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The Grizzly, December 6, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Roger Lee, Ashley Higgins, Salia Zouande, Chris Magee, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Zach Shamberg, Jeremiah Long, Kristin O'Brassill, Brett Celinski, Laurel Salvo, Alex Ernst, Keith Page, Katie Callahan

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Students: "Fresh Produce" on Sale Now • Relay for Life Kicks Off in Fanfare • Wings for Wishes Hosts Competitive Eating Contest • Balancing Act: Avoiding Weight Gain in College • Beer and the Bedroom • Soulja Boy to the Rescue • Trappe Tavern: It's a Trap! • Hell is Other People • Ursinus Student Video "Blogs" in Japan • Opinions: Why Terrorists Do What They Do; New Homepage Long Overdue • Bears Off to a 1-0 Start in League • Fresh Faces on the Women's Court • Preview of UC Winter Sports

The Shape Of Things, December 5-7, 2007, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute and directed by Nick Lostetter.

Synopsis: How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? What price might you pay? Such are the painful questions explored by Neil LaBute in THE SHAPE OF THINGS. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships.

The Grizzly, November 15, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Ashley Mccomeskey, Roger Lee, Caitlin Dalik, Anani Samuels, Kristi Blust, Kristin O'Brassill, Jess Buck, Jeremiah Long, Laurel Salvo, Chris Magee, Serena Mithboakar, Alex Ernst, Daniel Sergeant, Ashley Drogalis, Chris Carey, Jessica Zatwarnicki

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Kemper Scholarship Offers Unique Experience for Freshmen • Yale Professor Discusses Acclaimed Novel at Ursinus • UC Alumni Share Volunteer Experiences in Peace Corps • Ursinus Collects 754 Pounds of Canned Goods for Philabundance • Premium Outlet Mall Now Open • Am I Pregnant? • Spotlight: UC Wellness Fair • Kushner Would be Proud • For Music Lovers • Tortugas: In the Mood for Mexican Food? • Opinions: All-Male Housing: Damage Control; Concert Review: Tiger Army, The Static Age, and Street Dogs; Is Today's Generation of Crusaders Too Online? • UC Swim Team Dives Into Season • Sororities Battle to …

A Lie Of The Mind, November 1-3. 2007, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard and directed by Siobhan Bremer.

Synopsis:Beth has been violently beaten - to the point of brain damage - by her overly jealous husband, Jake. As the play begins, she is being cared for by her family. Her brother-in-law, Frankie soon arrives, trying to figure out if Beth survived Jake’s beating. Beth’s father, mistaking Frankie for a deer, shoots him in the leg, and then brings Frankie into their home to care for his injury. Meanwhile, Jake, convinced that he has killed his wife, is slipping into …

The Grizzly, November 1, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Caitlin Dalik, Yukiko Kawamura, Roger Lee, Dan Sergeant, Anani Samuels, Matt Campbell, Kristi Blust, Serena Mithboakar, Jeremiah Long, Katie Callahan, Andy Lane, Michael Thomas, Alex Ernst, Laurel Salvo, Jason Davis, Jessica Zatwarnicki, Daniel Price

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Outlet Shopping to Debut Near Ursinus • "Bright Room" Brings History, Suspense to Stage • Bridge Hosts Annual Alumni Celebration • Renowned Poet Reads for UC • Speaking to the Soul: A Personal Interview with Constance Merritt • Homecoming 2007: Wet, Welcoming and Memorable • Dealing with Double Standards • Staff Spotlight: Darlene Robinson • Workers' Appreciation Day • The Pizza Stop • Thirsty Thursdays Seven Days a Week • Opinions: Last Weekend; Colbert '08? • Playoff Time • Student Athletes • Patterson in True Homecoming Form

The Grizzly, October 25, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Matt Whitman, Roger Lee, Yukiko Kawamura, Ashley Higgins, Keith Page, Zach Shamberg, Salia Zouande, Kristin O'Brassill, Laurel Salvo, David Hamalian, Michael Silber, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Katie Callahan, Chris Carey

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Training for the Mind: Enter the Meditation World • Feel the Heat with Latin Dance Classes • Philly's Finest Choreographs UCDC • Express Bus 93 Speeds Up Access to Center City • Ursinus College Bookstore Backs Edun Live Initiative • Understanding Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) • Ten Minutes Will Do • Four Students Nominated for Watson Fellowship • Book Review: Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel • Opinions: Genocide: Then and Now; Show at the Electric Factory; Dumbledore Out of the Broom Closet; When Arms Trade Goes Awry • New Season: Men's Soccer • UC Training Room has a New …

The Grizzly, October 4, 2007, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Roger Lee, Serena Mithboakar, Ashley Higgins, Brett Celinski, Katie Callahan, Zach Shamberg, Michael Thomas, Salia Zouande, Matt Whitman, Andy Lane, Alex Ernst, Jason Davis, Matt Campbell

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Homecoming Nominees Raise the Bar for a Good Cause • Senegal Bound: Director Discusses Study Abroad Program • Iranian President Meets Protests, Criticism at Columbia University • No More Burning: Bookstore Unleashes Banned Books Week • Breakaway Theatre Looks Promising • Nutritious Can be Delicious: Finding the Right Food for You • MSA Today • Infiltrating the English Department • Letter from the Editor: On CSU and Censorship • Opinion: MoveOn.org's General Petraeus Ad • Women's Soccer Fights for Undefeated CC Title • Crowds Gather to Support UC Football

Dialogue, 2007, Columbia College Chicago

Dialogue

Third issue of the Theater department publication Dialogue. Articles include: "Talking About AIDS"; "Mirage"; Manhattan"; "Mister Mister and the AABB"; "Seth and Dex"; "Constant Comment"; "This One Time…"; "Beep"; "Fairy Tale"; "Was Going to Dance". 24 pages.

