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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"National Theatre"”.
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Transcolonial nationhood: Global interplay in Irish and Korean national theatre
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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A scenographic analysis of emergent British 'national' identity, on the stages of the National Theatre between 1995-2005
… of identity. It does this by examining how 'national' identity has been presented through the medium of design on the stages of the UK's National Theatre during an era where identity is being used as a political tool. The 'new ideologies' of regionalism,multiculturalism and globalisation are …
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Performing modern Korea in the U.S.: Korean immigrants' theatrical activities in California and Hawai'i during the first half of the twentieth century
… a result of the fact that Koreans regarded their national territory as tainted by the Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945), they developed their national identity based on ethnic commonality, and expected Korean diaspora, particularly those residing in the U.S., to lead the construction of a modern …
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Adolf Liebscher 1857-1919
… belongs among the artists known as the "National Theatre Generation." Like ist foremost representatiwes, F. Ženíšek, M. Aleš and V. Hynais, Liebscher also produced an oeuvre of great diversity - he created decorative paintings and historical compositions, was interested in folklore …
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The Moving Image in the Theatre: CONTEMPORARY SCHOLARSHIP AND THE COMBINATION OF FILM AND THEATRE GRAMMARS IN THE THEATRICAL EVENT
… to the use of the moving image in the live theatre. Human performance is often fetishized in these studies, whilst the moving image is admonished as a contaminant which brings into the theatrical event a host of cultural paraphernalia including a perceived ideology derived from its …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural Nationalism and the Growth of Canadian Drama 1945-1960" is concerned with the texture and substance of English-Canada's cultural life in the decade and a half following World War II. This thesis represents a case study in English-Canadian cultural …
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Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002
… The Winter's Tale between 1981 and 2002 at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Using numerous versions of this play not only increases the depth of our understanding of the play but also reveals how the actors and directors interact with British culture. Each production …
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"You are the topic. You are the centre. You are the occasion. You are the reason why": A Study of the Key Strategies Employed by Four Contemporary UK Theatre Companies to Cultivate and Develop Audience Engagement
… thesis examines the role of four contemporary UK theatre companies, National Theatre Wales; Theatr Iolo; The Royal Court Theatre; Splendid Productions; and the strategies each of them employ in reaching out to and engaging with potential audiences. The background and origin of each of these …
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The ethos in the form making of grand projects in contemporary Beijing City
Capital cities embody national identity and ethos, buildings in the capital cities have the power to awe and to inspire. While possibly no capital city in the world is being renewed so intensely as Beijing, which presents both enormous potential and threat. Intrinsic to this research is a concept …
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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
“Last night the new theatre which the Irish National Theatre Society has...was opened under the happiest auspices…Long before the curtain rose the pit and gallery were packed…On Baile’s Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the …
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A brief chronicle of the time : staging Shakespeare's English histories, 2000-2010
… productions of Henry V at Manchester and the National Theatre, Richard II at the Old Vic, and Richard III: An Arab Tragedy are discussed as twenty-first century history plays; Northern Broadside’s Wars o f the Roses is looked at in relation to other productions of cycle adaptations; and the …
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Modern Scottish Theatre: the Creation of a Tradition
… has enjoyed a late and significant flowering of theatre since the late 1960s. This project explores what I believe to have been a Renaissance that has occurred in Scottish theatre since 1969 and tests my thesis that at the core of this revival lie profound connections to the related concepts of …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
<p>Theatre socially reproduces and contests economic, racial, and national hierarchies. There is a dearth of scholarship on U.S. regional theatre because of middlebrow anxiety and yet, for that very reason, regional theatre demands attention as a fitting example of the site of struggle over …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… final chapter argues that, as publicly-funded theatres, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre have a commitment to speak to the nation and, due to their agendas and policies, the productions of Measure for Measure after 1970 at the National successfully engaged with …