MUSICAL MONDAY OPERA OR OPERETTA? WHICH GENRE CAN INCLUDE SOME SPOKEN DIALOGUE?

AND THE ANSWER IS……. OPERETTA HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF AN OPERETTA: THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE- HERE’S A SYNOPSIS THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE- ON A ROCKY SEASHORE ON THE COAST OF CORNWALL THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE ARE HOLDING A SHERRY PARTY TO CELEBRATE THE APPRENTICE FREDERIC'S PROMOTION TO THE STATUS OF FULL-BLOWN PIRATE ON THE EXPIRY OF HIS INDENTURES. FOR TODAY IS THE 29TH OF FEBRUARY, 1897, AND IT IS HIS TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY. HIS HEALTH IS DULY DRUNK, AND IN A SPEECH OF THANKS FREDERIC STARTLES THE PIRATES BY TELLING THEM OF HIS INTENTION TO LEAVE THEM FOR GOOD. IT SEEMS THAT HE WAS APPRENTICED TO THEM IN ERROR. RUTH, THE PIRATES' MAID-OF-ALL-WORK, TAKES UP THE TALE. SHE TELLS HOW, WHEN SHE WAS FORMERLY FREDERIC'S NURSERY-MAID, HIS PARENTS INSTRUCTED HER TO HAVE THE BOY APPRENTICED TO A PILOT. BEING HARD OF HEARING SHE MISHEARD, AND IN ERROR FREDERIC WAS APPRENTICED TO A PIRATE NOW FOR SOMETHING FUN!

THEATRE STAGECRAFT TUESDAY True or False? According to Stanislavski the given circumstances are the plot, the facts, the incidents, the period, the time and place of the action, the way of life. And the Answer is…..TRUE! Stanislavski created a technique to help acting called: The Method Actors that use The Method are: Among The Actors Who Have Employed Stanislavski's System In Some Form Are Jack Garfein, Jack Nicholson, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Harvey Keitel, Steve Mcqueen, Paul Newman, Warren Beatty, Robert Duvall, Johnny Depp, Gregory Peck, Sidney Poitier, Jessica Lange, William Hurt, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Kevin Spacey, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Benicio Del Toro, Mark Ruffalo, Vincent D'onofrio, Kate Winslet, Adrien Brody, Denzel Washington, Elizabeth Taylor, Hilary Swank, Anthony Hopkins, John Alexander And Sean Penn

WRITE ABOUT IT-WEDNESDAY PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS KONSTANTIN IS A YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT WITH AN ACTRESS MOTHER IN THIS CHEKHOV PLAY. CHOOSE ONE THE SEAGULL UNCLE VANYA THE CHERRY ORCHARD THREE SISTERS

WRITE ABOUT IT-WEDNESDAY PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS AND THE ANSWER IS…… THE SEAGULL THE SEAGULL BY ANTON CHEKHOV IS A SLICE-OF-LIFE DRAMA SET IN THE RUSSIAN COUNTRYSIDE AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE CAST OF CHARACTERS IS DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR LIVES. SOME DESIRE LOVE. SOME DESIRE SUCCESS. SOME DESIRE ARTISTIC GENIUS. NO ONE, HOWEVER, EVER SEEMS TO ATTAIN HAPPINESS.

THEATRE HISTORY-THURSDAY THIS GREEK PLAYWRIGHT ADDED A THIRD SPEAKING CHARACTER. ARISTOTLE THEPSIS SOPHOCLES

THEATRE HISTORY-THURSDAY THE ANSWER IS…… SOPHOCLES HE WROTE-ANTIGONE, OEDIPUS THE KING, ELECTRA

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