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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"contemporary theatre"”.
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Spaces of Appearance: Writings on Contemporary Theatre and Performance
… reflects a plural and evolving engagement with theatre and performance over the past fifteen years or so: as researcher, writer, editor, teacher, practitioner, spectator. These have rarely been discreet categories for me, but rather different modalities of exploration and enquiry, interrelated …
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Intimacy Direction: A New Role in Contemporary Theatre Making
… this, there has been limited research regarding contemporary best practices for crafting these stories. In 2016, Intimacy Directors International became the first organization to collate and codify intimacy methodologies and actively advocate for the intimacy director's collaborative yet distinct …
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From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance
… of the world. It argues the parallel shifts in theatre practice and reception away from work which subordinates itself to textual narrative and towards theatre with foreground the non-textual theatrical elements is becoming more defined in Britain. Within there is a concern with the relationship …
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From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance
… of the world. It argues the parallel shifts in theatre practice and reception away from work which subordinates itself to textual narrative and towards theatre with foreground the non-textual theatrical elements is becoming more defined in Britain. Within there is a concern with the relationship …
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Intercultural Relations: Direct Audience Address in Contemporary Theatre in Canada
… the phenomenon 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 …
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Identity, knowledge and ownership: contemporary theatre dance artists in the UK’s creative economy
This thesis examines contemporary theatre dance artists’ economic conduct to fill a gap in knowledge in current dance scholarship. It seeks to identify economic competencies and behaviours which dance artists employ in their work lives. Furthermore, it explores to what extent the theatre dance …
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‘The decentralisation of authorship and language within contemporary theatre: triangulation of critical reading, research into practice, and research through practice’
This practice-led research aims to contribute to contemporary theatre by focusing upon the decentralisation of authorship and language through: critical reading of Artaud, research into practice, and research through practice. Whilst contemporary theatre already benefits from research into …
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Hyperrealism and the everyday in creative practice : exegesis, play, novel
… is to develop a practice-led poetics of everyday theatre and literature. This emerged from a research question about the way the everyday is constituted within my own practice and within contemporary theatre in Melbourne and overseas. The major component of the exegesis is to analyse my …
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Suzuki Tadashi's Intercultural Adaptations
Contemporary theatre is increasingly visual, an aesthetic shift that has been analyzed in, among others, Hans-Thies Lehmann’s influential Postdramatic Theatre. This shift is apparent in Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki’s intercultural adaptations, which adapt plays of the Western repertoire for …
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THEATRE PRODUCTION AS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: THE SUMMER MUSICAL PROGRAM AT THE SITAR CENTER FOR ARTS EDUCATION
Recent scholarship on educational theatre has tended to focus on process-oriented drama and on programs that deal with participant's personal identity. These programs have become regarded as the standard for drama that benefits both children and the community. However, programs like the summer …
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Neo-onnagata: professional cross-dressed actors and their roles on the contemporary Japanese stage
… Cross-dressed Actors and Their Roles on the Contemporary Japanese Stage explores the representation of male and female gender in the contemporary Japanese theatre. I particularly discuss a specialized subset of Japanese actor: the neo-onnagata, a contemporary theatre counterpart to Japan's …
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The Ruhls of Relationships: Connecting with Others Through Theatrical Ambiguity
… the enjoyable relationship one should have with theatre that encourages ambiguity and to highlight the joy and connection one can find through plays that encourage unity among audiences. This will be done through an examination of the interpersonal relationships demonstrated in eight of Sarah …
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Buhol-Buhol: The Possibilities and Problems of Entanglement in Contemporary Manila Theatre
… as a useful idiom for understanding the contemporary theatre scene in Manila, capital of the Philippines. Drawing on its Tagalog counterpart, buhol-buhol, I conceive entanglement not only as a juxtaposition between or among elements, but also a process of enmeshing, muddling, and snaring. …
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Theatre of Testimony: An investigation in devising Asylum
… increased artistic and critical popularity on contemporary world stages and has a long and rich tradition on South African stages. Both internationally and locally, emerging and established playwrights working on migration and refugee issues are seeking to incorporate the testimony of asylum …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… thesis is a study of selected compositions for contemporary theatre and ancient Greek drama of the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis from 1944 to 1966. It is a study of their social resonances, their cultural contexts and their role in the formation of Greek cultural identity in general as well as …
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The Troupes of Theatre
The art of theatre has been classified and critiqued as being a mimetic art which is different from architecture. The mimetic arts, such as the performing arts, occur in performance spaces concealed in the physical architecture of a theater building. This fixed location of the theatre has led to …
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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 sound of meaning: theories of voice in twentieth-century thought and performance
… of the voice in poststructural theory and contemporary performance criticism. The problem has antecedents in twentieth-century language philosophy. Saussure defines language as a compendium of arbitrary words recognized according to the degrees of phonetic difference between them. Since for …
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
This dissertation investigates how theatre and performance artists use new media tools to facilitate political engagement. The chapters cover a diverse range of performancesfrom interventions in video games to mobile phone walking tours to theatre productions that use social media. In contrast to …
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A Museum of Bottled Sentiments: the ‘beautiful pain syndrome’ in twenty-first century Black South African theatre making
This study is about contemporary black theatre makers and theatre making in the 'now moment'; this moment of recovery and gradual transition after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. The 'now moment', for these theatre makers, is characterized by a deliberate journey inward, in a struggle …
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