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Friday, July 31, 2020

Melodrama

What is a theatre green room?

In show business the green room is a space in most theatre rooms or similar venues that function as waiting rooms and lounges rooms for the performance before. 

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14th August:

F - Focus
A - Action - Script 
R - Roles - Stereotypes / Hero / Heroine 
T - Time - Victorian  
T - Tension - Pangst provocation / Penalties
S - Space - Stage / Theatre 

In scholarly and historical musical contexts, melodramas are Victorian dramas in which orchestral music or song was used to accompany the action. The term is now applied to stage performances without music, novels, movies, television and radio broadcasts. 

Melodrama was very popular when it first came out in Britain in the 1800s. The actors became very famous and the common story lines soon became well known. Lots of plots centred on emotions such as suffering a romance. They styles of acting could be described as stylised. if you were to watch it today you would call it `over the top`. The characters were all `larger than life` and required the actors to use a lot of energy when playing them. 


A Matter of Style: Melodrama  




1 comment:

  1. Great melodrama definition; they used Proscenium Arch style Theatre, like our Theatre Royal [add a theatre diagram next]

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