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Myth, Method And Masturbation: The Hysteria Of Woman's Sexuality, A One-Person Play, Josephine Hall

LSU Master's Theses

The assigned task was to create a one-person play of approximately 20 – 45 minutes in length. There were no other guidelines to follow. Having never performed a solo play, I found the assignment somewhat daunting. My first challenge was to overcome my basic dislike of solo performances. However, during the process I found new appreciation for such works. I was rather overwhelmed when trying to find a suitable topic for my piece until I came across an on-line article entitled “Vaginas with teeth – and other sexual myths”. This spurred me to create the one-person play Myth, Method and …

Spectacle, Pageantry, And Parading, Whitney Whetstone

LSU Master's Theses

We celebrate the arrival of spring with revelry in search of catharsis. Carnival’s roots trace from the ancient Greek and Roman pagan celebrations, to the pageant wagons of the Medieval theatre and the French masquerades, and on through the Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is part of Louisiana’s rich cultural history of parading and spectacle, as well as public art and performance, as a civic responsibility, and as an economic booster. Blaine Kern’s Mardi Gras World builds parade floats, large-scale sculptures, and props for Mardi Gras, theme parks, and casinos around the world. I interned with Kern …

The Creation Of "Echolalia: A Conversation" A Production Thesis In Acting, Olga Michele Guidry

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis, submitted to the Graduate School of Louisiana State University as partial requirement for graduation with the Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre, follows the creation of a solo performance piece by Michele Guidry, called “Echolalia: A Conversation.” This solo project is an exploration of communication through the experience of autism from the perspective of parents, siblings, and therapists of children with autism, and the children themselves. The thesis includes topics of inspiration for creating this solo performance piece, interviews with experts and theatre artists who have personal experience with autism, a copy of the script with explanation …

"Baby, Dream Your Dream": Pearl Bailey, Hello, Dolly!, And The Negotiation Of Race In Commerical American Musical Theatre, Charles Eliot Mehler

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In October of 1967, producer David Merrick closed his successful production of Hello, Dolly! Merrick reopened the show one month later with an all-black cast that featured the talents of performers Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway. While this Bailey Dolly! was a mammoth commercial success, this production brought attention to various problems concerning the interaction of black and white creative and performing talent in the venue of commercial American musical theatre. One such problem involved the risk of possible loss of genuine black culture and ignorance of recalcitrant intra-black-community difficulties and the extent to which African Americans should have desired …

How To Get From Here To There: Poetic Connections In Tracy Letts's "Man From Nebraska," "August: Osage County," And "Superior Donuts.", Deborah Ann Kochman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, Kochman examines the textual references to poetry in contemporary playwright Tracy Letts's "Man from Nebraska," "August: Osage County," and "Superior Donuts" and explores how specific references function as a "poetic exchange" between the protagonists and the respective agents of change or moral touchstones in each play and how these "poetic exchanges" suggest a diminishment or elevation of the intrinsic value of art -- specifically, poetry -- as a force for personal and cultural renewal. While Letts's writing is hardly "poetic" and his structure closer to "narrative," he focuses on "the repressed" - both emotionally and socially --and …

The Portia Project: The Heiress Of Belmont On Stage And Screen, Ann Mccauley Basso

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Until now, there has not been a performance history of The Merchant of Venice that focuses on Portia, the main character of the play. Although she has the most lines, the most stage time, and represents the nexus of the action, Portia has often been hidden in Shylock's shadow, and this dissertation seeks to bring her into the spotlight. The Portia Project is a contribution to literary and theatrical history; its primary goal is to provide a tool for scholars and teachers. Moreover, because of Merchant's notoriously problematic nature, the play invites different perspectives. By presenting the diverse ways that …

Ua68/17/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters Theatre & Dance Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by the department of Theatre & Dance including theatrical posters and programs, a newsletter, brochures, and more.

Promotional Email From Vendini: Blackfriars Dance Concert, Vendini Marketing

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Promotional email printout from Vendini marketing about the Blackfriars Dance Concert.

