Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches, by Tony Kushner, fits into Bert States’ three stages of theatre as a “naïve” play, or at the very least a post-decadent play, one breaking down the walls of a decadent play. Angels in America is extremely emotional and raw, expressing social and political agendas in a new way. Written in the early 1990s, the play came out during a time of social turmoil. With minorities isolated in often segregated communities and by lower paying jobs, an increase
Lloyd Webber wrote the score of his life, with Brightman, trying new things and made sure it would work, which led him to the great Broadway director, Hal Prince. Prince loved the romanticism in Phantom of the Opera, therefore when Webber asked Prince about the show, Prince jumped on the idea. Bringing these two together is one of the reasons why Phantom of the Opera was so successful, with all these renowned people coming together people
John Kenrick says, “Not since Shakespeare had stage writers taken such an unflinching look into the darkest corners of the human soul” (Kenrick, 339). Sondheim’s story of Sweeney Todd is a truly Modernist work. Sondheim incorporates elements of Romanticism and of the Classical era such throughout the majority of the musical. However, he takes each element and makes them his own. Modernism is defined as “a radical break from the musical language . . . while maintaining strong links to tradition” (Grout
Throughout Sweeney Todd the plot is consistent. There are two main storylines (Todd and his revenge and Anthony and Johanna) that propel the action. Both storylines are easily to follow, making the flow of the piece stable. This stability provides a sense of continuity to Sweeney Todd. Sondheim communicates through Sweeney Todd with his use of leitmotifs and dialogue. He uses leitmotifs to communicate the relationship between the beggar woman, Johanna and Todd, although it may not be obvious. In
Animals casts off or moult their skin, other would lose hair or discolour. Amidst humans the strong desire or impulse to improve the appearance or enhance of oneself has continue to exist and endure globally unchanged through time and space. Humans tried to promote difference, significance and individuality by changing features from the tip of their hair follicle to the very end of their toes. Transforming to elevate or define character, either to refer to social issues, status issues, legitimate
Introduction Through history it is known that all that exists must have a beginning somewhere. Specifically modern design comes from a long way back and through all this it has developed particular theories that both affected and influenced eras in time. European modernism was a multi-layered and diverse phenomenon between the 1st and the 2nd world war. Its view in the 1920s was too different from the one in the 1930s though it had basic division of various ideas and artistic approaches merged. This
Learning Journal: Week 1: Romanticism: • Rose in the 1790s in Germany and Britain, and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere, it is known as the Romantic Movement or Romantic Revival • Writers of the time thought of them self as free spirits that wrote of the imaginative truth within them self, and repudiated the aristocratic way of life. • The creative imagination occupied the centre of Romantic views of art Writers and texts: William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Lewis: Tales of Terror Jane
college, he joined the Irish Civil Service in the Dublin Castle. In 1878, he married Florence Balcombe and a year later in 1879 they had a son, Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. They later moved to London because of job as a business manager of the Lyceum Theatre. He continued to be manager at the Lyceum Theater, traveling with theater group in Europe and North America, while also publishing short stories and novels. He died on April 20th 1912 in London from an unknown cause, people thought he died by strokes
She creates work filled with “gloomy romanticism,” which is deeply concerned with the past and present, sleep and night and death. Dongen sees the women she depicts as ‘abstract’ things, which refer to an earlier traditional movement. However, there is always a small element, whether it is a death