The Old Maid And The Thief, 2018 Ouachita Baptist University
The Old Maid And The Thief, Theatre Department
Theatre Posters and Programs
This is the promotional poster for The Old Maid and the Thief.
Patriarchal Ecocide: An Ecofeminist Reading Of Rahul Varma's Bhopal And Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People, 2018 The British University in Egypt (BUE)
Patriarchal Ecocide: An Ecofeminist Reading Of Rahul Varma's Bhopal And Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy Of The People, Rania M Rafik Khalil
English Language and Literature
Ecofeminism is a movement that sees a connection between the exploitation of the natural world and the subordination of women. This concept of ecology and feminism conceptualized by Simone de Beauvoir (1952) and later refined by Francoise d’Eaubonne in 1974 has greened artistic values across disciplines, it is however perceived to be found only sparsely in drama. Una Chaudhuri (1994) and Theresa J. May (2005) argue that theatre is both “immediate and communal” (May 85) with a wealth of productions that “awaken ecological sensibilities” (85) and contest “industrialisation’s animus against nature” (24). Within this context, Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of …
Center For Art & Theater News, 2018 Georgia Southern University
Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University
Center for Art & Theater News (2008-2021)
- Master of Fine Arts candidate has steel sculpture exhibition on Statesboro Campus
Mary Poppins (November 1-3, 2018), 2018 Lindenwood University
Mary Poppins (November 1-3, 2018), Julian Fellowes
Student Theatre Programs
Program for Mary Poppins.
To view the photos from this production of The Curious Incident of the Mary Poppins, please click here.
Poster: Fall Improv Show, 2018 University of North Florida
Poster: Fall Improv Show, University Of North Florida
Fall Improv Show
Fall Improv Show, October 26, 2018. J. Brooks Brown Hall, Building 39, Room 1016
Bridging Contradictions: Socialist Actresses And Star Culture In East Germany, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bridging Contradictions: Socialist Actresses And Star Culture In East Germany, Victoria Rizo Lenshyn
Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I argue that multiple stakeholders in East Germany (GDR)—the fans, artists, and state— adapted the star phenomenon to help validate GDR socialist culture at home and abroad, and to bridge seemingly contradictory elements within the dualistic context of the global Cold War: the individual and collective, the ordinary and extraordinary, idealism and reality, the past and present, tradition and progress, East and West. As public figures, GDR stars offered audiences multiple points of identification and helped the enlarged working class navigate its new dominant social position in GDR social life. Officially, stars offered an engaging performance of …
Adapting For A New Audience: Ta'zieh-Between Two Rivers, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Adapting For A New Audience: Ta'zieh-Between Two Rivers, Nikoo Mamdoohi
Masters Theses
This thesis is the written portion of my experience as a director, staging an adaptation of the traditional Iranian theater form, Ta’zieh, for my thesis project. I start with a brief description of our adapted performance, followed by the inspirations that led to the creation of the piece. I then trace the evolution of the idea from the initial stage to the final performance. I describe the adaptation process in three sections, the story, form, and practice. In each section, in a comparative manner, I write about the ways in which Ta’zieh is traditionally done and elaborate on our decisions …
Interpreting Dreams: Directing An Immersive Adaptation Of Strindberg's A Dream Play, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Interpreting Dreams: Directing An Immersive Adaptation Of Strindberg's A Dream Play, Mary-Corinne Miller
Masters Theses
This written portion of my thesis documents how I, as director, conceptualized, devised and staged an immersive adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, with the support of a large team of collaborators including: assistant directors, dramaturgs, designers, stage managers, and actors. In this document I attempt to synthesize the discoveries I made in this process regarding the challenges and experience of directing immersive theater, including the importance of giving up directorial control and relying on my collaborators as partners in the creation of the production.
