No Day But Today--Choreographing Rent, 2014 Loyola Marymount University
No Day But Today--Choreographing Rent, Grace Goodwin
Dance Undergraduate Theses
No abstract provided.
Silence: A Technical Direction Project, 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Silence: A Technical Direction Project, Matthew Rightmire
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film opened its 2013-14 mainstage season with the play Silence in the Studio Theatre on October 10, 2013. This thesis project encompasses the Technical Direction of Silence. As the Technical Director, I was responsible for the budgeting of time, people, and money necessary to plan, organize, construct, and load into the theatre all the scenic elements required for the performance. Duties included purchasing materials, drafting construction drawings, and leading shop crews in the individual processes to create each scenic element as well as modifying the house seating equipment to accommodate the scenic …
Gender Confusion, Genocide And The Apocalypse: Directing Moira Buffini's Silence, 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Gender Confusion, Genocide And The Apocalypse: Directing Moira Buffini's Silence, Dennis N. Henry
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
This thesis contains the written documentation of the process of directing a theatrical production of Silence by Moira Buffini, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master of Fine Arts in Directing for Stage and Screen at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
This documentation and analysis of the processes herein include: play selection, background research, concept development, casting, rehearsal process, development of design elements and evaluation based on critical response, audience reception and self-reflection.
Advisor: Virginia Smith
The Fight Master, Spring 2014, Vol. 36 Issue 1, 2014 Marshall University
The Fight Master, Spring 2014, Vol. 36 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors
Fight Master Magazine
No abstract provided.
Mrs. Mannerly: An Illuminating Look At Lighting Melodrama, 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mrs. Mannerly: An Illuminating Look At Lighting Melodrama, Clayton Van Winkle
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
This thesis describes the research and production processes of the lighting design for the play, Mrs. Mannerly by Jeffrey Hatcher, performed in the Studio Theatre, repertory style, from July 19th through August 10th at the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Mannerly was directed by Rob Urbinati. Clayton Van Winkle acted as the production's lighting designer, Laurel Shoemaker designed the set, Sharon Sobel designed the costumes, Mike Smith designed the sound, Erica King acted as the props mistress, and Chris Stepanek was the acting technical director.
This thesis contains the entire …
The Miracle Of Being, 2014 Trinity College
The Miracle Of Being, Carolyn Toner
Senior Theses and Projects
Exploration of the thematic and performative elements in the plays of Eugene Ionesco. 20th century absurdist playwright, Eugene Ionesco, explores the idea of what it means to be human in his plays. I will explore elements of that theme and analyze of these themes in eight of his plays: Victims of Duty, The Lesson, Hunger and Thirst, Exit the King, The Chairs, Amedee, A Stroll in the Air, and The Killer. In addition, I will discuss important performative aspects of his plays as they relate to his theme of humanness.
The Mystical And Metaphysical In The Mundane: Directing Middletown, 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Mystical And Metaphysical In The Mundane: Directing Middletown, Joshua S. Waterstone
Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work
This thesis contains written documentation regarding the process of directing a theatrical production in fulfillment of the partial requirements for Master of Fine Arts in Directing for Stage and Screen at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
Topics addressed include play selection, script analysis, director/designer collaboration, coaching of actors and evaluation of final product.
Advisor: Virginia Smith
Norman Corwin's The Lonesome Train (Decca Recording) 1944, 2014 San Francisco State University, University of New Mexico
Norman Corwin's The Lonesome Train (Decca Recording) 1944, David K. Dunaway
RadioDoc Review
The Lonesome Train, the cantata for radio with words by Millard Lampell, music by Earl Robinson, and directed by Norman Corwin, probably originated in a dilapidated brownstone on lower Sixth Avenue in Manhattan: The Almanac House, a radical commune for music organisers in Greenwich Village, including Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Corwin is widely regarded as a guru of thoughtful radio producers, a poet-laureate of radio. From 1936, when he helped create WQXR-FM in New York City (later, voice of the New York Times) to his death 75 years later, Norman Corwin managed to be simultaneously commercial, popular, …
Old Hoss, 2014 Illinois Wesleyan University
Old Hoss, Jared Brown
Jared Brown
Loving The Art In Yourself, 2014 Technological University Dublin
An Exploration Of 20th Century Standard Theatre Production Practices And The Incorporation Of Alternative Practices, 2014 Student
An Exploration Of 20th Century Standard Theatre Production Practices And The Incorporation Of Alternative Practices, Kent K. Sprague
Kent K Sprague
This project asks: Why is there a standard production process, how did it come to be, and how can we change this process to allow everyone within a process to contribute creatively? Research was first conducted into the 20th century history of the American Theatre, and identifying why certain production practices were adopted. Next, several groups that did not adhere to the standard production process were investigated, and their alternative production processes were noted. These alternative production practices were then combined and experimented with during the production of The College of Wooster’s The Golden Age in the fall of 2013. …
Spectacles Of Reform: Theater And Activism In Nineteenth-Century America By Amy E. Hughes (Review), 2014 Chapman University
Spectacles Of Reform: Theater And Activism In Nineteenth-Century America By Amy E. Hughes (Review), Jocelyn Buckner
Theatre Faculty Articles and Research
In Spectacles of Reform Amy Hughes advocates for “spectacle as methodology” (4), a means of interpreting spectacle in nineteenth-century melodrama, as well as a wide variety of other media, that rehearses and reforms concepts of citizenship and identity related to race, class, gender, and morality. Through this lens, Hughes seeks to answer the questions “where and how do activist spectacles appear before and beyond the theatrical encounter?” and “why is spectacle kept alive through reinvention, revision, and repetition long after the drama is over?” (5). Hughes traces her theory of the spectacular instant through three popular sensation themes of the …
The Tallest Tree In The Forest, 2014 Chapman University
The Tallest Tree In The Forest, Jocelyn Buckner
Theatre Faculty Articles and Research
"Playwright and actor Daniel Beaty’s solo performance as Paul Robeson in The Tallest Tree in the Forest, commissioned by Tectonic Theater Project and coproduced by La Jolla Playhouse and Kansas City Repertory Theatre, was a tour-de-force biographical tribute."
