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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Theatre artists"”.
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Shakespeare and King Henry V: Historical Research Informing Artistic Decisions
… very few scholars practice as professional theatre artists, and conversely there are very few theatre artists that have taken the time that many academics have done in studying and researching Shakespeare’s plays. My thesis asks: Would productions of Shakespeare’s plays be better served by …
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Apocryphal theatre: practicing philosophies
Apocryphal Theatre: Practising Philosophies is a practice-based research project that consists of examples of my theatre practice (as research) and a written thesis. In this thesis, I argue that theatre can be seen to be an act of philosophy, by tessellating Maurice Merleau-Ponty's definition of …
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The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance
… to the idea of ‘Africa’ by African dance theatre artists. Whether the term <em>village on the</em> <em>stage</em> is employed directly to describe the mise-en-scène of a theatrical production or as a generic description of African dance in recital format, as a dramaturgical strategy, the …
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Understanding Experience: Reflections on the Empowering Nature of Story
… and interactions within society and theatre artists are calling into question the future of our art form. Are we still essential? And if so, how do we renovate our form in order to relate to our changing society? In my experience, I’ve found that all renovations of our art have one …
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Flow-Acting: Modern Sports Science and the Preparation of Actors
Theatre artists and acting teachers throughout history have sought to find and create presence. By combining modern sports science with an understanding of systems of actor training I have suggested an approach that makes presence a trainable skill. My coach Dr. Scott Sonnon, developer of the …
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Laurie Brooks: a coterie of plays and concepts
… contributions of the plays of Laurie Brooks to theatre and Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA). The thesis also focuses on the relationship between Brooks, Jeff Church, and the Coterie Theatre, in Kansas City, Missouri. I held interviews with not only Laurie Brooks, TYA playwright and author, but …
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An exploration towards a theatre praxis : the director as facilitator, looking through the lens of constructivism and multiple intelligences
As South African theatre artists we are both challenged and enriched by a diversity ofcultures, languages and traditions amongst both our practitioners and audiences. We are at the same time presented with a social environment that contains entrenched inequalities and divisions, profound trauma and …
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Developing the Nonprofit Theatre: Building a Foundation for the Emerging Theatre Company
<p> This paper aims to guide entrepreneurial theatre artists in beginning a nonprofit theatre arts venture. It will provide an in-depth analysis of the foundations required to begin a nonprofit theatre organization and analyze the need for expanding upon traditional structures and styles. …
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Writing visionary drama: an anarcho-Christian approach to the contemporary British play through four theatre texts by James Martin Charlton: The World & his Wife, Coming Up, ecstasy + GRACE, Coward
… from the work and writing of Christian non-theatre artists William Blake and Bob Dylan, and prototypes from early and classical drama from the medieval and Renaissance eras, as well as work by contemporary dramatists. This statement establishes Charlton as a divergent voice using the …
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A Re-examination Of The 20th Century Intercultural Theatre: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) And Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997)
My thesis re-examines 20th-century intercultural theatre by looking at two acclaimed productions: Peter Brook's The Mahabharata (1985) and Ong Keng Sen's Lear (1997). The first chapter is a historical analysis of intercultural theatre's emergence in the late 20th century, which explores the early …
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The contributions of Floyd Leslie Sandle to black educational theatre in Louisiana
… to Dillard University where his passion for theatre was nurtured by Dr. Sheppard Randolph Edmonds, Sandle made significant strides in the dvelopment of Black Educational Theatre in Louisiana. Through his unique approach of presenting plays to the residents of the rural community of Grambling, …
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REDLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL: DIRECTING IN REPERTORY -- THE HOT L BALTIMORE
… and responsibilities within a well-established theatre company by transitioning from performer to director. I would accomplish this goal by using my extensive knowledge of the inner-workings of the Redlands Theatre Festival, while applying my own set of techniques, philosophies, and …
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Kiss today goodbye, and point me toward tomorrow : reviving the time-bound musical, 1968-1975
As musical theatre scholars Stacy Wolf, Sheldon Patinkin, and John Bush Jones have argued, American musicals are among our country's most valuable social documents as they depict the dominant discourses and reigning values of the cultural moment from which they first emerged through song, dance, …
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The Last Empress (1995): the paradoxical development of the Korean indigenous musical and its intercultural implications
… a case study to explore how Korea’s modernism in theatre shifted towards a globalizing process in its society from the early 1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. This study argues that the Korean musical company, Art Communication International Inc.(ACom), endeavored to make Korea’s …
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Forum Theatre as Theatre for Development in East Africa
Theatre for development (TfD) includes a variety of performance practices that aim to communicate or foster dialogue in a development context. Forum Theatre, developed by Brazilian Director Augusto Boal as part of his Theatre of the Oppressed movement has become one of the most widely used forms in …
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Community-engaged Theatre Audiences
Community-Engaged Theatre Audiences is an intervention into the reception of politically motivated, community-centered plays. This thesis aims to understand how individuals make meaning or sense out of these complicated sites of performance. It asks “what can scholars and artists learn about …
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Intercultural Relations: Direct Audience Address in Contemporary Theatre in Canada
… of direct audience address in contemporary theatre in Canada, focusing in particular on how it informs discussions of theatrical interculturalism. It addresses a dearth of scholarship on this common theatrical device, while arguing that limited mainstream understandings of direct address …
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Cuban Routes of Avant-Garde Theatre: Havana, New York, Miami, 1965-1991.
My dissertation interrogates how the movement of artists between 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 …
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… investigates the engagement between American theatre and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the Wooster Group, I …
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Meditations on culture, land, and memory in the drama of the new South Africa
… with the current state of the South African theatre; it focuses primarily on 'white' theatre: scripted plays with a single author produced for mainstream South African and international theatres. This study examines the historical, political, and social forces that have brought about a period …
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