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Full-Text Articles in Playwriting
The Snow Globe, Sara Crawford
The Snow Globe, Sara Crawford
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
No abstract provided.
10,000 Words: Creating And Subverting The Theatrical Process For Personal Insights And Practical Application, Dimitar Christo Venkov
10,000 Words: Creating And Subverting The Theatrical Process For Personal Insights And Practical Application, Dimitar Christo Venkov
Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects
No abstract provided.
Romeo & Juliet
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2012 performance of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families and how their relationship and deaths reconcile their families.
Waiting For Godot
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2012 performance of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
Waiting for Gadot is the story of two men and their conversations as they wait for someone named Gadot, who never arrives.
But Not Destroyed: The Story Of Calvin Fairbank
But Not Destroyed: The Story Of Calvin Fairbank
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2012 performance of But Not Destroyed: The Story of Calvin Fairbank by William Gebby.
But Not Destroyed tells the story of Calvin Fairbank who was among forty-four persons imprisoned in the Kentucky State Penitentiary for the crime of helping African-Americans escape from slavery.
Performed by the Taylor Touring Company.
John Milton, Blackfriars Spectator?: "Elegia Prima" And Ben Jonson's The Staple Of News, Timothy Burbery
John Milton, Blackfriars Spectator?: "Elegia Prima" And Ben Jonson's The Staple Of News, Timothy Burbery
Timothy J. Burbery
In the spring of 1626 John Milton was temporarily expelled from Cambridge University, perhaps over a quarrel with his tutor William Chappell, and sent home to London, where he remained for at least several weeks. There, the seventeen-year-old poet composed his first elegy, a Latin verse-letter to his closest friend, Charles Diodati. In it, Milton claims to be enjoying his unexpected holiday by reading, girl watching, and attending the theater. Milton scholars have never reached consensus about his alleged playgoing, for while the young man speaks as a spectator, the plots and characters he mentions-these include comic types such as …
The Lab Report, Volume 06, Issue 03, Todd Ristau
The Lab Report, Volume 06, Issue 03, Todd Ristau
Lab Reports
- Rebecca Osborne's Monologue Performed in Manhattan
- Student Spotlight: Willett, Suzanne
- Guest Profile: Scott Bradley
- JAW Festival features Elizabeth Heffron
- The Girl With Her Hands in the Sand at NYI Fringe Festival
- War Bride by Samantha Macher
- Open Call for Submissions
- From the Director: Your Public Profile
Mind The Gap: An Analysis Of The Function Of Love In The Works Of Tom Stoppard And C.S. Lewis., Jacqueline C. Lawler
Mind The Gap: An Analysis Of The Function Of Love In The Works Of Tom Stoppard And C.S. Lewis., Jacqueline C. Lawler
Pell Scholars and Senior Theses
Writers C.S. Lewis and Tom Stoppard, though philosophically different, both write about love that embodies the natural law. The natural law can be defined as law that is inherent in man and can be discerned by reason rather than by revelation. Both writers use their observational style in order to reason their way to nearly identical laws of love. Stoppard’s The Invention of Love, Arcadia, Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Real Thing will be analyzed using the framework of C.S. Lewis’s book, The Four Loves.
Circle Mirror Transformation, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
Circle Mirror Transformation, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
2012 Summer Theatre
A sharply funny new play by emerging playwright Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation follows five people through a summer of "creative drama" in their small town's adult acting class. Led by their bohemian acting coach, the five experiment with harmless theatre games that unexpectedly lead to poignant discoveries about themselves and each other. At turns, surprisingly funny and subtly insightful, this revealing play reminds us why theatre is the most human of all arts.
The Lab Report, Volume 05, Issue 12, Todd Ristau
The Lab Report, Volume 05, Issue 12, Todd Ristau
Lab Reports
- Decision Height produced as Hollins Senior Thesis
- Student Spotlight: Meredith Levy
- Report from the Iowa New Play Festival
- To The New Girl Read in Chicago
- May Graduate: Samantha Macher
- The Weatherman Project Read at Seattle Rep Writers Group Showcase
- May Graduate: Kris Knutsen Marushy
- May Graduate: Maura Campbell
- May Graduate: Neeley Gossett
- May Readings at SkyPilot Feature Hollins Playwrights
- May Graduate: Brandon DuMonde
- Dirty Pictures by Jeri Weiss Part of Asphalt Jungle Shorts in Ontario
- Purge by Jeri Weiss Produced at Studio 81
- If You Plan It, He Will Come by Neeley Gossett Produced by Working Title Playwrights
- From the …
My Dear Watson: A Musical Interpretation Of Sherlock Holmes’S Friendship With Dr. John Watson, Jami-Leigh C. Bartschi
My Dear Watson: A Musical Interpretation Of Sherlock Holmes’S Friendship With Dr. John Watson, Jami-Leigh C. Bartschi
Master of Liberal Studies Theses
The relationship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson is complicated and certainly untraditional. Some theorize that Holmes is merely using Watson while Watson desperately seeks his affection. Others theorize that they have an unrequited homosexual relationship. However, it is Holmes’ unemotional nature paired with Watson’s fierce loyalty and admiration that creates a new and unique type of relationship. Many would define friendship as an emotional bond, but with Holmes, this is impossible. That does not mean, however, that he is incapable of deeply caring for Watson. It means that the relationship looks different than the traditional friendship. Watson and Holmes’ …
Stingray : An Exploration Into The Art And Craft Of Playwriting, Samantha Liguori
Stingray : An Exploration Into The Art And Craft Of Playwriting, Samantha Liguori
HIM 1990-2015
Cloud Nine by Carol Churchill is a good example of non-linear play structure. Episodic plays are part of an even more disjointed time structure. There are both many different locations and characters in an episodic play; it is similar to a film script for that matter. Onstage, this was a revolution; how can a person be in one city and then the next shortly after? This was the rule of continuity that episodic structure broke. Bertolt Brecht did this throughout his movement in epic theatre, and traces of this structure can also be found as early back as Medieval plays. …
Noises Off
Taylor Theatre Playbills
The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2012 performance of Noises Off by Michael Frayn.
