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Responding To The Plague Years: Aids Theatre In The 1980s, Jason Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in 1981 and consequently changed United States history. Initially, it affected the gay community, and the United States Government did not actively combat the spread of the disease for the first four years of the epidemic. In response to a need for education, the theatre community took it upon itself to raise awareness about the disease. Artists such as Robert Chesley and Larry Kramer created pieces of theatre that helped society deal with AIDS. This thesis explores the AIDS theatre canon while focusing on two major works: Robert Chesley’s Night Sweat: A …

Porcelain (2009), Andrew Mooney

Season 2008-2009

No abstract provided.

Comedian Jay Black To Perform At Hansen Student Center, Kimberly Stabosz ‘09

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Too, Alan Nielsen

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

"Master Harold" ... And The Boys, Rick Jones

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

Picnic, Allen Oster

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

The Heidi Chronicles, Alan Nielsen

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

Woyceck, Georg Buchner

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, Scott Shattuck

SFA School of Theatre

No abstract provided.

Direction Of The Play: Frankenstein, Ryan William Landmann

Graduate Student Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, casting, direction, and post-production analysis of Desert Hot Springs High School's production of Frankenstein. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for the department of Theatre Arts at Central Washington University.

2009-2010 Theatre Season Brochure, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2009-2010 Season

2009-2010 University of Southern Maine Theatre season brochure featuring:

• The Bear & The Proposal
• Tea and Sympathy
• Dance USM!
• The Pajama Game
• Madwitch & Inook and the Sun
• Special musical theatre fall event: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Special multi-cultural residency: Afro-Cuban and Latin American Jazz

Soul Purpose: Theatre Outreach Program, John Steven Paul

Soul Purpose Liturgical Dramas and Essays

Excerpt: "The intention of Soul Purpose is to provide students with the opportunity to follow the command of Exodus 23:19: The choicest of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God."

Making The Unseen Seen: Some Comments On The Use Of Drama For The Church, John Steven Paul

Soul Purpose Liturgical Dramas and Essays

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Drama For The Church: The Soul Purpose Plays, John Steven Paul

Soul Purpose Liturgical Dramas and Essays

Intended as an introductory chapter to a book, this essay outlines the motivation for writing liturgical drama and for creating Soul Purpose. Unfortunately, John Steven Paul (1951-2009), professor of Theatre at Valparaiso University, passed away before he could complete the full manuscript.

'Look At The Moon:' Hunter Hills Theatre: Outdoor Drama In The Smokies., Charlotte Headrick, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

A memoir of the experiences of working at a summer theatre in the 1960s and 1970s. Originally presented at the Outdoor Drama Institute annual conference.

The Problem Of Tempo: Too Slow, Too Fast, And Just Right, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

Examination of several sixteenth century Italian court balli that demonstrate the balance between gravitas and sprezzatura and how that balance dictates musical tempo for the accompaniment.

The Curious Case Of Charles Mee, David Wohl

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

Playwright Charles Mee is one of the few successful writers who makes many of his works available free of charge for performance. This short article summarizes an interview with Mee, who explains why he forgoes royalties and publishes many of his plays online.

2009-2010 Season Brochure, Office Of Arts + Cultural Programming, Peak Performances At Montclair State University

2009-2010 Ever-adventurous

No abstract provided.

Strange Duets: Impressarios And Actresses In The American Theatre, 1865-1914 (Review), Jocelyn Buckner

Theatre Faculty Articles and Research

"In Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914, Kim Marra invites readers into the tumultuous world of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century theatre through an examination of the on-and-off stage relationships between leading ladies and the men who claimed to have fashioned their success. The text is a pièce de résistance of intersectional historical scholarship, analyzing the ways race, class, gender, and sexuality both influenced and were influenced by the relationships forged between men and women of the theatre during the wax and wane of Victorian sentiment, the emergence of Darwinian theories on evolution, and the rise of …

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dit Conservatory Of Music And Drama, Ba In Drama Graduating Production, Technological University Dublin

