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cmaddogz

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yeh....

*TICK TOCK*
*TICK TOCK*
(what's the time?)
"TUCKER TIME"

anytime soon would be good...
 

cmaddogz

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= BUMP = BUMP = BUMP =
they still haven't posted the notes i sent in... FUCKERS!!!
 

cmaddogz

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BUMP UP THE JAM! (mega-remix)

Thought i'd BUMP UP THE JAM (mega-remix) and pull these up to where they belong.... I dunno... Right... MMMkay!

- And the Lord said "Let there be links" - and there were -

Finally, your prayers answered... I have spent several hours compiling many links to HSC Drama relevant websites... Please use freely, and if you have any other links - please post them, and i'll add them to the list below...

GENERAL
HSC Drama Tips
Many Drama Links/Tips/Notes
Really GREAT site - drama links (PAY SITE)
Dramalama Link-o-rama
Many Theatre related links
Drama God's HSC Exemplar Site 1
Drama God's HSC Exemplar Site 2

TOPIC ONE: Bush and City in Australian Drama
Summer of the 17th Doll
Summer of the 17th Doll
Summer of the 17th Doll Summary
Review of Summer of the 17th Doll
The Story of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Essay on Katharine Susannah Prichard Biography


TOPIC TWO: Contemporary Australian Theatre
Australian Drama and Aboriginality
Jack Davis Links
The Seven Stages of Grieving Case Study

TOPIC THREE: Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd The West and the East
Theatre of the Absurd Overview
Absurdism
Existentialism and Theatre
A summary of Existentialism
Theatre of the Absurd
The Samuel Beckett Endpage
Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot - Lecture Hall
Becketts Godot A Bundle of Broken Mirrors
The Samuel Beckett Online Resources and Links Page
Samuel Beckett
Pink Monkey notes on Waiting for Godot
Analysis of Waiting for Godot
Links on Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Arthur Adamov
Edward Albee
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean Genet
Albert Camus

TOPIC FOUR: Irish Drama
E Notes Dancing at Lughnasa
Themes Dancing at Lughnasa
Official Movie Website of Dancing at Lughnasa (Background Info)
Beauty Queen of Leenane Interview/Review

TOPIC FIVE: Brecht
International Brecht Society
Freedom of Information Act - Bertolt Brecht
Brecht Biography
Brecht Biography
Brecht Biography
Brecht Facts
Brecht Links
Studying Bertolt Brecht

TOPIC SIX: Environmental and Street Theatre
Devising Celebration
Welfare State
Bread & Puppet Information

TOPIC SEVEN: Seventeenth Century Comedy
Love and Marriage in Three Restoration Comedies
Game of Love: Restoration Comedy
Theatre from 1660 to 1875 Restoration and 18th Century
Restoration Theatre
Beinecke exhibit explores 18th-century views of theatre
Restoration Comedytheatre
The Misanthrope
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molire

TOPIC EIGHT: Meyerhold
Meyerhold Memorial Museum
Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Marking the 125th Birth Anniversary of Meyerhold
About Meyerhold's Biomechanics

TOPIC NINE: American Drama
The David Mamet Review
David Mamet
David Mamet Info Page
Eugene ONeill Archive
Eugene ONeill
Thornton Wilder Society
Thornton Wilder
Webquest: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Studies
 

wissammuslmani

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WAS DOING YUR HSC PERFRMANCE HARD? DID U STUFF UP AND GET NERVOUS DID IT AFFECT YOUR AI F U WENT FOR IT/
 

Fire_Hydra

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ode to cmaddogz

cmaddogz said:
Thought i'd BUMP UP THE JAM (mega-remix) and pull these up to where they belong.... I dunno... Right... MMMkay!

- And the Lord said "Let there be links" - and there were -

Finally, your prayers answered... I have spent several hours compiling many links to HSC Drama relevant websites... Please use freely, and if you have any other links - please post them, and i'll add them to the list below...
These are awesomely-cool...thanx heaps
And may u 4ever b the height of awesomeness.....
 

sxay

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thanks sooooooooooooo much your the best, how did you get all of that.thanks again

cmaddogz said:
- And the Lord said "Let there be links" - and there were -

Finally, your prayers answered... I have spent several hours compiling many links to HSC Drama relevant websites... Please use freely, and if you have any other links - please post them, and i'll add them to the list below...

