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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Funnyhouse of a Negro"”.
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Performing Taboo: The Creation of an Aesthetic through the Exploration of Censorship in Theatre and the Challenges of Directing Killer Joe
This document explores the performance of taboo on the stage. The exploration is focused around the establishment of my personal aesthetic, which was developed through my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Starting with my first trip to Broadway, my journey goes through the class work …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… study was conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented as a …
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A Portrayal of Gender and a Description of Gender Roles in Selected American Modern and Postmodern Plays.
<p>The purpose of this study was to describe how gender was portrayed and to determine how gender roles were depicted and defined in a selection of Modern and Postmodern American plays. This study was based on the symbolic interaction theory of gender that suggests that social roles are learned …
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Beyond Playthings: Materiality and Embodiment on the Modern Stage
… its aim is to unveil how the mutual schooling of objects and bodies constitutes a dramaturgical force across a range of Anglo-American plays from the 'long' 1960s. Even though stage objects had long been a versatile tool of theatrical meaning-making, their utilization by several Anglophone …