UAL Level 3 Performance Arts Acting Yr2

A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens in 1843. There are many themes surrounding the play such as greed, hate money, change etc. I feel that as a class we explored these themes and portrayed them quite well, if given more time and less direction I feel it would've succeeded more.  One of the things that I think held us back was the misdirection from certain teachers, I felt as if I would be able to have more of an inclusive, integral role to the performance but was instead given supporting roles and told I couldn't help with certain aspects of the performance such as front of house or advertising. This made me feel useless as I have worked on the technical side of the shows before and have always felt like I did it to the best of my ability, so after being told to dedicate all my time to the acting side, I felt a bit bored and let down. For many of the rehearsals I felt a lack of dedication or enthusiasm due to the nature of simplicity of my roles, I felt as if the...

“Is theatre as effective when performed by only one gender?” In order to understand the effectiveness of single gender plays, we must first look back at the history of theatre itself. Theatre originated in Greece which started around 532 BC with a main focus on the theme tragedy.   Plays would be exclusively performed by men, this is because the Greek culture believed that women were in an inferior position to men, so women’s' role in society was very restricted in many ways. Women were not allowed to be on the stage because it was considered "dangerous." This meant that men played both male and female characters.  The Greeks believed that allowing women to perform publicly would be too dangerous and that having men portray them neutralised the danger. In addition, women did not participate in plays because drama was part of a festival only for men involved with the worship of Dionysus. But women had their own festivals and during these they may have played...