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  1. May 2022
    1. The set design is oftenthe first thing audiences see when they walk into a theatre. This is their first look atthe production and can set its tone, reveal the time or locale, set up the basic style,establish mood and atmosphere, and introduce the production’s concept.

      I find it amazing how these people take their job seriously and take the time to create such a good performance and make everything look presentable.

  2. Mar 2022
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    1. Though Macbeth associates sleep with vulnerability, it also comes to rep-resent a better world which existed briefly between the betrayals of the first and second thane of Cawdor. The other side of vulnerability is security, faith in the place where you go to rest. Julia Reinhard Lupton notes that ‘Of all the needs submitted to hospitable care, sleep is the one in which sovereign personhood, including the person of the sovereign, is most fully abandoned to minimal life processes shared with other living things’.21 When Macbeth breaks the contract of trust and murders his guest, he undoes his own faith in security:

      macbeth shows that there was no trust and just betrayal amongst each other through out the play.

  4. Feb 2022
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    1. “Hedda’s suicide is a suicide without a note, withoutan explanatory text. Whereas part of the spectator’s response may beto use the data of the text to construct a motive or explanatory nar-rative, the visual image itself—the display of Hedda’s body—bothinvites and frustrates interpretation.

      hedda was also trying to play victim and let someone else take the blame to something she did

    2. Psychologically, they sug-gest that Hedda’s frustration with her present circumstances stemsfrom her desire for the sexual and social prerogatives of a man; hershooting “up into the blue” (296) literalizes her emotional aimless-ness and her anger at having sold herself too cheaply.

      the anger that she had made him do awful things that not only affected herself but affected others around her as well

    1. Her malign egoism rises up uncontrolled, and calls to its aid her quick and subtle intellect. She ruins the other woman‘s happiness, but in doing so incurs a danger from which her sense of personal dignity revolts.

      I think this just shows how other people saw her manipulation towards other people and how she can ruin other peoples moods.

    1. I walk around with my head full of lay-person ideas aboutthe universe. Here’s one of them: “Time has a circularshape.” Could Time be tricky like the world once was—looking flat from our place on it—and through looking atthings beyond the world we found it round?

      i like this because as humans we think about so many things and question about it. In theatre it's the same way.

    1. he poet's job is to use representation to make us enjoy the tragic emotions of pity and fear, and this has to be built into his plots

      Sometime without pity and fear, some plays are not as interesting because it does not have the audience entertained and want to see more.

    2. Of· the remaining elements, music is the most important IS source of pleasure

      I personally think music is a way of life, it express your emotions, how you feel day to day and people write songs in order to express it.

    1. The review looks at theatre as an event, one that occurs in a real time and place. For the reviewer, theatre is an activity that is conditioned by many different things, such as the weather, the audience, the venue, and even the health of the cast (replacement actors can have a huge effect on a pro-duction). The review thus combines criticism with journalism, as it seeks to convey the individual reviewer's opinion of a play with a report of what exactly happened at one particular performance.

      I agree with this because I think theatre is a part of life and actors act to it. Criticism plays in the audience depending on good the play is, if it gives the audience excitement to keep on watching. Every one looks at theatre differently, just as its a part of life.

    1. Many famous pa inters from the Rena issance on-wa rd h ave designed scenery fo r the theatre , but s uch work imposes s pecia l demands u pon t he m , for however imaginative a nd bea u t iful their wo rk may be.

      I never actually knew that which is interesting because I always thought that it was the own production that would create the background for the play.

    2. The Costume Designer

      The Costume Designer has not changed ever since they have started. Of course while years have passed the costumes have changed, the setting and the plot of the play

    1. I want to create theatre that is full of terror, beauty, love and belief in theinnate human potential for change.

      Theatre is something full of passion ,sadness ,happiness. A lot of emotions are shown through theatre which I love because it shows who you are and showing something through a play.

    2. he energy of individuals who face and incorporate their own terror isgenuine, palpable and contagious. In combination with the artist’s deepsense of play, terror makes for compelling theatre both in the creative pro-cess and in the experience of an audience

      I think this is correct where actors can instantly give off a vibe to the audience which can make them feel anxious if they are doing something correctly. Their body language, the way they are acting can show the audience how they are feeling.