Noises Off is a farce involving the small cast of a play and how their offstage drama impacts their onstage drama.
The Development And Debut Of Adam Esquenazi Douglas' Play "Murder And The English Gentleman", Adam Esquenazi Douglas
The Development And Debut Of Adam Esquenazi Douglas' Play "Murder And The English Gentleman", Adam Esquenazi Douglas
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the development process of the creation of a new playscript, "Murder and the English Gentleman", an adaptation of the short story "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde. The play is a wild, comedy-of-manners presented in classic Wildean 19th century drawing room style. The document details the process of getting this script from short story to script to stage. Also included are some of the play's most significant drafts, the original short story by Wilde, production and rehearsal journals, and production photos. The play was presented by the University of Arkansas' Boar's …
Exploring The Morality Of Arthur Miller And Elia Kazan To Show How It Affected Their Work, Friendship And Society, Dale D. Parry
Exploring The Morality Of Arthur Miller And Elia Kazan To Show How It Affected Their Work, Friendship And Society, Dale D. Parry
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The purpose of this study is to explore the moral convictions, or the lack of same, in the personal character of Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan and to show how those convictions affected not only their work and personal friendship but society as well. They first met in 1946 when Harold Clurman of the Group Theater passed to Kazan a Miller play that he had read entitled All My Sons. With the success of the play, the two became fast friends and collaborators in profession and ideology. Each had in common the Great Depression, problem fathers, marital instability and Communism. …
Power And Relationships In The Plays Of Neil Labute: Directing And Performing In Some Girl(S), Mary Peyton Griffith
Power And Relationships In The Plays Of Neil Labute: Directing And Performing In Some Girl(S), Mary Peyton Griffith
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis explores the major works of Neil LaBute's career as a playwright and screenwriter, including the criticism he has received on theatrical and literary levels. The themes most prevalent in the thesis are the use of power and manipulation in the relationships between LaBute's characters and the ongoing maturation of his characters that coincides with the maturation of his work. The second section of the thesis follows the production, directing, and acting in LaBute's play Some Girl(s).
A 21st Century Love Letter, Rachel Nagelberg
A 21st Century Love Letter, Rachel Nagelberg
SPECS journal of art and culture
No abstract provided.
"Speak To Me In Vernacular, Doctor": Translating And Adapting Tirso De Molina's El Amor Médico For The Stage, Sarah A. Brew
"Speak To Me In Vernacular, Doctor": Translating And Adapting Tirso De Molina's El Amor Médico For The Stage, Sarah A. Brew
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Considered one of the greatest playwrights of the Spanish Golden Age, Tirso de Molina (1580?-1648) lived something of a double life, alternating—much like the characters in his plays—between two separate and often conflicting lives. Though Tirso, whose real name was Gabriel Téllez, spent the greater portion of his life in the church as a Mercedarian friar, his dramatic output as a playwright was prodigious in scope. Fewer than 90 of his plays survive today, and only a handful have been translated into English. This M.F.A. thesis therefore presents the first-ever English-language translation and adaptation of one of Tirso’s plays, El …
Dramaturg As Artistic Instigator, Megan J. Mcclain
Dramaturg As Artistic Instigator, Megan J. Mcclain
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Dramaturgs have been struggling to define themselves and assert their raison d'être in the American theatre for the past four decades. In an evolving theatrical landscape that includes expanding new play development processes and new modes of collaborative interdisciplinary theatre-making, the role of the dramaturg must be reexamined in order for it to stake a new artistic claim in the field. Devised theatre-making processes rely on dramaturgical practice as an integral part of generating, editing, and structuring performance material and offer a fertile artistic avenue for dramaturgs to utilize their skills. To explore the role of the dramaturg in devised …
The Lab Report, Volume 05, Issue 08, Todd Ristau
The Lab Report, Volume 05, Issue 08, Todd Ristau
Lab Reports
- Darlene Fedele Teaching at Ferrum College
- We Have Achieved Our Fundraising Goal!
- Guest Profile: Lisa Schlesinger
- Guest Profile: Brett Neveu
- Formation of the New Works Advisory Board
- Plane Talk at SkyPilot Features Hollins Playwrights
- Shifting Gears by Jeri Weiss at Fronkensteen
- Young Actors Studio Commissions Samantha Macher
- Hollins Playwright Wins Monologue Competition
- The Muse Factory by Robert Plowman Workshopped
- Clinton Johnston Directs Night of the Iguana
- Sandbox Radio Features Work by Elizabeth Heffron
- Short Plays at SkyPilot Include Hollins Playwrights
- From the Director: Who's a Starving Artist?
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Kim Solga
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays collects works of contemporary theatre, each of which may be defined as “realist” through both a crucial link to the past and a zest for re-tooling old definitions. Grounded by Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s pioneering Still Stands the House, the anthology also features trey anthony’s ’da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan’s Miss Julie: Sheh’mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem’s sTain, Hillar Liitoja’s The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendor series by National Theatre of the World, Theatre Replacement’s BioBoxes, and Zuppa Theatre’s Penny Dreadful, as well as a series of text-specific introductions and a resource page for …