Interview With Margaret Toomey, 2014 Technological University Dublin
Interview With Margaret Toomey, Mary Moynihan
Books/Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
I'M Not Finished — Done, 2014 Bard College
I'M Not Finished — Done, Dimitri A. Cacouris
Senior Projects Spring 2014
This paper examines the creation and performance of the piece Done, by the author, and tries to take a critical and analytic perspective as well as a reflective one, of interest largely to the author, but also to anyone interested in a documentation of the creative process. It is accompanied by a video recording and photographs of the performance and several appendices which document the majority of the textual material which represents the genesis of the piece and from which the piece was eventually built.
(The paper, as it is, is best taken salted)
Video Games: Their Effect On Society And How We Must Modernize Our Pedagogy For Students Of The Digital Age, 2014 Virginia Commonwealth University
Video Games: Their Effect On Society And How We Must Modernize Our Pedagogy For Students Of The Digital Age, Christopher J. Baker
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis aims to explore how video games have become an extremely beneficial tool in regards to education, art, medicine, psychology, economics, and beyond. Chapter 1 focuses on how ubiquitous video games have become in America, and what makes video games such a uniquely enjoyable experience to warrant such popularity. Chapter 2 explores how video games have become instrumental in various fields. Chapter 3 discusses the role that video games now play in the world of education; specifically how we, as educators, must adapt a modern pedagogy best suited to students who have grown up with video games, which have …
Sighting Circus: Perceptions Of Circus Phenomena Investigated Through Diverse Bodies, 2014 Edith Cowan University
Sighting Circus: Perceptions Of Circus Phenomena Investigated Through Diverse Bodies, Katrina Lavers
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This thesis is an investigation into modern circus from its beginnings in 1768 through to present day contemporary circus arts. Eight diverse bodies in modern and contemporary circus are explored. These eight bodies act as different lenses to focus enquiry into gaps or ruptures in the grand narratives of circus, to reveal previously missing voices and histories and to set in place new approaches to perceiving circus phenomena.
In The Political Body, the phenomenon of embodied protest is identified and explored in relation to contemporary circus works. The importance of the engaged spectator is identified in determining political, poetic …
Meet Me At The Border: Theatre Replacement’S Bioboxes, 2013 The University of Western Ontario
Meet Me At The Border: Theatre Replacement’S Bioboxes, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
Contributors assess the deployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and where the “affective turn” in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada.
On Losing One's Voice: Two Performances From Romeo Castellucci, 2013 University of Massachusetts - Amherst
On Losing One's Voice: Two Performances From Romeo Castellucci, Daniel Sack
Daniel Sack
The Birth Of A Playwright Through The Evolution Of The One-Act Play Stripped, Bear; The Film Stripped, Bear; And The Full-Length Play American Bear, 2013 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Birth Of A Playwright Through The Evolution Of The One-Act Play Stripped, Bear; The Film Stripped, Bear; And The Full-Length Play American Bear, Larry Michael Mitchell
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Birth of a Playwright through the Evolution of the One-act Play Stripped, Bear; the film Stripped, Bear; and the Full-Length Play American Bear follows the inception, birth, and evolution of a ten-minute, one-act, film, and full-length play: three major iterations of the same source material. Through this exploration, the reader will not only see how the work was changed through outside forces such as form and function but internal struggles within a young playwright as he struggles to find a final form for his first major work while attempting to establish himself as a playwright both within the field …