Wait For Me: Finding Eurydice’S Voice In Hadestown And Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, 2024 Georgia College
Wait For Me: Finding Eurydice’S Voice In Hadestown And Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Thomas Creekmore
Women's and Gender Studies Symposium
The traditional story of Orpheus and Eurydice, as featured in Ovid’s epic poem Metamorphoses, never allows the reader to understand Eurydice’s perspective, allowing her no agency as a character and not allowing her to be anything but an object of Orpheus’s desire. Anaïs Mitchell’s Broadway musical, Hadestown, and Céline Sciamma’s film, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, are two modern interpretations of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth that rework the story in ways that allow Eurydice to achieve more agency as a character. Unlike Ovid’s version of Eurydice, Hadestown’s Eurydice and Portrait of a Lady on Fire’s …
The Ghost Of John Nisbet: Hugh Macdiarmid’S First Published Work, 2024 University of Glasgow
The Ghost Of John Nisbet: Hugh Macdiarmid’S First Published Work, Alan Riach
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses the first published item, a short play, signed with the name 'Hugh M'acDiamid', and sets in its biographical and historical context just after the First World War and in the literary context of 1922 and international modernism, in 1922, viewing it as 'an encapsulation of its moment, and most importantly as an elegiac tribute to a friend,' arguing that 'Performing "Nisbet" as a play intimates the drama of fractured modernist selfhood implicit in the written text,' and concluding that it should be seen 'in the whole national context of Scotland finding a way towards a reconstruction of itself, a …
Introduction To Theatre Oer Course, 2024 CUNY Bronx Community College
Introduction To Theatre Oer Course, Carmen R. Meyers
Open Educational Resources
Study of theatre and performance throughout history and across cultures including an examination of European, Carribean, and North and South American theatrical styles and genres.
This course is organized for a hybrid/asynchronous format. Our class meets on-campus every week for 75 minutes and the other 75 minutes will be completed asynchronously with weekly learning modules on Blackboard.
The first half of the course focuses on the history of theatre from Ancient Greece through Modern Realism. The second half of the course, students engage in the procedures of professional theatre artists through writing and refining a dramatic text; enacting a performance; …
Time, Place, & Purpose: The Performance Of Creole Identity In Louisiana, 2024 Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
Time, Place, & Purpose: The Performance Of Creole Identity In Louisiana, Rachel N. Aker
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Though much of the early development of Louisiana Creole culture can be found in New Orleans, the culture spread and continued to grow throughout the rest of South Louisiana in both similar and different ways. Expanding beyond Joseph Roach’s treatment of Creole cultural performances in New Orleans in Cities of the Dead (1996) and journeying across land and water, this project identifies more Creole cultural performance as they emerge across place and time. I present Louisiana and the Gulf South as a kind of inland archipelago, with the currents of culture-creation moving in and around distinct community enclaves. The flow …
Puppy Love And [Information] Play: An Intersection Of Theatre, Queer Kink, And Consent, 2023 Kennesaw State University
Puppy Love And [Information] Play: An Intersection Of Theatre, Queer Kink, And Consent, Emily Kitchens
Faculty and Research Publications
This note from the field centers on a nexus of queer kink subcultures and consent-based intimacy work in theatre. I report, investigate and wrangle with the process of incorporating queer kink aesthetics into the production of Love and Information by Caryl Churchill I directed at KSU February 2023. What I have learned and hope to demonstrate throughout the paper, is that queer kink subcultures are often paradigmatic examples of communities built on consent, and we as performing arts practitioners can more visibly expand the margins of our cultural competency dialogues to not only include them but look to them as …
Introduction: Conversations On Abortion Rights And Bodily Autonomy In The Eighteenth Century And Today, 2023 Washington College
Introduction: Conversations On Abortion Rights And Bodily Autonomy In The Eighteenth Century And Today, Vicki Barnett Woods, Manushag N. Powell
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
This piece serves as an introduction to the discussions of bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, revised from roundtable presentations held at ASECS 2023. This collection of essays contributes to the resounding responses of frustration and anger toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The collection was written and presented by eighteenth-century scholars who have a comprehensive knowledge of the eighteenth-century legal, social, and medical histories that center around reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.
