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A director’s “unifying vision.”- I vision the play place in the woods of cogo, Africa far in the woods the reason I pick that spot because the play is place of war in Africa where today there is still a civil war going on. I think this place would give the audience a idea what’s going on in Africa and have a little connect with the environment for example like how god spell setting was ground zero when I seen it at the Daytona beach new journal I felt a little connect because I seen when the towers went down that day.





The theatrical space- first the audience I would have for the play would adults only because I think the play is too mature for kids because the play contain whores, sex, alcohol and adult language so adults would bring their kids to watch the play but I would play the production in broad because in new York the African culture is higher in that city than anywhere else because new York city has a large population Haitians which are related to Africans. Also broad way is a great place because the seating have u look forward at the play and how it’s set up its great to have the play.







The theatrical space- first the audience I would have for the play would adults only because I think the play is too mature for kids because the play contain whores, sex, alcohol and adult language so adults would bring their kids to watch the play but I would play the production in broad because in new York the African culture is higher in that city than anywhere else because new York city has a large population Haitians which are related to Africans. Also broad way is a great place because the seating have u look forward at the play and how it’s set up its great to have the play.



The scenic design-the scenic design I would have of the play is the background a forest in the back ground because the bar is near the mines and there little villages in the area so it would have fake palm trees and have fake flowers and the background I would have a blue sky and have fake birds on the trees to give it a realistic look to make the audience feel that they are in Africa and mamas whore house/ bar but the play will show inside of the house and the house would have bar chairs at the bar and have the television connect to the wall behind the bar table and the hole place would have tables and chairs that very nice and it will have wooden floors and a Curtin to the back room were the women have sex with the men. Then I put a stripper pool next to the jut box. Then I would place pictures of naked women all over the bar so show the audience that it’s a whore house and behind the bar table would be a wall of old liquors place in order to color.



Costume design- the costumes I chosen for cast is by their character. Mama would wear a nice black dress because shows that she is the head of the house and shows that she have a little dark side in her that she don’t take any lip from anyone and show she is a strong women. Christian would wear a used gray suit because he is business man and I think gray is a nice color for a business man that preaches. mr.harari would wear a navy blue suit because he is from the city and he is working man that sin and I feel if you’re going sin it shouldn’t be in a white suit. Josephine would wear a red dress because she is whore that is fast and people think red on a sports car makes it faster than any color. Sophie would were a used navy blue because I think her personality fits that color because she don’t want to be notice but her good looks make her notice able so I think navy blue is not notice from far but it’s a very nice color. salima would wear a old brown dress because she feel that she is worthless and cant show herself to her family and brown is a color disgrace. The rebel soldiers would wear really old military clothing and the regular military would wear their own current military clothing. Osembenga would wear a clean military outfit because he is a commander of the army. Kisembe would wear different color old military outfit because to make him different from the other rebels and make it clear that he is the leader of the rebel troops





Lighting design- I would use led lights because I feel that I would use good lights for the play also I use the lights according to the scenes in the play for example in the rain scene I have the light in the back ground darken the picture in the background of the blue sky and bright up the blue sky to show its sunny outside.


Sound design- the sounds would go by scene I would have gun shots in the back ground of the play and then have sound of rain in the back ground and have a sound of a car pull to the house to indicate that some arrived at the house

The scenic design-the scenic design I would have of the play is the background a forest in the back ground because the bar is near the mines and there little villages in the area so it would have fake palm trees and have fake flowers and the background I would have a blue sky and have fake birds on the trees to give it a realistic look to make the audience feel that they are in Africa and mamas whore house/ bar but the play will show inside of the house and the house would have bar chairs at the bar and have the television connect to the wall behind the bar table and the hole place would have tables and chairs that very nice and it will have wooden floors and a Curtin to the back room were the women have sex with the men. Then I put a stripper pool next to the jut box. Then I would place pictures of naked women all over the bar so show the audience that it’s a whore house and behind the bar table would be a wall of old liquors place in order to color.



Costume design- the costumes I chosen for cast is by their character. Mama would wear a nice black dress because shows that she is the head of the house and shows that she have a little dark side in her that she don’t take any lip from anyone and show she is a strong women. Christian would wear a used gray suit because he is business man and I think gray is a nice color for a business man that preaches. mr.harari would wear a navy blue suit because he is from the city and he is working man that sin and I feel if you’re going sin it shouldn’t be in a white suit. Josephine would wear a red dress because she is whore that is fast and people think red on a sports car makes it faster than any color. Sophie would were a used navy blue because I think her personality fits that color because she don’t want to be notice but her good looks make her notice able so I think navy blue is not notice from far but it’s a very nice color. salima would wear a old brown dress because she feel that she is worthless and cant show herself to her family and brown is a color disgrace. The rebel soldiers would wear really old military clothing and the regular military would wear their own current military clothing. Osembenga would wear a clean military outfit because he is a commander of the army. Kisembe would wear different color old military outfit because to make him different from the other rebels and make it clear that he is the leader of the rebel troops





Lighting design- I would use led lights because I feel that I would use good lights for the play also I use the lights according to the scenes in the play for example in the rain scene I have the light in the back ground darken the picture in the background of the blue sky and bright up the blue sky to show its sunny outside.