Printout date: December 13, 2010

Stopping For Death: Plays, Poetry, And Prose, Sally Johnson

Honors Theses

Thesis consists of plays and poetry composed by Sally Johnson.

A Plantation Family Wardrobe, 1825 - 1835, Jennifer Lappas

Theses and Dissertations

An examination of the Shirley Plantation Collection, Hill Carter, Mary B. Carter, their children, the plantation workers and their wardrobe between 1825 and 1835.

Dinner With Friends Strike Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Dinner with Friends strike

December 5, 2010

Dinner With Friends Poster, Providence College, Jayo Miko Macasaquit ‘11

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

Dinner With Friends

An independent student production

December 3-5, 2010

Poster Design: Jayo Miko Macasaquit ‘11

Dinner With Friends Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

Dinner With Friends

An independent student production

December 3-5, 2010

Directed by Conor Leary '11

Costume Design: Kelly Smith '12

Scenic Design: Kenneth Carberry '12

Lighting & Sound Design: Ted Boyce-Smith '11

Cast: KAREN - Danielle Demisay '12; GABE - Jeff DeSisto '13; BETH - Christine Cestaro '11; TOM - Taylor O'Brien '12

Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical, Parkland College Theatre

Parkland Theatre

Book, Music and Lyrics: Dan Goggin

Director: J.W. Morrissette
Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
Choreographer: Jean Ray Korder
Costume Designer: Sr. Mary Poly Ester
Scenic and Lighting Designer: Thomas V. Korder
Sound Designer: Robert Dagit<
Technical Director: David G. Dillman

December 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, at 7:30 p.m.
December 11, 12 at 3 p.m.

Produced by special arrangement with Tams-Whitmark Music Library, Inc.

To view images from this production, visit Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas Musical (2010).

The Lab Report, Volume 04, Issue 07, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Mitzi’s Abortion Published by Original Works Publishing
• Student Spotlight: Kevin Ferguson
• Guest Profile: Jason Aaron Goldberg
• Open Me Last, Three Short Plays by Maura Campbell
• Un-Holy Nite: 5 Short and Charmingly Irreverent Christmas Plays for High Schoolers by Samantha Macher
• From the Director: Think of the Arts When Thinking About Year End Giving

Silence: Exploring Salvatore Sciarrino’S Style Through L’Opera Per Flauto, Megan R. Lanz

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this paper is to examine the works in Salvatore Sciarrino’s (b. 1947) collection L’opera per flauto written for solo flute and to examine Sciarrino’s compositional style, focusing on his characteristic markings, creative sonorities, and other pertinent facts about pieces in the collection. The first chapter in this paper discusses the value of silence in music and how Sciarrino provides the illusion of perceived silence. Chapter Two discusses elements of Sciarrino’s compositional style and the presence of complex notation. The final chapter provides flutists with a technical guide to the seven pieces in his L’opera per flauto collection. …

Performing Impressionistic Autoethnographic Narrative In Text And Pixels To Explore Fear Of Death In End-Of-Life Care-Giving Contexts, Dena M. Rosko

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This study explores fear of death in end-of-life caregiving contexts via impressionistic autoethnographic narrative as performed on a blog with photographs and poems. This study relies on ethical assumptions for communicating dialogue, confirmation, and a performance narrative ethos in end of life. This study employs Terror Management Theory to identify a gap in existing empirical fear and death studies, and fills that gap by embedding its framework and method in the psychotherapeutic tradition to foster creative freedom and psychological safety and so break the cultural silence shrouding grief. Key findings show that the blog coordinated a therapeutic process to assuage …

Senior Athletic Training Students' Perceptions And Self-Reported Behaviors Of Evidence-Based Practice, Gregory P. Schneider

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Title: Senior Athletic Training Student‟s Perceptions and Self-Reported Behaviors of Evidence-Based Practice Context: Entry-level athletic training education is currently transitioning to include evidence-based practice (EBP) into their curriculums to continue to establish athletic training as a prestigious allied health profession. Objective: To determine senior athletic training student (SATS) perceptions of EBP and examine the self-reported behaviors of EBP to gain insight into the instructional methods currently used to educate athletic training students in EBP as the method of delivering care to patients. Design: Grounded theory study Setting: Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education accredited undergraduate athletic training programs. Participants: …

