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Hey guys! If you love theater please come and join us! 

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ISMENE’S MONOLOGUE ANALYSIS 

Hey guys, this is just a brief video of the analysis of the monologue of Ismene from the play Antigone. Check it out. 

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ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL |  IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA

During this year’s pandemic, many important theater events and festivals all moved online. As a huge opera fan myself, I am very much delighted to see this new opportunity to see world’s best opera on YouTube. This is a livestreaming of the famous opera  IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (A Barber in Serbia) by Rossini, and I also have seen this opera but another version----Royal Opera House. This light opera is about a young man who admires a beautiful young girl in the town but the girl’s father does not permit anyone too see his daughter. In order to date with the girl, the young man asks for a local barber for help. Through different tricks, finally the young man gains the love of the beautiful girl through the help of the barber. In fact the opera is very funny and full of jokes, its songs are also very pleasant to listen to. The most famous song from this opera is called  Largo al factotum (Make Way for the Busy Man). In fact, if you watched the cartoon Tom and Jerry growing up, you might recognized this song. Yes sure, great cartoons as Tom and Jerry does incorporate a lot of classical music in their background music. 

Here I have the links for different version of this song: 

From Tom and Jerry: https://youtu.be/QMiWHlzZsmM

From Met Opera: https://youtu.be/-ipb9xbXSAY

Enjoy it! 

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ONLY FIVE HOURS FROM NOW !

Attention please my theater fans, a wonderful dance drama are going to be live streaming on YouTube! Actually I have seen this show and I was totally dazzled by it. Although the plot might seems a bit cliché, all the designs and the singing and the dancing just fantastic. You will never regret to see it. Go and check it out! Probably I will writ a review about it later. Enjoy the show! 

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Free online National Theatre broadcast: Death of England: Delroy 

Watch Clint Dyer and Roy Williams’ Death of England: Delroy, an ‘urgent, timely solo work, performed with firecracker energy’ (★★★★ Evening Standard) by actor Michael Balogun. The play explores a Black working class man searching for truth and confronting his relationship with Great Britain.   

Check it out and set a timer for your own time zone! Enjoy the show~ 

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Free Shakespeare from the Globe Theater! 

Hi my friend, this is a free Shakespeare production of the Romeo and Juliet on Youtube, and I hope you will enjoy it! Globe Theater really suffers from the pandemic, so I hope you could also consider to donate a little to support for the original Shakespeare and the Theater Community. Thanks! Enjoy the free show. 

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Well, here we got some BEAUTIFUL poetry to say good bye to TRUMP!

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Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 

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Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure.

The Stranger by Albert Camus

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A World A Star 

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“Well, she’s literary a Botticelli angel.” 

Before Sunrise (1995)

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THE SHOW MUST GO ON!

THE SHAKESPEARE SEASON COMING!

Another great news for my theater lovers! Due to the coronavirus, the Shows Must Go On is featuring a new season of online theater productions of Shakespeare. The Teaser is above and you can get a sense of what you will going to see. 

You can watch the show BEING SHAKESPEARE with Simon Callow right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=megvDyy3Wsk

More shows coming. 

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ATTENTION PLEASE MY THEATER LOVERS! 

I know it had been a hard time during Covid for you guys because all the theaters are closed. But now here is a special series of events holding by the Royal Shakespeare Company! Famous guests are invited to talk about Shakespeare on Zoom, and the ticket is not expensive. More details please check their website above. 

WHAT IS MOST EXCITING FOR ME!

The most terrific Shakespeare actors of the time Ian McKellen is also invited to the talk! Go guys, set your alarms and buy the tickets. This is indeed very very rare opportunity! 

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Hey check it out guys~ This is the new Pinterest account I made to share ideas about Theater’s costumes and makeup designs. Check it out and comment any thoughts you have below! 

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Why IB Theater? A student’s perspective

Hey guys! This is my first time making a video so there is much space for improvements. I said at the beginning that this is a short video, but it turns out to be quite long. But still, worth your time! In the future, I will also make videos to talk about my IB Theater experience for you as a reference.

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Cornell Summer Session

Shakespeare on Stage! 

Hello everyone! I realized that I haven't update my blog for a very long time… sorry for the delay, I was doing my SAT prep this summer, so I really was struggling and not playing! However, the most meaningful part of my summer vacation was not my SAT prep, but the Cornell Shakespeare on Stage Summer Program! Although due to pandemic, everything had been shift online, I still had a very meaningful experience with my classmates zooming!

This summer program lasts for three weeks, and it also worth three credits. Together we read five Shakespeare plays, from Richard III to Romeo and Juliet, to King Lear, to Macbeth, and finally to Hamlet. I have to admit that 3 weeks were obviously too short for those classics, but the professor really did a very good job to guide us through the Shakespeare’s world by dissecting some monologues in the plays. For every play, he assigned us reading homework and then let us discuss some specific scenes or characters in class. The class discussions were terrific, and for this I have to thank my wonderful classmates. Some of their opinions and perspectives were truly captivating and insightful, which also broaden my view on Shakespeare.

                                                                    I think Professor Bruce is pretty cool! 

Don't be scared by Shakespeare! Although the language is hard, our professor Bruce did manage to help us to appreciate the real fascinating part of Shakespeare. After this class, I think you will gain an insight about how and why Shakespeare is such great author. This class is also not a strict academic class, and we also looked over a lot of clips from different version of the Shakespeare adapted movies. After carefully analyzing the texts, you will find that some interpretations are very interesting while others are just nonsense. The wonderful part of Shakespeare plays is their possibilities for interpretations, but if the interpretations are not based on the texts, they are not good interpretations. After this class, I really learned how to analyzing classical text as well as digging the subliminal plays, so I can watched those adapted movies critically with clear eyes.

If you really love both theater and literature like me, this summer program is extremely suited for you! Unlike other popular programs such as Biology and Finance, Shakespeare summer program is not very competitive to apply. But the class atmosphere and the professor are still great! In turns for next year, you will get a chance to go to the beautiful Cornell Campus in Ithaca, which I did not. Here is a link to the web page of the program: https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/shakespeare  

Hope you have a nice day~

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A Series of Photos for Kun Opera The Peony Pavilion 

Liniang Du (female) : Wen Shan

Mengmei Lui (male): Xiaming Shi