Drama Resources

In 1926 a significant change occurred in the world of cinema with the advent of the sound film. Where previously, motion pictures had been screened silently in theatres accompanied by...

AbstractHenry Louis Gates, the most contemporary prominent critic of African American Studies, has taken Saussure's signifying and redefined the term. He describes Signify...

IntroductionThe purpose of this article is to introduce you to costume design and to give you some ways of approaching and understanding theatre costume. I will suggest some key quest...

Seven hundred audience members enter a disused post-sorting warehouse in Paddington and are told to leave their companions behind and to steer their own journey i. This is Punchd...

My diploma thesis introduces the topic of portrayal of married life by the most famous American playwrights of the past decades. The goal of my diploma thesis was to provide the infor...

Trying to attain a ticket to the fasting selling production in the history of the Young Vic was seemingly impossible this summer. Yet, thanks to NT Live, the international screening...

WHO WAS DIDEROT? Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was co-founder, editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie which played a critical role in the French Enlightenment. The Encyclop&...

It starts with the build-up. The agonising development of tension as the stage is set and the story unfolds. Baying crowds, surging emotion, warring factions, competing discourses. Co...

CHARLOTTE'S BLOG ON MODERNISING SHAKESPEARE What does it mean to 'modernise' Shakespeare? Is such a thing possible or even necessary? Shakespeare's plays are known for being 'tim...

The voice is an element of every day life. It sets us apart from other beings; it is a direct reflection of the image we are trying to portray, and also how we choose to represent our...