Recasting Genre In Tennessee Williams's Apprentice Plays, Christina Ilona Hunter

Dissertations

This dissertation investigates Tennessee Williams’s earliest full-length plays, also known as the apprentice plays—Candles to the Sun, Fugitive Kind, Not About Nightingales, Spring Storm, and Stairs to the Roof—by comparing, contrasting and contextualizing them in relation to Daniel Chandler’s generic criteria of drama; namely, narrative, characterization, setting, topics, iconography, and staging techniques. The present study also draws upon an extensive body of scholarship pertaining to genre theory, Williams’s cultural contemporaries, and the historical and psychological backdrop of Depression-era America. In these early plays, Williams diverged sharply from the dramatic generic conventions of his day, manipulating them in new …

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2010 Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2010

November 20 & 21, 2010

Directed By: Wendy Oliver

Choreographed By: Tess Bernard, Michael Bolger, Nicole Kedaroe, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Meredith Lyons, Wendy Oliver

Lighting Design: Tim Cryan

Dancers: Alyssa Catjakis, Kelly Cummings, Shannon Hoey, Theresa Hurton, Jaclyn Longo, Christina Martinez, Amy McCormack, Kelly Mulhern, Moira Power, Olivia Romano, Amanda Smalley, Lauren Spagnuolo, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Kaitlin Elliot, Jake Goldsmith, Kathryn Graf, Kaitlyn Order, Jennifer Robinson, Erica Tuccero, Stephanie Wong, Casey Caliendo, Shannon Hoey, Callie Kovack, Meaghan Lambert, Jenna Macone, Caroline Brown, Meghan Chisholm, Michael …

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2010 Playbill, Providence College, Alex Fiedler

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2010

Nov. 20 & 21, 2010

Poster Design: Alex Fiedler

The Word 'N The Beat: Hip-Hop Love Notes... (2010), Black Arts Workshop, Oberlin College Theater And Dance Program

Season 2010-2011

No abstract provided.

A Christmas Carol (November 18-20, December 2-4, 2010), Charles Dickens

Student Theatre Programs

Program for A Christmas Carol (November 18-20, December 2-4, 2010).

To view the photos from this production of A Christmas Carol, please click here.

The Sweetest Swing In Baseball Open Auditions Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball open auditions

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 6pm

The Sweetest Swing In Baseball Open Auditions Email, Vendini Marketing

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball open auditions

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 6pm

*Email printout date: December 13, 2010

The Sweetest Swing In Baseball Open Auditions Email, Vendini Marketing

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

The Sweetest Swing in Baseball open auditions email printout

November 8, 2010

Fall Dance Concert (November 8-10, 2018), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

No abstract provided.

Hedda Gabler Strike Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Hedda Gabler strike

November 7, 2010

Town And Country, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Did you know Baroque was the new music of the 17th century? In the 21st century, it is the fastest growing niche in the classical music business. The dynamically engaging ensemble REBEL returns to the Alexander Kasser Theater with a specially crafted program featuring works by both well-known and lesser-known composers. In this remarkable musical journey, REBEL presents works by composers of vastly different backgrounds–Handel from the royal city of London; Telemann from the urban center of Hamburg; and Scheiffelhut, Fischer, and Schmierer from the country courts of southern Germany–in an exciting and rare arrangement of compositions, all of which …

Bringing Down The Stars And Moving Them Around, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2010-2011 PEAK Explores the Answer: Experiments in Arts & Technology

Have you heard the old saying: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts? Not this time! Open your ears! The most inventive percussion ensemble in America performs one of the giant works of the 20th century. Pleiades by Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is a timeless, polyrhythmic composition considered to be a masterpiece and test of will for those who dare undertake it in performance. Joining So¯ Percussion to complete the tour-de-force experience will be Todd Meehan and Douglas Perkins. Bonus points awarded for concert ingenuity: also on the program is Proximity by Turkish composer Cenk Ergün, whose use of electronic tonalities is …