Sound design- the sounds would go by scene I would have gun shots in the back ground of the play and then have sound of rain in the back ground and have a sound of a car pull to the house to indicate that some arrived at the house



work cited

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Arabian Nights

Arabian night is very different then watching a movie on the big screen because in the movie you just sit there and watch the movie the only things that might amaze you is the vibration of the speakers and if the movie is 3-D you can put on 3-D glasses and watch it in 3-D might feel real because you think the things in the movie is coming at you in a realistic way. Then also you can’t talk to the actors when you are done watching the movie and I think it’s great to get to know the actors that is in the movie and there isn’t a intermission during a movie so you can go to the bathroom or get a quick snack but in Arabian nights is great watching it in person because I can actually see the setting of the play for example the lamps that was hanging and I can see when the lights dim or when they raise up and bring down the lamps unlike the movie I can touch the lamps. Then I can see the actors acting in the play, I can see the emotions they are going thru for example before the intermission when the king and his wife to be was about to kiss it felt real and see the emotion of the kiss that was about to happen. Then I thought the king was very interesting because I can see his facial expressions to the stories that were in the play. Then I like the being of the play when one of the actors blown fire toward the audience and I know it was real fire because I can see the heat vapors of the flames because in the movie I wouldn’t know if it was a stunt man blowing out the flames or blue screen. Also Arabian nights had a intermission which I thought was very smart because unlike a movie if you go out to get popcorn or go and use the bathroom u will miss a part of the movie and if came by yourself you might have to see the movie again or ask a friend that came with you what happen but in Arabian nights with the intermission people can go and use the bathroom or take a quick phone instead of interrupting the play. Then I can meet some of the actors that was in the play you can ask them how they feel about their role they are playing in Arabian nights. Then u can meet the director of the play and ask if how he feels about his production of the play which I had the honor of doing myself since he is my teacher. Then you can watch the mistakes that happen in the play un like a movie they edit all the mistakes the actors do in the movie because they want the movie perfect but in Arabian nights they was won mistake is when they did the story with bag and I thought that was very funny including the audience thought so. So I feel that play are better than movies because of the realism

god spell

The energy I felt when people arrived was exciting the reason when I sat there in my seat watching people coming in the theatre told me that the show was going to be very interesting and new because I never seen god spell. After the show was finish the audience got on there feet and click showing how good is god spell was and it wasn’t a surprise to me because I thought the show was good because the actors interact with the audience by talking to them and have intermissions and asks the audience if they want some punch and also during the intermission they talk with some of the audience members. Unlike films you just seat there and watch the movie you can laugh and react to different situations but there is not intermissions to get refreshments and the you cant interact with the actors because they are in the movie screen. In god spell the major conflict was Jesus trying to help his disciples turn away from all the material things in the world. The climax was when Judas betrayed Jesus for two pieces of sliver. The characters in the play wanted knowledge from Jesus so he can show them the way of god. The subject of the play was to flow the ten commandments because through out the play they show examples from the ten commandments for example when a father gave his two sons land and money of their own but one of the sons blow all his money and had to work for a pig farmer and then decide to come back home and his father death care what happen to his money and cared that his son came back come home and throw him a [arty but when his bother heard what happen and complained to his father but his father told him to forgive him and he did. The idea is not to be the victim of the world and it bad ways for example when one of Jesus followers wanted to \pard softlinemate with one of the female followers he stop him and told he why it was not a good idea like what my cousin tells me all the time Satan is not ugly meaning the beautiful things in this world can harm you the most and showing you how Satan can temp you with all forms of the world. The climactic of the play was loyalty because Jesus trust his followers but end up getting betrayed by Judas even though Jesus knew what was his future. The form of the play was comedy for example when they had a stunt double for the two bothers when they had trust issues and also when they was copying actors voices in some of the scenes and when they put humor in there dance scenes which was very funny. But overall the play god spell was very good and realize why it show on Broadway and would recommend people to watch to see some thing new

