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Taylor Theatre 2000-2001, Taylor University

Season Announcements

The 2000-2001 Taylor Theatre season announcement.

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2000 Press Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Blackfriars Dance Concert 2000 press release

January 2000

The Three Sisters Press Release, Susan Werner

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

The Three Sisters press release

January 2000

Dancing Boys, Anthony Shay

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

The informal, and occasionally formal, institution of the dancing boy--the term used by most Western writers in their descriptions of the Islamic world--has been attested for centuries by European observers throughout the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, as well as the Indian subcontinent and throughout the Islamic areas of Southeast Asia such as Indonesia and the southern Philippines. These individuals have been called by a variety of names: bachchec [batcha], literally "child" in Persian and some Turkish languages, luti (itinerant performer), raqqas (dancer) in many regions, kocek (little) and tavsan (rabbit) in Ottoman Turkey, khawal in …

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 1, Moulinet Staff

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 3, Moulinet Staff

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly

No abstract provided.

'Rather Say I Play The Man I Am': Shakespeare's Coriolanus And Elizabethan Anti-Theatricality, Kent Lehnhof

English Faculty Books and Book Chapters

In the second act of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, the hero is informed that his acceptance as a Roman consul is dependent upon donning the robe of humility and petitioning the common people in the market-place for their ratifying vote. Coriolanus recoils from the custom, outraged at the idea of acting a part—complete with costume, dialogue, and stage directions— that does not correspond with his inner truth. At this moment and others, Coriolanus echoes the anti-theatricalist rhetoric of Elizabethan pamphleteers like the popular and prolific Stephen Gosson. In many ways, Coriolanus serves as a stand-in for the anti-theatrical ideology of Gosson and …

The Fight Master, Fall/Winter 2000, Vol. 23 Issue 2, The Society Of American Fight Directors

Fight Master Magazine

No abstract provided.

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 2, Moulinet Staff

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, Moulinet Staff

Moulinet: An Action Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Summer Season 2000, Little Theatre On The Square

2000 Programs

No abstract provided.

The 6/8 Beat Goes On: Persian Popular Music From Bazm-E Qajariyyeh To Beverly Hills Garden Parties, Anthony Shay

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

This avoidance of scholarly investigation into popular culture has been particularly prominent in Middle East studies, in which, aside from definitively "premodern" folklore, popular culture is presumed relevant only to the mass culture of the West. In contrast to nearly invisible popular traditions is what Edward Said (1978) terms the "timeless, frozen East" that possesses only what we would characterize as "high" culture. Our highbrow/lowbrow distinctions do not necessarily work well as a description of the state of Iranian culture, and yet they are relevant to some contexts. Most native Iranian music scholars, and their non-Iranian disciples, often eschew the …

Writing For Musical Theatre: Forever Yours, Duane Martin Carter

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Cutting Edge, January/February 2000, Vol. 11 Issue 1, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

A Traveler's Path: An Original Play, Deborah Saad

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

For my senior honors thesis, I wanted to do a creative project. I chose to write an original play, hoping to draw upon my experiences over the last four years, including having already written a one act play my sophomore year. I spent a year working with ideas, reading other plays to examine different forms, and experimenting with the characters. The bulk of the dialogue was written this spring, and I worked with my faculty readers to trim down the excesses and sharpen the focus of the plot. I believe I completed my goal in authoring the play: I learned …

Exploring The Creative Process: A Study In Playwriting, Alexander L. Evenson

Honors Theses, 1963-2015

My original intentions when I began this project were to write and present a full-length play of my own design, examining the farm crisis through the medium of theater. The reason I chose not to use the title of my play for the title of my project is because the vast majority of my time was spent discovering the world outside of my script. Through my struggles to bring my characters to life, to develop an effective plot while avoiding a didactic analysis of the issue, and with the genre itself, I began to discover what the creative process is …

From Interculturalism To Historicism: Reflections On Classical Indian Dance, Pallabi Chakravorty

Dance Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

So You Want To Be A Dramaturg, Juanita Caviness

Theses

Not available.

An Intercultural Play, Donna Lee Mcclung

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to write a play that could be used as a teaching tool for addressing multicultural issues in educational curricula. The literature review suggests that dramatic activities can be effective teaching strategies to address multicultural and diversity issues. The one-act play, Irene, is set in a middle-class American neighborhood and focuses on the conflict within a broken home.

