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Torture And Fear As Tools For Maintaining Power In The Germophobe: A Thesis On Creating A One-Man Show From The Author-Actor Himself, Alexander Stephen Galick

LSU Master's Theses

The project was to create a 20-45 minute one-man show and stage it. This thesis describes the process of creation and documents the project’s multiple permutations from the search for a topic and setting parameters, to research, initial improvisation experiments, to a growing and reorganizing text, to the conversion into verse to the final script, the performance, and planned future development. The resulting show is about a man whose irrational fear of germs has ballooned out into an irrational fear of the outside world, fear of being infected, and affected by foreign things and ideas. This fear drives him to …