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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater"”.
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Re-Presenting the City, A Dramatist's Contextualisatioon of his Works on Liverpool, Post 1990
The main body of this submission is a contextualised discussion of five, full-length, professionally performed theatre scripts. Each project examines and theatrically presents key influences of the major social and cultural forces that have both impacted on and shaped Liverpool. Each play is also …
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Creating safer ‘unsafe’ spaces: an augmented care ethics approach to recontextualise risk management for audience handling by production staff in immersive theatre
This thesis explores the ethical and practical challenges of audience risk management in immersive theatre from the perspective of stage and front-of-house managers. It examines how production staff can establish safer environments for audiences without compromising artistic integrity, integrating …
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Performing dreams in England and Spain, 1570-1670
This thesis investigates the performance of dreams and dreaming in a few early modern English and Spanish plays, namely William Shakespeare’s 'The Taming of the Shrew' and 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s 'Life Is a Dream' and 'Sometimes Dreams Come True' and Aphra Behn’s …
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In search of the subject: locating the shifting politics of women's performance art
From the late 1960s to the present, women have utilised performance art as a 'form' with which to resist, transgress, contest or reveal the position of women within wider society. However, as both the nature of feminist politics and the contexts within which the work has been produced have changed, …
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Autobiographical performances and intimacy
The purpose of this research is to lend understanding to autobiographical performances that promote a closer relationship with the audience, whether they ask for explicit participation of the audience or not. I will argue that autobiographical performances are understood through the relation …
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Dramatic narratives and the holocaust
This thesis analyses dramatic and historical narratives about the Holocaust. Primarily, it focuses on Israeli, German and Austrian writers from the time of the Final solution (1941) to the mid 1990s. In particular, I will highlight how the 'trauma' of the Holocaust has influenced collective …
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10:31, MCR: a practice-as-research project that investigates ethical dramaturgical approaches to politically sensitive theatre-making with and for young people.
What are the dramaturgical approaches for a practitioner-researcher making theatre with and for young people, retaining ethical care, when handling politically sensitive topics? Through the study of three practices chosen to advance the research (theatre and education approaches, dramaturgical …
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Liberating the Actor to Find the Voice of a Play An investigation into theatre directing processes used with actors to discover and articulate the authentic message of the play, with specific application to My Name is Rachel Corrie
This dissertation explores the ability of liberating actors in order to find the voice for a play, particularly My Name is Rachel Corrie, a piece of documentary theatre which highlights human rights abuses within the Israel/Palestine dispute; primarily through the use of theatre directing …
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A critical essay and original play entitled ‘the canary and the piano’
This thesis contains two parts. Part A is a critical analysis of an original work. Part A explores the process employed in writing, beginning with the initial ideas and inspiration for the play through developing the characters, a theme, plotting a story and redrafting. Part A is segmented into the …
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Material into narrative & Cane Island
"Cane Island‟ examines the influence of outsiders on the indigenous by focusing on the experiments of ecologist Grace Zucker and student Chris Stevenson on a remote islet near the Isles of Scilly. They implement the Mating Call method and various means of execution in an attempt to find a solution …
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‘Current Regimes’ a play and critical analysis
This thesis consists of the original play ‘Current Regimes’ and a Critical Analysis on the process of writing and re-writing the play. ‘Current Regimes’ examines the concept of family in different settings. It takes an audience on a journey to Spain, where a same sex couple, Fiona and Caroline have …
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Home Storage and critical analysis
Home Storage is a play in three acts, examining the issue of child abuse and long term imprisonment, as well as themes of repression and impulse. It focuses on Eleanor’s growing suspicion of her husband Nigel, whilst also portraying his life with his imprisoned daughter Marie. Eleanor’s eventual …
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Your gaze hits the side of my face
… definitely from my own private experience and the worlds that I sought to represent were in the personal and private sphere. I did not seek to make any wider political point and my writing could easily have been reduced to what Aleks Sierz refers to as “me and my mates plays”. He typifies these …
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A critical analysis investigating the process of a playwright with reference to Jellyfish, an original work for the stage
This dissertation is an exploration of the nature of playwriting, supported by an original full-length play. Researching playwriting can be problematic, as it is a balance between creativity and discipline, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Within the dissertation, we begin to …
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Grace of God, an original work for the theatre and a critical analysis of the play and its development
This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is a critical analysis of an original work for the theatre entitled Grace of God. It explores the writing process from conception to the final draft presented here in this thesis. The critical analysis reflects primarily upon the establishment of …
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Rocks! (Are Hard To Care For)
… comedy drama about people abruptly shaken out of their taken-for-granted routines and forced to consider what and who it is they really care about in their lives. It is a play about the existential clash between permanence and impermanence, people literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. …
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An original script for the stage – Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse plus accompanying essay
Case 121: The Shadowless Corpse is an original script for the stage set in a world where metaphysical anomalies occur with enough frequency or impact that they require a branch of government dedicated to investigated such events. The protagonist of the play (‘H’) is one of these detectives and the …
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'Look for the truth and tell it': politics and Harold Pinter
… to reflect this political engagement through his representation of the relationship between an oppressive totalitarian state and the dissenting individual. In interviews he claims that he was always a ‘political playwright’. Yet it is not Pinter’s overt political plays which interest me here. This …
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