Playwright? Actor? Priest? We’re not sure

His name is used to represent the dramatic (performing) arts

THESPIAN

Slide29

Amphitheaters

Largest held 20, 0000 people (Rio Tinto Stadium)Slide30
Slide31

Stage Set up

Skene

: backdrop and some special effects

Orchestra: where chorus would dance

Ekkyklema

: wheeled platform

 (used to bring the

skene's

'indoors' outdoors) 

Mechane

: crane to raise an actorSlide32
Slide33
Slide34
Slide35

Acting Style

One “actor” standing, wearing a mask, telling the story

Declamatory: “overdramatic”

Chorus: chant, all togetherSlide36

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskCypnfoA8

Slide37

Actors

Only men acted. Women not considered citizensSlide38
Slide39

5 Main Playwrights

Aeschylus:

Oresteia

.

Introduced the concept of a second actor

Possiblities

for plot and

historionics

Interaction of the two (interplay)

Sophocles:

Oedipus Rex

Chorus

starts to go away

Interplay between actors increases

Third actor addedSlide40

5 Main Playwrights Cont.

Euripides,

Medea, Electra, Trojan Women

Won less competitions

than Aeschylus

or Sophocles but most prolific and existing works produced today

Foreshadowed

the ultimate form of drama as we know

it

employing

a

far more

naturalistic or human approach

in his works, in contrast to the remote scale

and formalized

conventions used by his contemporaries

.

Aristophanes

and Menander

Comedies

End of Greek reign, fall of the empire

Outlet for frustration and economic downfallSlide41

Roman TheatreSlide42

Greek to Roman

Fall of Greek empire marks the rise of the Roman Empire

The Romans borrowed a lot from the Greeks, especially in art (theatre)

Roman theatre not as well known as Greek, but modern theatre owes much to Roman theatreSlide43
Slide44

Roman Theatre

The word “PLAY” comes from Greek

ludus

: recreation or playSlide45

Roman: 2 forms

Fabula

Palliatia

: from Greek

Translated Greek plays

Also, Roman plays based on Greek plays

(Note: this happens from here on out with theatre)

Terence

: introduced

subplot

Subplot

:

enabling us to contrast the reactions of different sets of characters to the same events

or circumstancesSlide46

Roman: 2 forms

Fabula

Togata

: from Rome

Native origin: original work written by Romans

farcical situations and humor of a physical nature

Plautus:

playwrightSlide47

Roman Theatre

Spectacles

gladiators

chariot

races madeSlide48

Roman Plays

Plays of a more

serious, literary

nature

Plays not

intended to be performed so

much as

read or recited

.

Again, only men performed/attended

Few works

by Roman playwrights surviving to us

in forms

that would lend themselves to

revivalSlide49

Roman Stage

Roman theatre had a greater effect on performing space (theater)

The semi-circular orchestra of the

Greek theatre became a

raised stage

More physical style of acting (meaning they used physicality/movement more)Slide50

Roman and the Church

However, the greatest impact Rome may have had on

the theatre

was to

lower it in the esteem of the

Church

This impact

that was to retard the

growth of

the dramatic arts for several centuries.

low

comedy

and its

mass appeal

-- coupled with its association with

the entertainment

of the arena (which involved the martyrdom of early

Christians)Slide51

Rome and the Church Cont.

Plays, or

ludii

were associated with either comedy of a coarse and scurrilous nature, or with pagan rituals and holidays.

These rituals may be the reason theatre continued through middle agesSlide52

Bawdy

Appealed to the masses

Exciting

Course

Innappropriate

Sermons

Street preaching (missionary)

Later performances based on Bible writings

Rome and the Church

Secular (Rome)

Religious (Church)Slide53

Discussion

In your opinion, which is more popular today? Why do you think it is more popular?Slide54

Greek/Roman Performance

Greek

Masks

Declamatory

“Monotone” or emotionless speech

Violent acts happen offstage, chorus or servant tell the stories to the audience of what happened

Roman

More interplay between actors

More movement/actionSlide55

Greek/Roman Performance, Cont.

Do not

Add contemporary movement to it

Speak in slang, or as you would to your friends

Stay as true as you can to they styles and the genre of the playSlide56

Romans

Celebrated the human body (just as the Greeks)

Art, statues, performance, etc.

