... audience members. CHAPTER ONE A Personal Perspective on Generational Homogeneity The first production I ever directed was arguably my most successful. While "Dream" (my adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream") was poorly staged, shabbily designed, and narratively messy, the production achieved something I have yet to achieve again. "Dream" brought in an audience of people in my age group, who rarely, if ever, had attended theatre, and exposed the ... the play entirely in order to put the focus of the narrative squarely on the lovers, whose plight I felt had been maligned in each of th...

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... emotion meaning of words in key scenes is through over pronouncing (or solely pronouncing) vowel sounds. Take Theseus's eagerness for his imminent nuptials to Hippolyta in Act One, Scene 1 in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the over use of "O" signifies his moans and groans. By introducing pupils to consider the sounds of the words that are written they can then utilise these ... ...

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... composer himself. In fact it would seem that it was just Orff's unfortunate timing that had him branded as a Nazi. In 1938, Orff accepted a commission to compose the music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" after the original score by Mendelssohn had been banned for being racist. Orff came under fire for this score and was even investigated by an American officer in charge of ... ...

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