Theatre and Performance Studies Commons^™

June 2008 - Volume Vii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VII Number 2 features articles on the closing of the Village Theatre and welcoming new faculty Nicholas Shaw.

J. Scheidegger Center For The Arts, 2008-2009 Season Program, Lindenwood University

J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts

J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts, 2008-2009 Season Program

The Cutting Edge, May/June 2008, Vol. 18 Issue 3, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

Direction Of The Play: Alicia In Wonder Tierra, Carla Francesca Stanley

Master of Theater Production Graduate Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, design, casting, direction and post-production analysis of Shafter High School's production of Alicia in Wonder Tierra by Silvia Gonzalez S. Documentation includes research analysis of the play and an evaluation of the play as a production vehicle for Shafter High School. The analysis includes a discussion of the use of a non-traditional play to attract an audience in a largely Hispanic community.

Peter Pan, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

An adaptation of J. M. Barrie's story about a boy who never grew up. The three children of the Darling family receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them toNever Land, where an ongoing war between Peter's gang of rag-tag runaways and the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046183/plotsummary

A Study Of The Life And Work Of Christopher Durang: Laughing Wild Amidst Severest Woe, Jeannine M. James

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis maps Durang's struggle with faith and demonstrates how his personal journey to discover and document his pain acts as a catalyst for his creative work. It will explore his style of masking and unmasking himself in his characters revealing his innermost pain and suffering. I also surmise that his work serves as a kind of therapy by allowing him to constantly unravel and unveil his investigation of self.

This thesis examines Christopher Durang's personal history and family struggles in an effort to understand the experiences that shaped the work of one of America's premier authors of absurdist comedy. …

Storming The Castle: Non-Secular Subversion Of The Pas D'Armes In The Castle Of Perseverance, John Moss

Theses and Dissertations

It is important to remember that the categories of medieval performance were established far removed from their period in history. As a genre, the morality play includes a wide diversity of time, geography, content and performance styles. Such disparities have made it difficult to develop a comprehensive definition, without which comparisons between works cannot be consistent. As scholarship continues to explore these works in context of their performance, it becomes increasingly important to identify which performance styles best inform their production. In examining The Castle of Perseverance within the parameters of pas d’armes, new meanings can be drawn from its …

Assassins Playbill, Providence College

Promotion Materials

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Bowab Studio Theatre

Assassins, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman

May 7, 2008

Director, Kevin Black '09

Cast: Sam Brilhante '11 - Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme; Colleen Burns '10 - Balladeer; Marc Francis '10 - Charles Guiteau; Justin Pimentel '10 - Sam Byck; Craig Schutz '09 - John Wilkes Booth; Dan Travers '08 - John Hinckley

Harvey, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

By Mary Chase

Director: Christiana Forsberg*
Scenic Designer: Tim Adams*
Lighting Designer: Matthew P Eberle*
Costume Designer: William Anthony
Sebastian Rose II*
Properties Designer: Cailyn Arnot*
Sound Director: Jacob Foster*
Technical Director: Jesse Long*
Stage Manager: Kristal Monahan-Mitchell*
Assistant Stage Manager: Laura Lindermann

May 7, 8 ,9, 10 at 8pm
May 11 at 3pm
Parkland College Theatre
Spring 2008

Produced with special arrangement from Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

To view images from this production, visit Harvey (2008).

Unlisted Properties: An Exploration In Solo Performance, Lauren White

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis studies the process of creating, producing and performing a solo performance titled UNLISTED PROPERTIES. We intend to intertwine historical text and contemporary narratives to create portraits of women throughout different periods of history/her-story dealing with the theme of women as property or owning others as personal property. The historical text will be taken from the self-written works of Mary Chesnut, Harriet A. Jacobs, and Elizabeth Packard. The contemporary pieces have been pulled from a variety of sources, which include an interview with Mary Ford, an Army bride during World War II, Pagan Moss, a website blogger describing her …

