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Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea: An Expedition Into Technical Direction, Joseph J. Shelly Jr
Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea: An Expedition Into Technical Direction, Joseph J. Shelly Jr
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, in partnership with the Johnny Carson School of Theater, Film, and Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, chose to produce Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea in March of 2021. Playwright Nathan Alan Davis completed the play in 2017. He is originally from Rockford, Illinois, and a graduate of Indiana University. Dontrell was his second produced play, premiering in June 2014 at the Source Festival in Washington, DC. Several theatres since 2014 have produced the play, and ours was the third show of the 2021-2022 season. The director was Ron Himes, the Founder …
Three Musketeers And A Rock Band, Brandi K. Kawamoto
Three Musketeers And A Rock Band, Brandi K. Kawamoto
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts: Student Research, Performance, and Creative Activity
This thesis is the culmination of my scenic design work for Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers in the Howell Theater at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the spring semester of 2012. Within this paper I will look at the conceptualization process, historical research, execution of the set design, the realized final product, and the critique process. The rough sketches, research images, computer draftings, finalized renderings, and production photos are featured within the thesis.
Goneril: Jealousy And Thirst For Power Caused By The Loss Of A Father's Love, Beth L. King
Goneril: Jealousy And Thirst For Power Caused By The Loss Of A Father's Love, Beth L. King
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
The challenge for every actor is to bring something of yourself to a role. The more real it can become for you the more real it will be for the audience. Goneril is a caricature. She is rich, powerful and she does horrible things like throwing her father out into the cold, having an affair, poisoning her sister and ultimately killing herself. She is one of Shakespeare’s “evil” women. I have to say I do not consider myself evil. So what could I have in common with this monster of a woman? One of our fellow classmates died while we …
Lyly's Midas As An Allegory Of Tyranny, Stephen S. Hilliard
Lyly's Midas As An Allegory Of Tyranny, Stephen S. Hilliard
Department of English: Faculty Publications
John Lyly's Midas is structured in terms of traditional allegorizations of the Ovidian myth that represent Midas as an avaricious and ignorant tyrant. Lyly is thus concerned with a theme popular in the public theater, but he treats it in allegorical manner distinctive in its focus on theme rather than character or action. The play first portrays Midas's mistaken choice of a private end, the accumulation of wealth for its own sake and as a means of financing lechery and aggression, then suggests the difficulties this causes in the governing of his kingdom. The episode in which Midas judges the …