The Irish Dracula: A Melodrama In Five Acts,
2013
Nova Southeastern University
The Irish Dracula: A Melodrama In Five Acts, James Doan
Humanities and Politics Faculty Book and Book Chapters
While working on the first volume in the project, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) I decided to try my hand at adapting the novel Dracula to a more literal Irish context. Set in London and Co. Sligo in 1888, it constitutes a prequel to the novel. The play, entitled The Irish Dracula: A Melodrama in Five Acts, received two initial readings: the first with the Irish Theatre of Florida in August 2012 and the second at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) West meeting in Park City, Utah, in October 2012. …
Theater Education Valuable To All Students,
2013
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Theater Education Valuable To All Students, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Siue Theater Students Find Inspiration In London,
2013
CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Siue Theater Students Find Inspiration In London, Aldemaro Romero Jr.
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness,
2013
The University of Western Ontario
Butoh: The Dance Of Global Darkness, Steven Bruhm
Data and Test Instruments
No abstract provided.
Jane Austen, The Prose Shakespeare,
2013
Linfield College
Jane Austen, The Prose Shakespeare, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
Faculty Publications
This essay explores the connection between Shakespearean drama and the novel’s representation of interiority. Jane Austen’s celebrated use of free indirect discourse, I argue, is linked to Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare, which turned dramatic soliloquies into prose narration, rendering a character’s thought and idiom in a third-person voice. Heralded as a “prose Shakespeare” by nineteenth-century critics, Austen also developed an inverse free indirect discourse, the infusion of the narrative voice into characters’ dialogue. Scenes from Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion offer mini-Shakespearean plays of attention, for Shakespearean technique and quotation script Austen’s dramas of reading.
Remembering Thespis: How Former Student Actors Value Their Experiences In High School Plays,
2013
Wayne State University
Remembering Thespis: How Former Student Actors Value Their Experiences In High School Plays, Michael Edgar Butterworth
Wayne State University Dissertations
The high school play is an iconic pastime in many schools across the United States. Historically, educators, and scholars often characterize the school play as a performance of a script by an established playwright presented in a school in a manner that replicates the standards of professional theatre. Current scholars and educators discuss the school play as the latter part of a continuum that runs from informal dramatic play to formal presentation in front of an audience. Although scholarship in theatre education regularly discusses the school play as one of the most prevalent forms of theatre education, scholarly studies of …
Myths Of The House Theatre Of Chicago (2002-2007): A Dramaturgical Study Of Chicago's "Next Big Thing",
2013
Wayne State University
Myths Of The House Theatre Of Chicago (2002-2007): A Dramaturgical Study Of Chicago's "Next Big Thing", Matthew Foss
Wayne State University Dissertations
In 2002, Chicago's theatre critics targeted The House as the next big story in the city's theatre community. The House's first play, The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan was a critical and financial hit for the young company. Peter Pan began a five-year period of nearly unprecedented success for The House. During this time, many discussions about The House dealt with a perceived mythical quality to the type of plays the young company was creating. This study examines this question of myth in The House's plays by creating a dramaturgy that incorporates the myth theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Propp …
Direction Of The Play: Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: A Play,
2013
Central Washington University
Direction Of The Play: Roald Dahl's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: A Play, Teresa Jean Hansen
Graduate Student Projects
This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, analysis, casting, direction, and post-production analysis of Udhailiyah School's production of Richard R. George's Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Play. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for Udhailyah School. The analysis also includes a discussion as to the non-traditional directorial vision of this production.
Direction Of The Play: Phantom Tollbooth,
2013
Central Washington University
Direction Of The Play: Phantom Tollbooth, Angela Chement
Graduate Student Projects
This project consists of the selection, background research and documentation, casting, direction, and post-production analysis of Ben Eielson Junior/Senior high's production of Susan Nanus's adaptation of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth. Documentation included research and analysis of the play and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for the Department of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University. The analysis also includes a discussion as to the non-traditional directorial vision of this production.
Vaudeville, Popular Entertainment And Cultural Division In The Inland Empire, 1880-1914,
2013
Claremont Graduate University
Vaudeville, Popular Entertainment And Cultural Division In The Inland Empire, 1880-1914, Mark Hauser
CGU Theses & Dissertations
This paper discusses the emergence of vaudeville in California’s Inland Empire region of San Bernardino and Riverside counties. It will consider the social changes underway in late nineteenth-century America and their impact on attitudes towards popular entertainment. This paper will draw on Lawrence Levine’s observations of cultural hierarchies that emerged during the late nineteenth century and shaped American understandings of culture. Entertainment of the nineteenth century will be examined for the ways it was unable to match urban trends, and contrasted with vaudeville’s appeal to a diverse urban populace. The cities of San Bernardino, Redlands and Riverside were home to …
The Magazine-Programme’S Playful Pages,
2013
South Dakota State University
The Magazine-Programme’S Playful Pages, Nicole Flynn
English Faculty Presentations
No abstract provided.
Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays On The Plays And Other Works Edited By Philip C. Kolin (Review),
2013
Chapman University
Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays On The Plays And Other Works Edited By Philip C. Kolin (Review), Jocelyn Buckner
Theatre Faculty Articles and Research
The anthology Suzan-Lori Parks: Essays on the Plays and Other Works offers new perspectives to the growing body of scholarship about Parks’s artistic achievements. The text features a contextualizing preface and twelve new essays about her plays, novel, and screenplays. It also contains two new interviews, one with Parks herself and another with her longtime friend and collaborator, director Liz Diamond, as well as a timeline featuring major productions of her works from her first play reading in 1984, to projects anticipated for future production on stage and screen. While Parks’s works, and works on Parks are widely anthologized in …
Theatre Of The Mind: Hardy The Dynasts And The Question Of Form,
2013
Gettysburg College
Theatre Of The Mind: Hardy The Dynasts And The Question Of Form, Suzanne J. Flynn
English Faculty Publications
This essay analyzes Hardy’s rarely discussed epic-drama, The Dynasts, especially in relation to trends in the early twentieth-century drama. Hardy’s work is a hybrid of epic, drama, and lyric and was, at the time, thought to be unstageable.
Undefined Genre, Or, A Study Into Work Reliant On Visual Art Mediums To Transform The Protagonist Function Of The Human Body In Performance,
2013
Edith Cowan University
Undefined Genre, Or, A Study Into Work Reliant On Visual Art Mediums To Transform The Protagonist Function Of The Human Body In Performance, Tony Currie
Theses : Honours
This thesis is a study into performance art, specifically examples of work in which the artist engages with a physical object or visual arts medium to create a work of art in the presence of an audience. The subsequent work of art created can vary from works on paper, to living structures, or any other physical and tangible structure. I have addressed the audience demographic of performance art, the genre’s conceptual genesis, its ephemeral nature, and its commoditisation to analyse its relevance to the current artistic climate. During my study, an importance has been placed on live performance, not on …
The Virtual Watercooler: Influences Of Political Comedy On Social Media Discussion,
2013
Eastern Michigan University
The Virtual Watercooler: Influences Of Political Comedy On Social Media Discussion, Andrew Abad
Senior Honors Theses and Projects
With the emergence of social media activity as a daily phenomenon for most Americans, online users are becoming greater consumers of political information, and are choosing to share that information through social media outlets. A virtual "watercooler effect" is created, in the form of online political debates and arguments. This study examines the connection between viewers of political comedy programmings (television shows like The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report) and political discussion on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. Using a survey of EMU undergraduate students that measures political efficacy and media habits, …
The Making Of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging The Diva Through Cabarets, Pubs And Into The Recital Hall,
2013
Edith Cowan University
The Making Of Disgrace Kelly: Dragging The Diva Through Cabarets, Pubs And Into The Recital Hall, Caitlin Cassidy
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
This research project investigates the synthesis of cabaret and recital performance as a way to re-invigorate the recital as a performance platform. As a curious classical singer with a passion for cabaret, I have explored cabaret in my own creative practice as a classically trained opera singer through the employment of practice-led research methodologies. This project includes research manifested in rehearsals, performance and exegetical writing, including a unique self-reflexive voice in the writing style, to encompass a practice-led research methodology. The culmination of these approaches was a final performance program entitled Diva Bites the Dust. A study of the diva …
The Aesthetic Of Failure: Authenticity, Effort, And Imperfection In American Contemporary Dance,
2013
Colby College
The Aesthetic Of Failure: Authenticity, Effort, And Imperfection In American Contemporary Dance, Delaney Mcdonough
Honors Theses
This research examines a slice of American contemporary dance artists and their audiences. American postmodern choreographers such as David Dorfman, Heidi Henderson, Sara Hook, and Paul Matteson use what I am calling the aesthetic of failure as a method to punctuate their work, momentarily blur clarity, steer the viewer’s gaze, make space for live choice making, and in some cases draw laughter. Almost any emotion can be associated with failure: anger, grief, hilarity, absurdity, etc. The underpinning of failure in live performance is the medium of the craft, human bodies. Consider the phrase “humanly possible:” jump as high as humanly …
Uncovering A Genre : The Integration Of Suspended Aerial Apparatus And Contemporary Dance Practice In Australia,
2013
Edith Cowan University
Uncovering A Genre : The Integration Of Suspended Aerial Apparatus And Contemporary Dance Practice In Australia, Catherine Ryan
Theses : Honours
Genres in the performing arts are constantly shifting and changing, with many artforms evolving into new spheres of performance. It is not uncommon for creators to employ tools and techniques from various disciplines to support their artistic vision and enhance their work. A number of contemporary dance artists have begun to explore movement in the air by adapting skills or equipment from other disciplines and industries to suit their needs. At the same time, some circus artists and aerialists have been lowering their apparatus to incorporate ground-based movement into their work. It is this cross-pollination between art-forms that has formed …
Blind Date,
2013
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Blind Date, Joey Hamburger
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
During the academic year of 2012-2013 Joey Hamburger wrote and performed Blind Date, an hour-long comedic one-man show on relationships. The show was performed on the campus of Saint John’s University, at Stage 773 in Chicago, and the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater in Minneapolis. The process was both a lesson in writing/performing comedy and the entrepreneurial skills needed to successfully market and make profit off of a show. With both of these skills one can learn to be a successful performer and truly make a career in the art of theater.
"Alright Already, I'M Just A No Goodnick!" Guys And Dolls: A Musical Fable Of Broadway,
2013
Lindenwood University
"Alright Already, I'M Just A No Goodnick!" Guys And Dolls: A Musical Fable Of Broadway, Christopher D. Strawhun
Theses
Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway is considered a classic of the musical pantheon. As a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from Lindenwood University, I am required to participate in a production as a leading part. This paper chronicles the process and experience of performing in the musical masterpiece, as well as the history of the show.