Gladiator performances in the nude

Only men performed and attended (again, women not considered citizens)Slide57

Medieval

“Middle Ages”Slide58

People of the Time

Pagan

A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions

Of or relating to such a people or beliefs: “ a pagan god”

Illiterate

Could not read (Bible) or were not allowed toSlide59

Fall of Rome

Players (performers/actors) tried to make a living by performing where they could (traveling)

Kept theatre alive in Europe during Dark Ages, thought the

Catholic Church tried to silence them in every way possible

Church’s belief that the end of the world was near, it argued that

people should turn away from worldly interests (performing being one of them) and prepare for the Day of JudgmentSlide60

Dark Ages-Medieval

Players traveled with what they could carry

Stages were improvised trestle stages (folding and portable)

Since the world did not end, the Church started to see less harm in entertaining diversions, but said they

(plays/performances) should be religious in natureSlide61

Start of Medieval Theatre

Since the people could not read

priests started acting out parts of the Bible

to help them understand Christianity

First plays were about Christ

The nativity (advent)

The resurrection

Other biblical events

Noahs

ark, Adam and Eve (Cain/Able), Moses and the Red Sea, Jonah and the whale, the Good Samaritan, etc.Slide62

Medieval Theatre

Passion plays

Christ: birth, life, death

The Catholic Church looked at theatre as an “unholy”, negative and wrong practice

….until it needed theatre to spread it’s message during the Medieval EraSlide63

Medieval Theatre Practices

Street players

Jugglers

Acrobats

Animal trainers

Ironically, it is because of the Church that theatre survived the middle agesSlide64

Medieval Theatre Practices Cont.

Seasonal pagan festivals

(rituals and superstition) still continued

As a result:

the Church linked it’s own religious holidays (i.e. Easter, Christmas) with these festivals and began to use theatre to illustrate the stories behind the holidaysSlide65

Pagan and the Church

Easter: the resurrection. The time of Easter is based on the cycles of the moon, the equinox, and seasons and things in nature.

In simple terms Easter occurs on the first Sunday following the first full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox (the first day of spring). 

Christmas: became generally associated with the southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice), with a sun connection being possible because Christians consider Jesus to be the "Sun of righteousness”Slide66

The Catholic Church Theatre

Re-enactments of the first passion plays (nativity and adoration of the Magi)

Played by priests in the church (cathedrals/sanctuaries/etc.)

Priests would stand at various locations in the church (building), acting out scenes

Choir would sing

Audience would move from scene to sceneSlide67

Church Theatre cont.

Eventually moved outside the church

Members of the towns began to contribute, plays became more elaborate

Passion plays became super popular (like a new movie coming out)

Added subplots and elements of humorSlide68

Pageant WagonsSlide69

Pageant Wagons, cont.

Roll from one town to another

“To teach”

Mysteries: plays performed on pageant wagons

Wagon: stored scenery, dressing room space, offstage space

People would pay more money than they could really afford to see themSlide70

Church Theatre, cont.

Held in a more permanent place

Often scenes centering around the life of Christ

Single stage with an elevated “heaven” and one end and a “

hellmouth

” at the other (usually belching flames and

deamons

)

In between

: “mansions”, or small buildings, that represented various points in the New Testament story

Hellmouth

” the most popular because it used flashy special effects favored by the crowd (think summer blockbusters)…the dead boiled in cauldron, etc.Slide71

Types of Church Plays

Passion Plays

: Christ’s life

Mystery Plays/Miracle Plays

: Bible stories

Morality Plays

: Taught moralsSlide72

Theatrical Advancements

Stage (as discussed before)

Stock characters that were contemporary (Everyman)

When the protestant reformation took hold and

stable government came into Europe, theatre became more secular (next time period)Slide73

Morality Plays: teach a moral, duh

Morality plays held several elements in common:

The hero represents

Mankind

or

Everyman

.

Among the other characters are

personifications

of virtues, vices and Death, as well as angels and demons who battle for the possession of the soul of man.

