Month: October 2021

Ok, so hear me out. If you want to call me a fake musical theatre fan, that fine, but I insist it is not my fault. I cannot keep this secret from you anymore… I have never seen Mamma Mia! I know, I know. You say what a classic...

This week we took a look at different theatre traditions from around the world. I had briefly learned about some of these traditions in my Theatre 100 class in my first year of university, but we had not spent too much time on it. We had discussed Sanskrit and...

This week, the textbook reading explained the difference between comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, and melodrama. I had taken a theatre class before, exploring comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy, but we did not discuss melodrama. I was surprised reading about melodrama, seeing the hold it has on the entertainment world today. Many...

This week we were assigned a playwriting analysis assignment! I choose to dive into A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. I had taken a very fast-paced English class in the spring semester where we read plays. The professor had told us that she would teach ten plays over four...