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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Community theatre"”.
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The New Phoenix Theatre: Mutable architecture for a volunteer community theatre
Modern conceptions of theatre emphasize the importance of approach, entry, intermission, and other related activities to the theatre experience as a whole. The volunteer community theatre adds additional concerns to this philosophy. By its very nature noncommercial theatre depends upon limited …
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STAGE FOR EVERYONE: AN ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A SHENZHEN COMMUNITY THEATRE
… of a locally, socio-historically defined community theatre called Stage for Everyone, in the Chinese domestic migrant city of Shenzhen. My 20 months of research for this thesis relied on literature review concerning community performances and theatre ecology, interviews with 26 …
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Development, belonging and change : a study of a community theatre-for-development initiative in KwaZulu-Natal
… dissertation seeks to address issues related to community change within the field of Theatre-for development. It proposes and then investigates various ways in which a community may seek to retain a sense of collective ideology in the light of both positive and negative developmental change, as …
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Exploring the lived experiences of those who attended gender-based violence prevention community theatre in Delft
… a gender-based violence (GBV) prevention community theatre in Delft. The study presents lived experiences and the meanings attached to those experiences from the perspectives of audience members. Supplementarily, the study explored audience members' definition of GBV and GBV prevention and …
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Factors Causing low Compliance in the Formation of Community Water Funds: Through Community Theatre for Developement Approach (COTDA). Kimanzichana Vijana Troupe, Mkuranga District Tanzania
… the main challenge for the future is long-term community commitment both in terms of well maintenance and management. Community water funds are envisaged to be necessary for sustainability of water projects, especially for the maintenance of wells and water points. Unlike of this truth, many of …
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Breathing space : cross-community professional theatre as a means of dissolving fixed geographical landscapes
In this paper, I investigate the idea of cross-community professional theatre as a means of dissolving fixed georgraphical landscapes. Key to this is the synergy between mainstream and community theatre, out of which this idea emerges. I explore how theatre facilitates conversations across …
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Exploring social identity through theatre : an examination of the process of creating Jingle Dreams with youth in the coloured community of Clanwilliam
… It aims to ascertain whether the processes of Community Theatre drama create opportunities for the individuals in the identified community to explore a social identity influenced by historical legacy, heritage, memory (or absence thereof) and socio-economic environment. The intention of the …
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Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare
… American Heritage College Dictionary, the word “community” derives from the Latin roots: communitas and communis meaning “fellowship” and “common,” respectively. The word “amateur” derives from the Latin roots: amator meaning “lover.” A community of amateurs, who love to put on plays, exists …
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Amateur and Community-Based Theatre Within Jewish Organizational Spaces in Post-World War II America
This dissertation examines amateur and community-based Jewish theatrical performance in Jewish organizational spaces in the United States since World War II, arguing that such productions simultaneously reflect and construct localized Jewish American communities. To define what constitutes a Jewish …
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Friday is a Planet: Stories
… support groups and the emotional outlet of community theatre. What ties these stories together is a sense of post-loss confusion and mystery. The characters are unsure how to move forward, or if they should try. The men and women in these stories struggle with faith as they navigate life …
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She is also playing; she is also wearing the mask that I am wearing :' investigating the gendered dynamics of implementing a forum theatre project for young women in Manenberg'
This thesis examines the utilization of forum theatre techniques to explore the processes of gendering women within a workshop consisting of twenty-three young women in Manenberg, South Africa. It examines the opportunities that these techniques provide the group in uncovering, understanding and …
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… and fiction created by these artists. Since "The Theatre of Anon" focuses primarily on Cameron's Illustrations, a chapter containing photographs of all the books' pages concludes the dissertation text. An additional selection of images is included as an appendix, in support of the central thesis …
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Community drama as medium in community social work
… the author's views on the use of the medium of community drama within the method of community social work. Through participant observation, the author gained an insight into the medium over a period of four years in which he undertook some experiments himself, observed experiments undertaken by …
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Social Action by Youth: Creating a Sense of Community
… their social identity and address their community concerns by creating participant designed and participant-led community-building and social action projects. The researcher worked in partnership with a community agency in a socially disadvantaged area of Melbourne. An appreciative …
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Grassroots Playwriting : Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community
… of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community<br/><br/>Over the past thirty years, Practice as Research has contributed to a deeper understanding of theatre ecology, particularly in relation to the complexities and nuances of grassroots community theatre. This study builds upon this …
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Hand-in-hand? A playwright’s journey into learning-disability theatre.
… people? How can the practical demands of theatre be adjusted to give learning-disabled performers fair and equal access to theatre-making? What is the ‘proper’ goal of this work in terms of audience and critical reception? These questions and others are addressed in the broad context of my …
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Getting into Character: Cultivating Identities in a Teen-theatre Peer-education Program
<p>This study investigated the role of community theatre participation on adolescent and young adult identity development. The theatre program, known as The SOURCE, focuses on sex-education through a peer-education model. The experiences of young adults, who are now aged 18-34, were examined …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
The popular British theatre of the late nineteenth century has often been regarded as both aesthetically and politically bankrupt: bombastic and spectacular, it offered a vision of sensational theatricality lacking both the formal innovation and the intellectual charge of the later avant-garde …
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Feet That Don't Touch the Floor: Perceptions in Marketing Theatre for Young Audiences
<p>It was once my dream to build the theatre of the future: to develop a new organization in the theatre community that would provide new ideas and imaginative learning. Reality and research, however, have pointed me in a new direction. From my perspective, we do not currently need another …
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