Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Action actor (2)
- Actor combatant (2)
- Artistic fencing (2)
- Certified teacher (2)
- Fight Master (2)
-
- Fight choreography (2)
- Fight coordination (2)
- Fight designer (2)
- Fight direction (2)
- Fight director (2)
- National Stage Combat Workshop (2)
- Prop weapon (2)
- Prop weapons (2)
- SAFD (2)
- Society of American Fight Directors (2)
- Stage action (2)
- Stage combat (2)
- Stage combatant (2)
- Stage fight (2)
- Stage swords (2)
- Stage violence (2)
- Stunt fighting (2)
- Sword master (2)
- Theatrical firearms (2)
- Theatrical gunplay (2)
- Theatrical swordplay (2)
- Theatrical violence (2)
- Violence design (2)
- African American Actors (1)
- African Americans (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Theatre History
The Fight Master, Fall 2012, Vol. 34 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors
The Fight Master, Fall 2012, Vol. 34 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors
Fight Master Magazine
No abstract provided.
The Fight Master, Spring 2012, Vol. 34 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors
The Fight Master, Spring 2012, Vol. 34 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors
Fight Master Magazine
No abstract provided.
"Spectacular Opacities": The Hyers Sisters' Performances Of Respectability And Resistance, Jocelyn Buckner
"Spectacular Opacities": The Hyers Sisters' Performances Of Respectability And Resistance, Jocelyn Buckner
Theatre Faculty Articles and Research
This essay analyzes the Hyers Sisters, a Reconstruction-era African American sister act, and their radical efforts to transcend social limits of gender, class, and race in their early concert careers and three major productions, Out of Bondage and Peculiar Sam, or The Underground Railroad, two slavery-to-freedom epics, and Urlina, the African Princess, the first known African American play set in Africa. At a time when serious, realistic roles and romantic plotlines featuring black actors were nearly nonexistent due to the country’s appetite for stereotypical caricatures, the Hyers Sisters used gender passing to perform opposite one another as heterosexual lovers in …