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Garde, Ulrike 1964. "The Australian reception of Austrian, German and Swiss drama : productions and reviews between 1945 and 1996." Monash University, German Studies, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8820.

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Farris, Jennifer. "The Technical Direction Provided for the 2008 Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance Production of Three Sisters." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1236642190.

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Rawlings, Cara E. "The Civil War: A Collaboration in Direction and Choreography." VCU Scholars Compass, 2005. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/751.

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This text is a partial record of the development of the Virginia Commonwealth University production of The Civil War: A Musical that opened on April 7, 2005 for a three-week run ending April 28, 2005. The greater part of the text is devoted to the evaluation of the underlying principles of direction and choreography applied in the creation of an artistically aid financially successful production of this size. Included in the evaluation of The Civil War: A Musical are analyses of the directors' --Patti D'Beck and David Leong --individual creative processes, aesthetics, and working styles. The result of this evaluation and analysis is a compilation of the fundamental principles of direction and choreography applied The Civil War: A Musical as a methodology for the creation of theatre. Further reflections on collaboration and artistry serve as the culmination of lessons inherent in both the creation of the Theatre VCU production of The Civil War: A Musical and in the author's three years of study in the VCU Master of Fine Arts program in Theatre Pedagogy with an emphasis in Movement Direction and Choreography.
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Friedlander, Lauren. ""Spending the day in front of the mirror"." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1305644057.

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Beaufort, Philippe. "Le projet de l'action créatrice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25380.pdf.

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Readman, Geoffrey. "What does the Applied Theatre Director do? : directorial intervention in theatre-making for social change." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2013. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/7848/.

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This thesis critically interrogates the practice of artistic directors within applied theatre companies in the United Kingdom. ‘Applied theatre’ describes the process of theatre-making in which commitment to ethical, pedagogical, philosophical and social priorities are integral dimensions of theatre-making designed for specified participants, communities and locations. The research views the term director as encompassing any individuals with designated responsibility for the artistic coherence of theatre in both community and rehearsal room contexts. It argues that directorial processes in applied theatre have rarely been the focus of systematic research and that a theoretical framework to conceptualise practise will contribute new knowledge. The research design gathers evidence of directorial contributions, examining ‘why’ and ‘how’ interventions are constructed. The various theories, techniques and methods used by directors to shape and effect positive interventions are observed and interrogated, through a systematic research approach, in five director case studies. The case studies reflect discrete areas of theatre practice. Published research is sparse and literary evidence is occasionally drawn from historical, cultural and mainstream theatre contexts, from developments in Alternative and Political theatre and from Drama in Education praxis. The thesis concludes with a theoretical framework that articulates applied theatre directing as a process that shares some common ground with mainstream theatre directing, but which retains discrete alternative practices and philosophies that define an alternative directorial model.
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Amato, William J. III. "The Technical Direction of the 2009 Kent State University School of Theatre and Dance Production of Twelfth Night." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1241188098.

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Henrique, Marina Gomes 1974. "Marias." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285288.

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Orientador: Antonio Fernando da Conceição Passos
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Este trabalho é fruto do processo de transcriação do poema de Bertold Brecht "A infanticida Marie Farrar" em uma peça de teatro e um roteiro de curta metragem. Para isso outras fontes literárias e o filme documentário "Camelos também choram" foram fundamentais no processo criativo, assim como os ensaios constantes da peça "Marias". O processo empírico da criação revelou em primeiro plano as histórias a serem contadas no teatro e no cinema
Abstract: This work is a result of the recreation of Bertold Brecht's poem "The infanticide Marie Farrar" in a theater play and a short film. Other sources for this literary and movie-documentary "The story of the weeping camel" were crucial in the creative process as well as the rehearsal for the play "Marias". The empirical process of creation revealed in the foreground the stories to be told in the play and in the movie
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Mayo, Megan E. "Building a workable model for youth theatre an exploration into a courageous and complex field." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4798.

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As an active director of productions featuring youth actors, I find myself debating the same questions continuously: Are there clear and demonstrated differences between working with young people and adults when directing a youth theatre production? Are there approaches and methods of working with young people that differs greatly from working with adults? Are these methods supported and utilized by those working professionally in the field? Is there an ideal format for a theatre producing only productions with youth? I believe that directing young actors tends to require a shift in focus due to the pliability, sensitivity, and inexperience of the actors. I feel the director must take into account the emotional, developmental, and educational needs of the young people and at the same time remain focused on the creation of a product with artistic integrity and clear storytelling. Due to the didactic nature of Youth Theatre, directing young people often requires an awareness of process over product despite the similar end goal of directing adults. Since little research or literature exists about the differences between working with adults versus young people, I will pursue information by interviewing several recognized professionals in the field of Theatre by and for Youth. I will examine their multiple methods, techniques, and practices of working with young people. In addition, I will use my personal experience working with youth at the Orlando Repertory Theatre in Florida and Coterie Theatre in Missouri. Through an investigation into the emerging field of Youth Theatre coupled with my education, I plan to develop a workable and effective youth theatre company based upon these findings with the hope it might inspire others working in this field.
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Theatre
Arts and Humanities
Theatre; Theatre for Young Audiences Track
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Skordis, Ranza (Ranza Nora-J). "Improvisation and playmaking : a look at some improvisation techniques and their applications during the directing process." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53461.