minstrel show

Minstrel shows emerged from European traditions of masking and carnival. But in the US it began in the 1830s, with working class white men dressing up as plantation slaves. These men imitate black musicals and dance forms combining savage parody of black Americans with genuine fondness for African American cultural forms. By the Civil War the minstrel show had become famous and respectable. By the 1840s the minstrel show had become one of the central events in the Democratic party.White performers would blacken their faces with burnt cork or greasepaint, dress in outlandish costumes, and then perform songs and skits that mocked African Americans. The minstrel had three stock characters that were among several that reappeared in minstrel shows throughout the nineteenth century Jim Crow was the stereotypical carefree slave, Mr. Tambo a joyous musician, and Zip Coon a free slave attempting to rise above his station.Before the Civil War black men could not appear in minstrel shows. But some of the black men would put on minstrel makeup and appearing as white men imitating black men. Later, in the twentieth century several of the most famous minstrels were actually black men who wore makeup for example Bert Williams, who performed in blackface in the 1920s for exampleThe first talkng picture The JazzSinger 1927 .Minstrel shows continued to be popular in the 1950s, and highschools, fraternities and local theater groups would often perform minstrel shows in blackface. It became unpopular as African Americans asserted more politcal power in the 1950s.

Minstrel show stayed popular until the 1970s, when blacks and whites agreed that it was racial against blacks and stopped it from showing on television.

workcited

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson/minstrel/minstrel.html

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MCYzb1vENQ&feature=related

commedia dell'arte started in the sixteenth century during the renaissance it has a form resembling ancient mime and early atellan farce with its masks,stock characters, local types, and improvised form springs to life(felner,orenstein)
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arlechinno-From a primitive naïve and simple character, he evolves into a smart, more sophisticated one, that with his simplicity outwits all the arrogant and greedy personages with whom he interacts.
capitano- The mask of the Captain with all certainty widely pleased the population which was oppressed by those mercenary occupation armies, as very often happened in the Italy of 16th century, kind of a platonic revenge toward the oppressor, and especially toward the mercenary soldiers, mainly ignorant, violent brutes who would take advantage in all senses of the poor subordinate populations.






columbina- is what the Innamorata is not: free, insolent, not slave of love bonds,
sometimes brilliant, vane always, chatterer, gossiper, always prone to intrigue at somebody else's expenses. A sort of Harlequinn in female clothes, and in fact she comes up in certain setups as Harlequina , with a patched costume duplicate of Harlequin's.She is usually Harlequin's companion, and only woman to sometimes wear a mask on stage, Colombina brings that female pepper and intransigence to the plot.

dottore-The Doctor is the second old folk together with Pantaloon in the Commedia dell'Arte, and first appears on stage in the mid 16th century, with the name of Graziano, which later became Dottor Balanzone. The Doctor character is normally used in the Commedia dell'Arte plays to put a break in the action, with empty, pre-fabricated and supposedly erudite monologues.Sort of a drums or bass solo in Jazz, which gives the time to the other musicians to take a break and go drink something or put a new reed on their saxophone.

the innamorati-The Lovers bring into the Commedia dell'Arte those little touches of soap opera and feuilleton around which the action may easily be developed. Important in their role as much as with a flat personality the Innamorati helped the public to identify and sink deep in the stories
isabella-The Isabella character is certainly the most known among all female Lovers, due to the great intelligence and stage performance of Isabella Andreini

pantalone-Pantaloon plays the ideal counterpart of an Harlequin always without money, the Zanni, poor immigrant always hungry, Brighella, and countless other characters.

pulcinella-Philosophical, eternally melancholic, dreamer as only a representative of the Neapolitan culture could be, Pulcinella has a spirit all of his own. No tensions or despair, his melancholic approach to life makes him coast problems, situations, live adventures and at the end simply getting out of everything, in the same simple manner as how he got involved

vittoria- one of those characters which appeared in the Commedia dell'Arte in almost all plays, although keeping a low profile which got more personality with time, developing into more elaborate and important characters such as Colombina, Corallina, Franceschina, Mirandolina and, in one of her disguises, also Arlecchinetta

zanni-Zanni, as much as Harlequin, is originary from Bergamo. The lower Bergamo of course, "Bergam de hüta", where all the poor come from, and he's part of that emigrant population that has to mingle into an hostile environment to survive.Zanni means the first name Giovanni in the dialect of Bergamo, the most common of all Italian names, sort of a John Doe of the times

the scenarios
gone fishin
the rat hat
sausage
the picture

all by i sebastiani

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work cited

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The Red Hat: A Commedia dell'arte scenario
Copyright 1993, by Jeff A. Suzuki http://math.bu.edu/people/jeffs/scenario.html