I begin with an introduction to the research I conducted into the field of …
Play In The Woods: The Role Of The Dramaturg In Facilitating A Holistic, Slow Theater-Making Process, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Play In The Woods: The Role Of The Dramaturg In Facilitating A Holistic, Slow Theater-Making Process, Claudia Nolan
Masters Theses
In this thesis, I document the ideas behind and my process for Play in the Woods, an experiment in slow theater-making that serves as a model for how dramaturgs can facilitate sustainable, holistic methods of performance. This model is grounded in feminist theater practices and the aesthetic of poor theater. In creating the performance of Play in the Woods, I as dramaturg invited participants to serve as co-creators, individually crafting pieces that examined fairytales and the role those stories have played on their lives. The performance was held out of doors at the Amethyst Brook Conservation Area on …
Queer Temporality And Aesthetics In Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge: A Dramaturgical Exploration Of The Play At Umass Amherst, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Queer Temporality And Aesthetics In Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge: A Dramaturgical Exploration Of The Play At Umass Amherst, Gaven D. Trinidad
Masters Theses
This master’s thesis documents the dramaturgical exploration of the spring 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Theater’s production of gender non-conforming performance artist Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge. The thesis is separated into two parts. The first half focuses on my dramaturgical analysis of Mac’s play and its exploration of queer temporality and queer embodiment, asserting the importance of queer aesthetics in American drama and its vital role in shaping the future of LGBTQIA+ politics in the United States. The second half includes reflections on rehearsal processes and performances, giving readers and fellow artists examples of the potential …
Motion As Music: Hypermetrical Schemas In Eighteenth-Century Contredanses, 2018 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Motion As Music: Hypermetrical Schemas In Eighteenth-Century Contredanses, Alison N. Stevens
Masters Theses
An important part of the recent growth in scholarship on meter focuses on reconstructing 18th-century listening practices. Danuta Mirka (2009) studies contemporary accounts of meter in theory treatises to build a model of 18th-century metric listening, while Stefan Love (2016) takes a corpus studies approach, arguing that surveying repertoire provides a more accurate view of meter than 18th-century theorists. But despite the known debt that much 18th-century art music owes to dance and dance music, Mirka and Love only briefly mention dance. In touching so lightly on dance, these and other authors overlook the more fundamental connection between meter and …
Bat Boy Playbill, 2018 Providence College
Bat Boy Playbill, Providence College
Playbill and Promotion
Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
Angell Blackfriars Theatre Smith Center for the Arts
Bat Boy
THE MUSICAL
Directed by Jimmy Calitri
Musical Direction by Lila Kane
Music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe
Story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming
Scenic Design Trevor Elliot
Costume Design Maxine Wheelock
Lighting Design Steven McLellan
Sound Design Gabriel Luxton & Stuart Holland
Choreographer Jennifer Hopkins
Fight Choreographer Jim Beauregard
Hair, Make-up, Prosthetics and Wigs Michael Dates
Voice and Dialect Coach Megan Chang
Bat Boy Poster, 2018 Providence College
Bat Boy Poster, Providence College
Playbill and Promotion
A Darkly Funny, Pop Rock Musical
Bat Boy
THE MUSICAL
Providence College Dept. Theatre, Dance & Film
Directed by Jimmy Calitri
Musical Direction by Lila Kane
Choreography by Jennifer Hopkins
Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', 2018 University of Dayton
Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', Aili W. Bresnahan
Aili Bresnahan
This book review attempts to interpret the meaning and value of Gary Peters’ book in a way that is true to the kind of book, an experimental improvisation, that it purports to be. As such, it grapples with the difficulties of evaluating the merits of a philosophical discussion within a book that claims not to be philosophy and case studies in performance that beg the question of whether they accurately exemplify the (non-)philosophy they are meant to support. Despite these difficulties, this review ends with the conclusion that this book does, in fact, convey something essential about the nature of …
Theatre And The Overwhelming Question: Why Make Theatre In These Times?, 2018 University of New Mexico
Theatre And The Overwhelming Question: Why Make Theatre In These Times?, Mónica Valeria Sánchez
Theatre & Dance ETDs
The following essay communicates my journey as a longtime theatre artist as I have navigated my way through the discipline, and towards the craft of playwriting. My intention to study in the program was soon escalated by an existential turning point subsequent to the neoliberal agenda that gained momentum pre, post, and during the election of 2016. This thesis is in response to the question, "Why make theatre now?" I approach this query through the themes and the characters in my plays; through a socio-cultural-historic lens, and via an examination of the creative process as it relates to the metaphysics …
Field, 2018 Montclair State University
Field, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University
2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries
Alastair Macaulay of The New York Times calls choreographer Liz Gerring’s mind, “warmly modernist: scientific but also passionately and infectiously in love with movement.” Gerring returns to the Kasser with “field,” the third in a trilogy of works created in collaboration with composer Michael J. Schumacher and designer Robert Wierzel, all commissioned and produced by Peak Performances. In Field, Gerring and her team conceive a place in which the elements — movement, sound, and light — combine to envelope and engage the audience, and where her magnificent dancers test their the physical limits.
Dracula, 2018 Chapman University
Macbeth...The Tragedy Of, 2018 Otterbein University
Macbeth...The Tragedy Of, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2018-2019 Season
A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth
The Laramie Project, 2018 Chapman University
The Relationship Between Instagram Selfies And Body Image In Young Adult Women, 2018 Trinity University
The Relationship Between Instagram Selfies And Body Image In Young Adult Women, Charles N. Wagner, Ester Aguirre Alfaro, Erin M. Bryant
Erin M Sumner
This study observed the relations between actual body size, body dissatisfaction, frequency of selfies taken, and number of Instagram selfies posted. Results indicated that actual body size was positively related to body dissatisfaction, and negatively related to the number of selfies taken. Results also revealed a positive relationship between body dissatisfaction and selfies taken. Conversely, no correlations were detected between the frequency of selfies posted to Instagram and either actual body size or body image dissatisfaction.