Assignment Details:Introduction to the Humanities Description: Watch a stage play. Choose from these productions: • As You Like It • Le Miserables • Legally Blonde: The Musical • Carrie • In the Heights • Jitney Write an essay that examines the play through at least one of Aristotle’s Elements of Drama,, plot, theme, characters, dialogue, […]
Topic: Play Response Paper details: READ & FOLLOW CAREFULLY STEP 1. Choose Your Performance. Disney “Into The Woods” logo | Into the woods film, Wood logo, Moose art Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim “weaves together many famous fairy tales in an allegorical story of family..” (DigitalTheatre.com). PG for themes, fantasy action, peril, suggestive material. […]
Illusion comique Choose an excerpt from “Illusion comique” and comment on it from the perspective of metatheatricality as theater about theater. Indicate, at the end, the bibliography you have consulted.
L’Illusion comique Choose an excerpt from “L’Illusion comique” and comment on it from the perspective of metatheatricality as “theater about theater”. Indicate, at the end, the bibliography you have consulted.
Description Select an aspect of our social life or culture that once held religious significance, but has now become secularized. Using this secularized piece of culture, and through your research, create a list of social factors that contributed to the religious elements diminishing over time. Compose a short paper on how these social factors evolved […]
Description Assignment: Write Character Biography B (Three-page Cultural Context Journal). This three-page paper that examine a major character in School Girls within its historical, political, and social context. The paper then needs to be written from the viewpoint and in the voice of the chosen character. Here are some questions to consider: What are the […]
One Man, Two Guvnors Description You are now going to write a review of the production. For your review, concentrate on the physicality of the show, the obvious “over-the-top” acting, and the breaking of the fourth wall. Explain in your own words how these three elements help to bring out the Commedia dell’arte style within […]
UPLOAD AN IMAGE. How can we tie this imagery to how commemorative performance has historically developed? What does commemoration look like today?
Description After watching the ritual performance Video. What ritualistic symbols do you see present in this performance that could be commemorative of a particular culture or practice? URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0dyXfzTMWA
Identify the ways in which oral performance was integral to the execution of the Egungun Masquerade of the Yoruba ritual and complete an outline about how this ritual took place.
