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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"stagecraft"”.
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"""For craft recoils in the end"": The oppositional stagecraft of Thomas Middleton"
… examines the wittily ironic ""oppositional"" stagecraft of Thomas Middleton in the following plays: The Changeling; A Chaste Maid in Cheapside; A Mad World, My Masters; Michaelmas Term; More Dissemblers Besides Women; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Second Maiden's Tragedy; A Trick to Catch the …
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
… but also as a prime exemplar of New Stagecraft style. Based on both secondary and primary research material, I contend that the cathedral setting was neither indicative of Geddes’ fundamental aesthetic principles, nor of the aesthetic principles of the New Stagecraft. I firmly …
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TRANSGRESSING THE STAGE: FEMALE XIQU PERFORMERS AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
… figures but played a crucial role in shaping the stagecraft and culture of xiqu, on par with their male counterparts. The study begins by examining the performances of female xiqu actors in foreign concessions in Shanghai and Tianjin during the late-Qing period. It highlights how these performers …
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The Partnership of Stuart Robson and William H. Crane: American Comedians (New York)
… been trained under a system dependent on the stagecraft, management practices, and acting techniques associated with the "old school" or primarily British tradition of comedy performance, Robson and Crane's progress illustrates fundamental changes which took place overall in the late …
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Strategies in Acting for Operatic Performance: Empowering the Powerful
… a more perfect amalgamation of music text and stagecraft in presenting both new work and inherited repertoire for opera. I found disparities not in the goals, but in the “how”. My findings through my work are that the “how” is in bravery, kindness, and empowerment of the singer. Through …
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Reforming nationhood : England in the literature of the Tudor imperial age, 1509-1553
… was undermined by the similarities between its stagecraft and that of the 1522 Entry.
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Shakespeare productions in England 1909-1932 and the visual arts: the work of Ricketts, Wilkinson, Lovat Fraser and Shelving
… style in sympathy with elements of the New Stagecraft and how this in turn influenced their interpretation of scenic designs and costumes. This study foregrounds archival research as a means of understanding the ideas which informed these designers and the visual impact of their work. The …
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The realisation of recitative by the Cello in Handelian Opera
… in the methods between Affekt, technique, and stagecraft. The author’s own practice is described. Common techniques between chordal realisation and current practice are examined. A method for acquiring a vocabulary of chords is offered that improves on those in the historical methods. …
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No Slip-Shod Muse: A Performance Analysis of Some of Susanna Centlivre's Plays
… so-called "dry spell" that Centlivre refines her stagecraft, and convinces cautious managers to bank on her work, providing evidence that playwrights of the period were subtly experimenting. The previous trend in scholarship of this cautious and paranoid era of theatre history has been to shy away …
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Whisper out loud!: Spirochete, a living newspaper, 1937-1939, produced by the Federal Theatre Project: an instrument for public health education in the war on syphilis
… dramatic vignettes and with creative, innovative stagecraft. Although Spirochete cannot be considered great theatre, according to the criteria of most theatre authorities, Spirochete was a vibrant, viable form of education. Spirochete was propaganda, presenting a definite idea for a definite …
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Cultivating Presence: A Conceptual Autoethnography Examining Neofolk and Its Relation to Contemporary Miracle and Mystery Traditions
… these books is intended to engage with religious stagecraft, the increasingly commodified tastes of audiences and the task of religious philosophy overall. After all, as a queer theatrical and folk Catholic priest, the opportunity to address scholarly materials around my research question on the …