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Recklies, Donald F. "Spectacle and illusion : the mechanics of the horse race on the theatrical stage, 1883-1923 /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487259580263868.
Full textFantasia, 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.
Full textFantasia, 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.
Full text'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."
Metzger, Stephanie. "Theater und Fiktion : Spielräume des Fiktiven in Inszenierungen der Gegenwart /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2010. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3391365&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
Full textCrouch, Kristin A. "Shared Experience Theatre exploring the boundaries of performance /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1054738772.
Full textTitle from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 365 p.; also includes graphics. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Lesley K. Ferris, Dept. of Theatre. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365).
Gallagher, Kelsey B. "So Much Better: A Lighting Design Approach for a Production of Legally Blonde: The Musical." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555414324698267.
Full textMidthun, Amy L. "Manipulating the Stage: A Comparison of the Government-Sponsored Theaters of the United States and Nazi Germany." Ohio : Ohio University, 2002. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1040072155.
Full textHarris, John Rogers Sr. "The performance of black masculinity in contemporary black drama." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1054742668.
Full textRutherford, Cassandra. "Building theatres/theatre buildings : reinventing Mull Theatre." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5254/.
Full textShelton, Rebecca S. "Paint manager for 2008-2009 academic year and paint charge for three sisters and twelfth night." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1241724077.
Full textLentz, Cassandra Nicole. "The Scenic Design for a Production of Legally Blonde the Musical." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555345046533812.
Full textNogar, Julianne K. "Costume Design and Production for Legally Blonde the Musical book by Heather Hach,Music and Lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555364601372494.
Full textSchröder, Gesine. "Gymnasiasten-Theater." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-23598.
Full textLaw, Peter Z. "Traveling Theater." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31774.
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Mell, Lina. "Lernendes Theater." Diss., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-166778.
Full textAdams, Leslie Elizabeth. "Bright Theater." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/941.
Full textCharoni, Eugenia. "From Motherhood and Marriage to Symbolist Theater and Revolutionary Politics: French and Spanish Women's Theatre, 1890's to 1930's." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871014.
Full textBoner, Jürg. "Dialektik und Theater die Dialektik im Theater Bertolt Brechts /." Zürich : Zentralstelle der Studentenschaft, 1995. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/35815830.html.
Full textWilson, Jarod Douglas. "A Lighting Design Process for a Production of Aida, with Music by Elton John and Lyrics by Tim Rice." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1306296781.
Full textWhitaker, Janelle. "A Whole New World: A study on the impact the Disney Theatrical Group has made on Broadway theatre and Times Square over the past 20 years." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1514644833674716.
Full textPrzytulski, Gerhard. ""Die wahre Wiege unseres modernen Theaters" religiöse Elemente im Theater Max Reinhardts /." Trier : WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39946364h.
Full textPugh, Ian Bradford Ngongotoha. "“Devoted & Disgruntled”: Improbable’s Devising, Eldership, and Open Space Technology." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366467614.
Full textRoßbach, Nikola [Verfasser]. "Theater über Theater. : Parodie und Moderne 1870-1914 / Nikola Roßbach." Bielefeld : Aisthesis Verlag, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1194433464/34.
Full textConnick, Rob. "Rethinking Artaud's Theoretical and Practical Works." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300457063.
Full textWalling, Carl Harry III. "Exhibiting Scenographic Identities at the 2007 & 2011 Prague Quadrennials." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1419006710.
Full textShrader, Angela D. "A Comparison of Audience Response to Live and Recorded Theatre Performances." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1430070781.
Full textKonesko, Patrick M. "Representing Childhood: The Social, Historical, and Theatrical Significance of the Child on Stage." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1365154777.
Full textMekeel, Lance. "From Irreverent to Revered: How Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi and the "U-Effect" Changed Theatre History." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1371827527.
Full textLandgraf, Jörg. "Politik als Theater." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-230345.
Full textMeyer, Nadine Sabra. "The anatomy theater." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5950.
Full textThe entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 7, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.
Ruoff-Siler, Lees. "Pneumatic world theater." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78976.
Full textXagoraris, Zafirios. "The automaton theater." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70642.
