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Bard College

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Theater

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Audience Patina: An Enmeshment Of Architecture And Theater, Alison R. Kane Jan 2022

Audience Patina: An Enmeshment Of Architecture And Theater, Alison R. Kane

Senior Projects Spring 2022

This senior project entitled Audience Patina: An Enmeshment of Architecture and Theater explores the interconnections and juxtapositions between environmental topographies, liminal space, and imaginary dreamscapes. The project consists of interdisciplinary research used to create a large-scale installation piece, as well as the direction of the play The Stars Come Out at Night. This installation was created in conversation with the play, which was written by fellow theater department senior, Emily Kaufman-Bell. The play is the essential work that briefed the design around a dreamlike environmental imagery. The design and research explore how space and bodies communicate with each other …


An Artist, Now: Inspired By And Adapted From The Artificial Silk Girl By Irmgard Keun, Jonja L. Merck Jan 2022

An Artist, Now: Inspired By And Adapted From The Artificial Silk Girl By Irmgard Keun, Jonja L. Merck

Senior Projects Spring 2022

AN ARTIST, NOW is an original musical by Jonja Merck and Laila Perlman inspired by and adapted from The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun.

Doris, an 18-year-old woman moves to Berlin to become a star. While directly speaking to the audience, she describes her life in the city, how she is meeting men in the evenings at a bar and strolling through the busy streets. One night at the bar, she meets George, a businessman, and ultimately moves in with him. After a year, Doris is still unable to get onto any stages, George reveals that he has a …