Tag: theatre

Troy Theatre and Dance’s ‘Moving Pictures’ performance sets dance to photographs

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(CONTRIBUTED/ TROY DANCE)   Pradyot Sharma Editor-In-Chief The Troy University Department of Theatre and Dance will present its second edition of Art in Motion this fall starting Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. The show, being held in the Trojan Center, features a concept where artists collaborate with student choreographers who bring their work to life through dance.  This year’s performance will feature 11 dance pieces put together by 12 choreographers. The pieces are based on works by five Troy student photographers. Choreographers picked photographs from the photographers that inspired…

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The ins-and-outs of deconstructing productions after the curtains close

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(PHOTO/ Rojan Maharjan) “Mamma Mia!”, which premiered on campus last year, had an intricate set and a large cast, requiring a lot of work both to put the show together and to take it apart.  Andrea Hammack Staff Writer Have you ever watched a theatrical performance and wondered to yourself: what happens to the show when the final curtains fall? Theater revolves around preparation – preparing scripts, casting roles, learning lines and building sets. All of that preparation leads to a finished and polished performance, and eventually an organized take…

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Building character: How actors get into their roles

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Lirona Joshi Staff Writer When the characters have taken their bow and the curtains close, actors remove their masks and go back to their normal lives as students. This transition from an individual to an actor all starts with an open auditioning process that happens at the beginning of the year from which students are called back appropriately for whatever roles the directors feel they will best fit. Based on their performance on subsequent specific auditions, individuals are given their roles for characters in a production. “In theater we talk…

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Student review: ‘Eurydice’ tells the story of love and the hellish fate of those who lose it

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(CONTRIBUTED/ Quinton Cockrell) Madeline Hill, a sophomore theater major from Alabaster, Alabama, performed as the titular Eurydice during the play’s run last weekend.  Pradyot Sharma Editor-in-Chief The Troy Department of Theater and Dance presented an adaptation of Sarah Ruhl’s “Eurydice,” a modern retelling of the myth of the musician Orpheus and Eurydice, this past weekend. The play follows the story of Eurydice, who is described as a woman of incomparable beauty, and who, on her wedding day, dies after being bit by a snake while trying to escape a lustful…

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Greek tragedy kicks off year of theater and dance performances

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Andrea Hammack Staff Writer Troy’s Department of Theatre and Dance is in full swing as they prepare for this semester’s productions.  The department held its fall auditions during the first week of classes, during which students who auditioned for the productions had to bring a prepared a monologue or a monologue and song.  Madeline Hill, a sophomore theatre major from Alabaster, was cast as the lead in the department’s first production of the semester, “Eurydice” by Sarah Ruhl.   In the play, directed by associate professor of theatre and dance…

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