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Hero of Alexandria was a Greek geometrician, engineer, and inventor who lived in Alexandria probably during the first century A.D. He wrote in Greek a number of theoretical treatises revealing a thorough knowledge of geometry, mechanics, optics, and pneumatics. Being more interested in the applications of his theoretical principles than in the principles themselves, Hero is known as the inventor of a number of ingenious devices based on principles of pneumatics, mechanics, and optics. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate Hero's work from an artistic viewpoint. To this end, it focuses on devices described in three of Hero's treatises, Pneumatica, Catoptrica, and Automatopoietica, in order to identify their artistic value and artistic novelty. Hero's influence on subsequent artistic-technical work, and in particular on the contemporary automaton theater, is also discussed. Finally, considerations are added in relation to a new project.
by Zafirios Xagoraris.
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Howell, Jenny. "Dance Theater Workshop." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/116.
Full textLaura, Joseph. "Rachel's Madcap Theater." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1929.
Full textRöder, Levin D. "Theater der Schrift." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15800.
Full textSince the early 1990s a number of literary papers testify the vivid interest in the subjective composition of Müller’s writing. But none of these detailed devotes to Müller’s as autobiography assigned text WAR WITHOUT BATTLE – LIFE IN TWO DICTATORSHIPS. Until now the text has been only used as quarry of quotations, aid of interpretation and extensive poetological collection of material. Mainly the work is used as evidence of the intention of Müller’s writing and therefore receives an inadmissible degree of sovereignty of interpretation. The poetical dimension of the text is often inadequately reflected or even totally neglected and ignored. This text-critical examination will contribute to close this gap of research within the relevant secondary literature and encourage the recognition and discussion of the potential of Müller’s enormous and multifarious work beyond his as theatre work assigned texts. After the introduction of the situation of reception and the status of current research, the discussion of specific poetological questions in general such as autobiographical research, examination of genesis and formal specific features of texts, this paper will analyse the structural mechanisms of effect, which turn Müller’s disparate self-explication into an auto-drama. It seems suitable to return the meaning of generation on the structure-esthetical mechanisms of effect, as the proximity of text and selective analysis of the genesis of text is very close to Müller’s strategy of self-deconstruction. Particularly as Müller constructs his »Lebenserzählung« to similar structural principals as well as others of his »poetical« texts. The description of the disparate form of expression of the autobiographic I result in the text-immanent strategies of the enormous complex self-dramatisation of Müller; his »Theater der Schrift«.
Daniel, James Gray. "Technical director as problem solver West Virginia University Division of Theatre and Dance's production of A flea in her ear /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2007. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=5531.
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Roche, Christopher Marlowe. "Jesuitical Communal Mission since 1540 and its links to Contemporary Jesuit Theatre." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1341593529.
Full textChon, ChuYoung Joy. "Transforming Indigenous Performance in Contemporary South Korean Theatre: the Case of Sohn JinCh'aek's Madangnori." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1388624592.
Full textJohn, Justin T. "A lighting design process for a production of The Tempest by William Shakespeare." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397722289.
Full textHageland, Dustin Aaron. "Full Circle: The Development Process of Small Box with a Revolver." OpenSIUC, 2021. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2848.
Full textBlumenthal, Arthur R. "Giulio Parigi's stage designs Florence and the early Baroque spectacle /." New York : Garland Pub, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=iDVVAAAAMAAJ.
Full textSturdivant, Jr Jeffrey A. "COSTUME DESIGN OF “THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA”." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/388813.
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This paper is meant to serve as a reflection and observation of the author's work costume designing Temple University's production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare. The paper will walk the reader through the design process of the production from inception, through execution and to the final product. The paper will also reflect on the author's personal goals during the three years spent pursing Master of Fine Arts in Theatre.
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Gordon, Wendy A. "The marriage of musical theater and the avant-garde: The musical theater of Tina Landau as experimental theater." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292018.
Full textBudde, Antje. "Kulturhistorische Bedingungen, Begriff, Geschichte, Institution und Praxis des Experimentellen Theaters in der VR China." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/14813.
