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Writes Of Spring A Study Of Communication Within Collective Devising, Jennifer Adams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Communication is a pivotal element in creating theatre with other artists, with audiences, and with the outside world. Theatre artists are required to collaborate at nearly every step of the process. Despite the necessity of highly developed collaboration skills, communication in the creation of theatre is an often-underdeveloped curriculum area. As a Director and Teaching Artist I am particularly interested in how to find new ways of collaborating so I may model and pass these skills to my students. Through a qualitative research survey of communication used in collaborative devising, this research analyzes environments that improve communication and allow for …

Technique Arms The Imagination Developing An Acting Theory Best Suited For Motion Capture Performance And The Creation Of A Virtual Character, Brendan Rogers

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

“The untrained body, like the sculptor's marble, can express nothing but its own limitations” (Lust 70). As acting styles have changed through the years, corresponding schools of thought have arisen to prepare performers for their unique challenges. Perhaps the goal of producing a “gripping performance,” one in which the audience is truly invested, has remained the same since the time of Thespis. How one arrives at this desired result, however, has varied greatly through the ages. Techniques, not surprisingly, tend to build on previous theories, beliefs and practices. Étienne Decroux’s corporeal mime technique builds on the teachings of Jacques Copeau, …

The Actor's Role In Developing New Plays, Brooke M. Haney

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The constant development of new plays is vital for theatre to stay relevant. There is a desire, a yearning, a need to see the issues we face in our lives on stage in current contexts, and to watch characters living with them. The ability, as an Actor, to be an asset to the process of creating new works is invaluable. For my thesis, I discuss the role of the Actor in the process of developing new plays for the stage. I say “discuss” because I venture to guess that this role is constantly evolving. There may be as many ways …

The Salt Lake Theatre: Brigham's Playhouse, Kenneth L. Alford Ph.D., Robert C. Freeman Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

A history of the Salt Lake Theatre (dedicated in 1862).

Art, November 3-7, 2010, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Art by Yasmina Reza and directed by Ray Schultz.

Synopsis: A translation of a French-language play, Art is about one man, Serge, who buys an expensive painting, a white canvas with a few white lines, and the reactions of his friends, Marc and Yvan, to his purchase. Marc responds with shock and anger; for him, Serge's purchase of the painting is a cruel joke. Yvan tries to mediate the hostility between Serge and Marc, at the cost of redirecting them to himself. As the conversations moves from the theoretical to the personal, the three …

Ethnographic Performance And Global Learning: Lessons From "You Always Go Home", Margaret Baldwin, Karen Robinson

Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, Perspective

Ethnographic performance draws upon fieldwork in a particular social/cultural "lived domain" (Madison, 2005, p. 5) as the text (aural, visual, gestural) for the performance (or representation) of other identities. Through ethnography, we are required to enter into a "deep and abiding dialogue with the Other" (Madison, 2005, p.B). Ethnographic performance is particularly focused on giving representation to individuals and groups whose voices and stories often go unheard.

This essay will focus on the conception, development, and impact of an ethnographic performance entitled You Always Go Home that was produced by the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Kennesaw …

Theatre For A New Theater: A Play On Architecture, Alex Coulombe

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The project entails transforming a former military fort into a theater. The scopic parameters native to both fort and theater can provide a field of operation for an architecture that simultaneously mobilizes and exposes the machinery of spectacle. In tandem, amplifying and distorting existing conditions of the fort and repurposing them for a theatrical program can provide catalytic parameters for design that are typically absent when designing from a clean slate.

Goneril: Jealousy And Thirst For Power Caused By The Loss Of A Father's Love, Beth L. King

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Theses, Student Research, and Creative Work

The challenge for every actor is to bring something of yourself to a role. The more real it can become for you the more real it will be for the audience. Goneril is a caricature. She is rich, powerful and she does horrible things like throwing her father out into the cold, having an affair, poisoning her sister and ultimately killing herself. She is one of Shakespeare’s “evil” women. I have to say I do not consider myself evil. So what could I have in common with this monster of a woman? One of our fellow classmates died while we …

Dramatophobia To Theatrophilia, Dennis Bates

Touchstone

No abstract provided.

As You Like It, April 22-24, 2010, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of As You Like It by William Shakespeare and directed by Ray Schultz.