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Thesis (MDram)--Stellenbosch University, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis the author investigates aspects of the use of improvisation and improvisational methods, techniques and exercises by modem practitioners. The study commences with a look at the beginnings of modem improvisation in the nineteenth century, when improvisation was used only tentatively by performers as a preproduction aid to the exploration of character and personal response. In more recent times the process has become one of collaboration and research; as a means of selfdiscovery, as a means of text creation and as a vehicle for finding a 'voice' for the silent majority within a particular community or society. This study also traces the use of improvisation in South Africa where the improvisational process has been incorporated into democratic and collaborative forms like workshop theatre and workers' theatre, and serves as a useful method of political investigation and conscientisation. The study will also briefly touch what on is now termed 'theatre-fordevelopment', since its practitioners make extensive use of improvisational techniques, and its techniques are allied to those of workers' and workshop theatre. The final chapter provides an application of the theories discussed in the bulk of the study in a brief discussion of the author's own attempts at utilising improvisation as a directing and scriptwriting tool in a student production.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis ondersoek die outeur die gebruik van improvisasie en die verskillende metodes, tegnieke en praktiese toepassings daarvan deur moderne praktisyns. Die tesis begin deur te kyk na die oorsprong van moderne improvisasie in die 1ge eeu toe imporvisasie slegs tentatief deur akteurs gebruik is om vóór die produksiefase as 'n hulpmiddel te dien om 'n karakter en persoonlike reaksies te ondersoek. Die proses het onlangs tot een van samewerking en navorsing verander; as 'n methode tot selfontdekking, 'n hulpmiddel by teks-skepping en as 'n medium om 'n "stem te vind" vir die 'stille meerderheid' binne 'n gegewe gemeenskap of samelewing. Hierdie studie ondersoek ook die gebruik van improvisasie in Suid Afrika waar die improvisasieproses in demokratiese en spanwerk vorme soos bv. werkswinkelteater en werkersteater geïnkorporeer is, waar hulle as uiters nuttige vorme van politieke ondersoek en -bewusmaking dien. Die studie raak ook vlugtig aan 'teater-virontwikkeling', aangesien die praktisyns daarvan grootliks gebruik maak van improvisasie-tegnieke en die tegnieke wat hulle gebruik redelike ooreenstem met dié van werkswinkelteater en werkersteater. Die finale hoofstuk verskaf 'n toepassing van die verskeie teorieë wat in die hoofgedeelte van die tesis bespreek word, in 'n kort bespreking van die outeur se eie pogings om improvisasie as 'n regie- en teksskeppingsinstrument in 'n studenteproduksie, te gebruik.
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GRAY, FRED ALLEN. "CHILDREN'S MUSICALS, 1973-1985: ANNOTATIONS WITH SOURCEBOOK FOR PRODUCTION (DRAMA, ELEMENTARY, HISTORY, VOICE, CHORAL)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188089.

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The purpose of this study was to collect and annotate the musical dramas for children of elementary school age published since 1972. Musical dramas selected were limited to those having a story line rather than just a narrator and chorus, having dialogue interaction between the characters, containing mostly original music, and written for grades kindergarten through six. This document is intended as a resource for elementary school teachers and church workers who are searching for appropriate material for performance or study. Annotations of 210 musicals for children, sacred and secular, are the main emphasis of the study. Pertinent information in each annotation includes: basic story line, voice span (extreme range of the music), tessitura (range where most of the tones lie), recommended grade level, duration, type of accompaniment available, 1985 prices and required purchase for performance rights, staging requirements, number and characteristics of the songs, and personnel needed. Musicals were obtained through publishers, music retailers, and leasing firms. A part of the study is a history of musical drama in America and in America's schools. Musical drama has been a part of elementary education in America almost from its inception. The first musical drama in America was presented in Charleston, S.C., in 1735, and the first school music drama was presented in New York in 1853. Because children's musicals involve the child voice, information is contained in the study concerning practices which might cause vocal damage. Current research and theory about children's voice range is reported. Opinion is divided about proper natural voice range for children. Each viewpoint has supporting research. The study shows that an abundance of musical drama material is available for children of elementary age, especially the upper grades. A sourcebook for directors and producers of children's musicals has been included to assist those who have a limited knowledge of stage lighting, choreography, make-up, sound systems, sets, and costumes. Suggestions are provided for choosing a musical, holding auditions, scheduling rehearsals, and involving parents and community. 1973 was selected as the beginning date for inclusion of musicals in the study because of the resurgence of writing and publishing elementary school musicals and because of the growing number of musicals written for church children's groups. Recommended areas for further research concerning children's musicals include the present usage figures for published musicals, an annotated list of musicals using only narrators and choir, and usage figures of musicals by geographic areas.
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Rosewell, Susan Tilden. "Examination of Narrative Point of View Through Production by Two Media." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1986. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500621/.

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Narrative point of view should be the initial place of focus in the study of prose fiction, but it is often difficult to understand or teach. This study proposes that stage or screen production of narrative fiction may be purposefully structured to enhance the understanding of narrative perspective. The study details grammatical analysis of narrative language and describes implications drawn from that language which influence production decisions. The thesis examines the techniques and technology of stage and screen production which may be manipulated to underscore narrative point of view, suggesting ways in which each medium can borrow from the techniques of the other for point of view production.
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Fantasia, Josephine Vita. "Entrepreneurs, empires and pantomimes : J. C. Williamson's pantomime productions as a site to review the cultural construction of an Australian theatre industry, 1882 to 1914." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1617.

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'Entrepreneurs, Empires and Pantomimes' examines how Williamson influenced the form and content of one theatrical genre within his theatrical empire between 1882 and 1914. As the frontispiece signals in spectacular fashion, the pantomime was a vitally popular dramatic form. I believe that my findings have serious implcations for the formation of an Australian theatre industry with regard to the 'development'of Australian drama. Ironically, as J.W. Gough points out in 'The Rise of the Entrepreneur' (1969), the word 'entrepreneur' first appeared in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' in 1897 as referring to "the director or manager of a public musical institution: one who 'gets up' entertainments, especially musical performances."
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Fantasia, Josephine Vita. "Entrepreneurs, empires and pantomimes : J. C. Williamson's pantomime productions as a site to review the cultural construction of an Australian theatre industry, 1882 to 1914." University of Sydney, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1617.

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'Entrepreneurs, Empires and Pantomimes' examines how Williamson influenced the form and content of one theatrical genre within his theatrical empire between 1882 and 1914. As the frontispiece signals in spectacular fashion, the pantomime was a vitally popular dramatic form. I believe that my findings have serious implcations for the formation of an Australian theatre industry with regard to the 'development'of Australian drama. Ironically, as J.W. Gough points out in 'The Rise of the Entrepreneur' (1969), the word 'entrepreneur' first appeared in the 'Oxford English Dictionary' in 1897 as referring to "the director or manager of a public musical institution: one who 'gets up' entertainments, especially musical performances."
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Ruane, Richard T. "Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2239/.

