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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Theatre Studies"”.
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A Study of Efik Folk Drama: Two Plays by E. A. Edyang (Nigeria)
Drama and theatre studies in Nigeria have given inadequate attention to dramatic scripts from among the minority groups of that country. Both critics and historians are either unaware of or simply disregard these plays. However, it is in these groups that we find a highly authentic body of works in …
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Ethics, politics, and alterity in selected plays and other works by Harold Pinter
… speaking, the academic field of drama and theatre studies has been a latecomer to the growing interest in ethics that was mainly triggered by an increasing interest in the work of Levinas during the last two decades of the twentieth century. It is not until the late 2000s that a turn to …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
… in orientation and brings together American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is new to the discipline of …
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Theatre of the contact zone : a quest for a means to nurse split psychic spaces in public spheres through the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts
… is a theoretical explication of an idea of a theatre called Theatre of the Contact Zone. Its main feature is the collaboration between the playwright and the director in the transformation of dramatic texts into performance texts. Within the pragmatics of this theatre the playwright's initial …
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Investing a Studio with Meaning: The Construction of Fictional Space in British Television Drama and the Police Series of 1955-82
… own distinctive aesthetic throughout academic studies. The purpose of this study is to test this hypothesis and to explore how representational aesthetics developed for the British television studio from 1955 to 1982. Throughout this era there were a number of different methods of producing …
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We are capable of so much more : experiments in listening
… theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance. Rather than looking to the stage for a politics or ethics of performance, I ask what work needs to happen in order for the stage itself to appear, exploring some of the factors that might allow or prevent a group of …
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Walking in Late Capitalism - Dialectic of Aestheticization and Commodification
… on walking. Whence this trend? This dissertation studies the socio-economic and cultural context that brought forth the aestheticized forms of walking such as walking in designed walkable places and walking as art. The theoretical framework to study this genealogy is based in social anthropology, …
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No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
… somewhat uneasy ground between literature and theatre studies, I borrow useful tools from both, to create what might be styled a New Historicist Dramaturgy. I urge a re-examination of the period 1708-28. The standard reading of theatre of the period is that it was static. This "dry spell" of …
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Regenerating the Live: The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice
… practices, from written plays in the dramatic theatre, to the assemblage of materials used in devised performance, to the ways sites are framed as sources of historical knowledge in performance reenactments. By examining the role documents play in performance practice I argue that archival …
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A scenographic analysis of emergent British 'national' identity, on the stages of the National Theatre between 1995-2005
… 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 identified as provocative catalysts that are expressed within selected designs and are seen as …
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The effects of theatrical storytelling and scenography on children: The case of children's theatre in the ghetto of Terezín (1941-45)
… interaction between reality and fantasy through theatre providing ways to experience and deal with reality with the support of our imagination is investigated. The effects of theatre on the children of Theresienstadt are examined from four points of view, i.e. from a cultural, educational, …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
… Havana, New York, and Miami shaped experimental theatre aesthetics, formed a shared discourse of theatrical thought, and introduced a particular vein of experimental practices into U.S. American avant-garde theatre, especially as it intersects with U.S. Latina/o theatre and LGBTQ theatre. I …
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The Contemporary Shakespearean Actor as the Site of Adaptive Encounter
… Indeed, despite the preponderance of actor-based studies in Film Studies or, indeed, Theatre Studies, Adaptation Studies has been slow to locate the body as an adaptive site; concentrating instead upon themes, authors, the work of directors or, more recently, the influence of production factors. …
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Reenactments: Embodied Encounters with the U.S. Southern Past
… abundance now? Working at the intersection of theatre studies, performance studies, cultural studies, and American studies, this dissertation responds to contemporary national conversations around race, region, cultural memory, and political ideology through an examination of four distinct …
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To Stage a Reading: The Actor in British Modernism
The popular British theatre of the late nineteenth century has often been regarded as both aesthetically and politically bankrupt: bombastic and spectacular, it offered a vision of sensational theatricality lacking both the formal innovation and the intellectual charge of the later avant-garde …
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Ecocritical English: A Subject-led Approach to Sustainability
… whereas ecocriticism in literary and cultural studies shifts attention to the environment and theorises how texts represent the more than human world. I consider how ecocriticism can be adapted to inform the teaching of English in schools guided by the following research questions: what is the …
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Acts of interpretation: An exploration of the role 'played' or 'performed' by the audience in the process of viewing as it affects the production of meaning and interpretation
The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview of the role and responsibility of both the 'active audience' and the artist within the viewing of live art'. This 'active audience' is described as one who can become sufficiently involved within the process of interpretation so as to understand …
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"Nun, Married, Old Maid": Kate O'Brien's Fiction, Women and Irish Catholicism
The settings of Kate O’Brien’s novels span late nineteenth early twentieth-century Ireland and are concerned with the lives of middle-class women. This thesis argues that O’Brien’s rendering of the interiority of the bourgeois family and the inner lives of middle-class women, reveals a site of the …
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The Influence of English Colonial Discourse on Early Irish Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1674-1754
The aim of this thesis is to examine the earliest Irish adaptations of Shakespeare and to consider to what extent contemporary English-Irish relations informed or shaped the texts. As such, this thesis seeks to build on recent interest in Irish responses to and revisions of Shakespeare, as …
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This Irish Fiction of Emily Lawless: a narrative analysis
If the measure of a writer‟s relevance is the extent to which he or she registers the discursive range of the period in which they write and the extent to which subsequent generations can recover that discursive energy from his or her work, then Emily Lawless should require no justification for …
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