The Apollo Theatre - Business Case Analysis
BY Alan Mead 10MJ Task 1:Setting the Scene Memo To: Mr B Lambie From: Alan Mead Subject: Intro I have been set the task of Finance Manager to look at, study and if possible solve the problems that face The Apollo Theatre. One of the theatre problems is that if it doesn't make a profit it will go bust in the very near future. As head of finance I will be expected to produce and analyse balance sheets, profit and loss statements and cash flow diagrams. Some of the objectives of the finance department are to provide the theatre with cash when they need it (if available), to keep 'the books', to take financial care of the theatre. To finance new projects if and when they decide to, if we don't or cant finance these projects The Apollo Theatre may go bust. Task 2: Collection of Information This is a copy of my Questionnaire Questionnaire . How often do you go to the theatre? [] Once a week [] Twice a week [] Once a month [] Twice a month [] More than once a year [] Other _______________ 2. Please give your opinion on the following aspects of the Theatre. Like V. Much Good Average Acceptable Poor Price [] [] [] [] [] Location [] [] [] [] [] Snacks [] [] [] [] [] Price of Snacks []
How the legacy of stage lighting affects today's productions.
GCSE DRAMA - PART ONE ESSAY DANNY WHITE ARA How the legacy of stage lighting affects today's productions From its inception acting and plays depended on natural lighting. At first theatres were out of doors, and from times as far back as 1,00 years B.C. there are records of amphitheatres being built so that the Actors faced the East, therefore bring lit from behind as the sun set. The first recorded use of lighting and effects were in 1545 when the use of mirrors to reflect light through bottles filled with coloured liquids was used to make coloured light. Stage-hands lowering cylinders over candles to dim and trimming the wicks to brighten lights was state of the art. In 1783 the arrival of the Kerosene Lamp with an adjustable wick gave a huge boost to the effects available. In 1863, a piece of lime heated in a flame of hydrogen and oxygen gave the famous Lime Light. Then as domestic lighting changed to the use of gas, the Drury Lane Theatre was the first to master the art in 1845. Henry Irving instigated more changes than any previous theatre designer between 1878 and 1898. He was the first person to used coloured glass in front of lights, the first to use electric light, the first to paint the bulbs for effect and the first to think of dimming the house lights so the result of his ideas really showed up. The electric theatre really arrived in 1882
Our last lesson was about a play written by John Godber called Bouncers. It's about four men who work in a nightclub. It is also about their lives and the people they are approached by or come in contact with.
Bouncers Introduction: Our last lesson was about a play written by John Godber called Bouncers. It's about four men who work in a nightclub. It is also about their lives and the people they are approached by or come in contact with. In this essay I will be mainly focusing on Eric. In the play Eric comes across as the leader of the group, he also comes across as the most intellectual. I think Eric's character is revealed as the play goes on. So in my opinion he has the most depth. Eric plays many different roles such as, Baz (one of the young men who visit the nightclub) and Maureen (one of the women getting her hair cut). All in all Eric undergoes eighteen character transformations. John Godber has used many theatre techniques in this play such as mime, thoughts aloud and character transformation. All of the characters are involved with at least is involved with one or more of those examples. Eric's character is involved in transformations, thoughts aloud and mime. Eric uses character transformations the most although he does use thoughts aloud four times. In Bouncers we learn there is more to bouncers than just being big fat bald (or balding) men. What John Godber has done is given the characters life as it were. Eric and his mates are always talking about girls, drink and bodybuilding. Seeing as real life bouncers live in a nighttime
inspector calls
Sybil Birling at the start is described as "about fifty a rather cold women and her husband's social superior ". Out of all the characters she is the biggest snob and is most aware of the differences between the social classes, and even becomes irritated when Mr. Birling praises his cook for a good meal. From the beginning J.B priestly does his best to give us a bad opinion of Mrs. Birling. She is .very ignorant and we can see that when she ignores things she doesn't want to believe. These alone in many ways are very childish .Mrs. Birling is the chairwomen of the brumley women's charity organisation. From what we know this is, as the name suggests, a charity to help all women in need. We find out in act 2 that the organisation was contacted by Eva smith when she was pregnant. She gave her name as Mrs Birling, using the name of the man whom had impregnated her. Mrs. Birling herself was completely shocked when she found out about this and forced the committee to refuse financial hope to because of snobbery at the fact that someone used her family name. This leads us to ask why someone would be elected as chairman or aloud to be, if they were so proud and ungiving. Really we can see that Mrs. Birling wanted the role for status and acknowledgement. Or that she believed that she was a giving kind person who deserved the position and thought she would fulfil it properly. So this is
Choose a play which you have seen and which you particularly enjoyed and discuss the aspects which made it successful. "The Wizard Of Oz" at the Birmingham Repertory theatre.
Choose a play which you have seen and which you particularly enjoyed and discuss the aspects which made it successful. A play that I have seen and particularly enjoyed is "The Wizard Of Oz" at the Birmingham Repertory theatre. This play falls into the genre of musical. Perhaps the singularly most important drama convention from the point of view of audience is "a willing suspension of disbelief. This means that whilst in the theatre the audience need to accept everything which happens on stage as true (even if it could not possibly happen) in order for the play to work as a piece of theatre successfully. In the Wizard Of Oz ,we know that the world of Oz, the wiked witch of the west, the munchkins and the rest of the vast array of characters are purely fictional fantasy but even so we are still willing Dorothy along on her quest, hoping she will succeed (even if we know that everything will be happily ever after in the end). This is because we have willingly suspended our disbelief and have allowed ourselves to be sucked into this magical world. Personally I think that this works particularly well in this play because whilst we know this is one hundred per cent fiction, while we are in that theatre we still believe everything that is happening. The use of colour in the production was one of the most successful aspects. Colour lighting was used to show setting and mood
How is the main interior, the Berling's dining room portrayed in the 1940s film version?