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This thesis examines the production process for "Camp, Vamp and Femme Fatale," performed at the University of North Texas in April of 1997. The first chapter applies Henry Jenkins's theory of textual poaching to the authors' and cast's reappropriation of cultural narratives about female vampires. The chapter goes on to survey the narrative, cinematic and critical work on women as vampires. As many of the texts were developed as part of the fantasy role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, this chapter also surveys how fantasy role-playing develops unpublished texts that can make fruitful ground for performance studies. The second chapter examines the rehearsal and production process in comparison to the work of Glenda Dickerson and other feminist directors.
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Hillier, Fleur Jane School of Public Health &amp community medicine Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health UNSW. "Managing creative and health production processes : issues, similarities and differences." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Public Health and community medicine. Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/22281.

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In this thesis I am concerned to examine the management behaviours and predilections of managers across the two settings of health and theatre considered to be divergent. To do this I explore and map methods, similarities and differences managers employ to ???manage??? workers across the industries. I also deconstruct creativity and its manifestations in both managerial behaviours and environmental contexts and map the complexity issues that managers face in different settings. Further, I explore the extent to which management activity is contextual to the identity of participant organisational aims and processes and examine the level of calculated chaos experienced by managers across the settings. Central to this approach is the utilisation of multi-method design incorporating interview, micro-ethnography, auto-ethnography and a RAND expert panel to assist with interpretation of the results. Core findings include high degrees of similarity in the roles and functions and support systems utilised by managers across the settings despite substantial differences in environmental contexts and organisational aims and processes. Differences were identified in the areas of: levels of chaos, interactions, purposes, and environmental characteristics. To account for these differences I apprehended seven metafactors grounded in the data sets. These seven metafactors can be found in each setting but emerge in different ways. The metafactors that I apprehend are order versus disorder; creativity; experimentation and change; risk; reflection; trust and respect; and time and pressure. While I discuss these seven metafactors as separate factors in reality they are fundamentally inter-related. Suggestions for future research are included.
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Handall, Monique Elizabeth. "Translating Spanish language plays into English: A focus on the translation and production of Xavier Robles' Rojo amanecer." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2958.

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The purpose of this culminating project is to start translating quality Mexican and Latin American dramatic literature in order to provide to educators and theatrical directors a fundamental collection of plays. The author worked with her San Gorgonio High School students to conduct a dramaturgical study of the setting and political background of Rojo Amanecer by Xavier Robles, a play which outlines the events leading to the 1968 student massacre at Mexico City's Plaza de Tlatelolco. The author then directed the play in her role as San Gorgonio High School's new theater teacher.
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Carlile, Solfa. "Characterisation in contemporary opera and music theatre." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dd3468ba-dba6-49c2-88d4-82c2bb23af5c.

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This doctoral research comprises a practitioner-based reflective enquiry to bridge the gap between theory and practice and enhance my compositional output. In tandem with the composition of my chamber opera, The Exile, I have undertaken research into characterisation within the context of opera and musical theatre, with a focus on both the delineation of individual characters and the context in which they appear. Parameters of the work are discussed in comparison with canonic works of both opera and music theatre. Contemporary uses of leitmotif, representation of speech and folk music within operatic works are acknowledged and their influence on the composition is presented along with musical examples. The conventional composer-librettist partnership is discussed, along with suggestions for how respective roles for composer and librettist have evolved in recent times. An insight into the collaborative compositional process is presented in the final chapter, as my work with librettist Gillian Pencavel is discussed. The Exile is an original work informed by this research and is a contribution to the repertoire as well as an investigation into many compositional techniques presented in this thesis.
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Giroux, Claude A. "Unidentified Human Remains And The True Nature Of Love: An Exploration on the Art of Directing." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 1998. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/GirouxCA1998.pdf.

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Mullins, Michael Bryan. "Hildegard On Rubble Mountain." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3328/.

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Hildegard On Rubble Mountain is a cinema verité documentary about Hildegard Modinger's childhood. She grew up in Stuttgart, Germany during World War II and immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. This video follows her back to her childhood neighborhood as she recalls memories of that time in her life. The accompanying production book explains the production process: preproduction, production, postproduction, theoretical approaches, style used and a self-evaluation.
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O'Connor, Lorney Roland. "Directing and designing Shakespeare's The Tempest." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2581.

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The purpose of this project is to assess the production level one person can achieve when directing, designing, and managing all aspects of a major theatrical production. It will identify strategies and techniques which are crucial for success in the areas of theatrical design and management.
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Tao, Siu Tip. "An artistic director as an auteur in contexts: the case study of Dr. Joanna Chan of Hong Kong repertory theatre (1986-1990)." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/109.

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The main objectives of this dissertation are: to research the theatrical term “artistic director”; and to investigate how an artistic director of a theatre troupe performs as an “auteur in contexts”. Through the case study of Dr. Joanna Chan (Chan), the second-ever artistic director of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (“the Rep / HKRep” / the Theatre), this dissertation examines the execution of her artistic directorship while she worked for a theatre company established and operated by the British colonial government. Auteur theories, Andrew Sarris’ in particular, are applied to investigate Chan’s creative works. “Artistic director” is a relatively new term in drama history. No serious or special studies have been conducted on the position, despite the fact that the job-holder is the creative force of a theatre company – by no means a meagre role. This dissertation closely studies the artistic directorship of Chan as an “auteur in contexts” when she took up the position at HKRep during Hong Kong’s final decade under British rule, particularly after the Sino-British Joint Declaration had been signed. Taking advantage of special political and social contexts, and as a Catholic nun with a broadly exposed, overseas educational background and an established career in theatre, Chan created local discourses in Hong Kong as an “auteur in contexts” by writing original plays and setting up the Rep’s first-ever theme for its drama season – Facing Deadlines. The bold and unique offerings of the drama season she designed, along with her other artistic works, all explored individuals’ dilemmas, social anxieties, and the Hong Kong people’s conflicting identity, induced by “the 1997 deadline”. Her emphasis on writing and promoting original plays had greatly contributed to the shift in the Rep’s programming from purely artistic offerings to productions tinted with social agendas. Through first-hand information obtained by interviewing Chan, other industry insiders and drama critics; through close study of Chan’s plays for textual analyses; and through research carried out particularly in the Rep’s news clippings library, this case study investigates how Chan as an artistic director managed to carve out a space for herself, to display her own style as an “auteur in contexts” of the text of HKRep, and to influence the local drama scene while working under a system replete with governmental constraints as well as facing larger political, social and cultural changes in society
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Petty, Laurel Ann. "Documentary Film: Accidental Shakespeare." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3628/.