GENERAL
HSC Drama Tips
Many Drama Links/Tips/Notes
Really GREAT site - drama links (PAY SITE)
Dramalama Link-o-rama
Many Theatre related links
Drama God's HSC Exemplar Site 1
Drama God's HSC Exemplar Site 2

TOPIC ONE: Bush and City in Australian Drama
Summer of the 17th Doll
Summer of the 17th Doll
Summer of the 17th Doll Summary
Review of Summer of the 17th Doll
The Story of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Essay on Katharine Susannah Prichard Biography


TOPIC TWO: Contemporary Australian Theatre
Australian Drama and Aboriginality
Jack Davis Links
The Seven Stages of Grieving Case Study

TOPIC THREE: Theatre of the Absurd
Theatre of the Absurd – The West and the East
Theatre of the Absurd Overview
Absurdism
Existentialism and Theatre
A summary of Existentialism
Theatre of the Absurd
The Samuel Beckett Endpage
Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot - Lecture Hall
Beckett’s Godot – “A Bundle of Broken Mirrors”
The Samuel Beckett Online Resources and Links Page
Samuel Beckett
Pink Monkey notes on Waiting for Godot
Analysis of Waiting for Godot
Links on Waiting for Godot
Harold Pinter
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Arthur Adamov
Edward Albee
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean Genet
Albert Camus

TOPIC FOUR: Irish Drama
E Notes Dancing at Lughnasa
Themes Dancing at Lughnasa
Official Movie Website of Dancing at Lughnasa (Background Info)
Beauty Queen of Leenane Interview/Review

TOPIC FIVE: Brecht
International Brecht Society
Freedom of Information Act - Bertolt Brecht
Brecht Biography
Brecht Biography
Brecht Biography
Brecht Facts
Brecht Links
Studying Bertolt Brecht

TOPIC SIX: Environmental and Street Theatre
Devising Celebration
Welfare State
Bread & Puppet Information

TOPIC SEVEN: Seventeenth Century Comedy
Love and Marriage in Three Restoration Comedies
Game of Love: Restoration Comedy
Theatre from 1660 to 1875 Restoration and 18th Century
Restoration Theatre
Beinecke exhibit explores 18th-century views of theatre
Restoration Comedytheatre
The Misanthrope
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moli貥

TOPIC EIGHT: Meyerhold
Meyerhold Memorial Museum
Meyerhold
Vsevolod Meyerhold
Marking the 125th Birth Anniversary of Meyerhold
About Meyerhold's Biomechanics

TOPIC NINE: American Drama
The David Mamet Review
David Mamet
David Mamet Info Page
Eugene O’Neill Archive
Eugene O’Neill
Thornton Wilder Society
Thornton Wilder
Webquest: Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Studies
wow thanks so much that was great all that info your a gem
 

cmaddogz

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Haha - yes... Still alive! Life is great, university is great - and if it weren't for drama i wouldn't be were i am today! Hope all is well with the old crew, i miss the bizarre stories of "The Bubbler" and "Miss Paris Hilton"... But alas, i'm still as wired and weird as ever! Stay safe!
 

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cmaddogz said:
Haha - yes... Still alive! Life is great, university is great - and if it weren't for drama i wouldn't be were i am today! Hope all is well with the old crew, i miss the bizarre stories of "The Bubbler" and "Miss Paris Hilton"... But alas, i'm still as wired and weird as ever! Stay safe!
wow...carson is alive! lol

well the crew is still wired and weird as ever too. It must be the drama imbedded in our bones! :p
 

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does anyone have any good resources for monologues, ive been searching everywhere and cant find anythingg!!!!...a female role, please lol
 

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cmaddogz, you are totally awesome! Just thought I'd join up and add my beloved Godot notes - sigh. I really hate it. Anyway, hope they give anyone else a sense of excitement.