A Director's Process: The Conception, Preparation And Production Of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Amy E. Meyer

Theater Honors Papers

This honors paper does not have an abstract.

From Script To Stage: A Costume Designer’S Perspective, Laura M. Gifford

Senior Honors Projects

In the process of designing the costumes for a show, it is important to understand the psyche of each of the characters. The completion of thorough research can give valuable insight into the characters, as well as details of the setting of the play. A designer then takes this information, in the form of photographs, journals, period documents, and modern analysis and combines it to achieve a unified vision of the play’s environment. They must then work with the director and other designers to present this vision to the audience. This semester, I had the opportunity to explore this process …

The Grizzly, April 26, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Ashley Higgins, Salia Zouande, Sarah Keck, Gabe Herman, Matt Flyntz, Lane Taylor, Akasya Benge, Heather Turnbach, Jon Gagas, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Crimes on the Web • Capoeira Performance Brings Brazil to Ursinus • Relay for Life Raises $47,000 for American Cancer Society • Holocaust Survivor Speaks at Ursinus • The Fonts, They are a Changin' • International Experience • "Breakaway" from a Nightmare • How to Have a Great Summer • Opinions: Goodbye, Ursinus • Men's Tennis

The Grizzly, April 5, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Megan Helzner, Gabe Herman, Corinne Liccketto, Sage Corwin, Serena Mithboakar, Lane Taylor, Amanda Bryman, Samantha Cole, Erin Padovani, Jon Gagas, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Two Ursinus Seniors Win Watson Fellowship • Ursinus Hillel: Current Events and Future Plans • Edible Books Festival a Success • USGA Update • Situation in Darfur • Back on the Shelves: Contraceptive Sponge • Nutrition Tips: Tea Time • "Seeing Double" a Musical for Peace • UC Spotlight: "The Lantern" • Opinions: Concerning Bong Hits for Jesus • Ursinus Athletics Prosper in 2006-2007

The Wind In The Willows, April 19-20 & 23-25, 2007, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Wind and the Willows by Kenneth Grahame adapted by moses Goldberg and directed by Amanda J. Holter.

Synopsis: In this animal fantasy, Toad is the rich playboy of the animal kingdom. His current enthusiasm is motor cars, which he embraces passionately without the formality of learning to drive. After several narrow shaves, his friends, Rat, Mole and Badger, ground him for his own safety at his home, Toad Hall. He manages to elude them and appropriates a police car, which lands him in jail. In his absence, the weasels take over Toad Hall, …

The Grizzly, March 29, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Tiffany Friedman, Salia Zouande, Ashley Higgins, Corinne Liccketto, Lane Taylor, Akasya Benge, Heather Turnbach, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Danielle Langdon, Matthew Pastor

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Re-opening of Bomberger Hall • Incite AAAS Program Debut Newsletter • Young Girl's Death Sparks Ethics Debate • Professor Vosburgh Awaits Trial • The Burning Question • Beat It! • Ursinus Theater Hosting Musical Farce • Mr. Ursinus Crowned • Nutrition Tips: Alcohol's Caloric Content • Opinions: Injustice in Justice • Rangers Upset Ursinus with Last Second Goal

Filming Theater: The Audiovisual Documentation As A Substitute Of The Performance, Nestor Fernando Bravo

Theses and Dissertations

Theatre is not a thermometer of society; it is the fever. The archive is the aftermath that recalls that fever. In this thesis I theorize about the status of audiovisual documentation, its functionality, and its ontological relation with the performance. I argue that the film of a performance does not constitute evidence per se, but it acquires such status through the concurrence of other documents and archival artifacts existentially related to the theatrical production. I also propose that the audiovisual document becomes a substitute for the performance when it has disappeared from the historical world, becoming the new referent for …

The Grizzly, March 1, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Corinne Liccketto, Lane Taylor, Tiffany Friedman, Ashley Higgins, Erin Padovani, Amanda Bryman, Gabe Herman, Philip Serebrenik, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Matthew Pastor, Danielle Langdon

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Media Lecture: "The Jailhouse Doesn't Rock" • Peanut Butter Recall Update • Annual UC Job and Internship Fair • Living in Sin • Creating Communication Elation • Spotlight on Coach Kevin Small • "Laramie" Hits Big at Ursinus • Nutrition Tips: Fad Diets • Opinions: English as the Official Language? • Bears Capture Centennial Conference Title • Men's Lacrosse Season Preview

