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Discuss the following questions in your group:
1) Do you prefer watching a play at the theatre or a movie at cinema?
2) What’s the nicest theatre you’ve ever been to?
3) What’s the best thing you’ve ever seen at the theatre?
4) Would you like to work as a theatre critic?
Vocabulary
Plot
The play highlights/focuses on the... The subject matter of the plot is...
The play addresses/tackles/treats the thorny (difficult, involved, complicated, eternal, ever-lasting, evergreen and ever topical) problem of (e.g. fathers and sons/generation gap, social inequity; etc.).
The scene is set in America at the turn/close of the century.
The plot of the play is quite intriguing/intricate/hardly comprehensible at places.
The action revolves around the life of an ordinary family...
The play recounts dramatic/remarkable, significant events that occurred...
The play traces/depicts the story of smb’slife...
The culminating point of the play is.../The action culminates in...
The action comes to a dramatic/tragic denouement (outcome)...
The action drags a little in the first act, but it picks up speed in the secondact,as...The action gets quite brisk in the third act as...
Impression
The production is an important landmark/a real breakthrough in theatrical art.
It aroused a storm of controversy.
Appraisal of Production/Performance and Acting (Favourable Reception)
It is indeed a blockbusting performance.
The production tends to gather full houses/audiences. The production is played/plays to capacity audiences.
The play was a great/tremendous success/box office success.
The performance is fully booked up.
The audience was quite engrossed in the performance.
The performance went off very well.
The play had/got good/fovourable reviews.
The play was well/favourably/enthusiastically received.
We were in raptures over/enthralled by what was going on the stage.
The cast brought their characters to life quite successfully.
Their acting has evoked much praise from the critics.
The play features the prominent actress/actor N as...
The debutant; debutante is able to hold the stage among mature actors/such renowned/distinguished/eminent actors as...
A faultless performance/a very finished performance
His presence in the cast made the performance a significant event in the theatrical world.
He gave a convincing portrayal/characterization of...
A versatile actor, he tried his hand at many different parts.
The actress seems to penetrate into the very soul of her character.
She has a keen/thorough insight into her character inner world.
She can instill/infuse life even into a cardboard part.
Her character is imbued/infused/instilled with life and vitality.
She managed to incarnate her character superbly. She has a remarkable command of the art of reincarnation.
Her Juliet has won favour with thousands of theatre fans.
Her acting/performance leaves an impression of remarkable freshness and sincerity.
On the stage, before the audience,in her costume and make-up, she is no longer herself: she is the charactershe is playing.
Her face is mobile and expressive on the stage.
She brought the house down with her performance./The scene virtually brought the house down.
The house rose to their feet to cheer/hail the actors.
The audience burst into thunderous applause/applauded heartily and enthusiastically.
His appearance was hailed with long applause.
There were several shouts of ‘encore’ and ‘bravo’.
The actors took 3 curtains/curtain calls.
After the performance the audience surged to the stage pelting the actress with nosegays.
We went backstage to present the actors with bouquets of flowers and congratulate them on their success.
Appraisal of Production/Performance and Acting (Criticism)
It was uneven acting, eloquent and touching in places (at times), ineffective in others(at others).
It was a slipshod performance.
There was nothing special about his performance, it was only average.
Sometimes the actors hammed it up a bit and sounded artificial and insincere.
The whole cast was so weak-kneed that the lines were merely spoken and nothing more.
The actor persistently forgot his lines/missed his cues two times. He had to be prompted. He should never be offered more than a walk-on part.
It was not an awe-inspiring performance.
The play had/got poor/unfavourable/terrible reviews.
The performance dragged on.
There were a few displeased hisses in the audience./The audience hissed/hooted the actor off the stage. Some of the audience even thumped on the floor. One of the audience even pelted the actor with an egg.
The public was quite unresponsive/responded but coolly, however hard the actors tried.
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