Oh please! I’m so over reading those Hamilton reviews. Rap music and hip-hop  on stage as the “new, Innovative” theatrical experience is so over-rated.

I read the article starring me: A surreal Dive into Immersive Theater and I have to say it seems pretty weird. And to top it off the weirdest one was Broken Bone Bathtub where 6 audience members from the audience help the actor take a bath. Like wow, I can;t even imagine what that experience would be, can you? Would you help a stranger take a bath when if you go to a play?

I didn’t even realize that there was so much theater history in New York. You can literally pin point on any site in NYC and find something related to theater history. Whether it is a statue, a building, or the people in the city that represent the performing arts culture. I truly learned that time square is the mecca for theater. We didn’t get to go to the lower side, where I wanted to visit Union square area, Chelsea, and Astor but knowing things like there were haunted theaters and the first movie theater was pretty interesting.

What surprised me was that there is a theater themed restaurant in the city. I know there are themed restaurant but it didn’t even cross my mind that there could be a themed restaurant. It sure would be interesting to check it out now that I know that it is there. Also, most of the theater building in out city are over 100 years old. So much history in our lovely NYC.

The most interesting find that my group personally found was the George M. Cohen statue in Times Square. I always pasted that statue for my entire life and never once took the time to stop and look at it. I never he knew who the guy was. When we got there Stephanie told our group that his famous quote was, “Give my regards to Broadway.” That was pretty cool.

I am not going to lie; this scavenger hunt was very much annoying especially in the rain. I was hoping we would stay in and do a theater jeopardy game or something. We were at a disadvantage because there was only 3 members in out group and we thought it would be best to stick together and find as much as we could together in one area because it would be too much to ask one person to go alone. We did the best we could and I am glad that I know we tried our best and did it to the end. I want to thank Stephanie and Stevon for a very interesting and memorable day.

I think when we discuss globalization of theater the reading discussed these plays aiming toward exposing corruption, capturing the cultural confusions of the nomadic experience, satirizing racism, ethnic, and gender stereotypes. Just like the avant-garde movement, performance art was very dominate.  What do you think is the real difference between avant- garde and performance art? Is there a difference?

Seeing as I have already done a combination post on modernism and A Doll’s House for Tuesday class, I thought I’d do a better critical response on the content of the play.

Seeing as we got to learn more about the playwright Henrik Ibsen and his acclamation to realistic dramas. It seems the word free and the connotation of freedom appears throughout the play, what message do you think Ibsen was trying to across to the audience through the nature of the play and its relation to society?

It seems to me that there is a thin line between the avant garde theater and the modernism era of theater. This period seems to be the execution of realism and surrealism in theater forms. I have to say there is a bigger focus on modernism in Great Britain, Russia, as well as America. I learned that one of the first characteristics associated with “modern” theater is nihilism, the rejection of religious and moral principles as the only means of social progress.

I read the play A Doll’s House and it definitely reflects a modern play.  It focuses on late nineteenth century life in a middle-class Scandinavian household, in which the wife Nora is expected to be contentedly passive and the husband, Torvald paternally protective. Nora commits an act of forgery and must now navigate her life so she isn’t caught for her crime.

Who do you think in America 2016 is a good example of a “nationalistic” artist, specifically in theater or in any of the performing arts fields? Can you think of any nationalist presence in any plays in the recent years or at all in American history?

I am not truly sure if anyone understand the philosophers from different eras but what do we think they were trying to convey? What are the tiny aspects that take part in theater that reflect some of their philosophies and do we think it is still useful in modern theater?

It was my first time at the library like many of the other students.  It actually really surprised me that they have a whole division dedicated just to the performing arts.  I was most surprised by the fact that you had to check in your bags. Is that weird? The director actually said that people try to steal artifacts. I wonder if its to sell or just the extreme love of theater? In my head I thought there must really be some theater extremist.

Why do you think only one person in used to perform in kathakali? Do you think it is a man or a woman? How can you compare intense face makeup to the painting of the face white in Japanese performance? Also, why do you think they use a costume with a rounded mid-section?

Oh Greek Theater! The theatrics of it all. Dionysus, possesses a multitude of powers and can take a variety of forms. Dionysus’s gifts allow humans to let go of their troubles through wine, to let go of their identities through theater, and to let go of their individuality through cult worship. This is the beauty within the story.  There is this underlying darkness in the play associated with Dionysus and the idea of letting go. It seems as though his powers drive people to this place of no return, there was no self-control and ultimately leads to insanity. People are driven to let go of their judgement, and ultimately their grasp of humanity.