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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"theatre history"”.
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Teaching Theatre History: Re-Directing an Existing Course
… written to detail the process and results of the theatre history class that I assisted in teaching during the fall semester of 2005. It details the process of formulating the class structure, how the class proceeded, my lecture process, and finally the responses that the students had to the class. …
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An Undergraduate Theatre History Course Design Utilizing Problem-Based Learning
… alternative teaching model for an undergraduate theatre history class. The course design, utilizing the Problem-Based Learning educational model, aims to create a student-centered, experiential theatre history class. The first section explores the history and evolution of the theatre discipline …
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Generational Theory as a Lens for Approaching Musical Theatre History, 1943-2023, or a Strange Loop
… generational theory in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584-2069. Though critiqued, Strauss and Howe’s generational theory suggests that American history occurs in cycles characterized by four distinct generational turnings or moods that occur approximately every eighty …
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Recovering ancient ritual and the theatre of the Apache: a journey through the false consciousness of Western theatre history
… past cultural influences that have shaped theatre historians' perception of ancient Greek and contemporary Native American performance. It suggests that through a recognition of these influences, which have long tempered the Western narrative of theatre, ancient and Indigenous performance …
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Harvey Fierstein: A prophetic voice in the gay community
… Song Trilogy, was a major milestone for gay theatre. By becoming the first gay play to be commercially successful, it launched Fierstein into the spotlight. Since his first major Broadway play, he has continued to be active as playwright, actor, and gay rights activist; This paper places two …
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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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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… Moran--a new musical entitled A 16 Bar Cut: The History of American Musical Theatre as the capstone project for my Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. A 16 Bar Cut will be a two-man show that tells the entire history of American musical theatre from the ancient Greeks to today in a …
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Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black American Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787--1827
… the accepted theory that the vogue for Yankee Theatre in the nineteenth-century developed primarily in response to negative English stereotypes and stage representations of the Yankee character. I argue that the swift rise of the English abolitionist movement in conjunction with the successful …
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Herbert Blau: directing a revolution in American theatre, 1952-1965
Herbert Blau is more widely known in theatre history as a theorist and less as a director who strove to identify his directorial style during a time when American values were evolving and American regional theatres were gaining recognition, specifically 1952-65. Using many of Blau’s books and …
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Images of Jenny Lind and the Construction of Identity for the Nineteenth-Century Female Performer
… of nineteenth-century social codes and feminist theatre history, it becomes evident that Lind was a different type of female performer. This thesis will also discuss how photographic portraits of Lind adhered to codes for proper bourgeois portraits of women in the nineteenth century, thus …
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A study of George S. Kaufman's metatheatrics
… of the most successful playwrights in American theatre history. Part of his success stems from his metatheatrical writing techniques, which he used by incorporating people from his life into his plays and by writing about the business he experienced first hand. To date, no sources link Kaufman …
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Immersed in Horror: A Study of the Historical and Contemporary Influences of Poe's Shadows
… appeared onstage since the time of the Greeks. Theatre history is rife with examples of theatrical ghosts and horrors, whose ever-changing representation indicates society's evolving relationship to and expectation for horror onstage. In 2019, Virginia Tech presented the installation Poe's …
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The Stage on Screen: The Representation of Theatre in Film
… explores the various ways in which film uses theatre by representing it onscreen. Neither documentary recordings of theatre nor screen adaptations of plays, films that represent theatre constitute a distinct group among theatre-related films which, as a specific group, has been overlooked. It …
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Looking Behind the Scenes. The History of the Royal Court Theatre Through the Lens of Prominent Productions
… material representing six decades of Royal Court Theatre history including analyses of the productions of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger, Edward Bond’s Early Morning, Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine, Jim Allen’s Perdition, Sarah Kane’s Blasted, and debbie tucker green’s Stoning Mary. Sixty years …
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Acts of imagination: curating the early Elizabethan repertories, 1582–1594
… drama. To date, narratives of Elizabethan theatre history tend to be playwright- and Shakespeare-centered; in response, I explore the companies operating during the under-examined dozen years of theatre before William Shakespeare entered the marketplace. The project thus takes as its …
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Talking back: audience collaboration and intervention in modernist and postwar drama
… how modernist alienation manifests itself in the theatre, my study demonstrates how this shift toward active audience involvement occurred during the interwar and immediate postwar eras and thus dramatized newly urgent questions about political participation and ethical responsibility. Whether …
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‘Even the thing I am …’: Tadeusz Kantor and the Poetics of Being
… and its influences, or, from an Anglo-American theatre-history perspective that has tended to focus on his larger-scale performance work. This has meant that contextual factors informing Kantor’s work as a whole, including his happenings, paintings, and writings, as well as his theatrical works, …
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The contributions of Floyd Leslie Sandle to black educational theatre in Louisiana
… to Dillard University where his passion for theatre was nurtured by Dr. Sheppard Randolph Edmonds, Sandle made significant strides in the dvelopment of Black Educational Theatre in Louisiana. Through his unique approach of presenting plays to the residents of the rural community of Grambling, …
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Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology
“Signaling Through the Flames: Theatre Fires and Disaster Sociology” re-examines archival evidence relevant to three of the most destructive and deadly fires in American theatre history: Richmond, Virginia in 1811, Brooklyn, New York in 1876, and Chicago, Illinois in 1903. Through the use of the …
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Frederick b. Philander: An exploration of his contribution to Namibian theatre (1979-2021)
… B. Philander's contribution to Namibian theatre from 1979 to 2021. The study was intended to fill a gap in Namibian theatre history. In-depth interviews were done with Frederick B. Philander and theatre practitioners familiar with Frederick B. Philander's theatre practices. This study …
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