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According to the American Heritage College Dictionary, the word “community” derives from the Latin roots: communitas and communis meaning “fellowship” and “common,” respectively. The word “amateur” derives from the Latin roots: amator meaning “lover.” A community of amateurs, who love to put on plays, exists within the Denton Community Theatre. Their first attempt at classical theatre was the January 2006 production of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Brad Speck. The film follows two actors (through observational shooting) - Kevin Wickersham, a waiter who is trying theatre for the first time, and Jeffrey Johnson, a theatre college student trying Shakespeare for the first time - as they relate to a process and community that is new to them.
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Davis, Nona Lee. "The anatomy of a fight scene characterization through stage combat and movement." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4932.

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The study of stage combat is designed to fabricate the illusion of physical combat without causing harm to the performers. Most research in this field does not take into account the characterization of the actor during the training of a fight scene. An actor primarily learns the stunt choreography of the scene and often times the subtleties of the character is often forgotten. Scenes that involve physical contact are an essential aspect of the dramatic action. My aim is to eventually devise a process that will consistently create fight scenes that maintain the integrity of the fight director's work as well as the mastery of the actor's character composition. I am aware this is an ambitious project therefore will I approach this endeavor in two stages. This document will cover the first stage of this project: the investigation of the current process of several professionals who have varying experiences with fight choreography. I will propose and explore the significance of a series of questions a director, actor and fight choreographer should answer before embarking upon a fight sequence successfully. Questions such as: How important is the stunt physiologically and psychologically on the character? Does gender play a role in a fight sequence? Do size, age, and race play a role on character choice in a sequence? Why did the character choose that weapon? Where did that character learn to fight and why in that style?
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Theatre
Arts and Humanities
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Sharp, Duncan A. "When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/837.

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Peter Barnes, acknowledged as one of Britain's most important contemporary playwrights, writes plays that are of an enormous scale, both physically and intellectually. Red Noses is one such play. Like Barnes' other works, Red Noses makes great technical demands on directors, designers, actors and audiences. As with all of Barnes' plays, Red Noses is, moreover, informed by a wide variety of theatrical styles. As Bernard Dukore (1990, p. 65) states, actors may be required to quickly "switch from intellectual discourse, to period argot, to poetry, to modern slang, to rhetoric, to musical comedy, to ritual, to dance, to opera, to slapstick. .. " Furthermore, all of Barnes' plays operate, as Stephen Weeks (1996, p.46) points out, "as much through the boldness of their visual imagery as through the inventiveness of their language." All plays in performance are polysemic, with the various systems of signs in dialogical relation. Barnes' play Red Noses foregrounds the polysemic process. The systems of signs that operate within any play in performance may be defined as discrete languages. Some of these languages are non-verbal, such as the use of theatrical space and the movement of bodies within that space, scale of settings and sound and visual effects. This project looks at the verbal and non-verbal polysenic texts in Red Noses in performance. Mikhail Bakhtin's theories are usually applied to verbal and, in particular, printed texts. Indeed, Bakhtin (1981, p.266) himself has stated that the organisation of languages in drama does not allow for the dialogic interpenetration of one language by another. Nevertheless, this project will examine whether the non-verbal language systems of production and performance challenge or extend Bakhtin' s theories of language. Barnes' plays are often referred to as anarchic or carnivalesque. with his theatrical style working as an analogue to his stated aim of seeking to disrupt the social order of contemporary society (Barnes, 1996a, p. viii; Barnes, 1996b, p. x). Some critics have defined Barnes as an iconoclastic writer, but this begs the question as to whether Barnes' iconoclasm is conservative or radical. Is there a reaffirming of the hierarchies of social and political power as a result of the upside-down world created in Red Noses, or is there the promise of a new and ongoing process of change? The object of this project is to explore these questions through the rehearsal and performance processes of a production of Barnes' play Red Noses. The play will be reassessed through Bakhtin's theories of carnival, polyphonic discourse and dialogics, taking particular account of rehearsal and performance processes. In addition to problems of interpretation this project enters the debate about problems of texts in performance. The project can also be expected to generate useful research into performance itself as research.
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Lambert, James K. "REEL NAZIS a propaganda history." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4954/.

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This thesis film is an overview of Nazi Germany, primarily told through the use of their own propaganda images, and structured in such a way as to make the viewer question what they think they know about the past, present, and future. This paper is a discussion of the process that went into making the film and some of the ideas connected to it that could not be brought out in the documentary.
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Shapiro, Bruce G. "Iconicity : the presence of imagery in the principles and practice of dramatic performance." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997.

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This thesis is devoted to an explanation of iconicity, a process for acting and staging dramatic performances. The premise of the thesis is that dramatic performance is generated out of the same innate neural architecture human beings use in their daily lives to execute events. At the core of this neural architecture is the human brain's capacity for internally generating, reduplicating, storing and triggering imagery. The process of iconicity uses this mental capacity to rehearse and perform dramas. The process of iconicity is based upon the actor's innate cycle of performance, which the thesis explains. This process is also neopragmatic and hermeneutic, using rehearsal to cultivate strands of iconicity persisting and, therefore, conversing in the drama. In dramatic performance, contrived imagery is triggered in the actor, informing a performance consciousness that activates the actor's contrived cycle of dramatic performance. The research was carried out in rehearsals for around twenty-five productions over a period of sixteen years, during which time the iconicity process was developed in practice. Therefore, this thesis is the record of a journey through artistic practice toward the iconicity process. In order to understand the discoveries made during rehearsals, a variety of critical theories came into play and these are discussed in this thesis. But the context for all theoretical discourse is the artistic practice of dramatic performance. With respect to the presentation of the thesis itself, my aim is to emulate the iconicity process by a linear discourse which, once read, may be reread in its entirety or according to an individually ordered selection of the sub-headed sections. The linear discourse itself is divided into two parts preceded by the Introduction. This introduction briefly establishes some foundational perspectives that are meant to orient the reader to the content of the thesis. Part One is devoted to the principles of iconicity. It begins with a Prologue presenting the theory of innate performance, from which I believe dramatic performance derives. Chapter One is devoted to ideology; Chapter Two answers the question, What is Acting?; and Chapter Three introduces the affect theory of the emotions. Although at times the initial presentation of perspectives and principles refers to practice, essentially, the Introduction and Part One comprise a mosaic of ideas that make up a lateral foundation for the more linear practice of iconicity, which is presented in Part Two. Part Two is much more practically oriented than Part One. However, in order to fully understand this latter part of the thesis, the foundation of ideas set out in Part One must be kept in mind. The four chapters of Part Two present the strands of iconicity. Chapters Four and Five deal with the strand of events and the rules of dramatic structure, respectively. Chapter Six details what I refer to as the intermediate strands of dialogue and interactions. Chapter Seven discusses the strand of performance. An Epilogue addresses a few remaining issues about acting and iconicity.
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Ballieux, Nathalie. "Macbeth, de l'autre côté du miroir, les différentes étapes d'adaptation d'un texte shakespearien : réécriture, mise en scène et réception du public." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61327.pdf.