Synopsis: In one of Shakespeare’s most beloved romantic pastoral comedies, we follow the young heroine Rosalind from the court of her vindictive uncle, Duke Frederick, into the Eden-like Forest of Arden, where her banished father is living in exile. In order to avoid running into trouble, Rosalind disguises herself as a young man, “Ganymede,” and, accompanied by her faithful cousin Celia and the court clown, Touchstone, makes her way into the woods. She soon encounters the young, handsome Orlando, who is also …

How Greek Tragedy Inspired Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy From "The Birth Of Tragedy" To "Ecce Homo", Marc Le Voir

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

In The Wake, Lindsey Mantoan

Faculty Publications

Lindsey Mantoan reviews a performance of In the Wake (by Lisa Kron) for Theatre Journal.

Three Different Jocastas By Racine, Cocteau And Cixous, Kyung Mee Joo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study is about three French plays in which Jocasta, the mother and wife of Oedipus, is shared as a main character: La Thébaïde (The Theban Brothers) by Jean Racine, La Machine Infernale (The Infernal Machine) by Jean Cocteau, and Le Nom d’Oedipe (The Name of Oedipus) by Hélène Cixous. Jocasta has always been overshadowed by the tragic destiny of Oedipus since the onset of Sophocles’ works. Although these three plays commonly focus on describing the character of Jocasta, there are some remarkable differences among them in terms of theme, style, and stage directions. In The Theban Brothers, Racine’s 17th …

Radical Theatricality: Jongleuresque Performance On The Early Spanish Stage, Christopher B. Swift

Publications and Research

Radical Theatricality describes medieval and early modern oral traditions through the culture of “jongleuresque” performers: juglares, trovadores, and other itinerant players, who have been relegated to the fringes of theatre history.

Antigone, November 5-7, 2009, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Martin, Meredith (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid for Folklife Archives Project 454. Transcripts of four telephone interviews conducted with dance educator and choreographer Forrest W. Coggan by Meredith Martin, a graduate student in Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department.

Interviews With Forrest Winston Coggan (Fa 454), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcripts of four interviews (Click on "Additional Files" below) with Forrest Winston Coggan, dance educator and choreographer. The telephone interviews were conducted in 2006-2007 by Meredith Martin, a graduate student in Western Kentucky University's Folk Studies Department.

Puppets, Pioneers, And Sport: The Onstage And Offstage Performance Of Khmer Identity, Marel Angela Stock

Theses and Dissertations

Most tourists visiting Cambodia only seek to visit the World Heritage Site of Angkor Wat. The Cambodian, or Khmer people are capitalizing on this booming tourist industry, but they are also disseminating a more complex Khmer identity through other sites and festivals. This identity simultaneously hearkens back to the affluence of the Angkor Period in Khmer history and looks forward to the modernization of the country. After the reign of the Khmer Rouge, from 1975-1979, which led to what is now called the Cambodian Killing Fields, the Khmer people needed to create a new, hopeful, peaceful identity for their nation. …

Why Theatre? A Study Of Robert Wilson, Rachel Elinor Bennett

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Wilson’s unusual background influenced both the avantgarde nature of Wilson’s theatre and the humanity present in his work. Wilson accepts the people in his life as they are without trying to change them or ignore those differences. Wilson gives these people and their perspective, which society so often rejects, a voice. He sees art where others see a problem. Wilson’s theatre looks like nothing else, but his respect and acceptance of others, even those who are different and almost invisible to most of society, are just as innovative and refreshing to see in theatre.

The Madrigal Dinners: A Modular Study, Karina Carlson

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Jack And The Beanstalk, April 24-25, 2009, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota Morris production of Jack and the Beanstalk dramatized by William Glennon and directed by Kelli Tucker.

Synopsis: There is much more to this play than Jack and a beanstalk. Of course, there's the proverbial giant, but there is also the giant's overworked, over-wrought wife, an aria-singing harp, a golden-egg-laying chicken with performance anxiety, and a blue-eyed stranger who looks surprisingly like Jack's long-lost father. Naturally, there's the village at the foot of the beanstalk and the giant's home in the sky, but there is also, 10 years earlier, a sailing ship caught in a storm off the …

Of Mice & Men, February 26-28, 2009, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck and directed by Siobhan Bremer.

Synopsis: Based on the classic novella written by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men tells the tale of two great friends and their struggle to live the American dream. George and Lennie have been traveling together from ranch to ranch for years, working hard to make ends meet and save enough for a place of their own. The two are polar opposites: George is intelligent, quick and small, while Lennie is slow-minded, childlike, and giant. Though they are different, they care deeply about …

'Another Key' To Act Five Of A Midsummer Night’S Dream, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Faculty Publications

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner offers evidence as to why editors might choose to assign speeches in Act Five of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream either to Philostrate or to Egeus.

