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Murder Pass: Examining The Issues Associated With Toxic Masculinity Through Musical Comedy, Alex Knezevic

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

American Fruitcake, Jacob Roberts-Miller

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

Child Of Divorce: A Play, Nate Myers

Honors College Theses

No abstract provided.

From Heart Mountain, Wyoming, To The Heart Of Little Tokyo: Japanese American Resilience In Los Angeles, Arnab Banerji

Theatre Arts Faculty Works

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Rehearsing Revolution, Daphnie Sicre

Theatre Arts Faculty Works

Book review of Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism (2018) by Patricia A. Ybarra

Audience At Into The Woods Musical, University Of North Florida

Musical Theatre Club and Swoop Troupe Theatre Corporation Performances

Audience waits to see the musical "Into the Woods"

Maureen Mccluskey With Two Actors, University Of North Florida

Musical Theatre Club and Swoop Troupe Theatre Corporation Performances

Director of Into the Woods, Maureen McCluskey with two actors

Vox Machinal: Voice In The Machine, Payton E. Smith

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Baby Snooks And Daddy, Sarah T. Carlisi

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

母语/Mothertongue, Janine Sun Rogers

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Near Never, Jaleel Roy Green

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Cowboy Boogaloo, Paris Loren Adorno

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Cowboy Boogaloo; A Play About Cowboys, Queers, and The American West.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Cowboy Boogaloo, Imogen Thomas

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Cowboy Boogaloo; A play about Cowboys, Queers, and The American West.

Black W(H)Ole Theories, Roobi Starla Gaskins

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Artist Statement

I make work that attempts to liberate the body beyond the confines that society has prescribed to it. I am interested in the manifestations of the internal human; illuminating the internal voice that is often silenced, persuaded, and deemed as illegitimate, despite the fact that it might be the most true. As a mixed Afro Latina woman, my own identity and existence as a visible body is constantly at the mercy of those who I surround myself with, where my external ambiguity falls a victim to constant mislabeling. As a result, the fluidity of my appearance in racial …

Toothcake, Maeve I. O'Brien

Senior Projects Fall 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Costume Design For Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Melissa Rooney

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The following thesis explains the process used to create the costume design for the production of Macbeth produced at the University of Arkansas Global Campus Theatre in the Spring of 2019. Throughout this thesis, I will explain the process by which the costumes went from initial research ideas to sketches and colored renderings and finally to fully realized three dimensional costumes. The design process included in this thesis includes an analysis of the play, inspirational collage, portrait gallery, research, renderings, production images, and an evaluation of the overall process.

Josephine Baker & Me: Black Femme Identity In Performance, Meghan Gwinn

Scripps Senior Theses

The paper explores the complicated intersection between Black womanhood and performance by considering Josephine Baker as a site to engage the concept of “performing identity.” It discuss both the development of burlesque and the history of Josephine Baker to provide a foundation for the investigation of her early-career movement and visual practices. Then, the paper explore these hallmarks through Sherril Dodds’ “critical components of neo-burlesque striptease” writ into her book, Dancing on the Canon: Embodiments of Value in Popular Dance. The second half of this document includes a script of CATHARSIS, a self-devised solo show created to process one’s personal …

Myrrha Now: Reimagining Classic Myth And Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses In The #Metoo Era, Claire A. Pukszta

Scripps Senior Theses

This paper represents the final culmination of a theater senior project. The project consisted of an analytical research paper, performance in a mainstage department production, and supporting process documentation. I portrayed Myrrha, Hunger, Zeus, and others in a production of the play Metamorphoses.

Through research on Mary Zimmerman’s 1998 play Metamorphoses, adapted from the works of Roman poet Ovid, this thesis grapples with the historical meaning of the myth of Myrrha. A polarizing figure, Myrrha was cursed to fall in lust with her father. By exploring of portrayals sexual assault onstage, I tackle themes of audience relationships to …

Maternal Instinct: Exploring The Dynamic Between Mother And Non-Mother Characters In Contemporary Plays, Julia Moriarty

Wayne State University Dissertations

What happens when radical intentions meet ingrained narrative patterns? Focusing on Birth and After Birth by Tina Howe, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake) by Sheila Callaghan, and The How and the Why by Sarah Treem, this paper will unpack the way these texts address cultural attitudes surrounding motherhood and childlessness. A feminist lens will be applied to a dramaturgical study of these plays and the inherited legacies of mothers and non-mothers on stage with which these playwrights grapple. Despite their attempts to expose and dismantle the oppressive cycle of essentialized maternity, these plays all utilize a protagonist/antagonist structure to …

The Set Of The Musical Into The Woods, University Of North Florida

Musical Theatre Club and Swoop Troupe Theatre Corporation Performances

UNF's Musical Theater Club's production of Into the Wood