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Faria, Karina Andréa da Silva. "O sucesso e o sustento: a trajetória da atriz bonfinse Celina Ferreira (1902-2001)." Escola de Teatro, 2013. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/27389.

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O presente trabalho trata da carreira da atriz baiana Celina Ferreira que nasceu na cidade de Senhor do Bonfim no ano de 1902. Sua trajetória perpassa diversos gêneros teatrais, aqui batizados de arranjos artístico-produtivos, que fizeram parte do cenário cultural da primeira metade do século XX no Brasil, especialmente no nordeste. Celina Ferreira iniciou sua carreira integrando companhias itinerantes ou mambembes que circularam pelo Nordeste (interior e capitais) entre os anos 20 e 30, tendo casado com o ator cômico pernambucano Ferreira da Silva, especialista em teatro de revista. Viúva, estabeleceu-se em Salvador com seus filhos e trabalhou no Circo Fekete, na década de 40, atuando em melodramas característicos do circo-teatro brasileiro. Por fim, aposentou-se como radioatriz tendo trabalhado nas rádios Excelsior e Sociedade. Nesta última, até a década de 60. Com base em acervo familiar, guardado pelos filhos da atriz, e organizado para fins acadêmicos, a pesquisa teve como enfoque a sustentabilidade relacionada principalmente à popularidade junto ao público, e as estratégias utilizadas por artistas, empresários e organizações no sentido de garantir a sobrevivência de artistas e produtos. Também abordou a conjuntura econômica, política e social que serviu de cenário para a carreira da atriz e para o sucesso que promoveu o sustento dos arranjos artístico-produtivos em que trabalhou.
The current paper lies in the career of Celina Ferreira, an actress who was born in the state of Bahia, in Senhor do Bonfim city, in the year of 1902. Her journey crosses many theatrical genres, known here as “productive-artistic arrengements”, which were part of the cultural panorama in the beggining of the 20th century in Brazil, especially in the northeast of the country. Celina Ferreira began her career as a member of itinerant companies- called mambembes, which traveled around the region in the twenties and thirties. She got married to Ferreira da Silva, a comedy actor that was born in Pernambuco and was a theater revue specialist. As a widow, she took place in Salvador with her sons and worked at Fekete Circus, in the forties, acting in typical brazilian theatre-circus dramas. At last, she retired as a “radio-actress”, and had worked for Excelsior and Sociedade radios. For this last one mentioned, she worked until middle sixties. Based on personal family files, kept by her sons, and organized for academic aims, this research focused on the popularity of the theatrical styles that she was part of, as well as the strategies used by artists, entrepreneurs and organizations in order to guarantee the artists and products survival. This research also brought a political, economic and social approach, with aspects that were part of the actress career and motivated the “productive-artistic arrengements” support, successfully experienced by her.
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Brewster, Karen, and Melissa Shafer. "Fundamentals of Theatrical Design: A Guide to the Basics of Scenic, Costume, and Lighting Design." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. http://amzn.com/1581158491.

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Script analysis for designers -- The objectives of theatrical design -- Researching the design -- Collaboration -- Design elements -- Design principles and visual composition -- Scenic design -- Costume design -- Lighting design -- Building a career in theater design. With clear and concise examples and hands-on exercises, Fundamentals of Theatrical Design illustrates the way in which the three major areas of theatrical design--scenery, costumes, and lighting--are intrinsically linked. Veteran theater designers Karen Brewster and Melissa Shafer have consulted with a broad range of seasoned theater industry professionals--playwrights, actors, directors, producers, stage managers--to provide an exhaustive guide full of sound advice and insightful approaches to design. Form beginning designers just starting out to experienced directors looking to gain exposure and advance their careers, anyone with an interest in theatrical design is sure to appreciate this book's unique approach.
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Lyons, Lisa Lynn. "A performance in musical theatre: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1712.

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Melo, Elderson Melo de. "Teatro de grupo no Estado do Acre = trajetória, prática e a inserção do estilo regional (1970-2010)." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284958.

