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The Ministry Of Biscuits
''The Ministry of Biscuits'' is a musical comedy, written in 1997–98 by the playwright and composer Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, Brian Mitchell and the author and illustrator Philip Reeve, with a filmed section directed by Ben Rivers. It mixes Ealing comedies, Ealing comedy and the light music of the 1940s with a dystopian setting inspired by George Orwell's ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. Writing According to Mitchell, in the mid 1990s, the two writers were working on a different project, when Reeve handed him a chocolate ginger nut, 'sparking a quip about the ‘ministry of biscuit ideas’ from which the entire musical was born.'. From the first draft, Mitchell knew that the plot was so absurd that it could only be staged as a musical. He tolDaily Brightonthat, though he had studied music at University, he had a piano that he hadn't touched for ‘seven years’, but as soon as he began working on The Ministry of Biscuits, ‘music started to bubble out of me’. Mitchell's scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musical Comedy
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
