Hello fellow bloggers,
I'm going to share my final thoughts about theatre. Exciting, I know... okay.. so.. I conclude.. Theatre is awesome!!
Ha I'm just kidding. Well it is awesome. No, I'm going to discuss how I never actually thought about theatre history before. Of course, there's history in everything ever made, but I never have actually took the time to really try to dig deep in.
I find it really interesting to think theatre started from brilliant works, such as Euripides or Shakespear, and have to developed into our huge spectacles of today!
Another thing I'd like to touch on was the asain theatre we learned about. Again, I had never thought of theatre from foreign places, but all the theatre genres sound so cool. Kabuki and showdow plays are the two that were my favourite. I really love big, eloborate costumes, and in most of the asain geres, theor costume were truly gorgeous
Anyway, I learned a lot and I'd just like to thank everyone for and awesome class!
Sophie Leroux
I am the same as you, I never really thought of the different forms of theatre around the world. Now I have a secret wish to head to Asia in search of Kabuki and Shadow plays!...damn, not so secret anymore..
ReplyDeleteIt's cool that certain parts of the spectacle have more weight in certain places. You mentioned the costumes in early asian theatre and how they were very elaborate and decorative, although costumes are important in western theatre, they tend to be more focused on realism. It was more common in Japanese theatre for the costumes to define the characters, in western theatre the characters define the costume.
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