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Orientador: Claudia Mariza Braga
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Resumo: A presente dissertação apresenta uma reflexão sobre a formação e caracterização de modelos de grupos de teatro organizados no Estado do Acre, bem como um panorama das circunstâncias de produção de espetáculos teatrais por esses grupos, com um recorte mais específico nas produções de estilo temático regional, integrante de alguns espetáculos apresentados por parte desses grupos. A pesquisa desenvolvida analisa alguns modelos de grupalidades que fizeram parte da trajetória do teatro de grupo no Acre, bem como as características dos grupos que ainda encontram-se atuantes no Estado, em especial os que fazem parte dos principais pólos urbanos, a saber, Vale do Acre, Vale do Juruá e Vale do Purus, tentando entender, de forma mais ampla, como está atualmente estruturada a prática de criação de cenas teatrais. Além disso, visa, especialmente, entender de que maneira o discurso sobre identidades regionais vem sendo utilizado como componente de criação em espetáculos criados no Estado. Para tanto, fez-se uma análise de questionário, por meio da análise do conteúdo, que foi aplicado em grupos vinculados à Federação de Teatro Amador do Acre - FETAC e, também, uma análise particular de um espetáculo teatral com estilo temático regional, a saber, o espetáculo ?Manuela e o Boto?. Assim, as perguntas a serem respondidas são: De que forma e com que características os grupos de teatro se estruturaram, e estão estruturados atualmente, no Estado do Acre? Existe uma relação dos espetáculos apresentados hoje com o regionalismo acriano ou com os mitos fundadores do Acre? Como essa relação está estabelecida em parte dos elementos da cena espetacular? Pensar a produção artística local, sobretudo no que diz respeito ao teatro e aos grupos de teatro do Acre, é um desafio, mas ao mesmo tempo uma necessidade. Esse trabalho nasce da preocupação de entender essa produção artística, sobretudo no que tange ao teatro de grupo e as composições e contradições que vez por outra aparecem manifestas no discurso e prática dos sujeitos fazedores de teatro da região
Abstract: The present dissertation analyses the formation and characterisation of the instances of theatre groups organised in the state of Acre, as well as a panorama of the circumstances of production of the theatrical spectacles by these groups, with a more specific ambit concerning the productions of the regional thematic style, integrating some of the spectacles held by part of such groups.The inquiry carried out analyses some models of groupness which made up part of the trajectory of the group theatre in Acre, as well as characteristics of groups that still find themselves active in the state, in particular those which comprised the main urban hubs - namely Vale do Acre, Vale do Juruá and Vale do Purus, aiming at understanding, in a more encompassing fashion, where exactly the exercise of the creation of theatrical scenes presently is at. Moreover, it particularly strives for understanding in exactly which way the discourse about regional identities has been put to use as a component of creation in spectacles created in the state. In order to achieve that, a survey analysis was conducted - through the analysis of its content, which was applied to groups pertaining to the Federação de Teatro Amador do Acre [Amateur Theatre Federation of Acre] and, furthermore, an analyses of a theatre spectacle in particular, with a regional thematic style - namely 'Manuela e o Boto'. Therefore, the questions to be answered are: in which way and with what characteristics were the theatre groups constituted, and in which way are they currently constituted in the state of Acre? Is there a relation between the spectacles presented nowadays and the Acraniano regionalism or the founding myths of Acre? How exactly is this relation stablished in part of the elements of the spectacular scene? Pondering over the local artistic production, especially regarding what concerns theatre and theatre groups in Acre, is a challenge, but at the same time a necessity. This work is born from the effort to understand this artistic production, especially concerning group theatre and the compositions and contradictions which sometimes arise manifest in the discourse and praxis of the individuals who shape the theatre in the region
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Gehle, Hermione. "The absurd reality of satire in Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig'." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1661.

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This research project examines the misreading of satire in some productions of Neil LaBute’s play, Fat Pig. This practice led project aims to investigate why such misinterpretations occur and explore the theatrical styles that emphasise the satire in the text via rehearsal processes and production. There will be three preliminary paths undertaken in this research heading toward a new production of Fat Pig; an exploration of the responses of audiences and critics to past productions; an analysis of the background to Neil LeBute and his work; and an examination of theatrical expressions of satire, experimental theatre, contemporary theatre, and their practitioners. The overall aim of this research project is to find ways, as a director, to experiment with theatrical styles as a means to expand the play’s complex issues and ironic take on society’s narrow view of female beauty. This study will explore the following questions: what is the correlation between staging and design (the director’s influence and how an audience interprets meaning; and what forms of theatrical expression will highlight and emphasise the satire and irony present in the text? In what ways can critical reviews and feedback from previous productions indicate the understanding (or lack of understanding) of the ironic content in the script? Can situating LaBute in the context of his satiric writing style that straddles literary elements from opposing absurd and realism genres shed light on how irony can be exposed in Fat Pig? The project’s new production aims to underscore the play’s social commentaries by combining various forms of theatrical styles, philosophies, and methodologies. I wish to extend my directorial practice by investigating strategies to emphasis and highlight what I see as the underlying focus of Fat Pig; society’s discriminating behaviour to those who sit outside mainstream ideas of physical beauty
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Santos, João Ricardo da Cunha. "Cia. Espaço em BRANCO = processos híbridos de criação." [s.n.], 2010. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284935.

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Orientador: Mário Alberto de Santana
Acompanha 2 DVD's com o seguinte conteúdo: DVD 1- Gravação do espetáculo teatral Teresa e o Aquário da Cia. Espaço em BRANCO POA - RS; DVD 2 - Documentação do processo de pesquisa: Fotos e Videos dos Casulos, Processo de Ensaios de Teresa e o Aquário, oficina Processos Híbridos de Criação e documentação dos espetaculos anteriores da Cia. Espaço em BRANCO: Extinção e ANDY/EDIE
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Resumo: O que se pretende nessa dissertação é agenciar, através de conceitos, metáforas e analogias, o processo de investigação teórico prático do encenador João de Ricardo, da Cia. Espaço em BRANCO - Porto Alegre - RS, na preparação e apresentação do espetáculo teatral "Teresa e o Aquário", que teve estréia em 2008. Para tanto, toma-se como território de reflexão as zonas de contato entre o teatro e a performance arte. Este também é um memorial do processo criativo vivido pelo encenador, abrangendo a documentação da série de ações performáticas "CASULOS" que deram início à preparação de "Teresa e o Aquário" e os ensaios do mesmo.
Abstract: This study aims to agency, through concepts, metaphors and analogies, the process of theoretical-practical investigation of director João de Ricardo, of Cia. Espaço em BRANCO - Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the preparation and performance of theater play Teresa e o Aquário, which premiéred in 2008. In order to do so, the territory for reflection is made up of contact zones between drama and performance art. This is also a memorial of the creative process experienced by the director, and includes documentation of the series of performance actions "CASULOS", which served as a starting point for the preparation of Teresa e o Aquário and for the director's rehearsals.
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Mallett-Koch, Rosemary Ann. "How to direct a comedy with high school thespians." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/866.

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Fargier, Noémie. "Expériences sonores et intersubjectivité dans le spectacle vivant contemporain. L'inter[o]ralité, entre désir et pouvoirs." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA152.

