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From República Inmoral To La Peste Fascista: Agit-Prop Theatre Of The Second Republic, Catherine O'Leary

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

This article considers the relationship between culture, specifically the theatre, and the State during the Second Republic and analyses some of the work of certain writers who employed propagandistic theatre to fUrther their political aims. It examines the purpose, both political and artistic, of this theatre before going on to demonstrate how its reception by the state"s censors during the Second Republic and the early Civil War years mirrored the political changes and confusion of the period. Finally, some conclusions are drawn about the worth of this theatre, both as art and as social document.

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Lorca, El Cubismo Y La Distorsión Del Tiempo, Huw Aled Lewis

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Traditionally, Lorca"s plays Comedia sin titulo. El público, and Así que pasen cinco años have been analysed as experimental works that are radically different from his rural trilogy or other, more conventional works. This article will approach Así que pasen cinco años from a dífferent viewpoint, examining it as a direct precursor of Bodas de sangre and as an experiment not only in projecting the complexities of the human mind, but also as an attempt to translate to the theatre some of the ideas that have been associated with pictorial Cubism.

Tradicionalmente, obras lorquíanas como Comedia sin titulo, …

Ravers At The Bush: Generation Ecstasy Goes To The Theatre, William C. Boles

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Determining that seminal moment when a new theatrical movement comes to life has been one of the points of debate surrounding the challenging new plays and their talented, twenty something authors that have appeared on the British stage since the mid-1990s. Plays and authors like: Mojo (1995) by Jez Butterworth; Blasted (1995) by Sarah Kane; Closer (1997) by Patrick Marber; The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996) by Martin McDonagh; Butterfly Kiss (1994) by Phyllis Nagy; Love and Understanding (1997) by Joe Penhall; Essex Girls (1994) by Rebecca Prichard; Shopping and Fucking (1996) by Mark Ravenhill; and Ashes and …

The Phenomenology Of Büchner's Woyzeck: Historical And Critical Problems In The Ongoing Adaptation, Jonathan W. Myers

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Georg BUchner is considered by many to be the father of 20th century drama, despite his death in 1837 at the young age of 23. His legacy is visible in any contemporary survey of the history of theater. The origins of the styles and techniques of Naturalism, Expressionism, Theater of the Absurd, Existential Drama, Theater of Alienation, Theater of Cruelty, Socialist theatre, and documentary drama may all be feasibly traced to BUchner's own innovative themes and playwriting techniques. His final manuscript Woyzeck remained incomplete at his death, leaving what would become a dramaturgical puzzle for the theater scholars of each …

Career Readiness And Preparation Criteria In Undergraduate Dance Degree Programs, Kathleen E. Klein

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The purpose of the research study was to examine the history and philosophy of certain very distinct dance degree programs. The dissertation is intended to serve as a resource to benefit faculty and administrators in American undergraduate and graduate level dance programs. The primary goal was to recognize emergent themes aimed at stronger outcomes for students seeking a career track in dance. Beginning with an overview of the historical development of dance and dance education in the United States, the study closely examined the current cultural, educational, and political structures, functions, and mechanisms which influence prevailing public views of this …

La Escena Madrileña De 1906 A 1911, Rocío Letón Rojo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Time Wounds All Heels: Duncan, Ballet, And Bataille, Joanne Pearson

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Any study of the birth of modern dance draws upon the work of Isadora Duncan and for too long her dance has been placed in opposition to ballet. Even today the contemporary Duncan dancer reifies the image of Duncan as natural, harmonious, unique and rounded [1]. This opposition of free dance versus ballet presents a two-dimensional portrait of past representations of femininity. I aim to re-think Duncan's disdain for the pointe shoe and her belief that barefoot dancing would encourage a liberated movement that would in turn free woman from her disgraceful position in dance and …

Animation Studies, Disciplinarity And Discursivity, Paul Ward

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Addressing how knowledge grows, develops and fits together is arguably one of the most testing tasks facing scholars. In a world where knowledge is increasingly viewed as a commodity -- and the teaching of that knowledge is often done in an instrumentalist fashion -- we need to come to a fuller understanding of how knowledge areas inter-relate. Such a mapping needs to move beyond simplistic models of disciplinarity (and its bolted-together variants, such as interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity, and the like) and explore the ways that a wide range of people in an equally diverse set of contexts might constitute …

Art Or Propaganda: A Historical And Critical Analysis Of African-American Approaches To Dramatic Theory, 1900–1965, Henry D. Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation surveys African American approaches to dramatic theory from 1900 to 1965, demonstrating that in the period the issue dominating the field was a great debate that defined black drama as art on the one hand and as propaganda on the other. In an African American cultural history replete with covert and overt struggles for social and political equality, the art or propaganda question necessarily reached a magnitude and importance found in no other area of twentieth-century dramatic theory. The comprehensiveness of the debate that interrogated this question and its historical and cultural depth has largely gone untreated. Moreover, …