The Grizzly, February 15, 2007, Kerri Landis, Marlena M. Mcmahon-Purk, Salia Zouande, Tiffany Friedman, Ashley Higgins, Jon Gagas, Sarah Keck, Amanda Bryman, Erin Padovani, Philip Serebrenik, Brandon Brown, Alex Ernst, Dave Marcheskie, Matthew Pastor

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Darfur Fast Week Kickoff • United Men of Color Reception • The "Peter Pan Project" • CoSA Kickoff a Success • Power of Purple • Preview of "The Laramie Project" • Nutrition Tips • Inside Look at New Member Education • Opinions: Black History Month; Our Long-Awaited Greek Column • Heartbreak at Hopkins • Guntli Leading Rebounder • Senior Day Basketball Double-Header

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.

Frankenstein: Man Or Monster?, Leigh P. Mackintosh

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Since its first publication in 1818, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein has left a lasting impression upon the world speaking to a multitude of audiences including artists, scientists, philosophers, and society as a whole. Considering the impact of Frankenstein through its evolution as a cultural myth in various plays and films, this thesis will provide a way to gauge the relevance of Shelley’s story as an adaptation. Only by knowing what has been done in the past and how the materials have been used by other playwrights and screenwriters can one understand how to handle them as an original work. The …

Revitalizing "The Rocky Horror Show" Through Gospel Music, Kip Taisey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Spring 2007, the University of Central Florida (UCF) Department of Theatre mounted a production of "The Rocky Horror Show." This thesis focuses on the author's process of using the gospel music style to revitalize "The Rocky Horror Show," a cult musical. The author uses defining characteristics of the cult film genre to establish a set of guidelines. "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is the movie version of the stage musical and is responsible for the show's inevitable cult status. He discusses the history and journey of "The Rocky Horror Show" and how audience participation was integral in establishing this …

Design: Feel It, See It, Speak It, Do It..., Sarah Yates

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Description of Project: This project explores the design process for Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (adapted for the stage by Bruce Mason) as performed at Orlando Repertory Theatre in Orlando, Florida. In this exploration, I approach the topics of the design process from conceptual discussions with the design team through closing night. I document this process with a lighting design journal (including thoughts about the design approach, renderings, sketches, research images, rough plots and paperwork.) The project concludes with a self evaluation, completed plots and paperwork, and finished production photos.

The Roles Of Scientist, Narrator, Mother, Pandora, Nursemaid, Therapist, And Baucis In Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: A Production Thesis In Acting, Anna Loft Richardson

LSU Master's Theses

ABSTRACT This thesis is about the evolution and development of the roles of Scientist, Narrator, Mother, Pandora, Nursemaid, Therapist, and Baucis in the Swine Palace show Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman. The rehearsal process is detailed here in journal format. Also included is pre-show research, character analyses, production run, and post show summary. This thesis will explore the creation of these characters, the obstacles during the process, and the experience of playing multiple roles.

Playing The Third Man (Midas' Servant, Ceyx, Morpheus As Ceyx, Orpheus, Apollo, A, Philemon) In Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses: A Production Thesis, Ronald Ludlow Reeder

LSU Master's Theses

The role of Third Man in Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses was performed in the Fall of 2006 and elected as a thesis role at that time. This thesis is a written record of the actor’s interpretation of the character. This thesis includes background information on the production, reflections on acting in water, a character analysis, a five column score, reflections on performance issues, and photos.

Staging Memory: The Drama Inside The Language Of Elfriede Jelinek, Gita Honegger

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay focuses on Jelinek's problematic relationship to her native Austria, as it is reflected in some of her most recent plays: Ein Sportstück (A Piece About Sports), In den Alpen (In the Alps) and Das Werk (The Plant). Taking her acceptance speech for the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature as a starting point, my essay explores Jelinek's unique approach to her native language, which carries both the burden of historic guilt and the challenge of a distinguished, if tortured literary legacy. Furthermore, I examine the performative force of her language. Jelinek's "Dramas" do not unfold in action and dialogue, …

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 …

The Pedagogy And Ethics Of Improvisation Using The Harold, David Dellus Patton

Theses and Dissertations

Scenic improvisation is dramatic performance without a script. Performers develop scenes in real time in front of an audience. They do this by submitting to a set of rules of relating on-stage which allow them, by mutual assent, to develop scenes and stories based on their relationships with one another. This methodology by which improvisers develop their scenes can give us a tangible vocabulary and model by which we can fulfill the requirements of love. The Harold, an improvisational form created by Del Close and Charna Halpern and taught and performed at IO (formerly ImprovOlympic), emphasizes this relational ethic as …

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 …

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 …

Festivals And Plays In Late Medieval Britain, Clifford Davidson

Clifford Davidson

The most comprehensive survey to date of medieval festival playing in Britain, this study presents an inclusive view of the drama in the British Isles. It offers detailed readings of individual plays-including the little studied Bodley plays, among others - as well as a summary of what is known of their production. Organized around the rituals of the liturgical seasons, the book clarifies the relationship between liturgical feast and dramatic celebration.