Directors, actors, and critics over the years have seemed to agree that the focus of the stage play lies with the actors, mainly those who play Othello and Iago, and not in the scenery or in the technical aspects. ... Prior to this, only boy actors had taken the stage, in male and female roles. Although the introduction of a woman actor had mixed reactions, from then on a woman was to play the role. ... There is one other significant actor who played Othello in the nineteenth century, in both England and America, and that is Italian actor Tommaso Salvini. ... (Barnet 226) Robeson not onl...

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The conduct of international politics in the last 50 years clearly shows us that it is states that are the heart of international relations. Discuss the accuracy of this statement using neo-realistic based international relation theories and highlight the problems that such an approach faces. The neo-realist theory in International Relations is often simplistically defined as a state-centric theory, specially if considered relatively to other theories. So, the assumption that I am going to focus on - that states are the heart of International Relations - is apparently the basis of th...

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Guy Woodhouse (the husband) is a struggling actor. The fact that Guy is a struggling actor later becomes a big theme in the movie. ... Guy comes home with bad news about another actor getting a role he was up for. ... The day after Guy visits Roman he receives a call saying that the actor who got the role in the play mysteriously went blind. ...

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The relationships among nodes (actors) are often replaced by ties in many studies. ... The content of a relationship (tie) depends on the nature of the nodes (actors). ... The intensity of ties between actors is consequential in many instances. ... Ego network focuses on a central or focal actor. ... The subset of actors to whom an ego or reference actors is connected are called that ego's alters. ...

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The actor is not simply there to tell a story, the actor should embody the story. ... "The great actor should be full of feeling. ... The "system" is an attempt at creating a precise theory for actors to perfect their art. ... An actor starts by using the "magic if" to create a circumstantial truth for the actor as well as the character. ... It is important for the actor to discover his truth. ...

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As an actor, what role would one play in their ordinary lives? ... An actor usually concentrated on his talents. ... A popular, yet prestigious actor was James Burbage. ... He would fancy himself among the elite of actors. ... It was then an actors" job to bring the characters and script to life. ...

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For many years, pre 1910, actors were not even given a name. ... When film narrative became more complex with time, the necessity for actors became apparent, and producers looked to famous stage actors for their skills. ... Griffith's Biograph studio, had revealed the names of their leading actors. ... Along with the names of the actors came promotion. ... Many believed that the actors were not acting - they were being themselves. ...

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The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention. ... There was one actor who stood out as a perfect fit for his character. ... The actors' mannerisms seemed like they were portraying a silent film. In older movies, actors seemed very dramatic and had flamboyant actions to prove so; the actors in Hay Fever shared the same feel for the dramatics. ... The actors never had any asides or soliloquies that were directed toward the audience. ...

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With that in mind, it might be suggestible that the director of the production also become the lead actor. ... From a production standpoint, directors must be very aware of their actors as individuals and as members of a whole ensemble. Indian actors were expected to prepare and train themselves according to strict rules and prescriptions. ... Rhythm is probably the most important aspect of a performance for an actor to consider. ... Therefore, rhythmic exercises and explorations are important for actors to undertake. ...

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This is a theatre type that not only challenges the actors, but challenges the audience as well. Actors are challenged in presenting an entire idea physically without the use of dialogue or unnecessary extras. ... This leads to the engaging of the audience with actors, and extending the stage to the audience. The expediency in removing the fourth wall between the actors and the audience is perhaps making room for the audience to believe. ... The pressure is on the actors to perfect acts, especially because of the absence of dialogue. ...

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Actors and musicians combine to express the lyrical content of the scripts. ... This kind of description does not limit the play to the actors on stage. ... An actor may also be wrapped up in the curtain to represent travel. ... Each different actor is assigned his or her own unique vocal technique. ... The main stage is where the actors and musicians perform. ...

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Restoration Theatre was the first theatre to accept female actors to act on stage. ... A graceful arch of the wrist meant that the actor was demolishing or emphasising a point. ... Male actors or female actors that were acting as males were required to wear a loosely shaped long coat reaching down to the actor's knees. ... Male actors would also grow their hair to look stylish. ... Make-up was used for both male and female actors of the Restoration Theatre. ...

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All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year to perform different plays. ... The actors could then settle down in one place and perform in a place built for plays. ... The next level was the main stage, where the actors did most of their performing. ... He left his family to pursue a career as an actor in London. ... These groups of actors now were called the King's Men" (Delville). ...

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Acting Professionally, by Robert Cohen, is a wonderful inside look at what a dedicated performer must expect, prepare for, and sacrifice to be a professional actor/actress. ... For the unprepared person, learning that "the number of self supporting career actors- those who can be said to make their living as actors for at least ten years in a row- is no more than 2,00 or 3,00 people,"" can be quite lurid (Cohen 3). ... From "Q ratings,"" to ways to make impressionable interviews (17), to typing yourself as an actor (25), I learned things that were fundamental. ... A larger example of ...

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But many were very much in defense of their fellow actors and writers and became "blacklisted", of them included Marsha Hunt, who was a popular actress in the late 30's and early 40's, and actor Jeff Cory who was drafted into the Navy before he was supposed to perform and was a combat photographer . ... Also actors such as Lloyd Bridges did name names. ... A very defiant Hollywood actor was Lionel Stander who had been in comedies directed by Ben Hecht, Frank Capra, and Preston Surgis. ... Ronald Reagen who was the head of the Screen Actors Guild kept in regular touch with the FBI ab...

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(www) In "From A Letter to an Actor" (Brecht, 1964: 235) Brecht speaks of the dangers of the extensive fusion of the actor with his role, leading to the character becoming so natural it becomes impossible for the audience to envision the character in any other way. The actor need not imitate every aspect of his characters behaviour, but enough to give a picture; the actor must not go so far as to be wholly transformed into the person being demonstrated as can be seen in Stanislavsky techniques, but be critically objective in their demonstration of the role. ... As Brecht himself says, "The ac...

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Aside from Ariane's mannerisms in her character, she also did things as an actor that she could have avoided. ... It seemed to be very natural for most of the actors, apart from a few, who unfortunately lost their accent midway through their lines. ... There were some major setbacks that the actors had to deal with throughout the show, the main one being the sound problem. ... Throughout this production the actors stayed in character for majority of the time, although there were some actors who seemed to venture out of it in a few scenes, they still came right back into it and kept going ...

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As the play was a hybrid between Brechtian and naturalistic, the play world is symbolised and reminded by the actors that the play world was just a stage. ... A Brechtian technique used often in the play is breaking the fourth wall, which is used so effectively and easily by the actors. ... Furthermore, music would be played in between scenes and were sometimes joined by the actors. This not only added versatility to the actors but also reinforced the fact that the play world really was just a play world and the actors were just actors on a stage. ... Having interacted with a random member of ...

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It stars Equity Actors Kim Cozort, who plays Diane, and Kenneth Kay, who plays Nat. ... While the actors did improve as they dropped into their roles and energy levels--especially Kim Cozort, who plays Diane. ... I feel that while the acting was somewhat over-dramatic in a few areas, it wasn't really the actors' faults. ... This made the actors look bad, unfortunately, but to be frank, I just didn't feel moved at all. ... The characters are not very likeable people, but the actors should be give kudos for making us "hate them" ". ...

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Once Sophocles is provided with these three elements from the Archon, he along with the lead actor will select two more males to perform in his play. Upon completion of this task, Sophocles will contact his three actors and Choregus in order to set up a series of practices and begin designing masks for each character. Each actor will be required to perform a variety of characters throughout the play and thus wear multiple masks due to the Greek rule that allows only three actors to have speaking parts in any one play. In addition, if a female role exists in the play, the male actors must as...

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I feel the best way would to have the actors loosely positioned in a triangular shape with the base upstage and a point of maybe just one character downstage. ... However I don't want the wind sounds to be too large to suggest there was a storm as I would have to get the actors to react to it and it would make the scene even more complicated. ... The actors fanning themselves and blowing on their faces could also show the heat. ... Actors could be pretending to look into mirrors looking straight out at the audience by pulling different poses and doing their hair. ... Glimpses of light can...

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Disney's The Little Mermaid was hit with a scandal involving a scenic piece injuring an actor. ... During this preview period, an actor, Christopher Tierney was severely injured. ... Many actors took to social media to express their concern. ... This is completely unacceptable and embarrassing to working actors everywhere. ... Broadway actor Adam Pascal took to Facebook when he spoke out: I have to weigh in on Spiderman. ...

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In fact, the significant aspects of shared environment is where the rules and ideals by which people making alterations, actors targets at extreme satisfaction, with behavior that achieved end and become entrenched into a system of status. Parsons (1951, p.137), stated that, "social action is performed by an actor either as an individual, a group or from meaningful intentions and implement equilibrium," such as education, find means to attain goal, dealing with hindering conditions (crisis) and actors must work with the social system (rules). ... Furthermore, another weakness...

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The first of many casting choices revealed was the Gigli and Daredevil actor Ben Affleck for the choice of Batman/Bruce Wayne. ... Not to mention he has to go up against the greatest Batman voice actor ever, Kevin Conroy, who has been voicing the character since 1992 in The Batman Animated Series. ... Let me preface this portion with the actors who were lined up to play the role. There are two actors specifically who were poised to play Luthor, the lesser known being Mark Strong who is perhaps best known for playing Lord Blackwood in 2009's Sherlock Holmes. ... But alas, the studio execu...

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In this point, it demonstrates that Nations are unitary actors within a larger international sphere, where the main objective is to valorize national interest to finally obtain "power" internationally. The theory says that states are the primary actors in international affairs instead of IGOs, NGOs or MNCs, making states the most powerful actors. ... Contrary to Realism, Liberalism acknowledges numerous actors to interact together in order to increase their efficiency. Actors including; NGO's, G.O's and states. ... Within the context of the Canadian involvement in the Afgha...

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