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Male Belting: An Exploration Of Technique And Style From 1967 To Current, Bruce Earnest

Dissertations

Male belting is found in many different stylistic forms of musical theatre repertoire. Its evolution began in the late 1960s with the emergence of the rock musical phenomenon and the early musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Belting is a musical theatre singing technique that achieves specific vocal tone qualities derived from speechlike tones. These tone qualities can resonate through a performance space without the use of amplification.

Belting technique has also evolved to support the singing of musical theatre repertoire that requires an extended male vocal tessitura and honest communication of text. The advance of belting as a legitimate vocal …

Galaetics, Curran Smith

Program of Industrial Design Capstones

A juggling prop designed for a enhance user and viewer experience.

Igniting The Imagination : Tenaciously Building A Character., Lois Abdelmalek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As an actor, my goal is to achieve full transformation to perform any character. During my final year of graduate school, I auditioned and received the roles of Liz Morden and Lieutenant Faddy in Our Country’s Good. I had been exposed to several acting methods in graduate school; however, I questioned if I had a solid technique to rely on. My thesis role was an opportunity to become self-aware of my process. Through imagination, I explored the historical circumstances, the text, and physical and voice work. I became conscious as never before how my creation of a character demands trusting …

Being In Performance: A Philosophical Account Of The Embodied Actor, Brad M. Krumholz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In this dissertation I present and analyze three distinct actor-training exercises primarily through the lens of the Embodied Cognition (EC) branch of contemporary philosophy, which attempts to frame human understanding as a fully embodied interaction with the environment. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and other branches of philosophy, EC provides both an excellent set of tools and a strong theoretical framework to help explain how people encounter meaning in life. I apply its unique perspectives to this philosophical account of the embodied actor as I analyze the various elements at play in actor training praxis, which allows me to shed …

Double Duty: An Improv Experience, Leah M. Harvey

Honors Capstones

Double Duty: An Improv Experience was an ISPAR Grant supported project that aimed to create a new performance medium in which improve jazz musicians and improv actors collaborate in one cohesive form. The rehearsals began for this project in August, and the company meets once a week for a two-hour rehearsal. The director and faculty advisor also meet once a week for a check-in, as well as a progress report twice a semester with the Dean of the College of Visual and Performing arts. This project was born out of the need for collaboration between the schools of the CVPA, …

The Craftsman Mirroring The Creator: Explorations In Theatrical Theology, Andrew Noah

Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day (2018-)

This will be my presentation given to theology faculty on Scholarship and Creativity Day required for the Theology Capstone course. I will be discussing the idea that when doing theology in a theatrical mode, it becomes a way to focus on God working in the world and our call as the audience to take part in the performance. Because God does not just exist in the abstract, but makes Godself known through the senses, theatre, as a sensual art, becomes the perfect mode to explore and make relevant God’s divine revelation.

Fear Of Etiolation In The Age Of Professional Passion, Kathleen F. Mcconnell

Faculty Publications

Recent analysis of academia credits neoliberalism for its destabilization. Neoliberalism alone does not explain academics’ conflicted attachments to a precarious professional life or the tendency to embrace normative conceptions of passion and shun professional decline. The quarantine on decline is analogous to the exemption that J.L. Austin imposed on theatre: both deny constitutive power to certain statements and harbor a fear of queerness. Four essays published in Text & Performance Quarterly illustrate how academics quarantine professional fears and doubts. A fifth finds that the deterioration of professional accomplishments loosens normative associations to make space for other, queer relations.

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• Art seniors to showcase portfolios and capstone projects in upcoming exhibition

Holding On/Letting Go: Situating Trauma And Memory In Theatrical Spaces, Caroline T. Graham

Theatre & Dance ETDs

In this essay, I review my development as a playwright in the MFA Dramatic Writing program and examine the shifting, overlapping goals of playwright-as-educator and playwright-as-entertainer. In Part One, I position my academic exploration of trauma in relation to ethics in journalism, embodied knowledge, and intersectional feminism and outline my creative experiments in staging trauma through the process of witnessing, retelling, and abstraction. In Part Two, I detail the artistic and personal roots of my dissertation play, The Great Maverick Adventure of 2007, and the structural and dramaturgical tools I employed to rebuild a sense of play and theatricality …

Jean Kerr And Carson Grey Sound Ideas Interview April 10, 2018, Laura Kennedy

Interviews for WGLT

WGLT Radio's Laura Kennedy speaking with Jean Kerr and Carson Grey about the IWU School of Theatre Arts production of the musical Xanadu. Kerr, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, directed the production with IWU sophomore Grey serving as assistant director.

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• BFSDoArt presents 'Portfolio Reveal' exhibit this April

An Investigation Of Scenic Visualization Using Virtual Reality During Rehearsal, Cyrus Jian Bonyadi

Computer Science

In this paper, we discuss the use of virtual reality as a tool for actors during the rehearsal process and assess methods to implement and continue this research in future works. During the rehearsal process, the scenic design is normally introduced to actors close to the end of rehearsals. In introducing a virtual reality environment to train actors, we hoped to help them develop a better understanding of the design at an earlier point in the process. Our investigative pilot study involves two productions in a university theatre, where we render the scenic design of the production for which our …

The Importance Of Being Earnest Poster [2018], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2017-2018 Season

By Oscar Wilde

Directed by Andrew Harris

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Postcard included, dimensions 5" x 7"

The Importance Of Being Earnest Program [2018], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2017-2018 Season