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= Waiting for Godot
1. Rejection of realism and 4th wall naturalism of realist set- strips away layers of reality
• Minimalist set and plot, substitutes image for action, no radical change in staging or acting- circular plot, non-linear time frame and dramatic structure, undeveloping characters - emphasis on situation rather than events, stasis rather than change
 Godot never comes
• Self enclosed settings refract rather than reflect ‘real’ world
 Symbolic staging- tree may symbolize hope, but more realistically the deceptive passage of time

1. Language no longer expresses deepest meaning
• Patterns of images rather than argument and expansive speech, language games
• Repetition and stasis undercuts ultimate meaning
• Repetition of dialogue and action- theme of boredom which provokes thought about situation and identity
• Inability of language to communicate
 (“E: I can’t have been listening”, “V: I don’t understand”)
• Arguments reduced to absurdity
• Silences interrupting speech often more important than speech- represents the void, emptiness and loneliness between people
 (Lucky’s breakdown of speech and ultimate collapse into silence represents the world’s chaos randomness and meaninglessness)

1. Existentialism
(see tragic comedy)-
 no separation between mundane and lofty - Talk of boots and bodily functions simultaneous with solitude, desire, grief, nature of existence
Only conscious action and choice defines purpose- freedom of choice rather than controlled e.g. God, predetermined divine order of Fate
 “E: lets go, V: we cant, E: why not, V: we’re waiting for Godot”
Human’s require a rational basis for living but can’t find one- lives of futile passion
 Attempted order in waiting for Godot
 Futility of life and situation- “Nothing to be done”, “V: All my life I’ve tried to put it from me…and I resume the struggle”, “E: (anxious) and we? …Where do we come in?”
Identity <=>. Verification of senses, reality and existence
 (“V: Ah, there you are!” “E: Am I?”)
• Dehumanisation of individual
 Godot’s identity is irrelevant
• Meaninglessness of life- occurrences only through luck, misfortune and chaos -
 pondering why 1/3 thieves were saved
 conversation about health of E’s lungs (“My left lung is very weak! … But my right lung is as sound as a bell!”)
• Unanswered questions and unsolved actions represent chaos of existence- (“mankind’s vain search for answers within the vacuum of our universe”- ***Heidegger)
 e.g. ‘hat gag’, “who is Godot? Who beats Gogo?” symbolizes “Is there a god? Who is responsible for our suffering?”
Habit, routine, ritual
• the individual’s freedom of choice places the individual in a state of anxiety, as the individual is surrounded by almost infinite choices - ***Kierkagaard
 (E and V consider hanging themselves, are unable to act through anxiety) (anxiety at choice of action makes E and V immobile despite deciding to leave- “E: Well, shall we go” “V: Yes, lets go)
• - Habit protects us from whatever can neither be predicted or controlled
 (“V: habit is a great deadener”)

1. Tragic comedy
• Used to mock all human endeavour- characters symbolize human condition as a period of waiting- mankind achieves nothing (see existentialism)


Godot –
Characterization- characters epitomize all of mankind; showing the full range of human emotion, showing the extent of humanity (both physical and metaphysical representation)
 (Estragon refers to himself as Adam)
 (E represents a man of the body- e.g. Boots, V represents a man of the mind- e.g. philosophical issues such as time and existence (“V: Its too much for one man…On the other hand what’s the good of losing heart now, that’s what I say. We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties” “E: Ah stop blathering and help me off with this bloody thing”)
• Balance of suffering with excitement and happiness
 (e.g. Pozzo’s arrival and E’s contemplation of an erection)
• Balance of actions-acts of random violence and anger with signs of affection
 e.g. nicknames of Didi and Gogo (“V: Forgive me… Come, Didi… Give me your hand… Embrace me!”)
• - Pessimistic view: generic characters cannot escape waiting for Godot, each other or their general situation, fear being tied and dependant on each other
- Optimistic view: shows the range of human emotion and the need to share experiences alongside the suffering of finite existence- governed by the past, acting in the present and uncertain of the future

Contradicting emotions and actions (violence to sympathy, philosophical to banal)- represents contradictions in human nature
 Pozzo’s tyrant authoritarian attitude towards Lucky (“Up pig!”) contrasting the next moment with self-pity and care (“I can’t bear it… any longer… the way he goes on… you’ve no idea…its terrible”)
 

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Life saver

wow, Maddogz you are one mad dog! you saved my little drama-fluking bum. and i love the pic, Towelie RULES!
 

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hey all
just wondering if you have any notes for Everyman
any help would be glady appriceated
also your link are gonna prove to be very helpful alreday thanks guys
 

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argh. does anyone know how to approach the approaches to acting question for meyerhold and boal? do we link them through political theatre? or experimental theatre? or physical theatre? or say constructivist theatre?

do people often refer to their class work?
 

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