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Creative Writers Festival Button Template, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Creative Writers Festival button template for Friday, March 23, 2018

Creative Writers Festival Button Template, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Creative Writers Festival button template for Saturday, March 24, 2018

Rethinking Ionesco’S Absurd: The Bald Soprano In The Interlingual Context Of Vichy And Postwar France, Julia Elsky

Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Rereading Eugène Ionesco’s postwar play La cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) in the light of the original, wartime Romanian version alongside archival materials concerning his political activity in Vichy France allows us to reconsider his role in the theater of the absurd. Instead of staging the emptiness of language in a conformist world, the Romanian play dramatizes how language and language exchange created meaning but also upheld state violence during the Second World War. Although the French version of the play adapts this theme to the postwar context, traces of state power over language remain. This new approach …

Art Infested Water, March 2018, Nova Southeastern University Department Of Performing And Visual Arts

Department of Performing and Visual Arts Newsletters

No abstract provided.

An Historical Analysis Of The Relationship Between Organized Religion And Dramatic Theory, Emily Bubeck

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

Theatre artists and organized religion both use the same tactics and strategies in order to connect to their audiences. This isn’t a coincidence: Over the course of human history organized religion and performance traditions developed, grew and evolved together. Performance practices grew out of religious traditions and often incorporated elements of spiritual celebration and religious ritual into their practices. In ancient Greece dramatic practices developed as a celebration of the god Dionysus, Sanskrit theatre of Ancient India evolved as a means of communicating Hindu myths to the masses and Noh theatre of ancient Japan started as shamanistic dance traditions. During …

From London With Love

DePaul Magazine

No abstract provided.

Disoriented Nationalist Discourse Of The Wenxuan Group Amidst Manchukuo’S Anti-Modern Chorus, Chao Liu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Disoriented Nationalist Discourse of the Wenxuan Group amidst Manchukuo's Anti-Modern Chorus" Chao Liu analyzes the proposal of "native-land literature" made by left-wing Chinese writers in occupied northeast China. As it turns out, inheriting the nationalist discourse of the May Fourth Movement and further radicalizing it via a "new romanticism," those writers over-emphasized the socio-political function of literary production and took native-land literature as the most effective tool for nationalist mobilization. Accordingly, they repelled modern civilization as it was associated with the colonists, relying instead on natural wilderness and primitive force and thus adopting subject matters as well …

Pantheism And Escapism In Abu Madi's 'Enigmas' And 'The Evening' From English Romanticism Perspectives, Yasser K. R. Aman

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Pantheism and Escapism in Abu Madi's 'Enigmas' and 'The Evening' From English Romanticism Perspectives" Yasser K. R. Aman investigates and analyses the possibilities of pantheism's encirclement of escapism in Elia Abu Madi's two poems from English Romanticism perspective. The article compares Abu Madi's fluctuating attitude towards escapism and pantheism to William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour July 13, 1798," Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," highlighting the affinities and differences. The …

Winter Dance Concert (February 22-24, 2018), Lindenwood University

Student Dance Programs & Brochures

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Letter From The Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film To The Dominican Fathers And Sisters, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Letter from the Department of Theatre, Dance & Film to the Dominican Fathers and Sisters inviting them to the Creative Writers Festival.

February 20, 2018

Falling Poster, Providence College

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Falling by Deanna Jent An Independent Student Production directed by Gaby DeParis '18

• Scenic Design: GABY DEPARIS '18
• Lighting Design & Sound Design: GABY DEPARIS '18
• Costume Design: TEDDY KIRITSY '19

Falling Playbill, Providence College

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Falling by Deanna Jent An Independent Student Production directed by Gaby DeParis '18

• Scenic Design: GABY DEPARIS '18
• Lighting Design & Sound Design: GABY DEPARIS '18
• Costume Design: TEDDY KIRITSY '19

THE CAST

• Bill - THOMAS EDWARDS
• Grammy - KATE FITZPATRICK
• Tami - CAPRIAL HARRIS
• Lisa - REAGAN QUITTSCHREIBER
• Josh - BRYAN SABBAG

Why We Must Die So Young: The Story Of The White Rose Martyrs

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s performance of Why We Must Die So Young: The Story of the White Rose Martyrs by William Gebby.

Performed February 23-25, 2018 at the Mitchell Theatre.

During the darkest days of WWII, a handful of German college students distributed thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets and worked toward unifying resistance across Germany. They called themselves the White Rose, and their faith drew them to engage in a fight that would cost them their lives. William Gebby’s brand new play celebrates the lives of these brave young people who would not and will not be silent. The TU …

Falling Box Office Sign Up Sheet, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Falling box office sign up sheet

Thursday - Sunday, February 16-18, 2018

"The Habits Of History": A Research-Based Play Script, Dorothy Morrissey

The Qualitative Report

In this article, derived from her doctoral dissertation, the author (a teacher educator in drama in Ireland) presents her students’ initial responses to her performance of a one-woman play, “Goldilocks’s Testimony.” The play, written by the author, concerns the marginalisation of women in workplaces. In the play, women’s “real” experiences of workplace marginalisation are transposed to Fairyland. In this article, the author represents her postgraduate student teachers’ responses to her performance in play script format. In this play script, “The Habits of History” (Olsen, 2003), the students’ responses are also transposed to Fairyland.

"Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief" And "The Tragedie Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice"

Theatre Programs

No abstract provided.

Diary Of Anne Frank, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance

2017-2018 Season

"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."

