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A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Native American Performers, And The Military's Struggle For Control Over Indian Affairs 1868-1898, Alexander Erez Echelman
A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Native American Performers, And The Military's Struggle For Control Over Indian Affairs 1868-1898, Alexander Erez Echelman
Senior Projects Spring 2015
My project explores how and why William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody glorified the military's wars against Native Americans on the Great Plains through his career as a showman in the United States and in Europe. The military's and the Interior Department's competition for control over Indian Affairs allowed Buffalo Bill to support the army's image by adhering to popular white supremacist ideas in the nation. I look at how Buffalo Bill used his Native American performers to exemplify the military's peace keeping skills in the West while devaluing the Interior Department's authority in Indian Affairs.
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading And Continuation On Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', Samuel T. Robotham
Without Prospero: A Staged Reading And Continuation On Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', Samuel T. Robotham
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Without Prospero is a play I wrote over the course of my senior year. It culminated in a stylized staged reading in the Luma Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts from March 27th to March 29th 2015. It featured Antonio Irizarry ’16, Max Green ’17, and Charlie Mai ’18. The play is a continuation on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, focusing on the character of Ariel just after the events of the play have concluded. Without Prospero explores power, loss, abandonment, and how we look at a servant/master relationship through the lens of traditional Shakespearean characters. The …
I'M Scared Of The Colors [Or At Least We Tried]: A Collaborative Theater Project, Marissa C. Shadburn
I'M Scared Of The Colors [Or At Least We Tried]: A Collaborative Theater Project, Marissa C. Shadburn
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Inspired by the history of the Berlin Wall, I’m Scared of the Colors [or At Least we Tried], is a collaborative theater project about the creative process, memory, history and love. My passions of working with people are always reflected in my art. I like to make pieces about communication and division, pieces about the relationships between people and how that is affected by modern societal constructions. In both my artistic work and my social work I hope to subvert normative expectations, while also challenging the boundaries of theater as an institution and as a genre. Through exploring and …
Like The Moon, Camille Weisgant
Like The Moon, Camille Weisgant
Senior Projects Spring 2015
An adaptation of the traditional Japanese Noh play "Ama," "Like the Moon" explores what it means to die in the 21st century, when death, just like life, is mediated by technology.
In The Mind Of The Manipulated Man: A Reflection On A King's A King: A Brecht Retelling Of Macbeth, Michael Lazarus
In The Mind Of The Manipulated Man: A Reflection On A King's A King: A Brecht Retelling Of Macbeth, Michael Lazarus
Senior Projects Spring 2015
This paper is a reflection on a senior project performance titled A King's a King: A Brecht Retelling of Macbeth, which I performed in.