The

psychomachia

, the battle for the soul

A character known as the

Vice

often played the role of the tempter in a fashion both sinister and comic. Slide74

Morality Plays

Dramatized allegories of the life of man, his temptation and sinning, his quest for salvation, and his confrontation by death

Developed most fully in the 15

th

century, handled the subjects that were most popular among medieval preachers and was inspired by preaching techniqueSlide75

Everyman

An allegory about life and death

There’s this guy named “Everyman” because he represents, well, EVERY MAN (all mankind)

God sends Death to summon Everyman to die

Everyman will present himself before God to have his deeds tallied before him (final judgment)

He goes around to get “friends” to go with him after death to make his account to God better

These characters represent (allegories) various human actions, virtues and vices (Fellowship, Goods-material, Knowledge, Good Deeds, Confession, Beauty, Strength, etc.)

Conflict of good and evil seen in each interaction with a new character

Only Good Deeds goes with himSlide76

Morality Plays, cont.

Certain themes found a home in the morality plays:

The theme of the

Seven Deadly

Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride)

The theme of Mercy and Peace pleading before God for man's soul against Truth and

Righteousness

The

Dance of Death

, which focuses on Death as God's messenger come to summon all, high and low. Slide77

Decline in Theatre

Although much occurred during Medieval times with theatre, it’s sole focus on Christianity ideals limited it’s growthSlide78

In the first section of our History of Theatre, we looked at the beginnings of theatre

in Greece

, its migration to Rome, and its decline during the Middle Ages. In this

section we'll

examine the rebirth of the theatre and its domination by a playwright of genius. It

is during

this period that theatre re-emerges from the Church and becomes secular

theatre-

- although it remains largely under the control of the state, be that sovereign King

or Republic

.Slide79

The InterludeSlide80

Commedia

d’ell

Arte was more fully developed and performed from the 1500s onSlide81

Interlude

Morality play

BUT….

Added: more realistic and comic elements

Term “interlude” might be from a short play performed between the courses of a banquet

End of 15

th

century (1400s)Slide82

Interlude

Transition from MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS drama to TUDOR SECULAR dramaSlide83

Interlude Cont.

Gives us the beginnings of English Comedy,

the beginning of prose (everyday speech in a play),

and English TragedySlide84

Tudor playwrights

Henry

Medwall’s

Fulgens

and

Lucres

(end of 15

th

century)

Earliest secular play in English

Tudor Plays=written as part of the evening’s entertainment at a

nobleman’s house

and their emphasis is more on

amusement

than instructionSlide85

Renaissance and Reformation

15

th

and 16

th

Centuries

Renaissance=“rebirth” or rediscovery

of Greek/Roman

Movement towards Nationalism (Protestant Reformation)

Secularization of art

Italy: Roman plays revived and performed, proscenium stages (“picture frame”) usedSlide86

R & R Cont.

Play-Makers”, stages, included enclosed courtyards open to air

Apron stage, or open stage=

THRUST

stage (audience on 3 sides)

Groundspace

for standing (groundlings)

Elevated StageSlide87

R & R Cont.

Emphasis on dialogue

, not blocking and action

Plays still had a moralistic tone

“Play-maker”=emphasis on performer

Troupes created with owner-actors, journeymen and hirelingsSlide88

Reformation

Protestant Reformation and the establishment of the Church of England (break from Catholic Church)

Intellectuals based plays on Greek (Protestant) and Roman (Church in Rome)

Caused them to be called “Heretic”=life or death

Thus they avoided revivals of classics and wrote original, secular works of a general, non-political and non-religious natureSlide89

Theaters

the banning of troupes

Traveling troupes were feared to carry the

plague

Possible

civil unrest

(riots, etc.) by people who drank and went to the performances

Possible idleness and

taking people away from work

Theatres were associated with

women of ill-repute

Civil authorities banned performances of traveling troupesSlide90

Theaters cont.

