Harold Pinter: A Night Out : A Study in the Political ConnotationsAnd the Abuse of Power

Harold Pinter’s A Night Out is a significant but rarely produced piece of drama. Therefore, there is very little criticism to support or contradict my argument. The reason why I chose to do my essay on this particular play is to open doors for academic research and to try and make it an equal to its sister plays. I will raise questions and topics to prove the play is worth the readers’ time and effort and that A Night Out is a sharp piece of political theatre. Although at first glance it is a simple enough story, a straightforward tale of the nasty consequences of motherly love when it is pushed to the limit, on deeper inspection, a more far reaching and complex analysis of the abuse of power can be observed. The play offers a variety of themes, including: interpersonal power struggles, failed attempts at communication, antagonistic relationships, the threat of impending or past violence, the struggle for survival or identity, domination and submission, politics, lies and verbal, physical, psychological and sexual abuse. The prevailing theme in the play is the abuse of power: powerful parties oppressing weaker ones, and the results of the oppressed party looking for a vent in someone even weaker than themselves.

Assessing the effectiveness of ISO 3382 for evaluating the acoustical quality of italian historical theatres: the case study of the Bonci Theatre

The present study concerns the acoustical characterisation of Italian historical theatres. It moved from the ISO 3382 which provides the guidelines for the measurement of a well established set of room acoustic parameters inside performance spaces. Nevertheless, the peculiarity of Italian historical theatres needs a more specific approach. The Charter of Ferrara goes in this direction, aiming at qualifying the sound field in this kind of halls and the present work pursues the way forward. Trying to understand how the acoustical qualification should be done, the Bonci Theatre in Cesena has been taken as a case study. In September 2012 acoustical measurements were carried out in the theatre, recording monaural e binaural impulse responses at each seat in the hall. The values of the time criteria, energy criteria and psycho-acoustical and spatial criteria have been extracted according to ISO 3382. Statistics were performed and a 3D model of the theatre was realised and tuned. Statistical investigations were carried out on the whole set of measurement positions and on carefully chosen reduced subsets; it turned out that these subsets are representative only of the “average” acoustics of the hall. Normality tests were carried out to verify whether EDT, T30 and C80 could be described with some degree of reliability with a theoretical distribution. Different results, according to the varying assumptions underlying each test, were found. Finally, an attempt was made to correlate the numerical results emerged from the statistical analysis to the perceptual sphere. Looking for “acoustical equivalent areas”, relative difference limens were considered as threshold values. No rule of thumb emerged. Finally, the significance of the usual representation through mean values and standard deviation, which may be meaningful for normal distributed data, was investigated.

Dus grose success lied "Unser neue Heim" : sung by Joseph Shoengold in Isidore Solotorefsky's "Yesoimem fin der Welt" (Orphan's of the world) ; played at Liberty Theatre East New York

music by Peretz Sandler. Words by Isidor Lilien

The Development of the Jewish Theatre ; Die Entwicklung des jüdischen Theaters

E. G. Fried

The rose of Castille : opera in three acts ; ... and performed in the presence of Her Majesty and the Court (by Royal command) on the occasion of the festival performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, in honor of the nuptials of The Princess Royal and The Prince of Prussia, January 21, 1858

the music (composed expressly for the Pyne and Harrison English opera Company) by M. W. Balfe. [Text] by A. Harris and E. Falconer

Fidelio : or, constancy rewarded! ; an opera, in three acts, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane, by the author of the "Freyschutz", "The eagle's haunt" &c

[Ludwig van Beethoven]

Theatre in the Palace of Versailles

Signatur des Originals: S 36/G02687

Cortes y planos del teatro de Sagunto [Material gráfico] = Coupes et plans du theatre de Sagonte = Form and plan of the theatre of Sagonta

Resumen: Descripción: lámina que recoge dos cortes transversales del interior y dos planos generales del teatro de Sagunto

Segunda vista del teatro de Sagunto [Material gráfico] = Seconde vue du théâtre de Sagonte = Second view of the theatre of Sagonta

Estampado junto a: "Vista de la Ciudadela"

Vista general del Teatro de Sagunto [Material gráfico] = Vue generale du Theatre de Sagonte = General view of the Theatre of Sagonta

Resumen: Descripción: vista general del Teatro de Sagunto desde el exterior, se observan las gradas