How is the main interior, the Berling's dining room portrayed in the 1940s film version? From banqueting halls in medieval castles to the dining rooms in modern homes people have set aside at least one room in their dwellings to entertain guests. Dining rooms are used to discuss important matters over dinner and for families to spend a portion of their daily time together as a family unit. The Berlings' dining room is portrayed as a comfortable place to be in a family scene. People always feel the need to give a good impression so what better place to make memorable than the room of elaborate meals and family get-togethers. After all, the one thing that everyone remembers best, even after seeing the most fantastic things on a holiday, is the food. It could almost become a saying that if the food and the room setting are good the host will be remembered. These aspects have obviously been applied to the Berling's dining room. The most important contents are: a solid wood table with chairs as the dining table; comfortable seats covered with various throws not far from the dining table; a chandelier hung from the ceiling; a 'candle-stick' telephone and a variety of alcoholic drinks in decanters displayed on a trolley. All these features indicate that some care has been used in decorating this room. The most obvious and expensive of these is the chandelier that provides the
How sustainable are thermal power stations and biogas plants?
How sustainable are thermal power stations and biogas plants? The sustainability of an electricity-generating process determines if it uses resources in a way that can provide enough power required for years to come. Ideally, this can be achieved by using only renewable sources that will be constantly available, and once processed, will give an adequate amount of electricity that will consumed by industry, commerce, transport, households and agriculture. I am going to discuss the sustainability of two approaches to electricity production used at present, thermal power plants and biogasifiers. Thermal power stations are used mainly in MEDC's because they are expensive to produce and maintain. They generate electricity by burning coal, oil or gas, which gives off carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and dust. The input resources are not only rapidly becoming scarce, but are difficult and dangerous to collect from the ground with occasional oil spills, along with damage to the environment. They are also non-renewable and mean this type of power production using these most efficient resources will not be able to continue into the future. The waste products of fossil fuels pollute the atmosphere consequently affecting the increasing problem of acid rain and radioactivity. The large cooling towers are considered an eyesore in the landscape, and must be positioned next to a river for
Post-Fordism is the appearance of new sharp of organization of production, tendency of consumption and modal of regulation. It is a movement beyond the Fordism.
Post-Fordism is the appearance of new sharp of organization of production, tendency of consumption and modal of regulation. It is a movement beyond the Fordism. First of all, the way of organization of production is changing from Fordism to post-fordims. Fordism refers to a manufacturing system with mass production and mass consumption of standard of goods. In Fordism era, capitalists tend to generate huge factories, hire enormous amount of unskilled workers who do the single specific task and stock very lager number of inventory. By doing this, forms would achieve economic scale of production, in tern gain the advantage in terms cost of producing goods. Post-Fordism adopts more flexible m9nufacturing system. The flexible system emphasizes more on the quality of production rather than the quantity. It shifts the ability of system from economies of scale to economies of scope. Robin Murry highlights a series of production changes ''across there have been change in product life and product innovation, with shorter, flexible runs and a wider wide range of product on offer; changes in stock control, with just-in-time methods removing the need to hold large amounts of costly stock; and changes in design and marketing in response to an increasingly diverse pattern of consumption demand.''(www.hmse.edu 'from Fordism to Post-Fordism'). These changes can be described in novel term
The mandate review
The mandate review Banned for decades in the USSR, the Mandate is a classic by Nikolai Erdman, writer of other plays such as "the suicide" and "A meeting about laughter." Declan Donnolen has adapted the most recent production in the English language for the national theatre. Under the new communist two former wealthy families and property-owners are chaotically adrift in the new proletarian state bewildered about how they should define themselves. The first family- the Petrovna's are down on their luck after the Revolution. The only solution is a wedding to a good Communist. Inevitably, the chosen family -the rich, upper class Guliachkin's- are, in their turn looking to marry off one of two Russian sons to a Communist and so when Pasha turns up with a mandate, all seems happy. However, what is a play without a twist and a little humour thrown in for size? The plot hinges on mistaken identities and in particular the confusion of cook, Nastia. She has her fifteen minutes of fame in the golden guise of an Imperial Princess returned to save her people. I think there was a very comical energy to this production right from the beginning with the outrageous decision to replace 'Copenhagen Twilight' with a portrait of Karl Marx and then the added humour of Ivan Ivanovich -- scurrying about with a pot of noodles on his head! What kept it afloat for me, among the numerous references
An Inspector Calls: A Theatre Review.
Nur-Aimi Elias An Inspector Calls: A Theatre Review In Stephen Daldry's production of 'An Inspector Calls', before the curtain even rises the audience has the sounds of air raid sirens thrown at them. This is not only alarming being a symbol of war which in itself is a terrifying ordeal, but it also gives an early insight into what to expect in the play, or rather, what not to expect; security, certainty, predictability and a happy ending, all of which war it itself lacks. Ian McNeil's scenery includes a large Edwardian doll's house, perched and stilted in the cobbled streets of post-Blitz Britain. The visual centrepiece that is the house balanced on its post in all its disfigurement, seems to resemble the barrier between its inhabitants and society; the front of the house swinging open when vulnerable, it falling down when broken and it rising again when rebuilt. The house is also grotesquely small, whereas the family seem extremely big - to metaphor their overblown egos. The house being raised on stilts shows how the Birlings feel the mute people in the street are socially beneath them. These voiceless people represent the lower class community whose views do not count in a world where matters are controlled by those with voice, i.e. the Birlings. Later in the play however, a glaring light spotlights this vast community, highlighting their real importance. Rain was