Essays Tagged: "stage setting"

Symbolism; Anton Chekhov The Seagull

ymbolist theater attempted to dramatize more poetic or metaphorical situations, often using unusual stage setting and ethereal dramatic action and language. The Seagull By Anton Chekhov is a great exa ... to no actions and "correct position" of moonlight as the main source of light to his plain platform stage, this made the text the most important thing to his show.Symbolism was a European movement of ...

(3 pages) 40 1 4.6 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Discuss the contribution of symbolic effects in stage setting, in music, in lighting and in properties to your understanding of Williams' 'The Glass Menagerie'.

s either viable or audible to the audience. He achieves this through his use of lighting, music and stage setting. Williams' calls this a 'memory play', both in the production notes and in the core te ... following the conventions of theatre and as such he was given greater licence in what he showed on stage. These legends and images, though perhaps a little primitive in comparison to his other works ...

(6 pages) 29 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama