Saturday, June 21, 2008

Hamlet Productions

http://www.showchina.org/en/Gallery/Culture/200802/t148696.htm
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/theater/reviews/01haml.html
http://teentix.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
http://www.rfdesigns.org/photostage/stagephotos.htm
http://www.charliehensley.com/photos.html
http://news.byu.edu/archive07-Mar-hamlet.aspx
http://jwinchesterdesign.com/Hamlet.aspx
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9716907@N07/871258390/
http://www.lamama.org/archives/2001_2002/H.A.M.L.E.T.htm

Friday, June 13, 2008

To be or Not to Be: Cut

HAMLET
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

Shakespeare Resources

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/life.htm
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/plays.html
http://www.william-shakespeare.info/william-shakespeare-facts.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/shakespeare/60secondshakespeare/themes_index.shtml
http://connnecteducourseware.com/cweb/shakes20.htm

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Links

What is dramaturgy? http://www.lmda.org/blog/WhoWeAre/AboutDramaturgy/_archives/2004/11/18/186623.html

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_p.pdf

Dramaturgy Definitions

Dramaturgy is the art of dramatic composition and the representation of the main elements of drama on the stage. Some dramatists combine writing and dramaturgy when creating a drama. Others work with a specialist, called a dramaturge, to adapt a work to the stage.
Dramaturgy can also be defined, more broadly, as shaping a story or like elements into a form that can be acted. Dramaturgy gives the work or the performance a structure. More than actual writing, a dramaturg's work can often be defined as designing.
-Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy>


Dramaturgy the word is from the Greek dramatourgĂ­a, “a dramatic composition” or “action of a play.”
-Britanica< http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9124870/dramaturgy>

Dramaturgy Defining what dramaturgy is, is the first step to understand what the dramaturg is focussing on during the production process. The list below compiled by the LMDA (the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas) is a very comprehensive list of the elements of the performance text. The dramaturg staying on the outside of the process is supporting the choices taken by director, actors and stage designers which make up the unique production
What is dramaturgy?
(when you use these words, you’re committing dramaturgy)
Structure Action Accretion Beginning/Middle/End Conflict/Crisis/Climax/Catharsis Continuity/Discontinuity Diminishment/Emphasis Episodic Exposition/Foreshadowing Form/Content Fragmentation Key Information Innovation/Convention/Cliché/Parody Image Imminence/Closure/Openness Linearity Metaphor Musicality/Pace Part-to-Whole Plot Point of Attack/Denouement Recognition/Reversal Repetition/Pattern/Reincorporation Rhythm Story Tension
Character Choice Colors/Layers Context Empathy Familiar Faces (Hero/Villain/Braggart/Parasite/Seductress/ Dirty Old Man/Young Lover, etc.) Journey/Arc Honesty/Compassion Impulse/Incongruity Motivation Passion/Pity/Fear Probability Suffering/Pain Transformation
Meaning Contact/Relevancy Idea/Concept
Language Connotation/Denotation Figures of Speech Innuendo/Sub-text
Production Elements Locale/Time Light/Color/Darkness Song/Music/Sound Costumes/Props/Space Slides/Film/Video
Genre and Style Comedy/Romance Melodrama, Satire/Tragedy, etc. Expressionism Realism/Surrealism Epic Theater/Theatricalism, etc.

-Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas ©2004 >