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Cette thèse propose une réflexion sur la relation entre scène et salle se tissant à travers l’écoute. Dépassant le modèle activité/passivité auquel pourrait être rattachée l’expérience sonore du spectateur, nous tenterons de cerner les contours de cette relation où l’un émet tandis que l’autre reçoit, mais aussi répond. Le pouvoir semble du côté de la scène, capable de forcer l’écoute du spectateur, d’écraser toute réaction, tandis que le désir serait l’enjeu même de cette relation asymétrique, et circulerait de part et d’autre. Associant la notion d’auralité, qui englobe en un seul terme l’écoute et l’audition, à celle d’oralité, acte d’émettre une parole à l’intention d’un auditeur, la notion d’inter[o]ralité, fusionne les deux pôles, émission et réception, et les deux organes, bouche et oreille. Elle cherche à cerner la dimension intersubjective de la relation d’écoute liant la scène à la salle : si celle-ci prend modèle sur la situation d’énonciation, elle ne se réduit pas à l’écoute muette d’une parole ; elle est jeu d’adresse, intention d’attention.Cette réflexion, mûrie au fil d’une expérience de spectatrice, nourrie de la mémoire, souvent fragmentaire, de spectacles, se fonde sur un corpus d’oeuvres vues et entendues entre 2004 et 2017, créées par des artistes de la scène européenne tels que Joël Pommerat, Romeo Castellucci, Maguy Marin, Vincent Macaigne, Gisèle Vienne, Rimini Protokoll, dont le rapport au sonore est remarquable ou parlant du fait de la relation qu’il engendre avec le spectateur. Aussi cette réflexion invite-t-elle à une appréhension plus large de l’écoute : non seulement comme réception du sonore et de ce qu’il y a à entendre, mais comme réponse à une proposition émise à l’attention d’un autre, attention à cette attention elle-même, à laquelle ce dernier est libre, à tout moment, de se dérober
This thesis explores the relationship between stage and audience as it arises in listening. Going beyond the activity/passivity paradigm that could be used to describe the audience’s sonic experience, we will try to draw the contours of a relationship in which the one produces while the other not only receives, but also responds. Power seems to belong to the stage in order to enforce listening on the part of the spectator and to prevent any reaction, while desire appears to be circulating back and forth as the purpose of this asymmetrical relationship. Conflating the notion of aurality, which gathers “listening” and “hearing”, and the notion of orality, which is the act of producing speech for a listener, the notion of inter[o]rality combines the two sides, production and reception, and the two organs, mouth and ears. It aims at capturing the intersubjective dimension of the listening relationship between stage and audience : even if it is modeled on the paradigm of enunciation, it is not limited to the mute listening of what is being said ; it is a game of addressing, an intention of attentiveness. This reflection, which has matured along with my experience as a spectator and which relies on the often incomplete memory of the shows I have seen, is based on a corpus of works that I watched and heard between 2004 and 2017. They were produced by European stage directors and artists such as Joël Pommerat, Romeo Castellucci, Maguy Marin, Vincent Macaigne, Gisèle Vienne, or Rimini Protokoll, whose connection to sound is remarkable or significant because of the relationship it creates with the spectator. In this way, this reflection encourages a wider approach to listening, considered not only as the reception of sound and of what is to be heard, but also as a response to what is offered to the attention of an other, and as an attentiveness to this attention itself, which the other is free, at any moment, to relinquish
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Henrion-Dourcy, Isabelle. "Ache Lhamo : Jeux et enjeux d'une tradition théâtrale tibétaine." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211111.

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L'objet de cette thèse est une monographie du théâtre traditionnel tibétain, ou ache lhamo, souvent appelé lhamo tout court, tel qu'il était joué à l'époque pré-moderne (antérieure à 1950) et tel qu'il est encore joué actuellement en Région Autonome du Tibet (République Populaire de Chine) et dans la diaspora tibétaine établie en Inde et au Népal. Comme la plupart des théâtres d'Asie, il est un genre composite :à la fois drame à thématique religieuse (issue du bouddhisme mahāyāna), satire mimée, et farce paysanne, il comprend de la récitation sur un mode parlé, du chant, des percussions, de la danse et des bouffonneries improvisées, ainsi qu'un usage de masques et de costumes flamboyants, qui tranchent avec la sobriété absolue des décors (la scène est vide) et de la mise en scène. Bien qu’il ait été encouragé et financé par le gouvernement des Dalai Lama, de grands monastères et des familles aristocratiques, c’est un théâtre avant tout populaire, et non pas réservé à une élite lettrée. Cette étude a circonscrit à la fois le contenu, le rôle social, le langage artistique et les implications politiques du théâtre dans la civilisation tibétaine.

La méthodologie a été composée en combinant les apports et réflexions critiques de trois disciplines :l'ethnologie, la tibétologie et les études théâtrales. L'approche est fondamentalement ethnologique, en ce que la production des données repose sur une immersion de plus de deux ans parmi des acteurs de théâtre de la Région Autonome du Tibet (1996-1998) et de près d'un an parmi ceux de la diaspora d'Asie du Sud (1998-2000). Elle l’est aussi en ce que l’intention a été de constituer une intelligibilité englobante pour l'ache lhamo, c'est-à-dire de mettre au jour l'intrication des dimensions culturelle, sociale, politique, économique, rituelle et symbolique de la pratique théâtrale. L’une des contributions principales du travail est d’étoffer l’ethnologie régionale du Tibet central, mais ses conclusions et son esprit critique le placent également dans la liste déjà importante des travaux consacrés à l'invention des traditions. La tibétologie a fourni le cadre interprétatif fondamental des données recueillies. Une importance très grande a été accordée à l'histoire du pays ainsi qu'à la philologie et aux terminologies vernaculaires particulières au théâtre. L’étude s’inscrit dans l’un des courants novateurs de la tibétologie, privilégiant les aspects non plus religieux et politiques de cette civilisation, mais sa partie « populaire » et anthropologique, mettant au premier plan l’analyse des pratiques et non celle des doctrines. Des sources écrites (textes pré-modernes et sources secondaires de folkloristes tibétains et chinois) ont été intégrées aux observations. En ce qui concerne la troisième approche méthodologique, cette étude ne s'inscrit ni dans le courant des « performance studies » de Richard Schechner, ni dans l'anthropologie théâtrale d’Eugenio Barba, ni dans l'ethnoscénologie telle qu'elle est défendue par Jean-Marie Pradier, mais plutôt dans l'anthropologie du théâtre, au sens d'étude interprétative et multidimensionnelle, utilisant les référents établis de l'anthropologie et les savoirs indigènes pour décrire une expression culturelle déterminée et reconnue comme un genre à part entière, le théâtre.