By Oscar Wilde

Directed by Andrew Harris

Performing Arts: Critical Governance Issues, Appukuttan Damodaran

Working Papers

This study was undertaken with assistance provided by IIMB through a Seed Money Grant for the period from 2013-16. The focus of the project was to work on the following aspects relating to select classical dances and theatre forms from India.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray: An Immersive Experience, Natalie Love

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

This project studied the effects of immersive theatre on an audience using a script adapted from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This project explored how to best adapt a literary work into a performance piece, and rather than creating a traditional piece of theatre, creating an immersive work. The process included research in literature, new work creation, and theatre devising as well as the rehearsals and preparation necessary for the production. Using a small cast of Otterbein performance students, the piece was performed four times in one day with different audience groups in so that I could …

Tatyana Markus: Hero Of Ukraine, Ariana L. Martineau

Honors Projects

A dramatized telling of the story of Tatyana Markus, a young Jewish resistance fighter from Kiev, Ukraine. Under a false identity, she personally killed dozens of Nazis during WWII. Along the way she lost many people she cared about until she was captured herself. Tatyana has gone on virtually unknown throughout the world, so this play is an effort to spread word about this brave, amazing girl who was only in her early 20s. I think the themes are very relatable to today's society with the struggle of whether to stand up to injustice, or stand by. Especially since she …

Theatre Beyond Words, Lauren Danielle Stacks

Honors Thesis

Theatre Beyond Words is an exploration of how the Moment Work devising method may be utilized as an artistic tool to communicate ideas beyond the capacity of spoken text. In 1991 Moisés Kaufman and partner Jeffery LaHoste founded Tectonic Theater Project so they and their company members could explore the avant-garde theatre that fascinated them. Moment Work was born from the fusion of Mary Overlie’s View Points and Moisés Kaufman’s own explorative exercises with Tectonic Theater Project. My work is a hands-on investigation of the creative power of this technique through my application of Moment Work to the direction of …

Re-Imagining The Theatre: Existence And Change, Andres Aguilar

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

With acknowledgement of Nicaraguan Theatre and its different dynamics, this research works to expose and create visibility of current Nicaraguan Theatre with relation to social change in Managua, Nicaragua. The microcosm of theatre is revolutionary in creating the necessary change to reach a state of consciousness that allows others to accept and understand society and others for what they are and what they can be. The theater is simply a tool. Intrinsically, all acts are political, therefore the theater is a political declaration. The theater is, and always will be, a political arena, when the aesthetics of the theater are …

Introduction To "Rethinking The College Summer Intensive: A New Model For Collaboration, David Callaghan, Ann Shanahan

Department of Fine & Performing Arts: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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To The Question Of The Director's Interpretation Of The Tragedy Of Shakespeare On The Stage Of The Theater, Mukhabbat Tulakhodjayeva

Culture and Arts of Central Asia

This article addresses the issues of the Director's interpretations of classical works, with special attention to productions of Shakespeare's tragedies. Discusses the performances created by the Directors of the European and Eastern theatres of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century. Defines the main directions of modern art.

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities News

• Georgia Southern Theatre & Performance set to close the season with Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Georgia Southern Theatre & Performance set to close the season with Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

A Tale Of Two Birds: Lighting Design And Implementation Of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull And Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird Running In Repertory At Swine Palace Theatre, Chelsea G. Touchet

LSU Master's Theses

The course of creation never did run smooth. Every act of creation is a process of creation. While theatrical creation and execution may follow the same basic steps each time, the process will always be evolving. One may take many paths to reach the same destination.

This project is a study of the process of creation and execution of a repertory theatrical lighting design for a professional company in an academic setting. In the spring of 2017, Swine Palace Theatre, the professional company associated with Louisiana State University’s (LSU) School of Theatre, produced Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull in full rotating …

33 Short Comedy Plays For Teens, Rebeca Wallin

Children's Book and Media Review

Though titled 'plays,' the 33 works in this collection would more accurately be called 'scenes.' Each piece is a self-contained short scene with two to seven characters and ranges from four to twelve pages. The scenes, written specifically for teens, are based on typical high school situations including things such as homework, classes, dating, driving, and friends. These ordinary situations are then usually heightened and exaggerated, often verging on and crossing over to the ridiculous.

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• Annual juried exhibitions to showcase artwork of BFSDoArt students

A Man Of No Importance Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2017-2018 Season

Music by Stephen Flaherty

Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Book by Terrence McNally

Directed by Cary Libkin

Musical Direction by Ed Reichert

Choreography by Vanessa Beyland

In Memoriam Minor R. Rootes

In Memoriam Walter Ray Stump

Rethinking Ionesco’S Absurd: The Bald Soprano In The Interlingual Context Of Vichy And Postwar France, Julia Elsky

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Rereading Eugène Ionesco’s postwar play La cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) in the light of the original, wartime Romanian version alongside archival materials concerning his political activity in Vichy France allows us to reconsider his role in the theater of the absurd. Instead of staging the emptiness of language in a conformist world, the Romanian play dramatizes how language and language exchange created meaning but also upheld state violence during the Second World War. Although the French version of the play adapts this theme to the postwar context, traces of state power over language remain. This new approach …

A Man Of No Importance Poster, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2017-2018 Season

Music by Stephen Flaherty

Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens

Book by Terence McNally

Directed Cary Libkin

Musical Direction by Ed Reichert

Dimensions: 8" x 13"

Also included: 5" x 7" postcard

The Cripple Of Inishmann (February 13-17, 2018), Martin Mcdonagh

Student Theatre Programs

Program for The Cripple of Inishmann (February 13-17, 2018).

To view the photos from this production of The Cripple of Inishmann, please click here.