Introduction to Theatre
Song Vong Chong
Performance: “showing doing”, “twice behaved behavior”, “existing as actions, interactions and relationships”. (Richard Schechner)
Theatre: A performance in which one or more human beings show/represent an action (a `story’) in the presence of one or more human beings in a three-dimensional space.
Drama: A theatrical performance based on conflict.
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Ferdinand Brunetiere (1849-1906) and William Archer (1856-1925)
Theatre: A performance in which one or more human beings show/represent an action (a `story’) in the presence of one or more human beings in a three-dimensional space.
Drama: A theatrical performance based on conflict.
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), Ferdinand Brunetiere (1849-1906) and William Archer (1856-1925)
WORD'S
Anton Chekhov
All I wanted was to say to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!' -ANTON CHEKHOV
Macbeth
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A curse is laid upon Macbeth by the first witch "Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his penthouse lid; He shall live a man forbid: Weary . . ."
--- Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 18 - 22
--- Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 18 - 22