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Showing 1 to 20 of 175 for “"playwright"”.
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Susan Glaspell: feminist playwright
Susan Glaspell, a "new woman" of the second decade of the twentieth century in America, left a valuable legacy for the feminists who would follow her. Her life and writings are examples of what women are capable of doing when given the opportunity. In both she sought to prove that women could …
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Clifford Odets: playwright-poet
… he has always been recognized as an influential playwright—who made contributions to the development of such later writers as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayevsky, William Gibson and Lorraine Hansberry—his plays are nevertheless regarded as museum pieces. His critical standing among …
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The director-playwright collaboration on new play production
The Director-Playwright Collaboration on New Play Production is an investigation of the working relationship between the playwright and the director and the process of new play production. The research is gathered by a series of interviews with student and professional playwrights and professional …
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The Playwright as Filmmaker: History, Theory and Practice
… central hypothesis of this study is that where playwrights have succeeded as film directors, it is as a result of building on those qualities which make them effective as authors within theatre. After establishing the existence of a substantial body of work by a variety of playwright-filmmakers …
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The Great Inspirers: A Mentoring Theory of Playwright Development
In this century it is common for a young playwright to seek guidance from a teacher (a developer) who can be instrumental during the formation of the writer's artistry. This pattern of development, that is the relationship between a young playwright and a director, is explored throughout the …
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From Darkness to Light: Examining the Role of Playwright/Director on Obscura
… scope of my thesis is to examine the process of playwrights directing their own work, using the production of my play Obscura as an example of personal research, as well as examples of other dramatists. I will examine the advantages and disadvantages that playwrights face when directing their own …
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The playwright and his theatre : Howard Brenton, David Hare and Snoo Wilson
… and which amounted to a challenge to the playwright's traditionally dominantposition in the theatre.However, the playscript, as an example of written fictional narrative, dependent on the theatre for its realization but not its creation, still commands an independent status as a work, and …
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Playwright and Man of God: Religion and Convention in the Comic Plays of John Marston
… argues for an alternative identity for this playwright. The discussion opens with a presentation of Marston’s early satirical books as texts informed by a moderate Church of England Protestantism, yet coinciding at times with some of Calvin’s writings, and by a distrust of the individualistic …
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Thought to thesis: A look at the collaborative process and its value to the student playwright
… collaborative process and their use to a student playwright in creating, writing, editing, and staging a graduate thesis production. Components taken into consideration are the following: the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program itself, the required laboratory class, and the thesis director; The …
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A critical analysis investigating the process of a playwright with reference to Jellyfish, an original work for the stage
This dissertation is an exploration of the nature of playwriting, supported by an original full-length play. Researching playwriting can be problematic, as it is a balance between creativity and discipline, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. Within the dissertation, we begin to …
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Space and Place in the Out-of Doors settings of the Farsas Y Eglogas by Lucas Fernandez, Spanish Playwright (1474-1542)
… sacred works by the sixteenth century Spanish playwright, Lucas Fernandez, are the focus of this dissertation. Significantly, Fernandez is the only one of his theatrical contemporaries in Spain to place all of his dramas outside. Previously, scholars have mentioned his settings only cursorily …
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Investigating invention : a challenge to the primacy of the written text
… Three forms of writing 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 …
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Memory, identity, and farce in carnival mirrors : a director's approach to David Lindsay-Abaire's Fuddy Meers.
American playwright David Lindsay-Abaire's central subject of interest is a world turned upside down by hardship and pain. Although commonly labeled a dark farce, Lindsay-Abaire's 1999 play, Fuddy Meers, is haunted by the spirit of medieval folk festivals in its grotesque imagery and subversive …
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Grassroots Playwriting : Practice-led research exploring the Impact of Producing Historical Verse Drama for a local Community
… verse drama by a self-producing grassroots playwright serve as a catalyst for community engagement? Central to this thesis is the investigation into my role as a self-producing playwright within the context of grassroots theatre, and the staged reading of my practice-led creation, 1588, a …
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Fielding's Theatricalist Drama
Throughout his career as a playwright, Henry Fielding was preoccupied with the nature and proper function of theatrical artifice. Despite shifts in mode and emphasis, Fielding uses self-conscious theatricalism in his plays in three ways.
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Unpacking the individual : a director's approach to Ionesco's "Rhinoceros".
In 1959, French-Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco debuted his play, Rhinoceros, and the theatergoing world was captivated by the curious image of people turning into pachyderms. This fable about herd mentality and being comfortable in one's own skin is continually timely, as humans and rhinos …
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From Christmas lights to candlelight : a director's approach to Alfred Uhry's The Last Night of Ballyhoo.
In 1996 playwright Alfred Uhry was commissioned to write a play for the Cultural Olympiad in honor of the upcoming Summer Olympic Games that were to be held in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. The resulting play, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, is the story of a Southern Jewish family in Atlanta in …
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Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric
<p>This dissertation demonstrates how the playwright Aeschylus contributes to the development of ancient Greek rhetoric through his use and display of πειθώ (often translated “persuasion”) throughout the <em>Oresteia</em>, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays …
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Motion in Poetry: A Psychophysical, Action-Based Approach to the Composition and Analysis of Metrical Dramatic Verse
… levelled at modern verse drama has been that playwrights’ use of verse fails to cohere with contemporary notions of dramatic action. As action-playing is largely a matter of text in performance, this thesis assumes that the best way to meet this challenge is to approach it as much from the …
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