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Making A Musical: The Art Of Adapting A Film Or A Book For The Stage, David Wohl

Winthrop Faculty and Staff Publications

Over the past 100 years, stage musicals have been made from original works as varied as straight plays, novels, magazine articles, movies, short stories, poems, and biographies. This article explores two original works (a film and a novel) created separately by two faculty members at a historically black university in West Virginia and which were turned into staged musicals produced by professional theatre companies in 2019. The article includes information and advice on the adaptation process from composers, playwrights, and other collaborators.

Moore, David D., Collection, 1931-1959, Special Collections, Leonard H. Axe Library

Finding Aids

A collection of photographs, news articles, and programs of shows directed by Dr. David D. Moore, a professor of speech and drama at Pittsburg State University.

David D. Moore (1906-1960) received his bachelor’s degree at La Crosse State Teachers College (Wisconsin) in 1929, and his master’s degree in 1932 from the University of Wisconsin. Moore taught secondary school for five years in Wisconsin and for three years at Southwestern State Teachers College (Oklahoma). He began teaching speech and drama at Kansas State Teachers College, now Pittsburg State University, in 1941 and was the theater director until 1959. He married Arabelle …

La Méthode De L'Actors Studio : Genèse, Pratique Et Phénoménologie, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

Presidential Fellows Articles and Research

En tant que spécialiste de la méthode de l'Actors Studio, je voudrais détailler ici quelle a été sa genèse, puis en quoi elle consiste, et comment, en tant que praticien, un acteur la fait sienne et continue à la faire évoluer. Je voudrais aussi discuter, en partant de mon expérience et de celle des nombreuses personnes que j’ai dirigées, coachées, enseignées, de la façon dont un acteur fabrique sa propre méthode par la pratique et la réflexion, à partir des enseignements qu’il a reçus, et de sa pratique. Je considérerai notamment la dimension phénoménologique de ce processus, c’est-à-dire l’élaboration d’une …

The Theory Of Relativity, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department

2020-2021 Season

Whether you're allergic to cats, in love for the first or tenth time, a child of divorce, a germaphobe, or simply a unique individual, you’re sure to find yourself in this fresh new musical.

2020 Online Symposium On Education In Entertainment And Engineering, Fusion Studio For Entertainment And Engineering

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

No abstract provided.

2019 Symposium On Education In Entertainment And Engineering, Mary K. Pillotte, Rich Dionne

Symposium on Education in Entertainment and Engineering

No abstract provided.

Pipeline, October 22-24, 2020, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

Written by Dominique Morisseau

October 22-24, 7:30 p.m.

Online, Live Stream

Top Girls, November 12-14, 2020, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

Written by Carol Churchill

November 12-14, 2020, 7:30 p.m.

Online presentation

Richard The Third, October 29-31, November 5-7, 2020, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

Written by William Shakespeare

Part One presented October 29-31, 2020, Part Two presented November 5-7, 2020

This version of Richard The Third is based upon a performance script from the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. Additional edits made by John Tovar and Robert Quinlan.

Shift: Fall Dance Concert, November 17-19, 2020, School Of Theatre And Dance

Programs - Theatre, Dance, and Film

November 17-19, 7:30 p.m.

Online via Zoom, Illinois State University

Postmodern Violent Conditions In Loher's Innocence, Peter Yang

Faculty Scholarship

Despite its theatrical success, Dea Loher's Innocence faces a heated debate among German theatre and literary critics. Some regard it as a neorealist drama that has reached the highest level of the theatre, but others denounce it as a diffuse, kitschy portrayal of violence. The goal of this paper is to explore themes of the play to negotiate—against the claims of its existing theatre and literary criticism—more accurate critical guidelines of evaluating this theatrical work. The results of this study are expected to contribute to a better understanding of postmodernism and postdramatic theatre in general and of this postdramatic writing …

Introduction, Stephanie Burridge

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This eclectic monograph investigates corporealities across diverse arts practices – dance, music, fashion, visual and performance art. The six chapters resulted from a multidisciplinary seminar series at LASALLE College of the Arts, a tertiary arts institution in Singapore – the unifying themes were the body, embodied performativity and multidisciplinarity. This research series on what initially appear to be disparate titles was curated to facilitate dialogues about the notion of the body as central to all creative practice, with an objective to enable and enhance inter-disciplinary relationships and pedagogy.

