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William: The Musical, Tyler C. Green
William: The Musical, Tyler C. Green
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects
William: The Musical is the story of my parents’ struggle, and unfathomable loss while trying to start a family. The work follows the couple through their commitment to start a family together, through a devastating miscarriage, and up to the birth of my older brother, William. The work is still in progress, but is currently structured as a song-cycle including five songs in the style of contemporary musical theater. William: The Musical explores themes of loss and resilience, bringing to light the disturbingly common experience of miscarriage. While the creative goal aims to allow audiences to reflect and mourn their …
The 2022 Classroom Project: Land Of Ours, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
The 2022 Classroom Project: Land Of Ours, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
LAND OF OURS is a brand-new play devised in rehearsal by an ensemble of Otterbein University actors, designers, stage managers, and directors. The play explores the centrality of travel and journeying to human experience. Drawing on the ensemble's personal experiences, stories of mythical travel from legend and folklore, and travel explorations invented in rehearsal, LAND OF OURS is a theatrical journey that will transport you beyond the theater walls to a destination of the imagination.
A Lie Of The Mind, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
A Lie Of The Mind, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Sam Shepherd, a mastermind of dark humor and powerful drama, out does himself with this story of two dysfunctional families joined by marriage in the American West, each trying to hold on to the ideal picture of stability without ever having experienced it. Jake believes he may have killed his wife, Beth, during a domestic dispute and, to calm his concerns, his brother Frankie attempts to get the real story by traveling to Beth’s family home in Montana. While he is relieved to see Beth alive, though severely injured from the incident, Frankie is suddenly entangled in a bizarre familial …
A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2021-2022 Season Production
Join us as we celebrate a return to live theater with a very special staged concert version of the show that was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. While we are unable to fully realize the elaborate design of this hilarious knock-em-dead musical romp, the script will be performed in full with much of the original cast, and you will not leave without having a hearty laugh. Poor, low-born Monty Navarro is desperate to inherit the dukedom by surpassing no fewer than eight members of the well-to-do D’Ysquith family in line before him. Just wait until …
The Tempest 2021, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
The Tempest 2021, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2020-2021 Season
Abducted and set adrift to die by her power-hungry sister and a jealous king, Prospera and her daughter, Miranda have survived 12 long years shipwrecked on a lonely island. When Prospera learns though her magical arts that those whose sought her child’s death are within her reach, she is consumed by rage. Conjuring the greatest of storms to break their ship upon her shores, Prospera brings her enemies to her feet. But when the opportunity to wreak her final vengeance is upon her, Prospera can no longer recognize the thing she has become, and she is forced to choose between …
Into A Lamplit Room, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
Into A Lamplit Room, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2020-2021 Season
The life of Composer and Social Activist, Kurt Weill, is celebrated in this cabaret-style compilation of his work. The production includes more than 30 songs, ranging from his life in Berlin during the Weimar Era during which he was a voice against the Nazi regime, to his emigration to the U.S. where he was a supporter of the American war effort in the 1930’s, and finally his contributions to the American Musical Theatre canon. Audiences will particularly recognize his collaborations with Ira Gershwin, Bertolt Brecht, and Maxwell Anderson in the songs written for Broadway including Tschaikowsky, Mack the Knife, Pirate …
Dance 2020: The Wild Within, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
Dance 2020: The Wild Within, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2020-2021 Season
The Dance Concert, inspired by Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic, “Where the Wild Things Are,” will include a collection of solos, duets and trios which will illuminate the immense power of imagination and prove without a doubt that there’s a wild thing within us all.
An Enemy Of The People, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
An Enemy Of The People, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2020-2021 Season
When a water contamination crisis puts their community in peril, siblings face off in a battle of political ambitions and moral integrity.
The Theory Of Relativity, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
The Theory Of Relativity, Otterbein Theatre And Dance Department
2020-2021 Season
Whether you're allergic to cats, in love for the first or tenth time, a child of divorce, a germaphobe, or simply a unique individual, you’re sure to find yourself in this fresh new musical.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray: An Immersive Experience, Natalie Love
The Picture Of Dorian Gray: An Immersive Experience, Natalie Love
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects
This project studied the effects of immersive theatre on an audience using a script adapted from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. This project explored how to best adapt a literary work into a performance piece, and rather than creating a traditional piece of theatre, creating an immersive work. The process included research in literature, new work creation, and theatre devising as well as the rehearsals and preparation necessary for the production. Using a small cast of Otterbein performance students, the piece was performed four times in one day with different audience groups in so that I could …
An Historical Analysis Of The Relationship Between Organized Religion And Dramatic Theory, Emily Bubeck
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 …
Is He Dead?, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
Is He Dead?, Otterbein University Department Of Theatre And Dance
2015-2016 Season
This play was written by Mark Twain in 1898 and first published in print in 2003. The play focuses on a fictional version of the great French painter, Jean-François Millet, as an impoverished artist in Barbizon, France who, with the help of his colleagues, stages his death in order to increase the value of his paintings, and afterwards dresses as a woman to keep his secret safe. Combining elements of burlesque, farce, and social satire, the comedy relies on such devices as cross-dressing, mistaken identities, and romantic deceptions to tell its story, which raises …
The Miser, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
The Miser, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department
1997-1998 Season
The plot concerns the classic conflict of love and money. The miser Harpagon wishes his daughter Elise to marry a wealthy old man, Anselme, who will accept her without a dowry, but she loves the penniless Valère. www.britannica.com