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An Analysis Of Costume Design: Getting Near To Baby, Spring Awakening; Hair And Makeup Miss Bennet: Christmas At Pemberley, Amanda Cardwell-Aiken

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This paper chronicles three realized designs by Amanda Cardwell-Aiken during her MFA Costume Design and Technology studies; including Costume Designs for Getting Near to Baby and Spring Awakening the Musical, Hair and Makeup for Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific play and highlights the research, design process, renderings and the execution of design through character breakdowns, production photos and examples of paperwork.

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Regeneration: Restorative Theatre Practice In Theatre Education., Sarah Elston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Regeneration: Restorative Theatre Practice in Theatre Education aims to harness the holistic benefits of theatre as a discipline and create an intentional restorative practice for performers. This thesis serves as a proposal; an attempt to prioritize restorative and self-care practices within the theatre industry, specifically pre-professional training programs. This proposal takes the form of a curriculum that builds upon the current model of theatre training (Voice, Movement, Acting) with the addition of Regeneration. Regeneration provides theatre artists with specific areas of study to offer the psychosocial support a theatre artist may need during their pre-professional training. This thesis will discuss …

Review Of C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Play), Steven Beebe, James P. Helfers

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Steven Beebe: Review of: C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Starring Sally Dexter, Carly Bawden, Rebecca Benson, Philip Labey, and Jonny Weldon. Adapted for the stage by Rupert Goold. Directed by Rubert Goold and Michael Fentiman. Performed at The Threesixty Theater in Kensington Gardens, London, 19 May 2012.

Review Of An Evening With C. S. Lewis (Play), Nadine Kulberg

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

James P. Helfers: Review of: “An Evening with C. S. Lewis.” Starring David Payne. Performed at Calvary Community Church in Glendale, Arizona, on 9 September 2012.

Review Of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Play), Based On The Book The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe By C. S. Lewis, Carolyn Curtis

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. Flat Rock, North Carolina: Flat Rock Playhouse, 9 November 2019.

Theater Review Of "A Christmas With C.S. Lewis.", James R. Helfers

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of: “A Christmas with C. S. Lewis.” Starring David Payne. Performed at Mission del Sol Presbyterian Church in Tempe, Arizona on 10 December 2017.

Freaky Friday

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Review Of The Great Divorce (Play), Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce. Starring Anthony Lawton. Adapted for the stage by Anthony Lawton. Produced by the Lantern Theater Company. Performed at St. Stephen’s Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 12, 2010 as part of “Between Heaven and Hell: The Anthony Lawton Festival.”

Review Of The Screwtape Letters (Play), Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Starring Anthony Lawton and Kim Carson. Adapted for the stage by Anthony Lawton. Produced by the Lantern Theater Company. Performed at St. Stephen’s Theater, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2010.

Review Of Freud's Last Session (Play), Sørina Higgins

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Mark St. Germain, Freud’s Last Session. Starring Mark H. Dold and Martin Rayner. Produced by The Barrington Stage Company. Performed at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, New York, New York, on November 21, 2010.

The Screwtape Letters: The Play, José Maria J. Yulo

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters. Staring Max McLean and Karen Wight. Adapted for the stage by Max McLean and Jeff Fiske. Produced by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts, Morristown, New Jersey. Performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California, on October 1, 2009.

The Yellow Boat

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Le Nozze Di Figaro (The Marriage Of Figaro), K. 492: Lighting The Mad Day, Francisco Hermosillo Iii

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work

This thesis describes the production process of the lighting design for the opera, The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492, byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which was produced by the Glenn Korf School of Music and performed in Kimball Recital Hall on November 11 and 13, 2022. The opera was directed by William Shomos and conducted by Tyler White, with scenic design by JD Madsen, costume design by Camille Lerner, technical direction provided by Jason Hibbard, and the head electrician was Obadiah Harvey.

This thesis documents the entire lighting design process including the production meetings, research, conceptual ideas, technical rehearsals, responses to …

Healing Childhood Trauma Through Improvisation & Theater, Vira Salzburn, Garrett Zajac

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will discuss the development, implementation, and techniques of the unique Savannah-based Front Porch ACTS program that uses empirically-supported, theater-based, and trauma-responsive Trauma Drama intervention providing an effective therapeutic alternative to serving children and adolescents affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and complex trauma.

The Importance Of Our Performing Arts, Gina Parker, Russell Brakefield

DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive

This essay is titled "The Importance of Our Performing Arts" and it was written in February 2022. I was taking an argumentative writing class at the time where we have free range to choose a topic to write about, so naturally, I choose something I am passionate about, the impact of youth theatre on our adolescents. The prompt was to identify a driving question or phenomenon related to the arts to investigate and develop a complex thesis you could argue in the paper through the use of rhetorical strategies, I decided on the discussion between funding in STEM (science, technology, …

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Minerals And Memories: Ireland's Ballrooms Of Romance, Tanya Dean

Articles

No abstract provided.

Shakespeare On Zoom, Fandom, And The Uncanny Humor Of Imperfections And Plurality: A Comparative Study Of The Show Must Go Online And Zoom Shakespeare Productions, Hyemin Kim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis surveys the phenomena of Shakespeare performance on Zoom (‘Shakespeare on Zoom’) that have emerged during the current Covid pandemic in order to illuminate a complex intersection of lockdown culture, fandom, and new media’s techno-social archive, including its affective resonances. As case studies, this study pays attention to The Show Must Go Online (TSMGO) and Zoom Shakespeare Productions (ZSP) to examine countercultural fandom, vernacular creativity, and technologically imperfect aesthetics (or anti-aesthetics) in ‘Shakespeare on Zoom’ performed by underfunded artists or amateur fans. In analyzing TSMGO’s and ZSP’s endeavors of production and dramaturgy, I bring in Sigmund Freud’s …

Commedia Dell’Arte: The Mechanisms Of Othering, Olly Crick

Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects

This chapter proposes that the dramaturgic flexibility within historical Commedia dell’Arte was predicated on a performance methodology that demanded a changing pattern of othering, depending on the class, economic strength and region of their audiences.

Always Busy Somewhere: Cooper Crafts An Entrée For The Other, Paulette Richards

Representing Alterity through Puppetry and Performing Objects

African American ventriloquist John W . Cooper toured for a time with Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels, but did not appear in blackface. Instead he used figures to get audiences to recognize the humanity and agency of a Black man.