Anne Frank

The Moors Open Auditions Poster, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

The Moors open auditions

February 13, 2018, 7pm

The Moors Audition Pix Sign Up Sheet, Department Of Theatre, Dance & Film

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

The Moors audition pix sign up sheet

Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 6:30pm

The Cripple Of Inishmann (February 13-17, 2018), Martin Mcdonagh

Student Theatre Programs

Program for The Cripple of Inishmann (February 13-17, 2018).

To view the photos from this production of The Cripple of Inishmann, please click here.

Only You, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

by Timothy Mason

Directed by Gennie Applebee
Assistant Director/Lighting Designer: Julia Norris*
Scenic Designer/Properties: Kylie Moubry*
Costume Designer: Remy Saymiknha*
Sound Designer: Solomon Robinson+
Stage Manager: Melissa Goldman*
Faculty Advisors: B.J. Gailey & Michael O'Brien

Presented in Parkland's Second Stage Theatre
February 8, 9, 10, 16, 17 at 7:30pm
February 18 at 3pm
Spring 2018

Only You is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

To view images from this production, visit Only You (2018).

Projecting For Macbeth, Theatre Software, And A Thank You To Figure53, Drew Schmidt, Caroline M. Trewet

Northwestern Review

In 2015, Northwestern College’s Theatre Department staged William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Theatre faculty Drew Schmidt and student Caroline M. Trewet designed and prepared floor projections for the production. In this hybrid piece for the Northwestern Review, Schmidt provides an introductory primer text and then Schmidt and Trewet provide a thank you video explaining to Figure53, a company that creates theatre software, and all viewers how they utilized the program and equipment.

Creative Writers Festival Media Release, Tami Hinesh

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Creative Writers Festival media release

February 2018

Ink, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2017-2018 Women Innovators in the Performing Arts

Award-winning choreographer and TED Fellow Camille A. Brown brings her company and its irresistible energy to Peak Performances. ink, the final installation of her dance trilogy about culture, race, and identity, celebrates the rituals, gestural vocabulary, and traditions of the African diaspora while examining the culture of Black life that is often appropriated, rewritten or silenced. Using the rhythms and sounds of traditional African music mixed with blues, hip-hop, jazz, and swing, ink travels through time from the abolitionist movement to the Civil Rights struggle, from the Black Power movement to the emergence of hip-hop. Through self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, …

Art Infested Water, February 2018, Nova Southeastern University Department Of Performing And Visual Arts

Department of Performing and Visual Arts Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Lines Between The Lines: Stage Directions As Fluid, Affective Collaborations Between Theatre Texts And Theatre Makers, Sarah Bess Rowen

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This project contends that certain kinds of stage directions can affectively engage the bodies of actors, and the imaginations of directors and designers, resulting in a collaboratively created performance of a given theatre text. As opposed to more literary treatments of stage directions, this project contends that theories of embodiment, especially affect theory, is a useful lens through which to explore the range of potential performances present in various stage directions. By analyzing the ways in which stage directions allow for more agency than has traditionally been considered in theatre scholarship, I seek to encourage theatre makers and scholars alike …

The Musicality Of Salsa Dancers: An Ethnographic Study, Janice Mahinka

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This work analyzes the musical knowledge and aesthetics acquired by improvisatory social salsa dancers who hone close listening skills through corporeal means. The connections that these dancers construct between music, self, and partner make evident an engagement with musicality that can be seen through their demonstration of kinesthetic entrainment, structural feeling of hypermetric conventions, and enactment of expressive microtiming within beat and metric structures. I introduce the concept of timespace to explain how dancers manipulate this physiological experience to create different feelings in a dance, addressing issues that dancers raised in our feedback interviews such as feel, flow, and play. …

The Keepers: A Collaborative Constructive Narrative Podcast, Shay Carroll

Honors Projects

This is a fictional podcast series that presents a story that is completed through roleplaying. The structure follows that of a video game, with the main characters, or "players," interacting with a set plot while deciding their own course of action. I act as the narrator for the story, controlling the plot and setting as well as non-player characters, or "NPCs." For the purposes of consistency and making sure the characters do not do anything that would be considered too over-powered or unrealistic, I have chosen to use the rule guide and statistics modifier system presented by Wizards of the …

« L’Insulte (L’Affaire No. 23) » De Ziad Doueiri, Joseph Korkmaz

Regards

Comment un incident trivial – une dispute entre un Libanais chrétien et un ouvrier palestinien – peut-il devenir une affaire nationale à cause d’une simple insulte ? Le vrai sujet du film est le ressentiment que ressentent les chrétiens de Beyrouth-Est envers les Palestiniens, leurs anciens ennemis durant la guerre civile. La confrontation met en lumière l’évolution de la haine et l’impossibilité d’un pardon trente ans après la fin de la guerre. Le réalisateur fait ainsi preuve d’audace, traitant de front la question de l’amnésie/amnistie qui permit, de manière peut-être artificielle, la fin des combats.

« Tramontane (Rabih) » De Vatché Boulghourjian, Joseph Korkmaz

Regards

The story of a blind Lebanese musician confronting an unforgiving bureaucracy and the traumas of a violent past – the Lebanese Civil War – Vatché Boulghourjian’s Tramontane (Rabih) explores questions of memory and the lingering ghosts of war through the struggles of a war orphan seeking to obtain a passport. The article examines the trials he endures in his quest to uncover his identity, along with decades-old family and political secrets, adopting a historical perspective that draws parallels between the protagonist’s journey and society’s broader struggle to confront a troubled chapter in the nation’s history.

Résumé

L’histoire d’un …