Les résultats sont présentés en trois parties, qui peuvent être résumées de manière lapidaire par trois adjectifs :culturelle, sociologique, artistique. La première partie, intitulée "Le cadre culturel du lhamo avant 1959", est consacrée au contexte (historique, religieux et littéraire) dans lequel le théâtre est inscrit, ainsi qu’aux textes (leur contenu, leurs modalités de composition et de transmission) qui révèlent l'imaginaire propre du théâtre. La deuxième partie est une analyse de "L'ancrage sociologique du lhamo". Les conditions matérielles des représentations y sont examinées :les divers types de troupes, leur organisation interne, le statut social des acteurs, l'inscription de la pratique du théâtre dans le système socio-économique pré-moderne, et les rapports d'obligations tissés entre acteurs et seigneurs, ainsi qu'entre acteurs et commanditaires des représentations. La dernière partie, "Art et savoirs des acteurs", jette un éclairage sur la matière vive du lhamo. Elle rend compte des conceptions, valeurs, plaisirs et difficultés de ceux qui pratiquent cette forme d'art. Les divers registres de leur discipline sont analysés en détail :costumes, masques, gestuelle, chant, accompagnement musical (percussions) et sentiments exprimés. L'appréciation qui en est faite par le public est aussi consignée. Au cœur de cette partie se trouve une réflexion sur la nature rituelle et non rituelle du lhamo, et sur les liens éventuels de ce dernier avec d'autres activités religieuses, telles la possession. Les dernières pages de la thèse constituent un épilogue, qui fait le point sur la situation contemporaine, donc les implications politiques, du théâtre des deux côtés de l'Himalaya.

L'image anthropologique du lhamo qui a pu être dégagée de ces trois volets d'analyse le fait apparaître comme essentiellement ambivalent :le lhamo est un théâtre de paradoxes. À l'image de la civilisation tibétaine, il est composite et cohérent à la fois. Sa cohérence réside dans son ambivalence :il traverse et relie des aspects contrastés de la culture. Il introduit du jeu entre les polarités que Tibétains et tibétologues établissent parfois un peu trop à la hâte entre culture savante et culture populaire, écriture et oralité, éléments exogènes et apports autochtones, bouddhisme et cultes qui ont précédé son implantation, aspiration religieuse et intérêts mondains, spécialistes rituels et bénéficiaires qui les rémunèrent. Combinant fonction pédagogique et fonction rituelle, sacré compassé du texte et irrévérence grivoise des improvisations, le lhamo correspond aussi très bien à la manière dont les théâtrologues appréhendent le théâtre :comme un objet curieux, créé par les hommes et qui pourtant ne cesse de les intriguer, comme s'il était venu d'ailleurs.
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Theron, Soné. "Directing intimacy in the theatre : David Hare's The blue room as a case study." 2012. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000475.

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M.Tech. Drama. Tshwane University of Technology
The aim and purpose of this study was to determine how a director might approach the topic of intimacy on stage, using David Hare's The Blue Room, as a case study. In order to determine how intimacy might play out on stage, an understanding of intimacy was important. The literature review of intimacy posed a problem in the form of a lust/romantic love continuum. The question was then, what is intimacy and how does it play out in these two opposites of the continuum, namely a relationship as opposed to lust. This also needed a description of what love and lust might be. The literature review shows that there are three basic principles involved when establishing a relationship: nearness, similarity, and reward. It also became apparent that the characters in the play often used these principles to set up the idea of a relationship in order to fulfil a lustful desire or to gain a personal reward The sociopetal and sociofugal forces as explained by the study of proxemics became an ideal way of explaining how the characters use/abuse these principles of relationship to steer a situation towards their own personal goal. It also created a tool for establishing the actor system relationships as well as the character system relationships and the actor/character duality. The use of space in production became central to this study in various domains, such as the space between actor and actor, the space between the character system and audience, and the actual performance space. Fundamentally the way in which space is used in everyday life to convey meaning became a useful directing and analytical tool. To understand the generation of meaning, the study of semiotics was used. Semiotics is concerned with the generation and understanding of meaning. This was an integral part of the study as it allowed one to understand how meaning is generated so that this process could be used to recreate the desired meaning on stage. It can be argued that the setting up of signifiers that could potentially convey certain meanings, such as that of intimacy through actions, speech, voice, décor and essentially the use of space was a very useful tool for the director in the pursuit of both the generation of intimacy meaning systems and in the process of understanding the acting and directing process more effectively.
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Cairns, Glen. "Danceland: a production record." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/4105.

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The thesis is a record of the writing and rehearsal process which led to the British premiere of the full length Canadian play, Danceland, at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in November of 1994. The first chapter is a discussion of the dramatic theories and historical research which informed the initial creative writing process. The second chapter is the final draft of the play itself. The third chapter is a record of the rehearsal and production process, as well as an overview of the major dramaturgical problems which the actors, director and designers encountered during rehearsals of the play. A full cast and crew list and the reviews from the British press are contained in the appendices. The playwright's "experiment" which sits at the heart of this production record is that Aristotle's idea of "place" is essential to the creation of an indigenous, Canadian dramatic literature. The writing process, however, is only the beginning of the translation of drama from the page to the stage; and it is this final, rehearsal and production process which demands that all dramatic theory be placed within the context of believable characterization and dramatic action.
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Kays, Halena Starr. "Creating the conditions for inspiration : thoughts on positive, collaborative theatre making at the University of Texas at Austin." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2851.

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An in depth reflection on my approach to directing theater, particularly the attitudes and exercises I utilize to foster a positive environment for actors and designers to do their best artistic work. This thesis sites specific examples from the productions I directed as a Master of Fine Arts student in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Oluwasuji, Olutoba Gboyega. "A comparison of video interpretations of Athol Fugard and the printed texts." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/9089.

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Without consciousness we become victim instead of actors- even if it is only a question of acting victims. And in the make belief of our lives, the audience is self (Fugard in Frank 2004: 53). The primary concern of this study is the comparison of video interpretations of Athol Fugard with their adaptations as visual texts. It has been argued that 'the playwright's creative labour ends with the completion of the script' (Kidnie 2009: 15).Therefore, amongst other issues this dissertation will explore the politics of production at play during adaptation from printed version to screenplays. My assumption is that a comparison between the printed texts and video versions will add to the understanding of the effectiveness of Fugard's dramatic techniques and comprehension of literary texts; images are easy to decipher by inexperienced interpreters if guided. For the purpose of my presentation I adapt the reader response theoretical position of Stanley Fish based on a comparison that will be explored in terms of my own response to both the written text and visual texts, and in line with other responsed to the play.
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