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Introduction To “The Movement's Voice", David Callaghan, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Editorial Thank You And Welcome, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Editorial "Thanks and Welcome" from the Fall 2017 issue of the SDC Journal.

Introduction To "Aga Collaborative: Walking In The Academy" By Jeanmarie Higgins, Anne Fliotsos, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

An introduction to "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy" by Jeanmarie Higgins.

Connections Between The Academy And The Profession, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Performance: An Approach To Strengthening Interdisciplinarity In Women's Studies And Gender Studies, Ann M. Shanahan, Prudence A. Moylan, Betsy Jones Hemenway, Bren Ortega Murphy, Jacqueline Long, Susan Grossman, Dr. Hector Garcia, Mary Dominiak

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Issues of transition are always difficult and transforming founding assumptions to suit changing conditions can be a challenge for Women’s Studies and Gender Studies programs in the corporate university environment. This essay explains how performance of Fefu and Her Friends by Marie Irene Fornes in a mansion on campus led faculty participants in History, Classics, Modern Languages, Theatre, Communication, Social Work, and Nursing to re-vision their professional lives and the institutional status of the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies program through a new appreciation for interdisciplinarity, derived from using performance as research. Each of eight faculty reflect on their experience …

Introduction To “A Forum On Directing And Choreography: Sources By Leading Women", Ann M. Shanahan, Ann Fliotsos

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

An introduction to “A Forum on Directing and Choreography: Sources by Leading Women" written by co-editors, Anne Fliotsos and Ann M. Shanahan.

Introduction To “Sustaining Black Theatre,” By Harvey Young, Ann M. Shanahan, Ann Fliotsos

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

An introduction to Harvey Young's article, "Sustaining Black Theater" written by co-editors, Ann Fliotsos and Ann Shanahan.

Directing And Choreography In The Academy And The Profession: A Forum, Anne Fliotsos, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this issue of SDC Journal, SDC is proud to introduce a new peer-reviewed section, featuring academic articles and book reviews on the crafts of directing and choreography. With editorial support by directors, choreographers, and scholars representing the range of institutions of higher education across the country, SDC Journal will publish one academic essay and one book review per issue.

Architectural Design For Living Artifacts, Joy Monice Malner, Frank Vodvarka

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Playing House: Staging Experiments About Women In Domestic Space, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The relationship between women and the houses they inhabit has been repeatedly explored in literature and drama, where the house operates as a complex, often contradictory referent for women’s social position. The principal location of women’s lives through history, a house represents, on the one hand, a space of restrictions and limitation; and on the other, a creative domain. In drama, playwrights have used the setting of a house to inform conflicts surrounding women’s freedom, and have manipulated spatial dramaturgy to enrich these subjects. As ongoing experiments in the performance of gender, I am staging a series of workshops in …

Review Of Lyric Opera Production Of Show Boat, Mark E. Lococo

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The premiere effort of the Renée Fleming Initiative brought Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s masterpiece Show Boat to the Lyric Opera stage, demonstrating an annual commitment to producing works of the American musical theatre. As Lyric’s general director Anthony Freud asserted in an open letter to patrons, “great works of musical theatre profit enormously from the resources of a major opera company.” While Francesca Zambello’s lavish production may have affirmed that statement within the context of the opera house, little attention was paid to the elements that make American musical theatre generically different from opera, most notably book scenes with …

The Novel As Drama: Staging Theatrical Aspects Of The Narrative In Jane Austen’S Mansfield Park, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Of Jane Austen's full-length novels, Mansfield Park deals most directly with theatrical subjects, yet it is the least frequently adapted for the stage. Plots, themes, and characters in the novel echo those of the popular late eighteenth century play Lovers' Vows, and the first volume includes a performance of that play as part of a "home theatrical." ·In 2011, I completed a workshop adaptation and staging of Mansfield Park. I used the method of Chamber Theatre founded by Robert Breen, a technique of literary adaptation that retains the narrative voice by use of an embodied narrative and assignment of narrative …

Un-Blocking Hedda And Medea Through Feminist “Play” With Traditional Staging Forms, Ann M. Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Hedda walks to the center of the room clutching to her belly a gun wrapped loosely in red and gold leaves. She sinks to the floor, her black satin dress ballooning around her. Only feet away, the audience can see her expression and interpret her thought process. Hedda looks vaguely around the space for an exit. She responds to Judge Brack (Ibsen 246), her focus less on him than on the gun which she lets rise to her line of vision, trailing leaves as it comes. She raises it slowly to her head and pulls the trigger, then falls gently …

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