What: " War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells, was originally presented in 1938 by Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on the Air as a Halloween broadcast. For these performances, minor script changes have been made to localize the show to Connecticut, with Fairfield County becoming the landing zone for outer space aliens. And the play is presented as if the audience is peering into the closed studio set, observing the radio actors in their natural habitat. There are two shows in one, the radio play heard over the sound system, complete with live sound effects, and the silent drama that casually unfolds between the actors when they are off microphone.
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Ipsos recruited the teens via their parents who were a part of its KnowledgePanel, a probability-based web panel recruited primarily through national, random sampling of residential addresses. The survey is weighted to be representative of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who live with parents by age, gender, race, ethnicity, household income and other categories.
This report also includes quotes from teen focus groups. Pew Research Center worked with PSB Insights to conduct four live, online focus groups with a total of 16 U.S. 13- to 17-year-olds. The focus groups were conducted Jan. 12-13, 2022.
While these youth describe the benefits they get from social media, this positivity is not unanimous. Indeed, 38% of teens say they feel overwhelmed by all the drama they see on social media, while about three-in-ten say these platforms have made them feel like their friends are leaving them out of things (31%) or have felt pressure to post content that will get lots of likes or comments (29%). Another 23% say these platforms make them feel worse about their own life.
Teen girls report encountering some of these pressures at higher rates. Some 45% of girls say they feel overwhelmed because of all the drama on social media, compared with 32% of boys. Girls are also more likely than boys to say social media has made them feel like their friends are leaving them out of things (37% vs. 24%) or worse about their own lives (28% vs. 18%).
Even as teens tend to view the impact of social media on their own lives in more positive than negative terms, they are more critical of its influence on their peers. While 9% of teens think social media has had a mostly negative effect on them personally, that share rises to 32% when the same question is framed about people their age.
There's drama brewing in the golf world over a new golf ball for professional male golfers. Why a new golf ball? Well, the pros are driving balls way farther than they did in the past, in part due to better golf equipment. And that is changing the character of some of the sport's classic courses. NPR's Gus Contreras reports on the history of the game and where it could be headed next.
According to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, watching a live theatre production can increase our empathy for the groups depicted in the play and may even result in changes in charitable behavior. During the study, the researchers surveyed 1,622 audience members, either immediately before or immediately after seeing a live theatre production. The participants showed changes in their attitudes towards racial discrimination, income inequality, welfare, corporate regulations, wealth redistribution, and affirmative action. They also increased their charitable giving after the performance.
Improvisation, or improv, is a form of live theatre in which the plot, characters, and dialogue of a game, scene, or story are made up in the moment. Often improvisers will take a suggestion from the audience, or draw on some other source of inspiration to get started.
At a time when real guns and live ammunition are getting banned from most movie and television productions, armorer Mike Burch is causing a stir in the industry by going the opposite route with the upcoming World War II drama Reveille. Of course, the idea of intentionally utilizing live ammo on a movie set is highly controversial, given what happened with cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust in 2021. Even so, Burch and writer-director Michael Akkerman made the decision to use live ammo on the set of Reveille, though they insist that it was done under strict safety protocols and supervision from the armorer along with wardrobe advisors Brian McCallion and Samuel Niles.
"Michael Akkerman and I had many discussions about whether to use blanks or live rounds on set to convey the realism," Burch explains in a statement. "There were many questions, rightfully so, but in the end, the actors gave consent and were comfortable using live ammunition for certain shots. When 'cut' was called, each actor was approached individually and other than putting the safety on, was instructed not to move until the firearm was cleared by myself, Brian, and Samuel."
Reveille is inspired by true events. The film is described as a historically accurate depiction of World War II, as Akkerman had, in conjunction with Myra Miller PhD of Footstep Researchers, used archival documents and interviewed family members of WW2 survivors. From there, he scripted a drama that takes viewers "on a visceral journey where nationality and allegiance blur and the rules of war are tested like never before."
Other filmmakers are keeping guns and live ammo far, far away from their movie sets. That includes Guy Ritchie, who used airsoft pellet guns for his last film, The Covenant. Speaking about the decision with Newsweek, Ritchie described this approach of banning guns as a "relief," admitting that he never liked bringing them onto his sets in the first place.
On page 92 of its study, the IEP reveals a striking piece of data: when it comes to the economic cost of violence, Ireland performs better than almost all countries in the world. Ranking 160th out of 163 nations, the toll is only 3% of the GDP compared to the global average, 12.9%. Only Bangladesh, Indonesia and Madagascar perform slightly better in this domain.
Coming soon: alongside the full recording are new learning resources. These packs have been created to support students in Key Stage 2, 3 and 4 as they watch the production, with opportunities to engage in drama, design, literacy and history activities. The Key Stage 4 pack is designed to directly support students carrying out a practice live theatre review for GCSE drama.
Directed by Olivier award-winning director Bijan Sheibani. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling.
One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Oliver Goldsmith's play offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family. Directed by Jamie Lloyd with a cast including Cush Jumbo and Katherine Kelly.
We stage up to 20 productions at our three theatres in London each year, ranging from reimagined classics to modern masterpieces and new work by contemporary writers and theatre-makers. The work we make strives to be as inclusive, diverse and accessible as possible, playing in London, on tour across the UK, on Broadway, and around the world. The National Theatre reaches 7 million people worldwide each year through live, broadcast and digital programmes including NT Live, which broadcasts some of the best of British theatre to over 2,500 venues in 65 countries.
After Welles selected the book for adaptation, Houseman passed it on to Howard Koch, a writer recently hired to script the Mercury broadcasts, with instructions to convert it into late-breaking news bulletins. Koch may have been the first member of the Mercury to read The War of the Worlds, and he took an immediate dislike to it, finding it terribly dull and dated. Science fiction in the 1930s was largely the purview of children, with alien invaders confined to pulp magazines and the Sunday funnies. The idea that intelligent Martians might actually exist had largely been discredited. Even with the fake news conceit, Koch struggled to turn the novel into a credible radio drama in less than a week.
Hearing this from my subconsciousness made me realize that I was subconsciously playing out my innermost desire whenever I watched movie/TV characters meet, fall in love, and get together on screen. Sometimes I would even re-watch shows just to relive the memory.
The answer was obvious. The former would lead me to live my life through others, and these are not even real people to begin with. (Not that it would matter even if the shows were based on real people.) The latter would fulfill me more than the former ever would.
Not only that, but shows and games can also be great ways for us to learn about human relations, the world, different cultures, and so on. Before I traveled to the U.S., my main exposure to the country was from movies and shows. Many Hollywood movies tend to be set in New York City (or some urban, fast-moving city), while the drama series I watched (such as Buffy and Charmed) were set in west coast California.
In the more severe cases of vicarious livers, people might even think they are those characters. Think crazed fanatics and people who obsess about a certain movie, drama or game beyond the levels of a regular fan. These people dedicate their lives to that very movie/drama/game or a particular character in the movie/drama/game to the point of worship and idolatry.
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