Previous things led to

Established

theatre companies

Permanent

theater

spaces

Licensing of official companies by the throne

Domination of theatre by the stateSlide91

The University Wits

Secular Professional playwrights

Graduated from Oxford or Cambridge

Elizabethan drama became literary and more dramatic

Influenced private and public theaters

Paved the way for Shakespeare and later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramasSlide92

The university wits

John Lyly

: court comedies, private theatres, mythological and pastoral plays

George Peele

: courtly mythological pastoral plays

Robert Greene

: founded romantic comedy. Combined realistic native backgrounds with an atmosphere of romance and comedies.Slide93

The University Wits

Thomas Lodge

: Prose

romances. His play

Rosalynde

inspired Shakespeare’s

As You Like It…

)

Thomas Kyd

: founded romantic

tragedy. Mingled love, conspiracy, murder and revenge. Violence and grossness comes to the stage (tongue)Slide94

R & R and Wits

Acting Style

Declamatory

Demagoguing

: arousing emotion, passions and prejudice of the peopleSlide95

Elizabethan Theatre and Shakespeare

Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights:

Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson

Shakespeare

was a share-holder in companies and so made money as a maker of plays, an actor and an investor

Born in Stratford-upon-Avon

Plays are timeless for their understanding of human nature and characterSlide96

Shakespeare Cont.

Member of Lord Chamberlain’s and King James I’s own company, part owner of the

Globe and

Blackfriars

playhouses

Open-air theaters

Acting style is more “natural”. Encouraged a more natural style of speaking

Men played women (women didn’t perform until 17

th

century)Slide97

Shakespeare TextSlide98

Shall I compare thee to a summer's

day

?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of

May

,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven

shines

,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime

declines

,

By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou

ow'st

,

Nor shall death brag thou

wand'rest

in his shade,

When in eternal lines to Time thou

grow'st

.

So

long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So

long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Slide99

I left no ring with her: what means this lady?

Fortune forbid my outside have not

charm'd

her!

She made good view of me; indeed, so much,

That sure

methought

her eyes had lost her tongue,

For she did speak in starts distractedly.

She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion

Invites me in this churlish messenger. 

None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.

I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,

Poor lady, she were better love a dream.Slide100

BENEDICK:

 O, she misused me past the endurance of a block! An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her; my very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been myself, that I was the Prince's jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.Slide101

Nay

, I'll show you the manner of it.

This shoe

is my father: no, this left shoe is my

father: no

, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that

cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so,

it hath

the

worser

sole.

This shoe, with the hole

in it

, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance

on't

! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is

my sister

, for, look you, she is as white as a lily

and as

small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid:

I am

the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am

the dog-

-Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay,

so, so

. Now come I to my father; Father,

your blessing

: now should not the shoe speak a word

for weeping

: now should

I kiss my father

; well,

he weeps

on. Now come I to my mother: O, that she could

speak now like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there 'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down.Slide102

Cordelia

.

 Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty

According to my bond; no more nor less. 

Lear.

 How, how,

Cordelia

? Mend your speech a little,

Lest it may mar your fortunes. 

Cordelia

.

 Good my lord,

You have begot me, bred me,

lov'd

me; I

Return those duties back as are right fit, 

Obey you, love you, and most

honour

you.

Why have my sisters husbands, if they say

They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,

That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry

Half my love with him, half my care and duty. 

Sure I shall never marry like my sisters,

To love my father all.Slide103

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief, 

That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious;

Her vestal livery is but sick and green

And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

It is my lady, O, it is my love! 

O, that she knew she were!Slide104

The Republic and

The Restoration

1642-Civil War in England. Parliament

closed theaters in England (Republic)

Restoration (Charles II to throne in 1660) started again

Between 1642 and 1660 little theatre done in England

Italy and FranceSlide105

France and Italy

Italian: architecture

France: mechanics of scenery and spectacle (

costume

,

dance

,

clever scenery

and

scene

changes

were emphasized not acting and plot

Louis XIV (“Sun King”) danced himself

Ballet

Nuit

Proscenium: forestage (apron) used for action, behind

the proscenium displayed scenery (panels on tracks)

THEATRE SPECIFICALLY FOR ROYALTYSlide106

French Playwrights

Jean Racine

: tragedy

Bajazet

,

Mithridate

,

Iphigenie

,

Phedre

Moliere

: author of some of the best comedies in European history

Tartuffe

(script)

La Misanthrope

Le Femmes

Savantes

Le

Malade

ImaginarieSlide107

Restoration of Crown

England

Women first began to appear on stage (already happened in France)

Theaters licensed and controlled by

state

But…18

th

century brings theatre back to everyoneSlide108

18

th

, 19

th

and 20

th

Centuries

Increased commercialization of art

Technological innovations

CriticsSlide109

In your opinion, are critics (theatre/film) important? Why or why not?