Review Of Reckoning With Slavery, By Jennifer L. Morgan, 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Review Of Reckoning With Slavery, By Jennifer L. Morgan, Brigitte Fielder
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Review of Reckoning with Slavery, by Jennifer L. Morgan,
Review Of An Archive Of Taste, By Lauren Klein, 2023 University of California - Davis
Review Of An Archive Of Taste, By Lauren Klein, Parama Roy
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Review of An Archive of Taste, by Lauren Klein
Review Of Sister Novelists, By Devoney Looser, 2023 University of Alberta Department of English and Film Studies
Review Of Sister Novelists, By Devoney Looser, Katherine Binhammer Prof.
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
Review of Sister Novelists by Devoney Looser.
Teaching Anne Finch In "Partisanship In Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Britain", 2023 Appalachian State University
Teaching Anne Finch In "Partisanship In Restoration And Eighteenth-Century Britain", Jennifer Wilson
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
The works of Anne Finch, a writer doubly exiled as a female poet and Jacobite, stand out as eminently teachable examples of a compelling political outsider view that provokes us to consider how we can better attend to perspectives of principled opposition. Her poems in response to what has been called the "first modern revolution," together with her odes upon the deaths of King James II and Queen Mary Beatrice, showcase the subversive power of indirect articulation, expressing values through emotions and affects in veiled forms such as allegory and alternate history.
Collaborative Storytelling In The Parable Task: The Dramaturg As Game Designer In Pervasive Performance, 2023 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Collaborative Storytelling In The Parable Task: The Dramaturg As Game Designer In Pervasive Performance, Percival Hornak
Masters Theses
Proceeding from a framing of theater as collaborative storytelling, I argue for defining role-playing games as a kind of performance and for their value in structuring experiential and participatory theater. Building on the impulse at the heart of experiential and immersive theater to place the audience within the world of the performance and center their experience, I explore what it means for theater artists to cede control over how audiences make meaning of their work in favor of letting narrative emerge from the participation of the audience during the performance event. I propose a framework called pervasive performance that merges …
Praktik Teater Postdramatik Di Indonesia, 2023 Institut Seni Indonesia Padangpanjang
Praktik Teater Postdramatik Di Indonesia, Afrizal H, Sahrul N, Yusril Yusril
Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya
The article entitled "Practice of Postdramatic Theater in Indonesia", is an examination of the practice of postdramatic theater in Indonesia in the 1990s to 2000s in Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, and even West Sumatra. This practice spawned generations that continue to grow and develop through aesthetics based on performance texts, outside of the conventional drama texts that we understand so far. Each theater community, regardless of whether it is postdramatic or not, has carried out an in-depth exploration and elaboration of all possible bodies, texts and artistic materials which are used as the main capital of performances. This study uses qualitative …
"Voices In My Head:" Representations Of Mental Illness In Contemporary American Musical Theater, 2023 University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Voices In My Head:" Representations Of Mental Illness In Contemporary American Musical Theater, Mckay Perry
Masters Theses
In the years since 2010, themes of mental illness on the musical theater stage have increased dramatically, most notably with the Broadway premiere of Dear Evan Hansen in 2016, which quickly became a popular and critical success, winning six Tony Awards the following season. Despite scope and reach of the modern American musical, relatively little musicological scholarship has explored this area, and of that literature, even less has examined contemporary musicals. In this thesis, I will begin to fill this gap in the literature through the application of emerging critical musicological lenses to modern musical theater, both on and off …
Resistance Narratives: Storytelling Of Transnational Insurgencies In 1960-70s Us And Mexico, 2023 University of New Mexico
