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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Playwriting"”.
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A consensus of playwriting theory
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1985 C87
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Nightlands: Playwriting in the Ruins of the Soviet-Arctic
The Norwegian territory of Svalbard is home to a diverse history of multinational settlements owing to the Svalbard Treaty of 1922, which allows signatory states to establish visa-free communities on the archipelago. The Soviet Union controlled the mining settlement of Pyramiden from 1927 until its …
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Criminal Justice in British Playwriting and Theatre Practice, 1979-2017
… in criminal justice through the art of playwriting/dramaturgy and theatre practice. It investigates how playwrights, and theatre companies have created and curated these narratives by employing a spectrum of techniques from the conventional to the immersive play, from forum theatre to …
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Handsome Devil: an exploration of contemporary South African girlhood/s through playwriting
The play is set in an all-girls academy in contemporary South Africa.
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Parallel Worlds: the Press on Stage and Screen A comparative exploration of television screenwriting and playwriting
This 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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Grassroots Playwriting : Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community
Christ Savery<br/><br/>Grassroots Playwriting: Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community<br/><br/>Over the past thirty years, Practice as Research has contributed to a deeper understanding of theatre ecology, particularly in relation to the …
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'The Play Script', an action research study into playwriting in senior classes in the primary school
This is a study into classroom playwriting in senior classes in the primary school. As a teacher, I identified a gap in the provision of genres of creative writing available to the teacher. As a community playwright, I recognised the potential of playwriting for young creative writers. As a …
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I am here now: A play – and – Polyvocality, the unhomely, and the methods of Mike Leigh in playwriting: An exegesis
The aim of the research was to investigate how the devising methods of theatre and film director 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 …
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A critical analysis investigating the process of a playwright with reference to Jellyfish, an original work for the stage
… 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 understand …
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Writing intermale sexuality history plays
… creative response was then made in the form of playwriting. The thematic focus is on sexual and emotional intimacy between men, a topic which has, in terms of archival records, often been ignored, deliberately left coded, or even destroyed. Subsequent historicisations of the materials have …
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Gertrude Stein's Theatre of the Absolute
This critical study establishes the playwriting aesthetic of Gertrude Stein as a serious attempt to deal with the twentieth century, and reveals the techniques whereby she realized that aesthetic in her seventy-seven plays.
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The Crew / of Common Playwrights: Collaboration and Authorial Community in the Early Modern Theater
<p>As a consequence of the development of playwriting into an established profession in early modern London, a central paradox emerged: in order to secure a place within this authorial community, and also a place for the profession itself, playwrights needed to work toward the often contradictory …
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Outward Signs (Original writing)
… as required for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Playwriting. It consists of seven (7) characters and was performed by UNLV undergraduate acting students in the Black Box Theatre in November, 1991.
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Final Notice (Original writing)
… as required for the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Playwriting. It consists of four (4) characters and was performed by UNLV undergraduate acting students in the Black Box Theatre in June of 1992.
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Free falling bird : an encounter with the Trojan women of Euripides.
… beginning with the written text and how playwriting may problematise the representations of women on stage. This essay is a supporting document to my script, Free Falling Bird, as well as a supplement to the full production of the script in partial fulfillment of my MA degree in Theatre …
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Rocks! (Are Hard To Care For)
… on their lives. A consistent challenge in the playwriting process has been structure and genre. The focus of the essay preceding the play, therefore, is a reflection on and critical analysis of issues connected to this aspect of playwriting. The essay analyses the play within the broader …
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The Gentleman’s War: The Preservation of Historical Fact Within a Dramatic Structure
… artist’s statement examine the process of playwriting in creating and developing the full-length play, "The Gentleman’s War". Through fictional relationships, "The Gentleman’s War" examines and explores the true life story of Arthur Richardson, who was the first Canadian to be awarded the …
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Revolutions Off Off Broadway, 1959-1969: A Critical Study of Changes in Structure, Character, Language, and Theme in Experimental Drama in New York City
… I of the dissertation analyzes American playwriting from 1951-1962, on Broadway and Off Broadway, in terms of structure, character, language, and theme. Chapters II-V analyze the writing of the avant-garde playwrights of the 1960s, as noted above, in terms of structure, character, …
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Writing and developing a play: from initial idea to final draft & Roses on the wire
… full-length play in the context of the MPhil (B) Playwriting Studies course. The essay looks at such aspects as the use of dramaturgical elements, including character, language, and time and space; cultural and historical research; identifying and solving creative problems; and justifying creative …
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Get Flanagan: The Rise and Fall of the Federal Theatre Project
… also includes an appendix, which details my playwriting process for this particular play, from initial concept through to production.
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