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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Two main problems confront the producer who wishes to tackle this type of play: acquiring the necessary historical information, and using this in formation with dramatic effect. All too often a costume play fails to convince because the characters lack reality; they are so obviously modern men and women in fancy dress. The more one studies the past, the more strongly one feels that human nature has changed very little in essentials and that history indeed repeats itself. For example, the modern American custom of cutting in caused trouble in sixteenth-century ball-rooms, and during the same period a special form of galliard was introduced to circumvent certain indiscreet young gentlemen who had formed the bad habit of keeping to one partner. Again, in Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme the dancing-master gives a lesson on the minuet a hundred and twenty years later Bunbury published a cartoon called The Long Minuet in which he caricatured contemporary ball room dancers in both cases the faults of memory or movement are precisely those one meets with when teaching the dance today.

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Publié par	Forgotten Books
Date de parution	27 novembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780243752072
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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OME yea s ago there was a company of players who used to tour the vi ages of o th I eland w th plays about the that is the ebell on of which was led by o dwa d heir purpose of course po itic and the pe formances though not exactly fo bidden were ce tai y not in the inte ests of law and o der I ishwoman who owes her love of the theatre t o these stolen early experiences says she h as n eve felt anything like the waves of excite ment and enthusiasm which used to spread f om actors t o audience ightly wedged in an old barn they watched countless variations of the story of rebels croppies yeomen and informe s which ways cu minated in the th eatened hanging of the hero and a last minute rep ieve etween the acts the e we e songs oppy han little old woman meaning I eland and Who fears to hea of blushes at the nameAn I h p e don t spoken with meaning to the audience ere were blood lust love passion Here were d b ho bo t

MAN NE S MOVE ME N w rmth enchantment laughter music I t was dyne I t ethe I t was scape I t was the heatre what the theat e means to most of us though apparently the e are p eople who go solely t o thei minds hen the d atic critic of the asked listene s t o write and t ell him the most memo able moments of their theatre goi g expe ences cent of the references we e t o costum e plays main problems confront the producer who wishes to t ackle this type of play acquiring the necessary histo ic info m ation an d using t s form ation with d amatic e fect too often a costum e play fails t o convince because the characte s lack reality they are so obviously modern men and women in fancy dress more one studi es the past the more strongly one feels that human nature has changed very little in essenti s and that story indeed epeats itself example the modernAmerican custom of cutting in caused trouble in s xteenth century bal rooms and duri g the s e period a special form of gallia d was introduced to circumvent ce tain indiscreet young gentlemen who had form ed the bad habit of keeping to one partner gain in oli re s the dancing master gives a lesson on the minuet a hundred and twenty y ea s later unbury published a cartoon called ong inuet in which he ca icatured contempora y b l room dancers in both cases the faults of memory or movement are precisely those one meets w th when t eaching the d nce today long as players content t o think of thei ancesto s as rather remot e beings who wo e quee clothes and trange th ngs with their arms and

INT OD legs so long will the fancy d ess atmosphere pe sist tudying a p e iod is rather like study ng a pa t upposing you we e shown a photog aph of someone with whom you we e t o spend seve al yea s alone the only other white pe son on a lepe island hall we say Imagine how you would study that photog ph fee ing as it we e the pi it behind the featu e ny acto s use this method when c eating a his r le they sea ching somethi g mo e than m ere physical esemblance and it is in the same way that one feels the imp ession o f a whole pe iod sources of information many and va ied ooks on etiquette and costume pictu es dia ies lette s and othe contempo ary lite atu e tombstone local legends coins postage stamps fans cont ibut e their sha e but it must be remembe ed that this fo mation can only be deﬁnite up to a point How difﬁc t it is t o reconst uct the dwa dian yea s ea ly satisfactorily even with the help of the many people sti l i ing t o guide usAoncedistinguished docto rema ked that the facts of the med cal p ofession we e less t o be elied on than any because they we e founded on deduction and this applies also to period resea ch In fact only ecently two dancing experts deduced exactly the opposite f om app oximately the same set of facts rom a d a atic point of view it did not matte which opi ion was co ect the one to choose wou d be that which gave the greater stimulus t o the playe s imaginations and which would the e fo e b e likel to p oduce mo e convincing pe fo mances hen you have studied your pe iod emembe the play s the thing and apply you knowledge with disc etion example or bandalo e as it was then cal ed was very popula about I ntro

MANNE MOV ME N into a st aight play of the pe od f om the main action ook she s playing ancy whe eas in one of the sharply deﬁochranned period episodes of a revue it would probably be extremely e fective the other hand when the rincess m akes herﬁrst ent y inpeshe is in a stat of extreme anxiety and suspense meets her father ith the wo ds H as no news come the panish court was not ed for its strict ceremoni etiquette andp p as she p auses to cu tsy and kiss his hand before stamme ng out the all impo tant question here is one more point t o bear in mind and that is that absolut e for the same reason that d awing oom naturalness i not carry conviction in a theatre and that a b al roo fox trot must be adapted before it is suitable for exhibition work eriod m anners and customs other than those connect ed with public ceremonies wi f equently need a similar t ouch of what is known as artistic exaggeration

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walk is as great an asset to an actor or actress as a beautiful voice especially in costume plays where a deliberate appe is made t o the eyeApoki g head and sagging knees w ll in period costume and the assumption of various airs and graces only succeeds in making defects more obvious art of wearing clothes well is never entirely a g ft from heaven foundation is a well trained body but hav ng attained that or at any ate having recognised the desirab l ty of doing so the e must be an interest in clothes for their own sake and an attempt to appreciate design and p opo tion f om a display

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