Live Theatre

Author: jahangeer
LIVE THEATRE
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over 2,500 years.
Now the question arises who started Live Theatre, the answer of this question has lots of ambiguities. it is almost impossible to find an answer of the question asked above because some of the data in books or over the internet leads that people of Greek were responsible to it but some signals towards Egyptian, both of these countries (Greek & Egypt) has ancient history.
Unlike over all the world history of theatre in Canada is not that old. Canadian theatre was born of amateurs, but then later on professional actors began to arrive from Europe to Canada. By then a traditions of performing entertainments and theatricals had been established in ...

Defining Postmodern Theatre

Author: meLê yamomo
I'd like to begin by differentiating postmodern theatre from its preceding periodizing categorization, the 'classical' and the 'modern' drama. Classical drama is characterized by the value placed in the plot and its adherence to Aristotle's laws of dramatic unities. In the nineteenth century we also observed how Hegelian philosophy filtered into modern drama with the movement of 'man'/character at the forefront of dramaturgy in the character dramas of Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekov. We also see how Aristotle's mimesis is taken to the heights in the period of naturalism as influenced by the Darwinian science in the stagings of modern theatre. Raymond Williams observes...

Top 10 Quotes and Explanations from Alice in Wonderland

Author: Tuula Olin
Alice in Wonderland is a tale from Lewis Carroll who wrote it in 1864. The story has been such a huge success ever since and many movies and plays have been made based on it. This fairytale continues to have a great fan base. Its popularity is only increasing with big Hollywood directors and stars making yet another adaptation of the story. This time it will be directed by Tim Burton and Johnny Depp will be the outrageous character called the Mad Hatter.
The conversations between the incredible characters, which include people, animals and playing cards, are eccentric and funny. Some of their phrases have become extremely famous, some of them are ...

How to belly dance

Author: Yasir Wazir
Definition:

Belly dance can simply be defined as "a solo dance performed by a woman with hip and abdominal movements."

General information:

Many believe that belly dancing is an oldest form of dances taking origin from India to the Middle-East countries. It is a type of dance usually performed, when a woman is being prepared for her marriage. It is usually danced barefooted.

Belly dance can be called as a Western term being used for a traditional Arab dance form. In Arabic language, it is known as "raqs sharqi," (oriental dance), or "raqs baladi," meaning dance of country. In Greece, it is called as "tsiftetelli." Raqs baladi is performed by ...