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Hole In The Head: A Play, Accompanied By A Conspectus Of Knowledge, Both Repressed And Researched, That Directly Influenced The Playwright In Her Development Of A New Work, Margaret Hunter Cook

Honors Scholar Theses

"Hole in the Head" is a play about a woman who wakes up. Maude wakes up in the first act, and in every subsequent scene she undergoes some form of physical or emotional awakening as characters walk in and out of her front door."Hole in the Head" is accompanied by an introduction that attempts to understand the interplay between creativity and academia through an analysis of theatre, feminist and queer theory, and science.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 12, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• 2010 Guest Speaker Series
• Course Listings for Summer 2010
• Neeley Gossett Breadcrumb Sins at Coastal Empire New Plays Festival
• Under a Banner of Shadow, by Todd Ristau at Studio Roanoke
• From the Director: Leaving Studio Roanoke

Theatre For A New Theater: A Play On Architecture, Alex Coulombe

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The project entails transforming a former military fort into a theater. The scopic parameters native to both fort and theater can provide a field of operation for an architecture that simultaneously mobilizes and exposes the machinery of spectacle. In tandem, amplifying and distorting existing conditions of the fort and repurposing them for a theatrical program can provide catalytic parameters for design that are typically absent when designing from a clean slate.

"Persona Non Grata" A Tragicomic One-Act, Maria K. Genovese

Pell Scholars and Senior Theses

No abstract provided.

Theatre For A New Theater: A Play On Architecture, Alexander Coulombe

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Red Rock: An Original Dramatic Tv Series, Jared Shalek

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The concept of my Capstone Project is a screenplay for an original, dramatic television series. The idea was conceived during the summer going into my senior year, as I examined the script I had just written for TRF 400: Dramatic Writing for Television, a class I took in spring 2009 with Tom Seeley. I had labored over the script for the second half of that semester, and Professor Seeley really liked the idea from the start, but ultimately I did not fare as well I wanted to in terms of the final grade. Thus, I decided that I would redraft …

Amanda Green, Alex Piliouras

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

I have submitted for my Capstone Project three interactive scripts for the series Amanda Green. The series features a fourteen-year-old girl, Amanda Green, who solves mysteries with her friend Jerome relating to school and social life. In the pilot episode, submitted here, Amanda hopes to ask the school heartthrob to the dance, but is robbed of the opportunity when the principal announces that the dance is canceled due to an act of vandalism. After her grandmother regales her with an inspirational story, Amanda decides to head an investigation of the crime scene in the hopes of solving the mystery …

Beneath The Waves, Allison Nast

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Beneath the Waves is an original, feature-length screenplay. It is a fairy tale set in Ireland, where a woman dives to the bottom of the ocean to reclaim her husband, who had been taken by mermaids. She succeeds in rescuing her husband, and in doing so discovers that mermaids are not the beautiful women of legend, but rather man-eating deep-sea creatures. I wrote the short story Brigid and the Mermaids in my junior year in order to get the basic storyline down in an understandable form. In writing the screenplay I used the free screenwriting program Celtx, which formats easily …

Crimes Of The Heart

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2010 performance of Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley.

Crimes of the Heart tells the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe, and Lenny, who reunite at their grand father’s home in Mississippi after Babe shoots her abusive husband.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 11, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Student Spotlight: David Schwingle
• Best of No Shame Marks One Full Year of Programming at Studio Roanoke
• Ich Libe Dich by Samantha Macher in Lunchbox Reading Series
• Maura Campbell's Wild Geese produced in Vermont and Flower Duet read in New York
• From the Director: Aspiration or Ambition?

The World In Chaos: A Paragon For Comedic Plays, Lisa Akintilo '11

2010 Spring Semester

When Samuel Beckett wrote his tragicomedy Waiting for Godot in France, the French nation was in turmoil due to the destructiveness of World War II. One generation later, an American named Tom Stoppard also wrote a play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, during a time of crisis; the United States was in utter confusion because of the Vietnam War. Both of these plays, as a result of the tumultuous times in which they were created, demonstrated how confusion in one’s surroundings can cause a loss of certainty and identity.

Sobre Lo Visible Y Lo Invisible: Barcelona Y El Teatro, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Durante el invierno del año 2000, el director catalán Lluís Pasqual llevó a la escena del Teatre Lliure, la casa histórica de una de las compañías de repertorio más estable, consolidada y distinguida de Barcelona, una versión catalana de El jardín de los cerezos de Antón Chekov. En la obra de Chekov, Madame Ranyévskaya, emblema de la elegancia marchita y de la ya desvanecida supremacía de la aristocracia rusa, se ve obligada, por su situación de desesperanza económica, a vender su finca y su jardín de cerezos al nuevo-rico Lopatkhin y, después, a volver a París, cuando Rusia se encuentra …

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 10, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Jayne Benjulian Named Head of New Play Development at Magic Theatre
• Student Spotlight: Jonathan Galvez
• Dear Abe by Adam Hahn at Studio Roanoke
• The Prom by Adam Hahn in Lunchbox Reading Series
• Guest Profile: Joe Banno
• From the Director: What You've Taken, You Can Teach

Hippolytus

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2010 performance of Hippolytus by Euripides.

