Exploring the art of Theatre

“I am your audience, and you are mine” We are all learning together

Coming into theatre I knew I was going to be very nervous to act in front of others! I had never taking theatre and thought I would suck, hearing those word helped!!!!

What I have learned

The Stage The stage is the center of audience attention Many different types of stages: thrust stage: extends to audience on 3 sides

proscenium stage: primary feature if large arch, audience directly faces stage

theatre in the round: situated in center of theatre, audience faces all sides

Don’t stop in the middle of skit or monologue

Don’t come up clueless of what you going to say

Don’t announce mess ups

Acting donts

Based on the called “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”, written by E.T.A Hoffman

Choreographed by Marius Petipa Music written by Tchaikovsky In 1892, the first showing of the Nutcracker

took place at the Mariinsky Thaetre of Russia.

Nutcracker showed up in America in 1940, performed by Ballet Russe

Critical thinking: The Nutcracker

Written by William Shakespeare Play of love and tragedy The earliest edition was a quarto printed in

1597 Earliest performance was documented in

1662 staged by William Davenant

Critical Thinking: Romeo and Juliet

http://www.nutcrackerballet.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(theatre) Daniel Paulnock, 2008 http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/

history_of_romeo_and_juliet.html http://www.shakespeare-online.com/

playanalysis/romeoplayhistory.html

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