http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/ Intro to Theatre en-us 2004-12-22T11:29:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/012969.html ~It seemed silly to end this blog with no big song and dance, so I thought I'd include a little something to top it all off. My final paper, ladies and gentlemen.~ What have I learned in this class? That... holm0567 2004-12-22T11:29:35-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/012316.html It has just occurred to me that I am about the worst collaborator in the world. At this rate, I'll never be a director. How can I learn to play nice with others?... holm0567 2004-12-09T15:34:28-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/012261.html Well, here we are... coming down to the wire now, as it were. At this point, it looks like I won't have a whole lot of the lighting or sound ready until after this weekend, so that's unfortunate. But last... holm0567 2004-12-08T22:43:36-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/011919.html "There appear to be no limits to the depth, subtlety and creativity of human cognitive and emotional abilities."... holm0567 2004-12-04T17:32:04-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/011726.html Well, I'm relieved that we found a space, and I've heard that we'll be able to have control of the lights there, so I hope I'll be able to do something interesting with lighting. Once we figure out what we're... holm0567 2004-12-02T00:33:19-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/011282.html How can I help out with a show like this, when I don't understand the reason behind why we're doing it? I have to get over my own problems first... I'm still bummed because we're not doing Our Country's Good.... holm0567 2004-11-25T10:23:21-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/010777.html OK, so I read the articles on Directing. And I guess I understand it all, in theory. But theory isn't much good in the real world. As far as application goes, I've never had the chance to really try to... holm0567 2004-11-17T23:22:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/009076.html Well, I'd say that my most prominent experience in acting is from taking Fundamentals of Performance this fall; in reading the first article, the discussion of the internal or 'representational' method of acting (Method Acting, imagine that) really reminded me... holm0567 2004-11-03T19:38:15-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/008370.html Upon finally reading the article of Dramaturgy on Non-Realism, I've come up with a new (revised) edition of how I would go about dramaturging Mad Forest. One of the things that I'd look into would be the issue of double-casting... holm0567 2004-10-24T13:29:43-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/008156.html Research questions: Firstly, I would want to know what the social atmosphere of Romania was like during this period. I'm not sure if the scenes in Mad Forest are true to life, and people really did stand perfectly silent and... holm0567 2004-10-21T05:57:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/007091.html TERMS OF INTEREST: Epic - this word seems to me to have the same problem as 'community' in our other class, in that everyone knows what it means, but no one can define it. The last paragraph on p. 124:... holm0567 2004-10-07T06:43:07-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/006390.html The idea of liminality is one of the most prominent themes in Death and the King's Horseman. Even in the opening, before any words are said, the audience is exposed to the closing of the marketplace, at a time when... holm0567 2004-09-27T23:29:12-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/006011.html Unfortunately, the majority of the opening of Trifles was already analyzed in our lecture with Professer K., so I don't know how much I can conjecture without repeating what's already been said. However, in thinking about the play, I keep... holm0567 2004-09-22T21:45:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/005911.html After gaining some background on this play by reading the first two scenes and Professer K.'s helpful information, the first thing that struck me about the opening was the sense of ending or closing, and how it parallels and foreshadows... holm0567 2004-09-21T20:04:22-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/holm0567/theatre/005481.html Augusto Boal's She Made Her Brother Smile carried within it the spark that I believe makes theater special. And it made me think about the effects that theater has on people and how it can be used as a tool.... holm0567 2004-09-15T17:22:57-06:00