Thursday, December 10, 2009

What would be a good topic for a paper for class - cultural diversity in theatre...?

The topic should be based on ---- Exploration of any cultures living in America in terms of its theatre, its symbolism or how it influenced the history of theater in America.



What would be a good topic for a paper for class - cultural diversity in theatre...?opera ticket



Hi! Why not to write about some "link", like European country with rich theatre culture (England, France, Italy, Russia) as point 1 and some American theatre with these national traditions as point 2? I mean, you can perfectly show a kind of succession, and influence will be obvious...



Good luck! :)



What would be a good topic for a paper for class - cultural diversity in theatre...?pacific theater opera theater



You can probably talk about a variety of ethnicity and their stereotypes being used as a humor or even a definite thing on theatre. By theatre, I'm assuming you mean movies as a type of media. For example, based on the stereotypes, Asian culture symbolizes martial art, yakuzas and animated characteristics. African American culture may symbolize the gangsters and the ghetto or Hispanic culture may also symbolize gangsters and drug dealers. Even though we learn at schools not to stereotype about other groups, it's surprising how much stereotypes there are in the movies. Either many movie producers aren't educated enough or those stereotypes are just what people want to see pleasuring from holding onto our ignorance. For some reason people appreciate these stereotypical superficial images of the ethnic groups in America on screen and there should be a lot of reasons explaining why. Perhaps, people fear; perhaps people are indifferent about finding out the real human qualities from people in those groups. And this vicious circle of images portrayed on media keeps on affecting people cognitively, behaviorally and attitudinally. Well, did I talk about things that are too obvious? lol Just my thoughts from being a Communications major in college years ago. Good luck.
You could write about how Native American storytelling is reflected in cowboy poetry readings, spaghetti westerns, or modern American theatre in general if that better fits your assignment. One possible discussion is how Native American symbolism is used in set design to demonstrate desert or Southwest geography. Hope I helped. Good luck with your assignment.
What about the first African American cast of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" now on broadway. It is very interesting for a Tennessee Williams "deep south" sort of show. You could focus on minorities in traditionally "white" roles.

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