Discuss with a neighbor…Slide110

18

th

Century

ACTOR: David Garrick

Manager and playwright

Natural form of acting (realism and naturalism)

Used sets (tables, chairs, etc.)

Theatre began to appear in North America, mostly English PlaysSlide111

19

th

Century

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Theatre changes

Gas lighting (1817)

Arc-lighting followed

Electrical lighting following that

Lighting controls

Poor quality of lighting probably contributed to the development of the

melodramaSlide112

19

th

Century Acting

Exaggerated, spectacle, heightened drama, physical

comedy

The

mid-19th century, a more

naturalistic

(more real and like people are in real life)

Subject matter: contemporary

social life, such as marriage and domestic issues and issues of

social class

and social problems.Slide113

Melodrama

(think Soap operas)

What type of acting do you think they did in melodrama?

Are there other styles or performances that are like this today?

I’ve

come for the rent! (ONE PERSON MELODRAMA)Slide114

Melodrama had…

Stock Characters

Damsel

in distress

Hero

VillainSlide115

What else have we learned about in theatre wonderment of the past that used stock characters?

Roman

theatre

Commedia

d’ell

arte

Passion Plays

Miracle/Mystery

playsSlide116

Volunteers

12Slide117

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw-W48n06Lw

Slide118

Realism: Playwrights

George Bernard Shaw (

Pygmalion

My Fair Lady

)

Henry Ibsen

Anton Chekov

More serious (dramatic) playsSlide119

Konstantin

Stanislavsky 1880-1930

Actor/director

Created realistic acting as we know it

Wrote books

Influenced American theatreSlide120

American Theatre

Mostly east coast, later toured the country (first permanent building in Utah was a theater)

Entertainment

Became a businessSlide121

Theater (Spaces)

Gas lighting replaced by limelight

Limelight

consisted of a block of lime

(rock) heated to incandescence

by means of an

oxyhydrogen

flame torch. The light could then be focused

with mirrors

and produced a quite powerful light.Slide122

Theater Space Cont.

Theater spaces became like they are today

Theatre etiquette was developedSlide123

20

th

CenturySlide124

Early 1900s

Vaudville

: the SNL of it’s time

Magicians

Musical numbers

Melodramas continued

Beginning film

Silent Film acting

Charlie Chaplin, Buster KeatonSlide125

Examples

Vaudeville

http

://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZo4imTt4Og&noredirect=1

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsVQ9e8nWx0

Charlie Chaplin

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=79i84xYelZISlide126

Early Film

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyvstNrkHo

3 Stooges

Musicals

Plays made into moviesSlide127

Movements

Political movements

"proletariat" were manifested in

theatre by

such movements

as

realism

, naturalism,

symbolism

,

impressionism

highly

stylized anti-realismSlide128

Dada

World War I

Nonsense, reject reason and logic, irrational

Da

da

means yes, yes in Romanian

Broadway

Film

Musicals

High School/Educational Theatre

Movements and Mediums

Staged

Chaos

Invisible theatre

Improv

Everywhere

Hip Hop TheatreSlide129

BroadwaySlide130

Broadway

Established 1850s, though theatre started in the 1750s

First “modern” musical 1866,

The Black Crook

1910s started Broadway as we know it today

40 professional theatres, 500 or more seating

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Broadway shows

Show off

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLDq-2e2JC0

War Horse 1

http://

www.ted.com/talks/handpring_puppet_co_the_genius_puppetry_behind_war_horse.html

War Horse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bni4QqSv4

Popular

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsKH2tqoFJ8

Gravity

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g4ekwTd6Ig

Hamelt

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3OB1rpbVc

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Other Performances

RSC Comedy of Errors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-

hie-ks6gD8

Subway

http://

improveverywhere.com/2010/07/14/star-wars-subway-car

/

Hip Hop Theatre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZb4hh_FLaE

Will Power

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1B_HLJsVQM

Thriller

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv0uAur3N1Y

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Dance

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQeqpcg_WHs&feature=youtu.be

Visual

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vldw0qs3A8

Other Performances Cont.

Poetry

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJ6aUB2K4g

Roof Top

http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdJ6aUB2K4g