Hippolytus is the illegitimate son of Theseus, the king of Athens. The play tells how the goddess of love, Aphrodite, maliciously enacts vengeance on Hippolytus for his oath to chastity and service to the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 09, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Heaven in Hell by Royal Shiree
• Student Spotlight: Chad Runyon
• Ashville, by Lucy Thurber Premieres at Studio Roanoke
• Exit Strategy by Kris Knutsen at Studio Roanoke
• From the Director: Looking For People You Want Work With

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 08, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• House of Atreus by Sean Engard
• Student Spotlight: Sean Engard
• Roanoke Regional Writer's Conference Held at Hollins University
• Kenley Smith to teach playwriting at Randolph College
• Rosalee Was Here by Maura Campbell in Vermont
• From the Director: Why Buying Advance Tickets is Important

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 07, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Crossing the Threshold by Maura Campbell performed in Vermont
• Student Spotlight: James Lewis
• Yes Svetlana, There is a Grandfather Frost by Jeff Goode at Studio Roanoke
• The UnXmas Story by Jeff Goode is directed by Kenley Smith at Studio Roanoke
• Area Highlight: MyScoper.com is one BIG Regional Calendar
• From the Director: Pressing the Hot Button Issues

December 2009 - Volume Ix, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

This issue includes items about Theatre Alumni Reunions, Dedication of the Green Room at the Doudna Fine Art Center (named after Lucille and E. Glendon Gabbard), and December Graduates.

La Dramatisation De L’Écriture Chez Sony Labou Tansi, Georges Ngal

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

As an author always articulates his writing with idioms that reflect a specific time period and a given social group, Sony Labou Tansi talks about “tropicalité”, and gives himself the goal to create multiple “tropicalités”.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 06, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Nu Naybahood II, Here We Go Agin features Royal Shiree
• Student Spotlight: Royal Shiree
• Guest Profile: Craig Pospisil
• Guest Profile: Larry Pontius
• Rosalee Was Here by Maura Campbell in Vermont
• Treading Water by Timothy Cochran at Studio Roanoke
• From the Director: Writing For Collaboration

The Secret Garden

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2009 performance of The Secret Garden based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett with script and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon.

The Secret Garden tells the story of Mary Lennox, a young English girl from British Raj who is sent to live in Yorkshire, England with her relatives after her parents die in a cholera outbreak. As she works in a neglected hidden garden with a young gardener she begins to grow and begins to influence her sickly cousin and uncle.

Footprints Of A Pilgrim

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Fall 2009 performance of Footsteps of a Pilgrim based on the book by Ruth Bell Graham and adapted by Kerry Meads and Robert Smyth.

Footprints of a Pilgrim is the story of Ruth Bell Graham recounting the story of her childhood as the daughter of missionaries in China, her marriage to Reverend Billy Graham, and beyond.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 05, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Darlene Fedele designs puppets for Donnie and the Monsters by Robert Gibbs
• Student Spotlight: Darlene Fedele
• Guest Profile: Jimmy Ray Ward
• Royal Shiree is Miss Missy, Storyteller
• Soul of the Studio and the 40+40 Festival
• From the Director: Write It Down and Put It In A Contract

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 04, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Elvis Blossom by Sunny daSilva
• Student Spotlight: Robert Plowman
• Guest Profile: Jeffrey Sweet
• Sasparilla, by Robert Plowman at Studio Roanoke
• Story Club by Nicole B. Adkins published
• From the Director: Bad Choices Make Good Stories

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 03, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Shade of the Trees by Kenley Smith
• Guest Profile: Pat Wilhelms
• Guest Profile: Bob Moss
• Thirty Minutes or Less, by Jonathan G Galvez
• Staff Profile: Maryke Barber, Arts Librarian and Dramaturg
• From the Director: Shorter Forms...is the Two Act Dead?

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 02, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Guest Profile: Stevie Jay
• Student Spotlight: Steven V. Rice
• Guest Profile: Carl Hancock Rux
• First Annual Festival of Student Readings held at Studio Roanoke
• Rebecca Rugg and Kate Bredeson talk Dramaturgy
• From the Director: Summer Recap

June 2009 - Volume Viii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VIII Number 2 includes pictures of the first year of operation of the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

The Lab Report, Volume 03, Issue 01, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Lunch Box Reading Series Provides Experiential Learning Opportunities
• Student Spotlight: Brandon DuMonde
• Guest Profile: Erin Courtney
• Rosalee Was Here by Maura Campbell at Studio Roanoke
• Guest Profile: Cheryl Snodgrass
• From the Director: Our Biggest Summer Yet

A Contemporary Poetic Play, Stephen Levine

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 12, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Confirmed Guests for Summer 2009
• Student Spotlight: Ben R. Williams
• Ant Farm by Ben R. Williams
• Neeley Gossett Interns at the Alliance Theatre
• Adam Hahn Commissioned by Kaiser Permanente
• From the Director: How we select our guests and visiting faculty