Journal Twenty-two: staging the comedy of errors Act I and II
Dramatic presentations can be broken into two groups: Presentational Theater and Representational Theater. The Presentational style acknowledges the reality of the theater, that the play is a play, actors are acting parts, and that spectators are present. The Representational style, in contrast, ignores (or pretends to ignore) the reality of the theater, seeking to replicate an extra-theatrical world, denying that the play is a play, performed as if an audience were not present. Anything that would break this illusion should be repressed. In your journal, having read the first two acts, argue for either a Presentational or Representational production of the play, providing examples from the script and describing how they would be performed (or how a character might be acted) to achieve either a Presentational or Representational production of the play. Having posted your journal, be sure to respond to at least two other journal submissions and to a response to your journal.
Bradley
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