A Reflective Practitioner Case Study Approach To Researching Verbatim Theatre, Sarah Peters

The Qualitative Report

The Reflective Practitioner Case Study (RPCS) methodology, as defined by John O’Toole in Doing Drama Research (2006), is situated within the broader category of qualitative practice-led research, with a focus on inducing practice based data for analysis and research. This article details my application of the RPCS methodology when researching the process and impact of verbatim theatre practice within the context of writing and performing the verbatim play bald heads & blue stars. I provide examples of the triangulated documentation of the creative process, demonstrate strategic planning for the induction of data in order to research the values that influence …

Recalling The (Afro)Future: Collective Memory And The Construction Of Subversive Meanings In Janelle Monáe’S Metropolis-Suites, Anders Liljedahl

Third Stone

Focusing on the intersection of collective memory, technology, and African American popular music, this paper use aspects of the sonic narratives in Janelle Monáe’s Metropolis-Suites I–V to introduce core concepts of Afrofuturism. The paper challenges the positioning of collective memory as being exterior to the sphere of individual cognitive memory. By inhabiting past, present, and future at once, Afrofuturism is able to critically revisit collective memory not only as a social framework but also as actual individual memory. Afrofuturist discourse questions the status of the human being by examining African Americans as always already robotic, and posits African American …

Annotated Bibliography - Grace Jones, Slave To The Rhythm, Bennett Brazelton

Third Stone

Annotated Bibliography entry for Grace Jones' album, Slave to the Rhythm (1985).

Directing "The Dream Continues: The History Of The Civil Rights Movement A Readers Theatre Oral History Play, Daniel Parker

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This project is about my directing a Readers Theatre play about the Civil Rights Movement. It covers the period from 1619 to the present. The script is written by Professor Bobby Funk of the Theatre and Dance Department of ETSU. I have only been in several plays and that as an actor. This will be first my first experience as a director. As this is my first time, I will endeavor to relate an exact as possible account of this experience. I will in my first chapter tell you about the play, the characters, and my research in preparing for …

Something In The Way She Moves: Bodily Motion As Innovation In Bernhardt’S Hamlet, Juliana Starr

Foreign Languages Faculty Publications

Sarah Bernhardt’s audiences often described feeling thrilled by the star performer, and they relished the ways in which her agency exceeded their own. She developed a style of setting her entire body in motion, often in arresting, unusual ways. Using Sharon Marcus’s concept of “exteriority effects”-mobility, framing, tempo control, and hyperextension-this article analyzes Bernhardt’s stage movement in her most famous cross-gender role, Hamlet. It seeks to prove that the most revolutionary aspect of her performance was, ironically, not its cross gender aspect, but rather its virtuosic physical interpretation of the Prince as a determined man of action, which profoundly challenged …

Accomplices In Art: The Expansion Of Authorship In The 1970s And '80s, Sydney Stutterheim

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation introduces the “accomplice,” a new figure in histories of performance and appropriation art in the United States and Western Europe during the 1970s and '80s that allows us to completely revise the relations of property, agency, and authorship that have been assumed in these fields. The accomplice is defined here as a type of agent who shares in the responsibility of artworks that are often centered on tactics of legal or ethical disobedience while the recognition of her or his authorial position in the artistic production is deliberately obscured, diminished, or overlooked. Focusing on the work …

The Art Of Opacity: Guy De Cointet In L.A., Media Farzin

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation provides the first detailed study of the work of French artist Guy de Cointet (1934–1983), specifically the books, objects, and performances he produced in Los Angeles between 1971 and 1983. Much of this work mined pop-cultural sources—genre fiction, magazine advertising, and television serials—for texts, which he reused in deliberately obfuscated ways: in pseudonymous publications written in code or invented languages, as well as in sigil-like paintings that doubled as props for performances in which actors delivered contradictory interpretations of the encoded objects. I argue that Cointet’s appropriations of the visual and narrative logics of postwar culture provide a …

Reframing The Family Portrait: The Surrogate Mother In U.S. Theatre And Film 1939–1963, Alison Walls

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Reframing the Family Portrait: The Surrogate Mother in U.S. Theatre and Film, 1939–1963 investigates the U.S. plays, films, and musicals of this period that abound with heroines who mother children to whom they are not genetically tied. This dissertation asks why such a figure was so resonant in this era between the beginning of World War II and the emergence of more radical 1960s politics. Newly in the spotlight as a romantic protagonist, the “surrogate mother,” as I have chosen to call her, re-envisions the archetypal mother through a contemporizing lens, distinctive in her mother/not-mother status. Critical analysis of Penny …