Happily ever after part 1

Mhm and they all lived happily ever after.

Now, this type of conclusion is actually fairly newt, the

entertainment industry or rather the genres of fairytale and pantomime,

which is kind of strange when you think about it

Now, future research that I wanted to conduct was to

enter into this more and the ideas of how exactly

have fairy tales and pantomime needed to adapt in order

to fit within 21st Century Theatre.

Now, as a logical starting point to this, as not

everyone could have completely understand what fairy tales and pantomime

are. Instantly, I would have to start off with a

brief history of both subjects because it can be quite

extensive now, starting off what is pantomime?

Well, it's something that's actually rather hard to give one

solid definition to as there is a lot of history

to it and it continues to involve even as time

goes by today.

Originally, it had originated in mid 16th century Italy as

committee and alert.

And yet nowadays it's taken quite a term from the

traditional slapstick comedy of the time.

It's now reflects british traditions of family and as often

occurs during the christmas season.

For example, Charles dickens, dickens story of christmas, carol is

one of the most common pantomimes that exists within today's

society. So moving on, what exactly is a fairy tale?

Well, there's a lot of definitions to it as they

were once a form of critique from nobility.

There are often used to teach specific values in a

way that would catch the attention of all audiences, no

matter the age group, the common characteristic of fairy tales,

where the idea that there was anthropomorphized animals such as

My Sad might have shirts on or top, Even talking

animals or nobility were normally included in some shape or

form entails.

Our originally based on the contemporary imagination became later known

as fairy tales.

So that's all and good.

But what's exactly the difference while at some point in

the history of pants and pantomime, there is a scene

or two where nothing is said.

But his story is told through the actions of the

actors and actresses and concepts that are often found in

fairy tales can be included in pantomime, such as the

anthropomorphized animals.

Now moving on, I feel the need to talk about

kind of like the big three names within these two

genres as a whole and they are from left to

right Charles Perrault, hans, christian Andersen and the brothers grimm.

Now, who exactly they are.

We'll get into shortly, Charles Perrault since existences.

He was an influential figure in the court of King

louis the 14th.

He was the author of earlier versions of Cinderella, Little

red riding hood and etcetera and key elements in his

story or to show audience is the importance of wisdom,

virtue, and obedience.

So pretty much this was the guy that would often

use his stories to teach lessons to the general public

even though a lot of his stories were known to

or more nobility due to his deep connection with them.

Now moving on to hans christian Andersen, he was more

so a novelist than uh being able to access the

theater. The tales of his felt more compelling due to

the personal history.

Had him connect with the perspectives of the unfortunate and

the outcast.

His tales were meant for adults and Children but often

had concepts that Children could not easily understand.

And yet he's his tales also retained kinda like a

almost shot like perspective that's still caught their intention.

However, what is more commonly known for was the use

of anthropomorphized animals.

Now moving on to the Grimm brothers.

These are sort of like the darker fairy tales as

one might imagine.

Or rather that is the first thought that some people

could have.

They actually originally started collecting tales in order to help

friends with their projects and their tails remain the currently

scientific collection of folk tales.

And yet when you think about it, couldn't be, couldn't

argue being made that some of the earlier story is

we're if some of their earlier stores were performed, it

could be seen as an early version of theater of

cruelty. For example, the stepsisters in their version of Cinderella

had cut off parts of their own feet in order

to fit into the glass slippers, had their mother's mother's

suggestion. Now moving on, the types of research that would

be mandatory when conducting the search into the history, would

be interviews in archival work.

How and for each of them have their own set

of problems.

For example, with interviews, if you ask someone what exactly

is pantomime, the most common answer you get, you would

get what either be, oh, it's commedia Dell'arte or reflects

british traditional values with very few people being able to

answer any form of question of what happened to pantomime

in between.

You can also ask personal opinions about the three heads

of the fairy tale and pantomime.

And but personal opinions, we're are always going to be

very different, which is why there's going to be a

heavy reliance on archival work simply due to the fact

that there is a lot of history that needs to

be gone through.

However, what what's limiting about this is that there's almost

too much history to go through.

For example, with the Grimm's brothers, you could do an

entire presentation about the series of books that they created

and how each version was kind of more light hearted

than the last.

Now, the next logical stuff after this is to talk

about how society influences the story, because because, let's face

it, this is what's normally happening these days.

