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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"New play"”.
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The director-playwright collaboration on new play production
The Director-Playwright Collaboration on New Play Production is an investigation of the working relationship between the playwright and the director and the process of new play production. The research is gathered by a series of interviews with student and professional playwrights and professional …
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"""Off -Louisville"": The History of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville"
… succeed? After twenty years of producing new works, Actors Theatre and the Humana Festival have formed a symbiotic relationship---neither able to exist without the other. How was the festival established? How did Actors Theatre of Louisville become dedicated to producing new work? With its …
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‘ratio : an experiment in collaboration and generating narrative
‘ratio, is a new play that was conceived as a collaborative experiment to investigate the possibility of a playwright and designer co-authoring a script through their preferred mediums; written text and visual art. The final script document consists of both a written text and visual narrative text, …
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Shared comedic elements of three plays in modern American theater: "Six Degrees of Separation", "I'm Not Rappaport", and "Broadway Bound"
… thesis examines three successful American comedy plays which were produced within the last decade. The plays include Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport, which won three Tony awards including best actor and best play for the 1985-86 Broadway season; Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, which premiered on …
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The Rub
… and its process, and the process of creating a new play, from its inception to its performance, and ultimately its continuation. This document contains the script of the play, a professionally filmed performance of the play, all research that was done prior to the final product, all editing and …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… theorizing a framework I call Narrative Justice Playmaking which addresses the research question: How can and do theatre practitioners tell stories of ongoing traumatic subject matter in ways that are not just trauma- informed, but capable of generating social justice? To answer this question I …
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Breakthroughs and discoveries in theatre rehearsals: an ethnographic study of Close Quarters
… in the rehearsal period of Kate Bowen’s new play Close Quarters (2018). This thesis sharpens the language used to articulate these moments by creating a practical framework for rehearsal observation and analysis. The Four Lenses created are: (1) individual and small recognition moments …
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Hand-in-hand? A playwright’s journey into learning-disability theatre.
How do playwrights avoid ventriloquism when making work for and with learning-disabled 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 …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
… the first regional theatre to send a profitable new play to Broadway and now brands itself as the largest theatre devoted to "American Voices." By capitalizing upon its location in the nation's capital; staging racially liberal dramas; and developing institutional practices that help the …
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A Comparison of Full-Day and Half-Day English and French Immersion Kindergarten: Children's Outcomes and Experiences
… transcripts revealed that across all programs, play was discussed more frequently at the kindergarten level, but academics were discussed more often in Grade 1. This study makes important contributions to the literature on full-day kindergarten programming as well as second-language education. …
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I am here now: A play – and – Polyvocality, the unhomely, and the methods of Mike Leigh in playwriting: An exegesis
… Mike Leigh might generate material for a new play text and what the implications were in regards to authorship. Central to the research was an exploration of the collaborative devising processes of Leigh as a point of origin and how this might lead to an intended and deliberate case for a …
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Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance
… the intervention strategy was applied to text. A new play was written specifically for these purposes, entitled Love, and how? This play offered an array of actions which challenged the actors’ subjective and unique discomforts. The purpose of this challenge was to assess the hypothetical …
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Die rundköpfe und die spitzköpfe oder reich und reich gesellt sich gern Ein Greuelmärchen: an analysis of Bertolt Brecht’s creative reception of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
… (BBA 253) and concludes with an analysis of the play as contained in the Versuche series, finished shortly before Hitler’s rise to power but not published until 1959. In the final part of the thesis, BBA 257, the first manuscript produced in Danish exile, and the Endfassung, published in the …