Bertolt Brecht lived from 1898 to 1956, and developed his own style of Epic, episodic, political theatre, and was a playwright and theatre director who is now one of the most famous and powerful practitioners of theatre to this day. He influenced political theatre forever, as well as Augusto Boal, Peter Brook, Pina Bausch and links to the Paper...
Melodrama was a period of theatre in Victorian Britain that involved exaggerated characters, stock plots, and a happy ending, similar to the style of heroic tragedies of the Restoration period.
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Animal Farm, written by George Orwell in the 20th century, was our piece (adapted by ) for the 2024/25 Skinners' School Senior Production. I played the role of ...
The Accidental Death of an Anarchist
I will be performing an extract from the play 'Antigone' by Sophocles, and I will be playing the character of Haemon, son of the King Creon.
I will be performing an extract from the play 'Jerusalem' by Jez Butterworth and I will be performing the character of Johnny.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, written in 1969, a political satire about the supposed suicide of an anarchist railway worker at a police station, is based in post-fascist Italy and displays the incompetence and brutality of the police force through a farcical, Brechtian style. Fo leans into the use of Commedia dell'Arte stock...
Commedia dell'Arte is a type of comedy theatre, originating from 16th century Italy, that has provided the basis for almost all modern comedy today with its stock characters and stock plots. It later moved into France as Comedie Italienne where it had the most foreign success, and was then naturalised in England to create the pantomime, well known...
The Renaissance was a period of history in which all the arts (along with culture, politics and economics) of Europe went through a huge change from the Middle Ages to modernity. They saw a return of classical and ancient Greek or Roman principles in painting, art, philosophy and more. It began in Italy and was partly fuelled by the patronage...