Unlisted Properties: An Exploration In Solo Performance, Jason Smith

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis studies the process of creating, producing and performing a solo performance titled UNLISTED PROPERTIES. We intend to intertwine historical text and contemporary narratives to create portraits of women throughout different periods of history/her-story dealing with the theme of women as property or owning others as personal property. The historical text will be taken from the self-written works of Mary Chesnut, Harriet A. Jacobs, and Elizabeth Packard. The contemporary pieces have been pulled from a variety of sources, which include an interview with Mary Ford, an Army bride during World War II, Pagan Moss, a website blogger describing her …

Belly Dance: A Cultural And Historical Introduction And Lecture & Live Dancing! Program, University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2007-2008 Season

Naya's Trance Belly Dance

Artistic Director Jessica Jane Means

Body Doubles, Babel's Voices: Katie Mitchell's Iphigenia At Aulis And The Theatre Of Sacrifice, Kim Solga

Department of English Publications

What happens to a body when circumstance demands it enact its own forgetting? What reaction in turn does a body in the process of violent self-erasure prompt in its spectators? These and related questions propel my investigation of Katie Mitchell's 2004 National Theatre production of Euripedes' Iphigenia at Aulis. Mitchell's chilling representation of Iphigenia's final moments, during which the young girl speaks with apparently patriotic fervour her willingness to be murdered for her nation's sake, embeds the very loss that such a performance of sacrifice typically elides. The result: two bodies collide on stage before our eyes - the compliant, …

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 12, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Guest Artist Confirmations for 2008
• Student Spotlight: Timothy Cochran
• Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works
• New Works Initiative
• Kenley Smith attends Great Plains Theatre Conference
• From the Director: Submission Tips # 10 (multiple submissions)

Direction Of The Play: Miss Saigon, Charles Gregory Pschirrer

Master of Theater Production Graduate Projects

This project entailed the selection, background research and documentation, musical analysis, casting, direction, choreography, and post-production analysis of Lewis and Clark High School's production of Miss Saigon. Documentation includes research and analysis of the play, its music, and an evaluation of the musical as a production vehicle for the Tiger Drama Department at Lewis and Clark High School.

Miss Witherspoon, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2007-2008 Season

A woman named Veronica, who is a recent suicide, has to go back to the world of the living to cleanse her “brown tweedy aura” and learn the values of life. She findsherself in Bardo, a Tibetan Buddhist netherworld and the place where you wait to be reincarnated. She is not enthusiastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Witherspoon

Elisabeth, Alisa Roost

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Spring Dance Concert 2008 Poster, Jillianne Liotta '09

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Spring Dance Concert 2008

April 26, 2008, 8pm

April 27, 2008, 2pm

Poster design: Jillianne Liotta '09

Spring Dance Concert 2008 Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotions

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Spring Dance Concert 2008

April 26, 2008, 8pm

April 27, 2008, 2pm

Lighting Design, Chris Tompkins

Advisor, Wendy Oliver

Choreographers: Sarah Evans, Lindsay Maurio, Melissa Cusack, Melanie Faust, Donald MacKayle, Caroline Cruise, Erica Tymeck, Lia Armatas, Lauren Sibley, Sarah Mosca, Sarah McCormack, Shane Farrell, Jillianne Liotta, Emily Herrick, Krissy Phillipino, Lindsay Craven

Dancers: Lia Armatas '08, Nicole Cirilli '09, Caroline Cruise '09, Kelly Cummings '11, Melissa Cusack '10, Sarah Evans '08, Melanie Faust '08, Emily Herrick '08, Shannon Hoey '11, Joelle Hogan '10, Theresa Hurton '11, Alicia …

"How Skinny I Got, And How Fucking Weird I Was": Michael Shannon, Sarah Kane, Woyzeck And Experiential Theatre, Marti Lyons '08

Honors Projects

The majority of academic focus on Sarah Kane has been on Kane the playwright; the purpose of this paper is to offer insight into Kane's artistry by examining Kane the director. In this paper I expand Aleks Sierz's concept of experiential theatre by using Sarah Kane's 1997 production of Woyzeck as a prototype. Essentially, experiential theatre is about blurring boundaries such as those between observer and participant, or between actor and character, or between the personal and the professional. In the rehearsal process and production of Woyzeck Kane blurred many boundaries; I will examine three in this paper: the actor/audience …

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2008), August Wilson

Season 2007-2008

No abstract provided.