Dashiki Project Theatre: Black Identity And Beyond, Stanley R. Coleman

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

At a cast party following a Dillard University theatre production in 1965, Guy West, a senior in theatre, stated that one of his dreams was to perform in his own theatre. These remarks by West proved to be the inspiration that began New Orleans' Dashiki Project Theatre. Prior to 1965, Free Southern Theater was the only theatre of the black experience in New Orleans. Through Dashiki Project Theatre, the black community found another opportunity to relate to black experience through the medium of theatrical performance. In the mid-sixties Theodore Gilliam, a Dillard University professor, and his associates founded Dashiki Project …

La Escena Madrileña De 1900 A 1905, Noelia Silva De Baya

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Roberto Cossa Y El Teatro Dominante (1985-1999), Osvaldo Pellettieri

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

El Teatro Porteño Del Año 2000 Y El Teatro Del Futuro, Osvaldo Pellettieri

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Dramaturgia De Eduardo Pavlovsky (1990-2000): Nuevas Búsquedas De Fin De Siglo, Ana Laura Lusnich

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Dramaturgia Emergente En Buenos Aires, 1990-2000, Alicia Aisemberg, Adriana Libonati

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Las Puestas Que Estilizan El Canon Realista: La Escritura Escénica De Jaime Kogan Y Augusto Fernandes, Laura Mogliani

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Puesta En Escena Realista En Los '90, Delfina Fernández Frade

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Prólogo, Ángel Berenguer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Madres, Marginados Y Otras Víctimas: El Teatro De Griselda Gambaro En El Ocaso Del Siglo, Beatriz Trastoy

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Ricardo Monti: Hacia Un Teatro Epifánico, Mirta Arlt

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Las Textualidades Remanentes Hacia El Fin Del Milenio, Marina Sikora

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Producción Teatral En La Década Del '90: De La Euforia Al Desencanto, Armida María Córdoba, Susana Llahí, María De Los Ángeles Sanz

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Puesta En Escena Emergente Y Su Futuro, Martín Rodríguez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Breve Panorama De La Investigación Teatral En Buenos Aires Del '90, Lidia Martínez Landa, Isidro Salzman

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Catalunya Invisible: Contemporary Drama In Barcelona, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

During the winter of 2000, Lluís Pasqual staged a Catalan version of Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard at Barcelona's Teatre Lliure, the historic home of Catalonia's most stable, accomplished, and distinguished repertory theatre company. In Chekov's play, Madame Lyobov Andreyevna Ranyevskaya, an emblem of the fading elegance and dwindling supremacy of the Russian aristocracy, is compelled by her situation of financial despair to sell her estate and cherry orchard to the nouveau-riche Lopakhin and then return to Paris on the eve of the Revolution. The orchard that was once admired for its beauty eventually will be destroyed in order to …

The Mind Museum: Rudolf Schwarzkogler And The Vienna Actionists, Philip Barnes

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Sixth paragraph]

In the following essay I discuss the Austrian artist Rudolf Schwarzkogler. I have enjoyed the process of ferreting out articles and references to him, although these are seemingly as scarce as his own artistic output. Schwarzkogler spent just 2 years staging performance-actions in his apartment in the 1960s. These methodically photographed scenes involved sliced fish, bandages, light bulbs, razor blades, foodstuffs and surgical apparatus, all manipulated by anonymous figures. The photographs, works of art in their own right, have since toured internationally. Schwarzkogler was the least outgoing of a group called the Viennese Actionists, whose orgiastic, bloody Happenings …

On Guillermo Gomez-Peña's El Mexterminator And Cyber Vato, Michael Benton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

While attending Bowling Green State University in 1997 I had an experience that changed my worldview. I was a teaching assistant in the Popular Culture department and part of my responsibilities included teaching Introduction to Popular Culture (POPC 100) and Introduction to Mass Media (POPC 165). I had been struggling to engage my students in examining the way in which social reality is represented to them through popular entertainments [2]. The majority of my students were white, middle class students from the surrounding Northern regions of Ohio. My students were well-versed in the ongoing controversy over whether or …

Performing Hyphenates: A Study In Contemporary Irish-American Identity And Cultural Performance, Patrick Michael Bynane

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This study examines the issues and contradictions of identity formation found in contemporary Irish-American cultural performances. Using a theoretical language grounded in post-structuralism and cultural studies, this examination hopes to demonstrate the primacy of performance and theatre in the formation of culture, Irish-American specifically, or otherwise. The performances featured in the study are: Riverdance, St. Patrick's Day parades, pub performances, and improv theatre.

La Otra Imagen Del Indiano En Algunas Comedias De Lope De Vega, Ysla Campbell

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

La figura del indiano reúne en la dramaturgia de Lope de Vega una serie de características que la alejan de la tipología tradicional del personaje en el teatro del Siglo de Oro. La autora, a través del análisis de diversos pasajes de varias comedias de Lope, establece que en ellas se pondera el esfuerzo y la discreción en el gasto para matizar la imagen tradicional negativa del indiano. En general, para el Fénix, la realidad es demasiado amplia y rica como para encasillarla en tales arquetipos. Nos proporciona una visión simpática del indiano, cuya limpieza de sangre e interés por …

Introducción, Héctor Brioso Santos

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.