Theatre Essays

Jasmin Vardimon Company: History, Origins and Achievements
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Sep 2021
Introduction: A discussion on one of Britain’s leading Contemporary Choreographers, Jasmin Vardimon including her history, company origin, and achievements....

Analysis and review of the Play 'Blackbird'
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2021
Introduction: After being separated for 15 years, Una comes looking for Ray at his workplace after discovering his picture in a magazine. They once had an illicit relationship, and have been suffering the consequences ever since. ...

Concept of Transcendence and Immanence in Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex'
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Aug 2021
Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir, in her ground breaking mid-20th century work The Second Sex, presented the concepts of “transcendence” and “immanence” as integral features of her theoretical analysis of the structures of patriarchal oppression in Western society....

Romanticism and Realism in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
Example essay. Last modified: 21st Jul 2021
Introduction: In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, the conflict between Romanticism and Realism, embodied by the two protagonists Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, is the major theme of the play. With the aid of the characterization of these protagonists and the explanation of the conflict between them I was able to verify this thesis....

Death of a Salesman - The Pleasant and Unpleasant Feelings of a Car
Example essay. Last modified: 11th May 2021
Introduction: Cars play an important role in both Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller and My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante. Cars became a challenge in Death of a Salesman, “That goddam Chevrolet,” (36) and My Brilliant Friend, “The two sons of Silvio Solara, Marcello, who was around twenty...

Qualifications required for Theatre Technicians
Example essay. Last modified: 1st Jun 2020
Introduction: Investigating Arts Management Practice This report will look into technical jobs in the theatre industry. Looking at the people who work as technicians. Do they have a technical theatre degree or did ...

Analysis of Machinal
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: Introduction (428): Machinal, written in 1928 by Sophie treadwell is an expressionist play hovering topics of female oppression and the role of women in society post industrial revoluti...

Hospitality as a Form of Theatre
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: In the main, the hospitality industry can be compared to various aspects of a theatre such as the genres, stagecraft, characters and terminology of acting. Explain, using examples In the...

Self Reflection on Choreographed Performance
Example essay. Last modified: 18th May 2020
Introduction: The choreographic intention for my performance was based on the ballet Peter Pan; to explore Peter and Tinkerbelle’s sporadic friendship. It can be seen as an allegory for the modern world – ...

Differences Between Naturalistic and Epic Approaches to Performance
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: What are the differences between naturalistic and Epic approach to performance? Both share a deterministic outlook but were focused on different material and most, importantly, strive for a very ...

Backstage Organization and Design for Theatre
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction: A Study of stage management and design Theatre is an art form that thrives off of a collaborative process. The process uses an ensemble of live performers to showcase an experienc...

History of Elizabethan Theater
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
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Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler's Approaches to Emotions in Acting
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Theatre Arts Essay Feel or Not Feel In this essay, I will discuss whether the actors/performers should feel or not feel the character’s emotions they are portraying in o...

Case Study on Women and Theatre
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Case Study on Women and Theatre Applied theatre is the ‘practise of theatre and drama’ working with ‘marginalised communities’ by confronting social and cultural issues that can...

How to Write a Theatre Dissertation
Example essay. Last modified: 13th Jun 2018
Introduction: Writing a successful theatre dissertation is a process which requires balancing two core ideals. You must on the one hand display creativity, however at the same time you must demonstrate that you un...

Influence of The Beggar's Opera on Musical Theatre
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Explore the ways in which The Beggar’s Opera influenced the development of musical theatre in the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. What were the reasons for its continued popularity? Intro Th...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry | Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Playwrights of Color A Raisin in the Sun “To be young, gifted and black” (Lorraine Hansberry) is a phrase which is commonly associated with Lorraine Hansberry, which comes from the collect...

Frank Wedekind's Lulu: An Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Discuss Frank Wedekind’s Lulu in relation to its cultural and social context. Pay particular attention to the ways in which the play challenges and/or perpetuates certain assumptions concerning ...

Developments of West End Musical Scene
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Discuss the recent developments in the west end musical scene; this should include an analysis of the ‘mega-musical’ mania, the trend to create new musicals based on existing songs (song m...

Haimon in Antigone
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Sophocles’ Antigone tells a beautiful story of a woman who fights for her brother, Polynices, to be buried after her uncle and King, Creon, has declared that Polynices’ body will remain un...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Example essay. Last modified: 15th Jan 2018
Introduction: Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, written in the years following World War II (WWII), is widely considered to be among America’s most celebrated th...

Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig
Example essay. Last modified: 7th Sep 2017
Introduction: Adolphe Appia and Edward Gordon Craig never collaborated with each other in work or spent any significant time in each other’s company, but their names are linked together before they had met ...

The Impacts Of Globalisation on Theatre
Example essay. Last modified: 26th May 2017
Introduction: Globalisation refers to the increasing interaction and integration of people socially, economically, and culturally through increasing interconnectedness, in which, theatres are also affected by. Perf...

How Musical Theatre Has Developed
Example essay. Last modified: 10th May 2017
Introduction: To discuss the historical development of musical theatre, this report will present an analysis of Leonard Bernstein’s musical “West Side Story”. It will demonstrate how the 1961 scre...

Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille
Example essay. Last modified: 5th May 2017
Introduction: An analysis of the life and works of the choreographers Jerome Robbins and Agnes de Mille and therole of dance in musical theatre Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins worked in musical theatre in what is...