Center For Art & Theater News, Georgia Southern University

Center for Art & Theater (Archived)

• Ascend Commission

Two Rooms - Theatrical Program, Carrie D. Applegate

Department of Theatre Arts Programs (UP 620)

Program for Theatre Arts Department production of Two Rooms by Lee Blessing. Performed in Stage II of the Morrison Center.

Funny Girl Promotional Card, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Funny Girl, Music: Jule Styne - Lyrics: Bob Merrill - Book: Isobel Lennart

April 4-6 & 11-13, 2008

Fridays & Saturdays, 8pm

Sundays, 2pm

Director, Mary G. Farrell

Musical Director, David Harper

Choreographer, Sandra Colavolpe

Scenic Design, Michael Micucci

Costume Design, David Costa-Cabral

Lighting Design, Katherine C. Abernathy

Funny Girl Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Funny Girl, Music: Jule Styne - Lyrics: Bob Merrill - Book: Isobel Lennart

April 4-6 & 11-13, 2008

Director, Mary G. Farrell

Musical Director, David Harper

Choreographer, Sandra Colavolpe

Scenic Design, Michael Micucci

Costume Design, David Costa-Cabral

Lighting Design, Katherine C. Abernathy

Cast: Nancy Anastadis – Fanny Brice; Marc Francis – John, Stage Manager; Lauren Annicelli – Emma; Samantha Brilhante – Mrs. Brice; Kaitlin Fitzsimons – Mrs. Strakosh; Deanna Vitola* – Mrs. Meeker; Beth Killian* – Mrs. O’Malley; Dan Travers* – Tom Keeney; …

Funny Girl Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Angell Blackfriars Theatre

Funny Girl, Music: Jule Styne - Lyrics: Bob Merrill - Book: Isobel Lennart

April 4-6 & 11-13, 2008

Return To The Forbidden Planet, Parkland College

Parkland Theatre

By Bob Carlton

Director and Choreographer: Dallas Street
Musical Director: Tim Schirmer
Assistant Musical Director: Ed Schaller
Scenic Designer: David N. Morgan
Lighting Designer: Sean Murphy
Costume Designer: Cloey Vanderglitz
Technical Director: David G. Dillman
Assistant Choreographers: Heather Johnson, Laura McQueen, Kristal Monahan-Mitchell

April 2, 4, 5, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19 at 8pm
April 13 at 3pm
Parkland College Theatre
2008

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French Inc.

To view images from this production, visit Return to the Forbidden Planet (2008).

Indigenous Ecology And Chicanada Coalition Building In The Dramatic Works Of Cherríe Moraga: “Living Models” For A Sustainable Future, Paula Straile-Costa

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

This study focuses on three recent dramatic works by Cherríe Moraga’s written in the same period as her essay and poetry collection, The Last Generation. Heroes and Saints, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, and Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto draw from indigenous ecology and the historical archive of Chicano struggle that provide models for a sustainable future she envisions. The author shifts from poetry and essay - the lyrical, reflective mode of self-inquiry and expression for which she is so well known – to a collective dramatic dialogue allowing her to …

Power To The Panza: The Politics Of Panza Positive Cultural Production, A Performance, Virgina Grise, Irma Mayorga

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

The Panza Monologues is a solo performance piece both written by Virginia Grise and Irma Mayorga and also composed from contributions by Chicanas in San Antonio, TX gathered by Grise and Mayorga. In live production of the piece, Grise is the solo actor and Mayorga serves as director, dramaturge, and designer. As a whole, the play focuses on stories that hinge on the metaphor of “la panza” to articulate and describe the multiple conditions of Chicanas’ lives in terms of their physical, social, racial, and class dimensions. The piece has been performed in various locations from its inception in …

Speaking In Other Voices: An Ethnography Of Walloon Puppet Theaters (Book Review), Virginia Anderson

Theatre and Dance

No abstract provided.