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Peter Brook: Producer Director Worked at "Royal Shakespeare Company" "Simplicity is not a style" Blank verse= Iambic Pentameter Everything just has to make sense. (Good sense and Common sense) Empty Space: The Deadly(Old), The Holy, The Rough(Dramatic), and The Immediate International Centre of Theatre Research Brecht: Under the influence of war so his plays includes politics The play was judged by the country He doesn't want the audience to relate to the play "Baal" is the first play Epic Theatre relates to him, it should not make the audience emotionally connects with the play, but with a rational thought about it. "Alienation" (The distance) Artaud: French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor and theater director "Theater of Cruelty" (Get people more back to their emotional instinct) "Organized Anarchy" The text does not matter, what matter is the general feeling • Verbal incantations • Groans and scr...

What I had learned from the past few weeks about theatre, is not how to perform as an actor, but some general knowledge about what acting and what theatre is. I will now categorize what I had learned into two parts, the first part is stage, and the second part is acting. There are three types of theater stages, Proscenium is the most common one, Thrust has three sides of audience and Arena is what people called, “Theater in the Round”. Different types of stages have their own pros and cons when it comes to performing. On the stage, there are nine areas that has been divided in the shape of a side of a rubix cube. The most center area is called center stage, the audience’s side is called down stage, it is called down stage because the stage used to be tilted, so the side that is closer to the audience is called down stage, the side that is further away from the audience is called up stage. Facing the audience, actors’ left side is called left stage and the right side is called right ...

I haven’t seen that many live theater productions, so it’s hard for me to judge whether the performance is great or no. As for now, I would just define “great” as the one that makes me remember the most. I watched my very first theater production, Billy Elliot, in London four years ago. Back in that time, my English was not as good as now, I even have trouble understanding people’s conversation in a daily basis talk. However, what makes the experience wonderful, is I can somehow magically understand what the plot was. For me, that was beyond my understanding. Because when I watched the play “Assassins” and “Les Miserables” with my peers in Cheshire Academy, I still have a hard time comprehending what the plot really is, because I can’t really clearly hear what the actors were saying on stage and sometimes they just speak too fast. But for Billy Elliot, I can basically understanding everything because the visual aspect of the play is so strong. The actors were using a lot of body la...

About Theatre           Theatre, is a live movie that takes place in an theatre or opera house. Performers are telling a story using body movements, music, dialogues and many other things to show the audience what happened in the story.            I think theatre has this unique characteristic among all the art forms, which is being a live show. Live show allows people to interact with what's happening on stage. Me, for instance, even if I am not a professional theatre person, when I go to a musical or an opera, I would still be judging everything on the stage when I'm sitting on my audience's seat. This is what people do. We can judge everything that is taking place on the stage without knowing anything about theatre nor performing art. By that I'm not inferring that people are arrogant jerks that criticise anything they see. I'm saying that this is a clever type of arrogance, because when the any character is on stage perfo...

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