Resistance Narratives: Storytelling Of Transnational Insurgencies In 1960-70s Us And Mexico, Tania Libertad Balderas
English Language and Literature ETDs
Resistance Narratives: Storytelling of Transnational Insurgencies in 1960-70s US and Mexico emphasizes how the narratives from the Mexican Insurgency, the American Indian Movement (AIM), and the leftist faction of the Chicana/o Movement in the 1960s and 1970s articulate intersecting notions of resistance, liberation, and transnational solidarity. The comparative analysis of the testimonial novel Las mujeres del alba (2019) by Chihuahuan novelist Carlos Montemayor, the autobiographies Lakota Woman (1991) and Ohitika Woman (1993) by Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta writer and AIM militant Mary Brave Bird (formerly Crow Dog), and the memoirs and plays by the San Diego-based group Teatro de las Chicanas, collected …
Gerontology In Bryony Lavery’S A Wedding Story (2000) And Sebastian Barry’S Hinterland (2002), 2023 The British University in Egypt (BUE)
Gerontology In Bryony Lavery’S A Wedding Story (2000) And Sebastian Barry’S Hinterland (2002), Rania M Rafik Khalil
English Language and Literature
Old age is perceived as a narrative of decline, recently, an alternative perspective was introduced known as positive aging or Gerotranscendance. This paper examines ageing in Bryony Lavery’s A Wedding Story (2000) and Sebastian Barry’s Hinterland (2002) through the theory of gerontology. Gerontology in British and Irish modern theatre, according to Giovanna Tallone (2020) and Heather Ingman (2018), is a new category in literary studies and theory. The paper aims to examine the challenges of retaining agency in old age in comparison to the notion of aging as a process of inner harmony further proving that despite the process of …
Perceived Phantoms: A Phenomenological Observation Of Spirituality In Atsumori, 2023 Kennesaw State University
Perceived Phantoms: A Phenomenological Observation Of Spirituality In Atsumori, Nicholas C. Gilomen
The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research
The paper examines the performance and embodiment of spirituality in Japanese Noh Drama during the Muromachi era from 1336 CE to 1573 CE. It also observes the art form from a modern perspective. Specifically, this research examines the classic Noh Drama play Atsumori by Zeami Motokiyo through the phenomenological lens. Phenomenology is a qualitative study that focuses on the perceptions of the human consciousness, and it allows me to examine the impact of subjective experiences on a person’s sense of truth. This paper examines the spirituality present through the various religious influences that went into the development of Noh Drama …
“It Ain't Right And It Ain't Natural”: Climate Change In Anaïs Mitchell’S Hadestown, 2023 University of Minnesota Morris Digital Well
“It Ain't Right And It Ain't Natural”: Climate Change In Anaïs Mitchell’S Hadestown, Dean Schmit
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
This paper examines the portrayal of climate change across three versions of Anaïs Mitchell’s musical Hadestown by focusing on the lyrics of the show. It works to historicize the growing focus on climate change — as opposed to the changing of the seasons — between 2010 and 2019. The setting of the show shifts away from a post-apocalyptic Great Depression and towards a near-future as Americans began to feel more threatened by severe weather caused by climate change; it was no longer an entirely abstract problem. The show consistently emphasizes the helplessness of the characters as Orpheus always turns around, …
Review Of Figurations Of The Feminine, By Siobhán Mcilvanney, 2023 Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
Review Of Figurations Of The Feminine, By Siobhán Mcilvanney, Tonya J. Moutray
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
A review of Siobhán McIlvanney's Figurations of the Feminine, by Tonya J. Moutray
Review Of Sapphic Crossings, By Ula Lukszo Klein, 2023 University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Review Of Sapphic Crossings, By Ula Lukszo Klein, Ziona K. Kocher
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
A review of Ula Lukszo Klein’s Sapphic Crossings: Cross-Dressing Women in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, by Ziona Kocher.
Review Of Carrying All Before Her, By Chelsea Phillips, 2023 University of Galway
Review Of Carrying All Before Her, By Chelsea Phillips, Jennifer Buckley
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
A review of Chelsea Phillips’s Carrying All Before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800, by Jennifer Buckley