You will research 3 plays. One example should be contemporary, the second should come from a different time period, and the last should be from a non-western culture. Based on what you learned today, analyze aspects of the play that draw from its precedents. For each play, make sure you cover these questions:

1. The man who turned into a stick

What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated

They broke the fourth wall to provoke thought

2. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

They create a mystery that the audience has to solve to understand the play

    3. How could you present this play using a different style?

He could have made it very straightforward and easy to understand to get it to

a wider audience but remove the depth of the play

Hamlet

What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated

It was not a comedy, but it was well written and there were some funny moments. It was also written for the leading actor,

2. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

It is shown to use the material it was made out of to convey location and emotion. Some scenes were made of dark materials, to convey darker emotions.

3. How could you present this play using a different style?

The play is a cross between a comedy and a tragedy, and you could choose to portray only one of the styles and make it very dark or very light-hearted and fun.

The Lion King

What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated

Lots of animal masks, and puppets to create the feeling of the area.

2. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

The set is made with colors designed to show the setting of nature.

3. How could you present this play using a different style?

You could use more emotion and harsh language to adapt it more to adults and make it more relatable to convey emotion in a way that people would empathize with.

Rent:

The show takes place in the 90s following 8 friends in the middle of the Aids crisis

The set has cool scaffolding and tables that can be used for different things.

The scaffolding allows actors to do the same scene in different places

You can't really modernize this because the subject really needs to take place during the aids crisis.

You will research 3 plays. One example should be contemporary, the second should come from a different time period, and the last should be from a non-western culture. Based on what you learned today, analyze aspects of the play that draw from its precedents. For each play, make sure you cover these questions:

Blink by Phil Porter (2012)

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.
2. 
   
3. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated 
4. the characters are introduced by directly addressing the audience, the characters rarely interact.
5. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?
6. addressing the audience makes the audience feel more connected
7. How could you present this play using a different style?
8. making the characters interact a little bit more

“The Persians,”

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.
2. This play is a Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events. It recounts the Persian response to news of their military defeat under Xerxes at the Battle of Salamis
3. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated
4. This play is part of a series of plays after “Phineus” but before Glaucus”, sadly both of the other plays were lost
5. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?
6. How could you present this play using a different style?
7. maybe a more modern war story, or how we  see the effects of it now.

Atsumori

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.
2. This is a Noh Theater,  which focuses on Taira no Atsumori, a young samurai who was killed in the Genpei War, and his killer, Kumagai Naozane
3. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated 
4. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?
5. How could you present this play using a different style?

Play 1: Mamma Mia

Play 2: Romeo and Juliet

Play 3: Wayang theatre

1. Mamma Mia (the musical)
   1. Mamma Mia is a musical which is a style that evolved throughout the 20th and now the 21st century. Mamma pulls from styles of realism, romanticism, and melodrama/19th century (songs accompanying actions)
   2. The use of light and scenic design work together simultaneously. The  buildings are dull during day time but come alive at night to create a tiny greek village
   3. An illuminated boardwalk inwards towards the audience allows the audience to have a more intimate feeling/connection with characters/scenes
2. Romeo and Juliet
   1. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare. It draws from renaissance, romanticism, and neoclassicism styles
   2. Witten with the intent that the actors would tell the story (not many props or complicated scenery)
   3. Shakespeare interred to write this play in one lighting (daylight) and a simple trust stage. It had few props and the scenery was based upon a rear balcony acting as Juliets bedroom window
3. Wayang Theatre
   1. Known for its elaborate puppets and musical styles. This form of storytelling originated in Indonesia specifically the island of Java
   2. There are two principal types of wayang puppets
      1. 3D wooden puppets
      2. Flat leather shadow puppets that are projected infant of a green and lit from behind
   3. Both types are characterized by costumes, facial features, and musicians play complex melodies with traditional instruments in the foreground
   4. The stories borrow chapters from indigenous myths and heroes from cultural tales

play one :  the humans

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

drama, one act play, 

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated

they have a lot of props and the stage has been completely transformed

1. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

the set is like a giant version one of those dollhouse that are split in half, like an apartment that has been cut open revealing the family

1. How could you present this play using a different style?

maybe 19th century theater

play two :  le médecin volant

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

renaissance

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated 

there is a bit of humor 

1. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

the lighting and clothes and set makes it more dramatic

1. How could you present this play using a different style?

they could use realism 

play three :  atsumori

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.

it is a noh play with maybe some aspects from the romans because there it was about death.

1. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated 

they used the masks to portray different characters and their emotions

1. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?

the masks when positioned in different ways have different facial expressions also the masks leave a lot to ones imagination

1. How could you present this play using a different style?

this could be presented on one of the mansion stages

• The lion king

Greek because of the masks

Masks, Props,

it could be in biblical form

• The Oberammergau Passion Play

Middle Ages/Medieval Europe, because of the biblical references

could be in greek form

Props, scene setting, patent

• Noh plays

Pantomime

Masks

could be in greek form

1. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?
2. How could you present this play using a different style?

You will research 3 plays. One example should be contemporary, the second should come from a different time period, and the last should be from a non-western culture. Based on what you learned today, analyze aspects of the play that draw from its precedents. For each play, make sure you cover these questions:
Hamlit

lion king

twelfth night

1. What theater styles are incorporated in this play? Describe specific examples.
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3. Techniques, methods, tools incorporated 
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5. How do the design elements/scene/stage help convey the story?
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7. How could you present this play using a different style?
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The play I chose was "The Outsiders" I find this play very intersting because I read the book and watched the movie and I loved both of them. I had trouble finding the play style, but based on some of the pictures I can assume it was a proscenium set. It takes place in the 60's and it really shows based on what people are wearing, and they way they present themselves.