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Jukebox Musicals, Kimberly Braun
Jukebox Musicals, Kimberly Braun
Theses and Dissertations
This masters thesis explores the jukebox musical as an art form and includes the script and next steps for a solo show about the work of Joni Mitchell.
Historical Events In Fictional Playwriting, Darrell Johnston
Historical Events In Fictional Playwriting, Darrell Johnston
Theses and Dissertations
This Masters thesis explores the use of historical events and legends within the form of fictional playwriting.
Auc Buile, Benjamin Davis
Auc Buile, Benjamin Davis
Theses and Dissertations
The contents of this work include a script of the play Auc Buile, a description of the writing process, an analysis of the piece both as written text and as a performance, and a projection of what might be the next stages in its development. The play itself is a representation of the struggle to create. It allowed me the opportunity to put into practice much of what I learned during my time in the Masters of Fine Arts program.
Like I Said, Matthew Mossman
Like I Said, Matthew Mossman
Theses and Dissertations
Like I Said is a collection of memoir essays spanning the author’s life from his earliest memories to the present day. Topics touched on include but are not limited to: the struggle of being raised as an undiagnosed sufferer of ADHD, the cultural/familial dynamics at work in rural southeast Missouri, the author’s trial with hitting puberty and finding religion in the same year, and the ongoing shifts in the Mossman family’s relational dynamics in the years since the author’s mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer.
Structurally, the text takes inspiration from the “lyric essay,” a subgenre of creative nonfiction …
Hope Chest: A Memoir Of Home, Marriage, And Objects, Emilie L. Duck
Hope Chest: A Memoir Of Home, Marriage, And Objects, Emilie L. Duck
Theses and Dissertations
As a child, Emilie often imagined what her future home would look like. As she wandered through flea markets with her mother, she would envision the pieces she found there in a home of her own, building spacious libraries, comfortable bedrooms, and well-appointed kitchens in her imagination with the same passion that other children built models out of Legos. Although the houses always changed, there was an underlying certainty that she would eventually have one house—a certainty that could not be realized once she got married, and committed to living wherever the Army stationed her husband. In this memoir, Emilie …