Jewish Identity On The Stage: The Roles Of Saint Matthew And Caiaphas The Elder In Stephen Adly Guirsis's' The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, Andrew Paul Fafoutakis

LSU Master's Theses

The roles of Saint Matthew and Caiaphas the Elder in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot were performed in the fall of 2008 and elected as a thesis role at the time. This thesis is a written record of the actor’s research and development of the characters. This thesis includes background information on the production, historical research on the characters, character analyses, reflections on performance issues and the rehearsal process, and production photos.

La Censura Del Teatro Republicano De Pedro Muñoz Seca Y Pedro Pérez Fernández, Carlos Alba Peinado

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El artículo compila la información existente en los expedientes de censura sobre las catorce obras estrenadas por Pedro Muñoz Seca en colaboración con Pedro Pérez Fernández durante la II República (1931-1936). Este material está compuesto principalmente por las tachaduras efectuadas en los textos, las Guías de Censura y las solicitudes de las compañías.

This article compiles the information from the censorship files regarding the fourteen plays premiered by Pedro Muñoz Seca along with Pedro Pérez Fernández over Spain’s Second Republic (1931-1936). This documentation is made up of erasures on the texts, Censorship’s Guides and Applications by the Companies.

La Censura Teatral Bajo El Franquismo: La Vicesecretaría De Educación Popular (1941-1945), Emeterio Diez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El nombramiento de Gabriel Arias Salgado como Vicesecretario de Educación Popular en 1941 introduce un importante cambio en el ejercicio de la censura franquista. En primer lugar, Arias Salgado decide volver a censurar todo lo que antes habían censurado los sospechosos falangistas radicales protegidos de Serrano Suñer. En segundo lugar, su prevención contra las «pasiones» del público y su recelo contra los artistas conllevan un aumento del número de obras prohibidas o con tachaduras.

In 1941 Gabriel Arias Salgado arrives to Subsecretary of Popular Education. Arias Salgado introduces an important change in the theatrical censorship. In the first place, Arias …

Deseos Expresados, Deseos (Indesea)Dos: Sistemas Y Procesos Para El Control De Las Estrategias Creativas Del Yo En La Sociedad Contemporánea, Ángel Berenguer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Propuesta teórica sobre la génesis de la censura en las sociedades contemporáneas, relacionando la perspectiva del YO y su conflicto con un entorno que proscribe los deseos del ciudadano libre. Se parte de la práctica censora de la dictadura del General Franco en el ámbito del teatro para elaborar aspectos teóricos que explican no sólo las acciones del régimen, sino su propia historia interna.

Theoretical proposal about the genesis of censorship in contemporary society, relating the SELF and its conflict with the surrounding environment which proscribes the desires of the free citizen. Starting with the study of censorship practices under …

Trânsitos Da Censura O Teatro Como Resistência Cultural Ao Autoritarismo, Roseli Figaro

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Esto artículo discute los tránsitos de la cultura y de la censura entre el Brasil y España por medio del teatro popular y no profesional, encenados por los inmigrantes españoles, en la ciudad de São Paulo. Este tema es parte del eje de la investigación «A cena paulista: um estudo da produção cultural de São Paulo de 1930 el 1970», del Archivo Miroel Silveira, de la Biblioteca de la Escuela de Comunicaciones y Artes de la Universidad de São Paulo, que tiene financiación de la Fundación de la Ayuda a la Investigación del Estado de São Paulo. La colección se …

Ibsen’S Female Characters In Captivity: An Exploration Of Literature And Performance, Christina K. Forshey

Senior Honors Theses

In Henrik Ibsen’s plays, A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, The Lady from the Sea, and Hedda Gabler, the theme of captivity is demonstrated in the female protagonists Nora, Hedvig, Ellida, and Hedda. The theme of captivity also serves as a performance guide for the portrayal of these characters. Ibsen’s female protagonists are in bondage to an object or person that manipulates the character’s mental and emotional senses. The character’s inner captivity reaches a climax where a decision must be made to abolish the chains of captivity or forever remain enslaved. Since the nineteenth century, the actor has greatly benefitted …

Our Town, November 6-8, 2008, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production Our Town by Thornton Wilder and directed by Ray Schultz.

Synopsis: A landmark in American drama, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town tells the story of a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in order to tell us the story of every town, the whole world over. Narrated by the “Stage Manager”, we follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through twelve years of life changes -- from the mundane in Act I, “Daily Life,” to the romantic in Act II, “Love and Marriage,” to the devastating in Act III, “Death and …