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As a director, outline your objectives for the use of two design elements in your production of the play and give examples, supported by reasons, of how your ideas might be achieved in performance.

In my performance of Aristophane’s comedy ‘Lysistrata’, I aim to bring out the more serious themes of equality and war. In order to achieve this, I am setting my performance in 1918, during World War 1 and t...
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Answered by Phoebe L. • Drama tutor
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‘It is Shostakovich’s sense of how to use instrumental colour to enhance his melodic and harmonic ideas which makes this music so marvellous.’ Write an essay discussing this view, referring in detail to at least two contrasting passages from the work.

(Answer would typically be an essay, but here are two paragraphs.) Shostakovich’s 5 th Symphony uses a variety of timbres to enhance the conflicting emotions of despair and triumph in the melodic and harmoni...
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Why is Shylock's "Hath not a Jew..." speech important?

In this speech (III.i.48-66), Shylock offers a furious yet relatable explanation of his desire to enact vengeance against Antonio by claiming his bond and taking a pound of flesh from Antonio's body. Shylock...
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Must consequentialists misunderstand the value of close personal relations?

In our lives, we care particularly about a small, close group of people, and we seem to care about them for their own sake. It also seems that the value of such relationships is central to a good life; we wo...
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Why does matrix multiplication seem so unintuitive and weird?!

You're right, when you first learn about matrix multiplication it definitely doesn't feel like the easiest way of defining a form of multiplication. This is particularly true if you've just learned about add...
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