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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"American Theatre"”.
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
"The terrain of American theatre scholarship has seen much change in the late twentieth century; as scholars investigate intercultural and post-colonial, African-American, feminist, and other ""marginal"" theatres, the discipline's boundaries must shift. Still, although American Indian people today …
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Buried underground : The Subway's contribution to American theatre.
… performed 1929) is Elmer Rice's lesser-known American expressionist work. The play's lowered status amongst his dramatic work stems from its problematic production history, coupled with critical comparison to Sophie Treadwell's Machinal (1928). Rice speaks little on the play, giving the …
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Activities in the American Theatre (1797-1808)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:51:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303360.pdf: 10410110 bytes, checksum: bae59a6691f9c4214c564fc11cfde100 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Herbert Blau: directing a revolution in American theatre, 1952-1965
Herbert Blau is more widely known in theatre history as a theorist and less as a director who strove to identify his directorial style during a time when American values were evolving and American regional theatres were gaining recognition, specifically 1952-65. Using many of Blau’s books and …
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"""Painting with faces"": The casting director in American theatre, cinema, and television"
… “‘Painting with Faces’: The Casting Director in American Theatre, Cinema, and Television” offers the first extended scholarly analysis of the profession. This comparative history broadens the concept of what constitutes a decision-maker in three major culture industries by arguing that casting …
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… dissertation investigates the engagement between American theatre and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the Wooster …
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The 'Theatre Magazine': An Analysis of Its Treatment of Selected Aspectsof American Theatre
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… investigated racial representations in modern American drama. Even fewer scholars have undertaken to analyze depictions of whiteness in American letters, although “white studies” is slowly assuming legitimacy in the academy in the 1990s. “Racial Encounters in the American Theatre” therefore …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
… the intersection of race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during US active engagement in the Great War through focusing on performances by and about German immigrants and African American soldiers. Quickly after President Woodrow Wilson requested a declaration of war …
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The changing face of Joan of Arc: the appropriation of Joan of Arc in twentieth-century American theatre
… of Joan of Arc in Twentieth-century American Theatre shows that the evolution of Joan of Arc's image reflected the culture of each era, and illustrated the changing social roles for women. The dramatic treatments of Joan of Arc have been divided into the following categories: Joan of …
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Combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812 in the North American theatre: a comparative study of strategy, tactics and effectiveness
… examines the use of combined operations in the American War of Independence and the Naval War of 1812, hereafter referred to as the War of 1812. It compares the use of combined operations in both wars and examines the extent to which the use of combined operations contributed to the very …
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Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black American Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787--1827
… the accepted theory that the vogue for Yankee Theatre in the nineteenth-century developed primarily in response to negative English stereotypes and stage representations of the Yankee character. I argue that the swift rise of the English abolitionist movement in conjunction with the successful …
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Of stars and standards: Actress-managers of Philadelphia and New York, 1855-1880
This study of 19th century American theatre examines in depth the managerial careers of four women: Mrs. D. P Bowers and Mrs. John Drew in Philadelphia, Mrs. John Wood in New York and Mrs. F. B. Conway in Brooklyn. In each chapter, one woman is profiled and the actors, plays and policies of her …
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The Assistant Director
… assistant director within the realm of today's American theatre. I determine who the assistant director is in today's theatre, what qualities they need to possess, and how a director can use an assistant director most effectively. To come to these conclusions, I analyze my experiences as an …
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The Audience in Charleston's Theatres, 1790 - 1860
… South Carolina, seems an unlikely beginning for American theatre, but Charleston of previous centuries had the location and economy to attract theatrical activity. More importantly, Charleston had a population that was consistently receptive to theatre. Eola Willis' The Charleston Stage in the …
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Theatre as a Verb: The Theatre Art of Martha Graham, 1923-1958
… many claimed that it was unsurpassed in the American theatre of the twentieth century.
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An examination of the first national Senior Adult Theatre festival: Senior Theatre Usa
Senior Adult Theatre, which speaks to the aging experience in our country, is a rapidly growing area in American theatre. This thesis examines the organizational structure of Senior Theatre USA, the first national festival focusing on the Senior Adult Theatre movement. The organization, planning …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
… in orientation and brings together American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is new to the …
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Three By Edward Albee: A Dramaturgical Discussion
… specifically regarding his three plays The American Dream, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, and add to the conversation through a number of interviews with young theatre students and professionals. Questions will cover critical theory and opinions, thematic …
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"""Fair Montague"" or ""Ill-beseeming beast"": Breeches performance on the American stage, 1800-1869"
… theatrical transvestites: the nineteenth-century American breeches actress. Established as a popular convention during the English Restoration, the practice of breeches performance reached its peak in America during the first half of the nineteenth century as actresses donned doublets and hose, …
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