7143, Matthew Feinberg

Whittier Scholars Program

This project is a play taking place in the present time frame within Los Angeles, California that follows the story of an unnamed character.

Rev. Of Moissi: Triest, Berlin, New York: Eine Schauspielerlegende By Rüdiger Schaper. A Biography Of The Legendary Actor Alexander Moissi., William Grange

Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Unlike most of the great German actors before him, Alexander Moissi was not a native German speaker. He was born in Albania and grew up speaking Greek and Italian--yet he had a forty-year career in German that earned him millions of dollars in performances all over the world. In none of those performances did Moissi lose the Mediterranean inflections in the language of Goethe and Schiller. But that did not diminish his stature; it enhanced it.

A Method Of Work For The Designer Applied To Play Antigone, Hsin-Chih Cheng

Theses

Not available.

The Putdown: Intergenerational Communicative Dynamics Of Male Characteristics In The Plays Of August Wilson, Bryan C. Moore

Graduate Research Papers

Most African-American playwrights use realistic dialogue and monologues in their plays to share messages and stories about African-American culture, history, and society with others. One of the most popular and successful African-American playwrights today is August Wilson. His plays are a plethora of storytelling, and makes use of strong dialogue. Wilson displays elements of African-American culture and history in each of his plays, mostly through interaction and conversations between the characters. Wilson's plays are part of a larger project known as the twentieth-century cycle, in which each play represents a decade of African-American history and culture.

Perwatakan Wanita Dalam Drama Moden Lao She (1899-1966), Kee Ping Yong

Student Works (2000-2009)

Lao She (1899-1966) was one of the greatest realist writers in modem Chinese literature. His achievements had won him high acclaim in the literary world. Apart from his novels, poems, critiques and essays, he was also known for his many excellent dramas, where he showed his talent in character portrayal. Most notably, he succeeded in creating vivid male and female roles with unique individual traits. The focus of this research is the various female characters in Lao She's modem dramas.

Tracing Image And Bodily Displacement In Modern And Postmodern Dance, Carolyn Margaret Griffiths

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Through time the dancer has been both celebrated and disadvantaged by antithetical ideas: the division of soul and body, form and matter, life and death, artist and audience. For the romantics, the dancing body stood in a relationship to poetic thought in much the same way as the dancer stood to the body. Notions of the body in early modernism arose from cultural and political constructs through which poets and writers examined the nature of truth. These poets, Yeats in particular, hinted at a premise that a whole history of culture may be necessary to explain why women and art …

Minotaur Or The King’S Bull. By Jonathon Ward. Urban Youth Theater, Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York. 23 July 1999 (Performance Review), Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

The production of Minotaur was not only a reinterpretation of an ancient Greek myth, but an opportunity for Latino hip-hop artists to pass down a cultural tradition to the next generation. Latino artists situated hip-hop as a social movement, and the teen performers physically embodied this in the songs and dance. In this way, the Athenian rebellion became the breaking of stereotypes often associated with urban youths. The performers beautifully portrayed this act of resistance when Theseus took Minos’ golden crown, wore it, and passed it down for all the Athenians to wear.

Directing Jean Anouilh’S Antigone: Dramaturgical Protocol And Director’S Notebook, Jr Norman Luker

Whittier Scholars Program

Dear Reviewer, as my senior project for the Whittier Scholars Program it was my honor to produce, direct, and dramaturg Jean Anouilh’s Antigone as a mainstage production for [the] Whittier College Theater Arts Department. The original documents collected within this binder represent the process through which the production came together. The collection includes dramaturgical research (articles with my original notes), production planning notes, design conceptions, relentless schedules, audition and casting information, dramaturgical notes, critical reviews and most importantly seven weeks of rehearsal journals. However, the real meat of the project were the actual performances where all the planning, designing, and …

Dance And Doctrine: Shaker And Mormon Dancing As A Manifestation Of Doctrinal Views Of The Physical Body, Lindsy Stewart Cieslewicz

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis compares the dancing of the Shakers (The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance) and the Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or LDS Church) during the nineteenth century, as it was influenced by their doctrinal beliefs about the human body. Specifically, it examines how the role of the physical body in achieving mortal happiness and immortal salvation was viewed by each group and how these beliefs were reflected in their dancing. It describes the different forms of dancing performed by each religious group and how dance functioned as worship and recreation for the …

Style Guide For Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Purdue Books In Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.