Concert Programmes

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The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 08, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Roanoke Regional Writer’s Conference
• Devil Sedan by Kenley Smith opens in Omaha
• Mill Mountain Theatre Closing
• Dramatists Guild of America
• Area Highlight: Arts Council of the Blue Ridge
• From the Director: Letters of Reference

An Exploration Of Playmaking Strategies Resulting In Youth Performance Scripts For Elementary School Audiences, Dana Marie Vazquez

Theses Digitization Project

The author has written four Meet the Masters scripts for schools in the Rim of the World school district in Lake Arrowhead, California. The goal of the performances is to employ children's theater techniques in order to teach elementary school students about an artist's life and work as well as improving learning and retention toward meeting the California State Board of Education Visual and Performing Arts content standards. The project is an important contribution to the field of Theater Education/ Theatre for Youth because it presents a method for utilizing the existing resources in a school district-middle school and and …

A Historiography Of Informed Imagination: A (Hi)Story Drawn From The Correspondence Of Annie Russell And Faith Baldwin, Joseph Bromfield, Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh

Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Publications

Bromfield, Joseph, and Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh. 2009. A historiography of informed imagination: A (hi)story drawn from the correspondence of annie russell and faith baldwin. Theatre History Studies 29 : 52.

Red Detachment Of Women And The Enterprise Of Making ‘Model’ Music During The Chinese Cultural Revolution, Clare Sher Ling Eng

Faculty Scholarship

Artworks produced with official sanction during periods marked by turmoil and human suffering are challenging subjects for scholars who would like to discuss them in a fair and responsible manner. If they aestheticize the works’ form and political affiliation, how would they be doing justice to these works whose creation and content are so meshed with the politics of their time? On the other hand, can an approach that takes ideology into account be developed that does not appear to ignore, condone or support the odious acts of violence associated with those periods? This article explores the latter question with …

Waiting For Lefty Press Release, Katie Hughes

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Waiting for Lefty press release

January 2009

The Dehumanization Of Prisoners In Brendan Behan’S The Quare Fellow, Zachariah Milauskas

Undergraduate Review

Brendan Behan’s The Quare Fellow looks not only at how a prison population reacts to an execution, but also how people throughout history respond to inhumanity—whether it be injustice or dehumanization. Behan struggles with whether or not prisons are able to reform prisoners. In a darkly comic way, Behan questions the justice of prisons and executions, and yet the characters in the play do not seem to know how to fix the judicial system of 1940s Ireland. In this play, Behan is concerned with showing how the prison system is built and how it will never help anyone: prisons supposedly …

The Spanish Tragedy And The Supernatural: Exploring The Coexistence Of Patriotic And Subversive Interpretations In The Spanish Tragedy, Michelle Mercure

Undergraduate Review

The title of Thomas Kyd’s play, The Spanish Tragedy, is as ambiguous as the play’s content. According to critic Ian McAdam, the play’s ambiguity allows for two conflicting interpretations. He writes that the play is . . . in its very complexity, marked by gaps and discontinuities which, while not rendering it artistically incoherent, have led to striking discrepancies in critical readings; while some see Kyd patriotically asserting England’s political ascendancy over Spain’s ‘evil empire,’ others see the playwright taking a dangerously subversive stance toward (English) society itself.

"Can You Hear Me Now?": A Study On Oppression, Kathryn Marie Risinger

Theses Digitization Project

This paper defines oppression and explores one particular methodology for dealing with oppressive issues in our youth. More specifically, it examines the devising process for this type of theatre.

"Putting It Together": The Process Of Producing, Musically Directing And Starring In A Musical, Shane Maitland Churchill, Brown

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to coalesce the demand roles of actor/singer, musical director, and producer onto one person. In preparing for this thesis, the author was granted the role as producer for the play titled "The Last Five Years", a one act-musical. This production was held at California State University San Bernardino in 2009.

Theater: A Mission, Angela Marie Sanicola

Theses Digitization Project

This project is designed with the specific goal of developing an intensely, realistic theater program for a target audience of young adults. The thesis will take the reader on a journey of development from page to stage with the transformation of John Bunyan's classic book Pilgrim's Progress.