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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"On-stage"”.
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On stage
Insecurity is mostly a myth; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. -Helen Keller
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Women's wit on stage, 1660-1720
My thesis entitled ‘Women’s wit on stage, 1660-1720’ argues that women’s wit emerged as a distinct category from masculine wit, due to the advent of the actress on the public stage and the professional woman dramatist. I explore the shifting representations of women’s wit as a popular concept in …
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Mindful Acting: Freeing the Comfortable Self on Stage
… explore how I can reduce the impact of anxiety on my stage performance and how I can be more comfortable, while finding ways to be unique as an actor. For this effect, a range of methodologies will be applied so that my self-awareness, self-respect and self-confidence as a performer can be …
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The Michael Chekhov Technique: In The Classroom and On Stage
Referred to by Constantin Stanislavski as “My most brilliant pupil,” Michael Chekhov’s approach to acting is founded in an understanding of the artist as a whole being whose thoughts, feelings, desires, voice, and physical body are intimately interwoven. The Michael Chekhov technique trains these …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… horror. Through a sustained exploration of how affect theory may be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of recent films such as Saw (James Wan, 2004) and Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005). I also explore how such a theoretical approach …
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Performing the national past: history on stage in imperial Russia
This dissertation closely examines 18th- and 19th-century Russian historical dramas set in the Time of Troubles, which was the era of dynastic crisis and the first civil war in Russian history during 1598-1613. The project demonstrates that this subgenre was essential for the development of modern …
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Chasing That Ghost On Stage: The Haunted Continent And Andrew Bird's Apocrypha
… period of apprenticeship. Next is an exploration of the canonical narratives surrounding the blues of the Mississippi Delta, especially the music of Charley Patton. When Andrew Bird encountered a canon, or dominant histories and meanings of southern music that influence how musicians play and …
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Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage
In this dissertation I explore the social, historical, and theatrical significance of dramatic representations of childhood. In three case studies, one each on childhood in the Early Modern, Modern, and Contemporary periods, I focus on the relationship between larger social, industrial, and …
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Limitlessness of Queer Performance: On-stage Performances and the Construction of Off-stage Identities
Most recent research regarding non-normative and alternative identities in the context of performance has alluded to the various social effects of these performances such as forming communities, demonstrating the possibility of living outside normative ideas of existing, and spatial transformation. …
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US Theatre and Cosmopolitics: Imperfect Reimagining of US–Asia Relations on Stage Since 1945
… how postwar US theatre portrays US-Asia relations, analyzing its role in performing cosmopolitics. My analysis covers various theatrical forms—plays, musicals, experimental performances, political vaudeville, and operas—from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. These …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… the influence of beliefs about King Solomon on the depiction of magic in early modern drama. I explore the extent to which would-be magicians could use Solomon as a role model for their own endeavours, drawing upon sources which attributed magical powers to the biblical king. My concept of …
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On stage at the theatre of state: the monuments and memorials in Parliament Square, London
This thesis concerns Parliament Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated to the west of the Houses of Parliament (or New Palace at Westminster) and to the north of St. Margaret’s Church and Westminster Abbey. This urban space was first cleared at the start of the nineteenth-century …
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Parallel Worlds: the Press on Stage and Screen A comparative exploration of television screenwriting and playwriting
… thesis is a creative and comparative investigation into writing for drama and television versus the stage. It comprises two original scripts, which each offer a different treatment for a different medium of the same story: BRIEF LIES, a drama set in the world of the Press in the early 21st …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
Throughout post-industrial societies, consumers regularly buy tickets to watch mind readers and psychic mediums, tune in to the television and radio shows of such performers, dial psychic hotlines, and visit psychics, fortune-tellers, numerologists, astrologists, tarot card readers, and energy …
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Children’s theatre in the UK: representing cultural diversity on stage through the practices of interculturalism, multiculturalism and internationalism
The UK is a diverse society. It has had a colonial past and is now part of an interconnected global world. Past and present immigration have continuously shaped and re-shaped the ethnical, racial and cultural made up of its people. Children’s theatre can be understood as a theatrical dialogue …
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English productions of 'Measure for Measure' on stage and screen : the play's indeterminacy and the authority of performance
… offers the first full study of English productions of Measure for Measure on stage and screen from the Jacobean period to the early twenty-first century, based on archival research examining primary sources such as prompt books, video recordings and photographs. Because of its ambiguity and open …
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‘Restor(y)ing their position in the spotlight, please welcome back on stage… Postgraduate Students who teach… or Graduate Teaching Assistants... or Teaching Postgrads… or…’
… present within the university sector, both nationally and internationally, the concept of teaching postgraduates, within the IoT sector, is a relatively recent one, and to date, very little research has been conducted into their experiences. They have been on stage, but not centre stage…they …
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Black here, black there, black everywhere: using theatre to understand what being-black-in-the-world entailed during apartheid South Africa
When a Black person sees a display on stage of a fellow Black person getting killed by a White person, why do they not intervene to stop that killing from happening? One would answer, ‘Because it is just a performance. That Black person is not literally getting killed. It is all an act'. Fair …
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State estimation for a holonomic omniwheel robot using a particle filter
The holonomic robot platform designed for the Opera of the Future must perform continuously on stage in a 10 meter by 20 meter world for one hour. The robot interacts with twelve other robots, stage elements, and human performers. Fast, accurate, and continuous state estimation for robot pose is a …
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