http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/ en-us 2005-04-13T16:23:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/019683.html Jaell: You have really taken a lot of initiative for our project and have generated a lot of ideas about the play as a whole as well as details and individual characters. Also, thanks for being proactive when it comes... brek0075 2005-04-13T16:23:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/019228.html Clurman: The Spine. I think the spine of our play is people's obsession with analyzing. Everything has to have a reason, there is a cause, a solution, a treatment, a cure for everything and if there is not a constant... brek0075 2005-04-06T19:17:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/018786.html The first article - "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" - had many interesting ideas, but I am not convinced of how true they are in real life and how often they really play out. While I do agree... brek0075 2005-03-31T10:00:00-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/016941.html One idea that really struck me in "Brecht on Theatre" was the idea that education never ends. People are always learning new things and changing how they think, act, and behave based on what they see and experience. No one... brek0075 2005-03-01T09:46:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/016108.html I think Stage Blood is a very effective comic version of Hamlet. In order to achieve this, it just changes the circumstances slightly and it can no longer be taken seriously by the audience. When it suddenly becomes tragedy in... brek0075 2005-02-16T10:30:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/015608.html I am going to compare "the Laramie Project" to the Hamlet plays we read. In some ways, both of these texts are very similar and yet they are also fundamentally different and hence convey very different meanings. As far as... brek0075 2005-02-10T10:52:54-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/015048.html I think Sophocles wanted to force people to look at their own lives through his play Oedipus Rex. Though on the surface, the tragedy would seem to draw no parallels to the lives of any audience members, on a subconscious... brek0075 2005-02-01T16:12:59-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/brek0075/theatre/014704.html Quotes: “There’s so much space between people and towns here, so much time for reflection” -- The Laramie Project, page 6 “‘Too Much Light’ …is like an entire Fringe Festival condensed into one show, the theatrical equivalent of channel surfing.... brek0075 2005-01-27T10:14:32-06:00