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Pedagogical Fusion, David Maurice White

Theses and Dissertations

During the five semesters that I have been at VCU I have learned a great deal from the courses that I have been enrolled in but I have learned the most through my experiences as a Teaching Assistant. These experiences have been so valuable because of the wide range of subject areas in which I have been involved and the diverse instructors that I have assisted. Although I hesitate to use the word "problem" I feel that there is a tendency in teacher training for a student to latch onto one professor and model their teaching practices after that one …

The Constant Wife Revisited: The Progression Of A Play From Conception To The Final Stage Production, Kimberly H. Parkin

Theses and Dissertations

For my thesis, I recorded the progression of my show, The Constant Wife. I discuss the conception of my original scene design as well as the changes that occurred while working with the director and other designers. Throughout the thesis, I address the problems that arose during the pre-production, what I did to rectify those situations, and what I might have done differently if given the opportunity. I have divided the thesis into the following sections – Process of the Pre-Production, Execution of the Design and Evaluation of the Design. The final section of my thesis details what I learned …

Gentleman Johnny Plays War: John Burgoyne And The Blockade Of Boston, Catherine Ann Peckinpaugh Vrtis

Theses and Dissertations

John Burgoyne, a British general during the American Revolution, is best known for his defeat by the Continental Army at Saratoga. In addition to serving as a general,Burgoyne was a playwright. While in Boston during the blockade following the Battle ofBunker Hill Burgoyne combined his interests, writing a satire of the war. The Blockade of Boston, Burgoyne's play, was first presented as an afterpiece to a production of The Busybody on January 8, 1776 (Silverman 292).Accounts of the performance differ in detail, but the central event is consistent: during the performance a soldier walked out on stage and announced that …

Professional Theatre In The Academic Theatre Setting, Hartwell Keith Hight

Theses and Dissertations

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to discuss the dynamic of continued employment for the theatre instructor. Surprisingly, very little is written about continued employment for the theatre instructor. In the present study, the terms instructor and teacher carry the same meaning. Because theatre builds successful human beings, a theatre program must allows students, graduates, and other interested candidates the opportunity to work closely with experienced professionals in their field.

Reviving The Seventies, Aimee M. Huber

Theses and Dissertations

Design Analysis of the VCU Mainstage production process for The Nerd The comedic farce, The Nerd, written by Larry Shue and directed by Drew Fracher here at VCU, is the production I intend to analyze in terms of the scenic design process. From the initial conception of ideas, to their development through collaboration, to completion of construction, and ultimately, opening night, I plan to breakout my process step by step. I'd like to communicate the transformation of a literary play into the three-dimensional world in my mind.I. Introduction A. Overall description of process as it applies to this particular interaction …

The Art Of Collaboration In The Classroom: Team Teaching Performance, Julie K. Phillips

Theses and Dissertations

The Art of Collaboration in the Classroom: Team Teaching Performance is a co-written masters thesis which records our research in the field of team teaching as it relates to theatre education at the university level. It is our intent that this text be used as a tool for helping universities and teachers decide if a collaborative teaching model is right for their courses. A portion of the text is research-based, examining the scholarly writings which have preceded our work. In Chapter 1, we compiled a set of definitions, in the hopes of codifying the language used within this document as …

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's "Tekno Poética" Web Verse, Lost And Found In A Webspora, Angélica Huízar

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

For an author who likes to cross borders Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1955) has certainly reached audiences in both the U.S. and Mexican artistic, literary, theoretical, and political arenas. Now, with the advent of more technological mediums such as the Internet, the borderless artist makes use of the global fetish that, in theory, reaches a global community. As a prelude to his performances, workshops, conferences and lectures, Gómez-Peña’s collaborative webiste engages his readers in video-poetic selections, and hypertext poetic medley with topics that are sure to catch their interest with poems such as "Apocalypse," "Sexo," "Militias," and the video-poems "Apocalypse" and "Califas." …

Dickens's Hamlet Burlesque, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Faculty Publications

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner considers what an interlude in Great Expectations involving a spectacularly bad production of Hamlet can do for Hamlet. Specifically, Pollack-Pelzner looks at what Dickens's rendering of Mr. Wopsle's travesty reveals about Hamlet's openness to an audience's derisive laughter. Wopsle’s production may be a travesty, but Dickens’s narrative of that production is a burlesque, with Hamlet as much its target as Wopsle.

Lost In Translation: Making Sense Of Dance Through Words, Paul T. O'Sullivan

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The aim of this paper is to enter into the debate about meaning and movement and challenge the idea of dance as linguistic communication. Without words, and even with words according to some linguistic theorists, it's not possible to make sense unless we come to an agreement about a set of shared concepts. This is difficult in dance, an art form that has been silent, but undergoing evolutionary change for a large part of its history. I take the point of view that performance movement is even more arbitrary than text as a form of signification. We can read words …

Dancing Through Film Musicals: Narratives In Motion, Dara Phillips

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to discover if and how dance communicates vital plot and character information nonverbally. The example analyzed was the film Singin’ in the Rain. This thesis examined the six dance sequences in the film to determine if the dancing is an integral, powerful, and significant communicative addition to the film. Walter Fisher’s Narrative Paradigm was used in conjunction with Seymour Chatman’s concept of kernels and satellites to determine if the dances communicated significantly to the film’s viewers. The Narrative Paradigm, though loosely framed, provided the concepts of coherence and fidelity. These concepts helped determine if …

Madrigal Holiday Feast (December 9-10, 2006), Lindenwood University

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Madrigal Holiday Feast (December 9-10, 2006).

Major Barbara (2006), George Bernard Shaw

Season 2006-2007

No abstract provided.

A Christmas Story, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

Jean Shepard's A Christmas Story adapted by Philip Grecian

Director: Aaron Clark**
Assistant Director: Thom Schnarre
Scenic Designer: Andy Blacker
Lighting Designer/Technical Director: Charles Miericke**
Sound Designer: Mike Prosise

December 6, 7, 8, 9 at 8 p.m.
December 10 at 3 p.m.
Parkland College Theatre
2006

Produced by special arrangement with The Dramatic Publishing Company

To view images from this production, visit A Christmas Story (2006).

Pilgrimage Narrative: A Pattern For Heavenly Theatre In King Lear, Alexandra Chantal Yvette Mackenzie

Theses and Dissertations

I have always felt personally challenged and invigorated by one line in Peter Brook's canonical text The Empty Stage: “if the need for a true contact with a sacred invisibility through the theatre still exists, then all possible vehicles must be re-examined" (Brook 54). This thesis will endeavour to suggest and explore heavenly theatre, one possible vehicle to find that sacred invisibility. I will argue that heavenly theatre encompasses Peter Brook's understanding of holy theatre, but is more specific and tied to the manifestation of deity in the form of the Holy Spirit as understood and defined within my personal …

Blackfriars Dance Concert Strike, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert strike

December 2, 2006

Mandatory Strike Sat., December 2nd!, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Strike poster for Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006

Saturday, December 2, 2006

December 2006 - Volume Vi, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VI Number 1 includes articles about the construction of the Doudna Fine Arts Center and a visit from the National Association of the Schools of Theatre.

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006 Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006

December 1-2, 2006

Director, Wendy Oliver

Choreographers: Michael Bolger, Lindsay Craven, Sharon Montella, Wendy Oliver, Peter Ostaltsov, Melody Ruffin-Ward

Lighting Design, Katherine C. Abernathy

Dancers: Sarah Evans, Jeanette Gentile, Sue Gyimoty, Emily Herrick, Sara McCormack, Krissy Phillipino, Linsey Skalamara, Erica Tymeck, Lia Armatas, Joan Fagan, Melanie Faust, Alicia Johnson, Athena Karalekas, Emily Wood, Caroline Cruise, Melissa Cusack, Jillianne Liotta, Lindsay Maurio, Lauren Sibley, Gelsey Azhderian, Sarah Evans, Shannon Johnson, Sarah Mosca, Giselle Routhier, Sharon Montella, Shannon Johnson

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006 Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006

December 1, 2006, 8pm

December 2, 2006, 2pm

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006 Promotional Card, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006

December 1, 2006, 8pm

December 2, 2006, 2pm

The Cutting Edge, November/December 2006, Vol. 16 Issue 6, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Torch Song Trilogy (2006), Harvey Fierstein

Season 2006-2007

No abstract provided.

Bishop Hendricken High School Theater Program Presents The New Artist Play Festival Playbill, Bishop Hendricken High School

Promotion Materials

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center for the Arts Black Box Theatre

The New Artist Play Festival

November 18 & 19, 2006

Con, originally conceived and directed by Joshua Xavior, Class of 2006

Cast: Dylan Gregory - Stage Manager; Isaiah Silva - Yeshua (child); Austin Bell - Michell (child); Devin Bender - Mitchell; David Broccoli - J.W.; Matt Adams - Rinaldo; Hannah Van Meter - Mary; John Ryan-Henry - Teacher; Jeffrey Robert - Timothy; Isaac Reyes - Zeke; Davis Alianiello - Zachary; David Marron - Prison Guard/Ensemble; Sean Flaherty - Church Member/Ensemble; Chris Maymon - Wiseguy/Ensemble; …

Poetic Pandemic, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2006-2007 Season

This was the world premier of this ground breaking play. While there is a clear political agenda here, this is not agit-prop theatre. What Kia Corthron gives us are fully realized, complicated and complex people trying to grapple with the hard questions at the core of what it is to be human.

Urinetown, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

Musical

Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann
Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis

Director: Dallas Street
Musical Director: Ron Attreau
Scenic Designer: Cory Rodeheaver
Lighting Designer: Lisa Kidd
Costume Designer: S. Knott-Kinder
Technical Director: David G. Dillman

November 8,10,11,16,17,18 at 8pm
November 19 at 3pm
Post performance talk with cast and director November 10
Parkland College Theatre
2006

Presented by special arrangement with and all authorized materials supplied by Music Theatre International

To view images from this production, visit Urinetown: The Musical (2006).

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead Open Auditions, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead open auditions

Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 7pm

Amadeus Strike, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Amadeus strike

Sunday, November 5, 2006

The Pillowman (2006), Martin Mcdonagh

Season 2006-2007

No abstract provided.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? Audition Workshop #2, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre, Smith Center

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead? audition workshop #2

Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 3:30-5pm

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006 Media Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2006 media release

November 2006