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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"new theatre"”.
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A new theatre district in New York City
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1953.
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Mise-en-Scene as (pre)text; an insistence on a negotiated space for the creating of new theatre works
… 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 exploration looks at a model of theatre making where the writer is present during the rehearsal phase. I propose that there is a pre-mise …
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Theatre on Trial: Staging Postwar Justice in the United States and Germany
… studies the interchange between political theatre and postwar political trials. I argue that to an extraordinary extent, theatre history in this period is inextricable from trial history. Through close archival study of mid-century theatre productions including Bertolt Brecht's 1954 …
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Perception, power, plays, and print: Charles II and the restoration theatre of consensus
… II in the shaping and evolution of Restoration theatre. Even more so than the playwrights themselves, Charles II determined the future of the theatre, both by his conscious efforts to do so, as well as unintentionally through his own behavior and image. The tradition of Restoration theatre began …
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Performing Transition: Depictions of the Transgender Experience
… transgender characters, and finally examines how new portrayals might challenge the existing stereotypes. I hope that this thesis, which explores a topic not often discussed, will open the door for a new theatre that supports and affirms the identities of the transgender population while managing …
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The New Phoenix Theatre: Mutable architecture for a volunteer community theatre
Modern conceptions of theatre emphasize the importance of approach, entry, intermission, and other related activities to the theatre experience as a whole. The volunteer community theatre adds additional concerns to this philosophy. By its very nature noncommercial theatre depends upon limited …
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Recepción e influencia del Teatro de Plauto en la literatura española
… to study the presence and influence of the Roman theatre of Plautus (255-184 BC) in Spanish theatre. In chronological order, this thesis analyses works written from the late 15th century, when the Plautinian comedies are rediscovered, until the 17th century in which Spanish theatre becomes a …
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Modern Scottish Theatre: the Creation of a Tradition
… has enjoyed a late and significant flowering of theatre since the late 1960s. This project explores what I believe to have been a Renaissance that has occurred in Scottish theatre since 1969 and tests my thesis that at the core of this revival lie profound connections to the related concepts of …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
<p>Theatre socially reproduces and contests economic, racial, and national hierarchies. There is a dearth of scholarship on U.S. regional theatre because of middlebrow anxiety and yet, for that very reason, regional theatre demands attention as a fitting example of the site of struggle over …
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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
“Last night the new theatre which the Irish National Theatre Society has...was opened under the happiest auspices…Long before the curtain rose the pit and gallery were packed…On Baile’s Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the …
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Twenty-First-Century Transnational Theatre Development in the Cases of Théâtre du Soleil/Aftaab and Sundance Institute East Africa: Cultural Politics, Performance Aesthetics, and Global Circulation
… studies of twenty-first-century transnational theatre development programs in which arts organizations from wealthy countries in the Global North extend resources and support for the professional development of theatre artists in regions in the Global South. The first case study takes up the …
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Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action
… and intersubjectivity have gained renewed scientific interest. On the other hand, these elements have always retained crucial importance in theatre practice, not least in the actor’s process from the written text to action on stage. In the dissertation I apply theories from modern …
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The Steppenwolf Scenario: Establishing the habitus of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community
… and structuring elements of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community. My research, grounded in Diana Taylor’s concept of scenarios and Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, takes a sociological lens to the historical antecedents and theatrical predecessors of Chicago’s Off-Loop theatre community to …