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The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 06, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Sarnia 19, by Adam Hahn, in CenterPieces
• Student Spotlight: Adam Hahn
• Area Highlight: Dumas Center
• Faculty Profile: Todd Ristau
• Wild Geese, by Maura Campbell, opens in NYC
• From the Director: Submission Tips (following guidelines)

John, His Story, Taylor

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The Playbill for the Taylor University Touring Theatre Company's 2007 production of John, His Story.

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 05, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Best of No Shame
• Student Spotlight: Sunny da Silva
• Studio Theatre Space Renovated
• John Forsman, Technical Director
• Crossing the Threshold, by Maura Campbell
• From the Director: Submission Tips (page numbers)

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 04, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• The First Chapter: Coming to Jamestown
• Student Spotlight: Kenley Smith
• Guest Profile: Mac Wellman
• MySpace Page (went active 9-27-2007)
• Area Highlight: The Mill Mountain Star
• From the Director: Submission Tips (contact information)

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

Lab Reports

• Overnight Sensations at MMT
• Student Spotlight: Krista Knutsen
• Guest Profile: Melanie Joseph
• Campus Highlight: The Little Theatre at Hollins
• Area Highlight: Foamhenge
• From the Director: Submission Tips (reader's fees)

The Lab Report, Volume 01, Issue 02, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Overview of Required Texts
• Student Spotlight: Joshua Graves
• Guest Profile: Morgan Jenness
• CenterPieces Reading Series at MMT
• Campus Highlight: The Dance Institute
• From the Director: Submission Tips

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

Lab Reports

• Course Listings and Events Schedule
• Student Spotlight: Keith Bridges
• No Shame Theatre
• Guest Profile: Ruth Margraff
• Guest Profile: Patrick Benton
• From the Director: Program Ad

June 2007 - Volume Vi, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VI Number 2 includes a letter from former Chair John Oertling and a "Where Are They Now?" section.

The Lab Report, Volume 00, Issue 01, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Program Announcement
• Faculty Spotlight: Stephen Sossaman
• Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works at MMT
• Guest Profile: Naomi Wallace
• Guest Profile: David Gothard
• From the Director: Program Ad

Els Paisatges Europeus De Carles Batlle, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

A l'escena final d'Oasi (2001) de Carles Batlle, en un moment que conjura, curiosament, reminiscències de L'hort dels cirerers d'Anton Txékhov, el personatge d'Abdal·là, un vell home àrab, roman a l'interior de la casa (situada a Ia Catalunya rural) que és a punt de desaparèixer sota les aigües d'un nou pantà. Abdal·là se serveix un got de vi, un gest més europeu que àrab, mentre descriu el joc del guetan. El joc, una invenció de l'autor i de lleugera semblança al joc dels escacs, és una al·legoria dels encreuaments transnacionals, des del sud cap al nord i des del nord …

He Looks Like A Burrito, Rebecca Saunders

English Faculty Publication Series

Two women meet in a park while walking their dogs and begin what could become an interesting friendship. One is fresh into a new love affair, while the other is grieving the end of hers. They discover something in common stronger than they ever could have imagined.

Kill The Messenger: Why The Living Arts Reflect The True State Of A Democracy (A Play In One Short Act), David J. Kaye

The University Dialogue

No abstract provided.

December 2006 - Volume Vi, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume VI Number 1 includes articles about the construction of the Doudna Fine Arts Center and a visit from the National Association of the Schools of Theatre.

June 2006 - Volume V, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

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SIDES Volume V Number 2 features an article about an unofficial reunion of 1975-1983 Alumni and the obituary of Lucina "Lucy" Gabbard.

Flowers For Algernon

Taylor Theatre Playbills

The playbill for Taylor University’s Spring 2006 performance of Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers.

The Visiting Hours: Four Short Plays (A Work In Progress), Richard Morris

Sabbaticals

The Visiting Hours: Four Short Plays (a work in progress) was written by Richard Morris for his sabbatical leave in Spring 2006. The four plays include Memorial Day, Pay Day, Mother's Day, and The Visiting Hour. This submission was scanned from the original book.

La Intertextualidad Y Sus Metáforas Literarias En La Balada De La Cárcel De Circe: El Escenario Encarcelado Y El Texto De Liberación, Polly J. Hodge

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

"En el presente estudio nos interesa considerar la conexión entre la literatura y el teatro y, en especial, en relación a la obra La balada de la cárcel de Circe, dirigida por Elena Cánovas. Una de las preguntas que motiva esta investigación es: ¿Cuál es el papel de la literatura, de la intertexttialidad literaria, en el universo teatral? Se postula que el intertexto literario se comunica con la representación teatral de una manera metafórica, dando lugar a la expresión de una metáfora que tiene la capacidad de revelar comentarios importantes sobre la esfera cultural de la obra. Respecto de La …

L'Habitació Del Nen O La Insuportable Elusivitat De L'Experiència, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Les obres teatrals de Josep M. Benet i Jornet estan marcades per un interès en l'experiencia polifacètica de la mirada i el paper del perspectivisme dins el terreny teatral. Un impuls aporètic guia bona part de la seva obra més recent, ja que ens condueix a mons misteriosos i a espais buits en què facilment podem perdre'ns o on ens costarà de trobar el camí. Una atmosfera de misted envolta una ttanscripció poètica de l'espai, ja sigui una realitat psíquica interior o un paisatge exterior. Són espais fràgils en concepció, sovint perillosament al punt d'esvair-se. Els títols epigramàtics d'algnnes de …

