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Trespassing Physical Boundaries: Transgression, Vulnerability And Resistance In Sarah Kane’S Blasted (1995), Paula Barba Guerrero, Ana Mª Manzanas Calvo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Sarah Kane’s Blasted has been analyzed from various perspectives that address the layers of destruction it exposes. From the questioning of its title and meaning, to the unravelling of the protagonists’ abusive relationship, the analyses have emphasized the depiction of vulnerability as the defining human trait that Jean Ganteau observes in contemporary British literature. However, a key aspect has been overlooked in the critical response to the play: for Kane vulnerability does not equal helplessness, but rather stands in opposition to it. Hence, this article concentrates on how Blasted formulates a new understanding of vulnerability that fits Judith Butler’s later …

Introduction, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz, Manuela Coppola

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This special issue addresses contemporary representations of “vulnerable” bodies in transit in Anglophone literature and culture and explores their strategies of resistance. The use of the expression “bodies in transit” in this issue has to be understood both as a reference to the materiality of diasporic, exiled, migrating, trafficked bodies, and as an allusion to the metaphorical transition of these marginalized subjects from alienation to regeneration in multiple contexts. The interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue tackle vulnerability as a marginal(ized) and potentially enabling condition entailing the crossing of bodily, sexual, mental, ethical, cultural, and national borders. Ranging from literature …

Unfolding Humanity: Cross-Disciplinary Sculpture Design, Gordon D. Hoople, Nate Parde, Quinn Pratt, Sydney Platt, Michael Sween, Ava Bellizzi, Viktoriya Alekseyeva, Alex Splide, Nicholas Cardoza, Christiana Salvosa, Eduardo Ortega, Elizabeth Sampson

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

Unfolding Humanity is a 12 foot tall, 30 foot wide, 2 ton interactive metal sculpture that calls attention to the tension between technology and humanity. This sculpture was conceived, designed, and built by a large group (80+) of faculty, students, and community volunteers at the University of San Diego (USD). The piece is a dodecahedron whose pentagonal walls unfold under human power, an engineered design that alludes to Albrecht Dürer's 500-year-old unsolved math problem on unfolding polyhedra. When closed, the mirrored interior of the sculpture makes visitors feel as though they are at the center of the universe. The idea …

Dance – A Healthy Gateway To Steam Practice, Kenneth Walker

The Transdisciplinary STEAM+ Journal

A rumination on dance and STEAM

The Unruly Womb In Early Modern English Drama: Plotting Women's Biology On The Stage, Ursula Potter

Late Tudor and Stuart Drama

This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula Potter traces a continuing fascination with the womb by dramatists through to the oxymoron of the chaste sex debate in the 1640s. She illuminates how playwrights both satirized and perpetuated the notion of the womb’s insatiable appetite.

Providence College Dance Company Spring Dance Concert Media Release, Talia Triangolo

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Providence College Dance Company Spring Dance Concert media release

March 2019

Marketing The Arts: A Comparative Analysis Of The Social Media Practices Of Select Performing Arts Centers, Lindsey Morin

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

Performing arts centers (PACs) provide a cultural hub that aids in increasing civic engagement and social capital within a community. Attendance in the performing arts has been on the decline, which threatens the cultural richness of communities across the country. The purpose of this study was to examine the social media marketing practices of select California performing arts centers. The PAC, San Luis Obispo, San Diego Symphony and Segerstrom Center for the Arts were selected to be examined in this study. This was done by strategically analyzing the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts for each of the three PACs utilizing …

Rhinoceros, School Of Theatre Arts

All Production Programs

The Illinois Wesleyan University School of Theatre Arts production of Eugène Ionesco’s savage satire Rhinoceros. Performance dates February 27 through March 4, 2018 at the Jerome Mirza Theatre, McPherson Hall. Originally set in a small French town, the play was adapted to take place on the Illinois Wesleyan campus and local community. Rhinoceros is a commentary on the human condition, as the community is suddenly besieged by one roaring citizen who finds himself turning into a rhinoceros and proceeds to trample on the social order. As with any “disease,” more citizens become infected. Written in 1959 in response to the …

Metamorphoses

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s performance of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman.

Performed February 22-24 and March 1-3, 2018 at the Mitchell Theatre.

Called by Time the “theater event of the year,” Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses brings Ovid’s tales to stunning visual life. Set in and around a large pool of water, Metamorphoses juxtaposes the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image to reflect the variety and persistence of narrative in the face of inevitable change. Nominated for three 2002 Tony Awards, including “Best Play,” Metamorphoses earned Zimmerman a Tony for “Best Direction of a Play.”

Our Town (February 21-23, 2019), Thornton Wilder

Student Theatre Programs

Program for Our Town.

To view the photos from this production of Our Town, please click here.