So in order to do this, you would have to

take a focus on the rise of Disney amongst other

companies due to the idea of how much of the

connection Disney has and how much of an influence they

have on stories as a whole.

It's, there is some minor changes, but for for the

most part, theatrical performances would uh would often have some

90 of their material similar to what Disney and uh

other giant entertainment industries have formed.

But a good question to ask though, is how did

they choose which story tales to base their fairy tales

off of?

For example, Disney's Cinderella was based off Charles Perrot's version,

even though the story can actually be traced back to

ninth century china.

Was it due to popularity at the time?

Because it would be, it is interesting to think about

what have Disney actually chose to base their stories off

of the work of the Grimm's brothers.

That would be a lot darker tales.

And how much of a change was the genre of

pantomime in fairytales encounter as a whole?

Due to companies such as Disney who now play a

large role in the entertainment industry.

Well, that means that needs to be answered through something,

through something like a case study, an example of which

is on this next slide, A case study of 1804

Drewry Lane Cinderella.

Now, this performance was based off the tail of chalk

by Charles Perrault, but do the conflict conflict that was

starting to rise up between Britain and napoleon's France.

Everyone felt a need to remove as many french connections

to the pantomime as possible.

Moving on, what was weird, it was that venus in

Cuban forced the prince to fall in love with whoever

wears a specific dress in order to counter to stop

his military ambitions and improve his romantic life.

So when you think about it, uh our society is

so used to everyone having a happily ever after.

And yet in this case, does the prince actually get

a happily ever after when he marries Cinderella?

Did he fall in love with her as a person

or did the gods venus and Cupid force him to

fall in love with her?

Everyone's happy?

And yet there's no real mention of what the princess

actual mental state is at the time.

And going back to an earlier point that I mentioned

that fairy tales in pantomime were a form of critique

for nobility.

Was the prince reflection of King George the third.

During that time, King George had actually had a madness

that was similar to the manic station of bipolar depression.

Yeah, so the Prince falling under occurs.

Could it actually be portrayed as kind of like a

mood swing, which is which is very common with bipolar

depression or bipolar disorder?

Even the fact that the prince was a character that

had no lines.

Could it be shown as the concept between are the

connection between nobility and the general public where the public

actually knows who the princes, Even though the Prince never

really says one word to them directly.

That's it.

And moving on from there, the types of research that

would need to be performed for the viewpoint would be

attending performances, conducting interviews and are once again, archival work.

Yeah. Now attending performances that would that would have to

That would mean that you would have to attend multiple

performances of not exactly one specific show, but 11 type

of show, for example, you would have to watch performance.

You watch the performances, Cinderella, that might take place within

today is Society, Another one which may take place within

the 1980s.

Now, moving on to interviews, that would probably the hardest

type of research to conduct.

Because in order to be successful interviews wouldn't even be

set up with it.

Bigwigs of the Disney Corporation, amongst others.

Yet, it's not exactly as if there would be completely

outright with Oh, yeah, we we know we had a

heavy influence on, on the entertainment society and we know

we're shaping it.

It's gonna be hard to get a straight answer like

that. Which is why it's back to a lot of

archive archival work once again, just to just to see,

oh yeah, the society of this time was reflected within

this piece by this reason or in other words, archival

work would be dedicated to getting a lot more case

studies to provide examples in such.

Now moving on or rather where to move on from

here. Institutions exist, our pantomime and fairy tales even important,

still important into a society.

Well, personally, I like to think so because the pantomime

and fairy tales used to teach us valuable lessons that

we would take to heart.

And yet nowadays it seemed more so as a money

maker for the entertainment industry.

So is it still important from a moral standpoint, or

is it important from a monetary standpoint?

And do older plays exist?

That would be successful in 21st Century Theatre without having

to be edited?

Most likely that wouldn't be the case due to the

due to our cancel culture society.

What may have been completely fine in yesteryear?

What someone would take offense to today and the future?

Where will be presented and published?

I like it to be in papers about committee and

alert and papers about how theater survives in today.

But more than likely this type of research would be

presented within ted talks.

Budget and considerations.

Uh, budget would have to mostly go to archival work

due to the facts of how heavy that it would

be. And most of the budget would have to go

to the interviews and attending performances.

Now constraints there would be a lack of willing interviewees

or repeated information gained from them.

So

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