0749: Nelson Slade Bond Collection, 1920-2006, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

Nelson Slade Bond had a varied writing career that spanned 70 years. Primarily known for science fiction short stories, Bond also wrote plays, radio and television scripts, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, public relations material, and books. The collection reflects the author's professional and personal lives consisting of writings, correspondence, business papers and financial records from 1925 to 2005. The collection was donated in four installments during and after Bond’s life from April 2006 to September 2007. The order in which the materials were received is maintained with only minor modifications. Input from Nelson Bond and his family members was …

December 2005 - Volume V, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

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SIDES Volume V Number 1 includes articles about the Doudna Fine Arts Center project and a "Where Are They Now?" section.

June 2005 - Volume Iv, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

Sides (Newsletter)

SIDES Volume IV Number 2 features a piece about the construction of Doudna Fine Arts Center and a "Where Are They Now?" section.

Rodrigo García's Ruins, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Haunted by the spirits of the avant-garde, the work of Rodrigo García embraces a hybrid theatrical language that is at once profoundly rooted in the aesthetic tendencies of performance, installation art, and text-based drama. García, a playwright, director, designer, and video and installation artist of Spanish nationality, was born in Buenos Aires in 1964. Since the mid-1980s, he has lived in Madrid, a city that has served as a laboratory for his company La Carnicería, which he founded in 1989. A runner-up for the Marqués de Bradomín Prize on two consecutive occasions (for Reloj and Macbeth-lmágenes), García has staged his …

How'd They Do That? Tips For Playwrights On Scoring A Debut At Humana, David Wohl

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

An analysis of the logistics that go into the Humana Festival of New American Plays, produced annually by Actors Theatre of Louisville. The article interviews staff at Actors Theatre as well as playwrights who had work produced during the 2005 Festival.

The Widows Of Ashur, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

An original drama. A veteran arrives at the home of a fallen comrade to meet the family. The veteran takes revenge on the family for the fallen comrade's abuse of her and other soldiers.

Imagining Europe: Carles Batlle's Combat (Landscape In The Aftermath), Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

At the end of Suite (1999), an award-winning play by Catalan dramatist Carles Batlle i Jordà, there is a memorable scene in which the spectators observe the collapse of a doll house upon the living room floor. It is a metaphor of domestic, as well as global, instability—not to mention, an ironic reference to Ibsen—in which the audience is left to wonder whether the character of Berta, confused and disoriented in the suite of an old hotel, will return to the mirage-like image of bourgeois European domesticity, to a home and marriage without foundations, or whether she will flee to …

El Teatre Català Contemporani, L'Esfera Pública I La Figura De L'Autor: Retalls De L'Època De La Transició, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

En els darrers anys, al paisatge político-cultural que envolta Barcelona no li han faltat els seus bans moments de melodrama, d'acusacions enceses i de rampells d'histèria, que s'han pogut presenciar sobre i fora de l'escenari, tant a nivell públic com privat. Efectivament, en el món teatral català no és gens estrany que la vida real es confongui amb la de l'espectacle, oferint-nos reiteradament exemples del que el director Albert Boadella, al seu assaig El rapto de Talía, anomena el «virus exhibicionista» o «frenesí» que ha assetjat la societat contemporània. A Barcelona, com a altres llocs del món occidental, un dels …

La Fragilitat Del Paisatge, Sharon G. Feldman

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

Dins de la galáxia teatral formada per estrelles de grans i petites dimensions que és l'escena catalana contemporània, Josep M. Benet i Jornet (Barcelona, 1940) és com un cometa; no un d'aquells estels fugaços que apareix en una de les seves obres més reeixides (Fugaç, 1992), sinó com un cometa la trajectória creativa del qual ha estat marcada per un procés constant d'evolució i renovació estètiques, un cometa que ha deixat una lluïssor indeleble, que li ha permès d'omplir el buit entre generacions. Es podria afirmar que Benet i Jornet és el dramaturg en vida més eminent i …

December 2004 - Volume Iv, Number 1, Theatre Arts Department

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SIDES Volume IV Number 1 includes an article welcoming new faculty Allison Cameron, and a piece on the Liz Marfia and Phil Ash wedding on October 10, 2004, attending by 26 Theatre Arts alumni.

Letters To John Lennon: A Play In Two Acts, Stacey Isom

English Theses & Dissertations

Letters to John Lennon is a two-act play about one woman's fantasies, nightmares, and memories that expose her desperate need to feel worthy of love. On the 20^th anniversary of John Lennon's death, Kay plans to go public with her identity as Lennon's illegitimate daughter. She believes this will result in her sudden rise to fame, a new peace movement, and the consummation of her love with a rock star. Several disasters keep her from her goals, the biggest of which is the arrival of Maury, who claims to be her real father. When Maury's claim seems authentic, Kay's …

June 2004 - Volume Iii, Number 2, Theatre Arts Department

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SIDES Volume III Number 2 includes a welcome to new faculty Chris Mitchell and a "Where Are They Now?" section.