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
John Bowab Studio Theatre
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on The Comic Strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz
Book, Music & Lyrics by Clark Gesner
February 15-17, 2019

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film
John Bowab Studio Theatre
An independent student production
You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
Based on The Comic Strip “Peanuts” by Charles M. Schulz
February 15-17, 2019
Book, Music & Lyrics by Clark Gesner

Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer
Additional Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Originally Produced in New York by Arthur Whitelaw and Gene Persson
Directed by Teddy Kiritsy‘19
Musical Director: Ethan Miller
Lighting Design: Thomas Edwards ‘20
Choreographer: Catherine Garrett ‘19
Costume Design: Samantha Marchese ‘20
Sound Design: Timothy Brown ’20

The Cast Charlie Brown: Ryan Worrell ’22, Linus …

Avenue Q

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Moon Over Buffalo Open Auditions Poster, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center

Moon Over Buffalo open auditions

Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 7pm

From Gaza City To The Golden Gate A Call To The International Theatre Community To Join The Struggle For Cultural Justice, Jessica Litwak

Student Articles, Chapters, Presentations, Learning Objects

On 9 August 2018, Gaza theatremaker Hossam Madhoun was chatting with friends a little more than fifty yards from the city’s Al Mishal Cultural Centre. One friend, who had just returned to the area, asked where his theatre and performance could be produced in town. The beautiful and well-equipped Red Crescent Society, perhaps? Madhoun had to remind him it had been bombed by the Israeli Army during the military offensive on Gaza in 2008. The friend then asked about the theatre at Holst Cultural Center.

“When was the last time you visited Gaza?” Madhoun asked. “Hamas turned the Holst into …

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• Artist combines science, art in exhibition on Statesboro Campus
• Artist brings botanical prints to Georgia Southern Statesboro Campus

Lord Of The Flies Strike Poster, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Lord of the Flies strike

Sunday, February 10, 2019

When Angels Fall, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2018-2019 Borders and Boundaries

Raphaëlle Boitel began her career as a young girl when she and her family ran away to join the circus. A mesmerizing contortionist and aerialist, Ben Brantley of The New York Times called her “truly ravishing.” Peak Performances introduced American audiences to Boitel’s boundless talents in 2016 with her luminous directorial debut “The Forgotten.” In her new work, “When Angels Fall,” her agile, athletic performers create a rugged, ethereal dreamscape at the crossroads of circus, dance, theater, and cinema. Everything once organic has been replaced by machines, and humans’ very existence depends on making themselves passive, conformist cogs in a …

What We Look Like (2019), B.J. Tindal

Season 2018-2019

Dramaturgy by Maansi Sahay Seth

Winter Dance Concert (February 7-9,2019), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

Program for the Winter Dance Concert (February 7-9,2019), Lindenwood University.

Come Blow Your Horn, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

Parkland College Department of Fine and Applied Arts proudly presents Come Blow Your Horn by Neil Simon

Director: Melissa Goldman
Scenic Designer: Melissa Goldman
Costume Designer: Remy Saymiknha
Lighting Designer: Jared Charleston
Sound Designer: Nick Harris
Properties: Haylie Denzer
Stage Manager: Maya Hammond
Faculty Advisor: Michael O'Brien

Presented in Parkland Theatre's Second Stage
February 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 at 7:30pm
February 17 at 3pm
Spring 2019

Come Blow Your Horn is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Crew

Set Dresser: Parker Evans
Costume Assistant: Kylie Moubry
Master Electrician: Wyatt Simmons
Light Board Operator: Dominique Allen
Sound Board …

Rapture, Blister, Burn (2019), Gina Gionfriddo

Season 2018-2019

No abstract provided.

Moon Over Buffalo Rehearsal & Performance Schedule, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Moon Over Buffalo rehearsal & performance schedule

February - April 2019

Maureen Mccluskey And Alisha Lockley, University Of North Florida

2019 Poetry Showcase

The directors of Book of Hims

Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo Media Release, Talia Triangolo

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Ken Ludwig's Moon Over Buffalo media release

February 2019

The Real Inspector Hound, Lynn University

Drama Programs

By: Tom Stoppard

Feuding theater critics, Moon and Birdboot—the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second-stringer—are swept into the whodunit they’re reviewing. In this hilarious spoof, an Agatha Christie-like melodrama unfolds in a fast-paced romp to find the real culprit.

In The Real Inspector Hound, Tony and Academy award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard has crafted a witty, surreal, and compelling tale in which identity is as changeable as a moustache, or a pair of boots, and a hack production of a tired whodunnit can be the cover for a masterful revenge plot, trained on the …

Book Of Hims Last Scene, University Of North Florida

2019 Poetry Showcase

Director Alicia Lockley reads last scene of Book of Hims

“In The Beginning Was Body Language” Clowning And Krump As Spiritual Healing And Resistance, Sarah S. Ohmer

Publications and Research

In the neighborhood of HollyWatts in Los Angeles, dance allows a shift from existing as bodies presented as sites of threat and extinction to sources of spiritual empowerment. Clowning and Krump dancers—their subjectivity and their dancing bodies—negotiate survival from trauma and socioeconomic marginalization. I argue that the dancers’ performances act as embodied narratives of “re-membering in the flesh.” The performance acts as a spiritual retrieval and re-integration of traumatic memories and afflictions into memory through the body. Choreography and quotes from dancers support the claim that Krump and Clowning is “re-membering in the flesh” that enacts self-worth, self-defined sexuality, and …

Scene From Opening Night Of Book Of Hims, University Of North Florida

2019 Poetry Showcase

Audience at opening night and meet and greet with directors of Book of Hims at the Thomas G. Carpenter Library

Playbill: Book Of Hims, University Of North Florida

2019 Poetry Showcase

Book of Hims Playbill. Directors: Alisha Lockley and Maureen McCluskey