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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"dramatic text"”.
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Mise-en-Scene as (pre)text; an insistence on a negotiated space for the creating of new theatre works
… the focus specifically on the generation of the dramatic text, and to further the notion of mise en scene as prescribed by Pavis. (Pavis, 1983: 25) This is in relation to the making of a new South African play entitled Reach, written by myself, Lara Foot Newton and directed by Clare Stopford. The …
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‘Poche parole ma significanti’: quando la traduzione va in scena – con due case studies
This doctoral dissertation focuses on the dramatic text, whose long neglected theatrical nature is more volatile and harder to analyze if compared to the literary text. The difficulty lies in reproducing a language whose final outcome is not completely in the hands of the translator, as it happens …
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Investigating invention : a challenge to the primacy of the written text
… are examined: the playwright as author of the dramatic text, the devising group as author of the dramatic and/or performance text, and the director as author of the mise en scene. In the first chapter the playwright as author is examined in relation to a historical view of the dramatic text. My …
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Us: Identity, Queer Romance, and Dramatic Writing
The following dramatic text and artist statement examine the process of developing, writing, and editing Us. It explores themes of identity, generationality, and self-definition, and the stakes of representing such complex themes onstage.
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Falsos mitos e heróis vencidos em O Pagador de Promessas e O Bem-Amado: do texto dramático para a tela
… makes a cut to account the adaptation process of dramatic texts to film. The object of analysis are the plays O Pagador de Promessas (1959) and O Bem-Amado (1962), playwright Alfredo Dias Gomes, adapted to film, respectively, by the directors Anselmo Duarte (1962) and Guel Arraes (2010). The …
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Mark as drama : a prolegomenon to reading the Gospel of Mark as an Aristotelian tragedy
… 2007) have alluded to, or highlighted, the dramatic nature of, and the performative possibilities in, the Gospel of Mark. Their comments and explorations are appropriated as the basis for engaging in a theoretical work that seeks to establish both why and how the Gospel of Mark may be read …
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Stage action as metaphor in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
… chapter also establishes a compromise of the textual problems inherent within any study of Doctor Faustus. Since the study argues that audience reaction is important to Marlowe's intent, attention is paid to how audience response governs the play's interpretation.Chapter two is a critical …
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(In)Visible: performances of gay and lesbian dramatic literature on the American stage from 1910 to 1969
(In)Visible: Performances of Gay and Lesbian Dramatic Literature on the American Stage from 1910 to 1969 provides a decade-by-decade analysis of plays with queer content from the 1910s to the 1960s. The aim is to chronicle the emergence of gay and lesbian characters and themes, with particular …
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THEATRES OF THE SUBJECT: THEATRICALITY AND DIALECTIC IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH THOUGHT
… theatre its specificity – its tension between dramatic text and the horizon of live performance, its mimetic and spatial disjunctions, its opposition of spectator and actor – invariably lead practitioners and theorists to take a stand with respect to two orientations toward the subject. They …
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Print, Performance, and the European Avant-gardes, 1905-1948
… debate concerning the relationship between the dramatic text and performance. Modernists asserted the predominance of the text, which is easily assimilated to the printed page and incorporated into the institution of literature. The avant-gardes proclaimed the primacy of the live theatrical …
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Svinfellinga saga : a new critical edition of BL Add. 11, 127 fol
… most significant 17th century paper copy of the text of Reykjarfjarðarbók (AM 122b fol.), one of the two remaining vellum manuscripts of Sturlunga saga. Information about BL Add. 11,127 has hitherto been available only in annotations to editions of composite texts of the Sturlunga compilation and …
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Theater and community : an architectural language for social integration
… form of theater, which questioned the tradition dramatic heritage , emerged in Puerto Rico during the second half of the 1960's. This new form of theater, known as Experimental Theater, searched for a new aesthetic language rooted in the use of the human body as an instrument of expression. At …
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The theatre of promiscuity : a comparative study of the dramatic writings of Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker
… a detailed exploration and analysis of selected dramatic writings by Wole Soyinka and Howard Barker. The comparative nature of this work begins by charting the parallel journeys of these writers - within widely differing cultural contexts - from a critique of social determinations which serve to …
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Introducing performance into the communication curriculum for engineers: Breaking the mould
… of introducing performance, through games and a dramatic text. My intention is to subvert the potential dangers of OBE, given its behaviourist and prescriptive thrust, and a possible reversion to the transmission model in its application at Mantec. I argue that gaps in the historically …
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The Theatre of Adrian Hall
… (1) how this director perceives and utilizes the dramatic text, (2) how he manipulates the actor-audience relationship in the theatrical space, (3) how he works with his permanent acting ensembles to interpret the text through the style of performance and (4) how he collaborates with designers to …
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‘Experimenting with the Globe’: the reconstructed Bankside Theatre as a research instrument in research through practice in performance (PaR), movement pattern analysis (MPA) and Shakespeare studies
… real-time theatre performance (including the dramatic text or script) may be inadequate. Consequently, I develop a set of research methods which I propose as an alternative to discourse-based approaches and present an extended example of its application. The key contribution of the thesis to …
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Unkept measures : a study of imagery in Shakespeare's Henriade
… technique of incorporating imagery into the dramatic text emphasizes, reinforces, and develops both theme and characterization. The terms "image" and "imagery" refer exclusively to figurative language, excluding the constrictive definitions of visual imagery, wordpictures, and iterative …