Full textThe starting point of this paper was both to describe the theatre-historical phenomenon of Chinese experimental theatre in a comparative way, as the result of the encounter of two culture-historical lines differing very much (China/Europe) and to put it in its proper historic context and thus to explain from its context. The power-political context of intercultural encounters is dealt with. The question arises whether one would be able to watch China at all " sitting on a transcen-dental hill". You are constantly facing the question from which perspective you can achieve adequate results when researching/ investigating foreign cultures. Should you maintain your (external) observer status or should you recognise that your own presence at the site involves the observer what he watches or should you consciously give up the anyhow fictitious status of objectivity. While staging "Put down your whip - Woyzeck" in Beijing at the State theatre called Central Experimental Theatre I could experience both artistic and every-day communication, without which this paper would and could never have been written. The Chinese culture has developed writing systems and a written culture early on in history. Nevertheless, my study has shown, that instruction (learner and teacher behaviour), performing arts and social communication have been highly influenced by the oral tradition of communication throughout the centuries. The aspect of corporality in instruction is essential. The teacher's incorporated knowledge is transferred to the student's body through permanent exercise and repetition/revision. The student (worldly, religious and artistic spheres) is taught HOW to do the exercise but not necessarily WHY because part of this thinking is the idea that the awareness of the meaning of the skill comes to the student through his body. This implies that it is a characteristic feature of oral instruction/information stresses repetition rather than innova-tion. This line of tradition has always been efficient for the Chinese spoken drama, even today. Innovation in a Chinese context means chiefly innovation of detail based on a model given. The Chinese society developed a rich variety of tools of theatrical communication. Due to the social structure and a well-developed relational thinking the cultural communicators have "shifting identities" as Jo Riley stated it in terms of the performers in the Chinese traditional music thea-tre. Rosemarie Juttka-Reisser confirmed an adequate phenomenon for the practice of switching social roles in processes of socio-cultural communication and interaction. "Shifting identities" means that communicators are capable of spontaneously and quickly responding to new communication contexts through adequate performative sets of instruments. This has an impact on the performance of roles in Chinese theatre. Therefore the Brechtian term of alienation, for instance, can not or only partly be applied to Chinese theatre. Thus, the Brechtian theory of alienation is not derived from Chinese theatre but rather projected to it. Linked to the concept of incorporation of knowledge is a specific image of incorporation of knowledge including the non-Chinese one. Up to the 1990s the metaphor of digestion had been used again and again. The principle of incorporation which is closely connected with ancestor cults underwent fundamental criticism at least once. Curiously enough, this happened after the incorporation of Western knowledge, in particular of the idea of progress and evolution/ revolution. Lu Xun coined the metaphor of cannibalism. This relates to the traditional incorporation of the so-called "feudal" knowledge based in the Chinese culture which has been understood as inferior to the West. Since then there has been "progressive" and "reactionary" digestion; discourse about cultural identity, about renewal and preservation of Chinese values has always been trying to re-determine what is useful or useless respectively. The appearance and existence of the Chinese experimental theatre can not be explained without it being embedded in the line of Chinese (theatre)history. Patterns of acquisition in terms of the perception of new stimuli from other/foreign cultures have developed a traditional logic which can only be recognized and categorized if you have a deeper understanding of the historic condition and the whole framework of theatre in China. Therefore I dealt with this historical line in detail. The experimental theatre in China continues this line to a certain extend. This results in the Chinese spoken theatre being "a kind of Beijing opera with a different approach" but not a bourgeois Western spoken drama with a Chinese touch. Throughout its history the Chinese theatre has always readily absorbed intercultural stimuli. So you can say that these processes of interaction have contributed to contemporary Chinese theatre. Thus you can regard the integration of Western theatre styles including the development of the experimental theatre a highly traditional strategy for encountering and dealing with the foreign element. This strategy is not an expression of modernity only but mainly of tradition. Chinese theatre history was not particularly interested in the authenticity of the adopted foreign material but in its application within the Chinese context. This has led to the conclusion that there cannot be any "wrong" perception of the Western theatre in China but only a Chinese. The experimental approach to new forms within the Chinese theatre culture has been used all the time. The Chinese experimental practice has indeed been linked with integrating, ornamenting and trying out resulting in a kind of patchwork. In contrast to the Western term of experiments this practice does not depend on abstract hypotheses and proofs systematically shown. This is partly due to Western sciences focussing on mathematics while Chinese sciences were concentrating on dealing with problems of relations (physics). Therefore they (have) preferred empirical observation to mathematical analysis in order to achieve new knowledge. In contrast, the experimental Chinese theatre in the 20th century, reflects a new quality in their approach to theatre which, for the first time, attempts to use concepts like in the Western theatre. The reason for this new approach resulted from the fact that for the first time in its history Chinese culture as an Asian high culture was faced with a serious hegemonially operating enemy that questioned the quality of the Chinese culture as a whole through its economic and military potential. The Chinese intellectual elite was forced to respond to the Western threat by using Western methods (including spoken drama) in order to survive: using a Western means to a Chinese end. These specific historical circumstances and power relations have led to different directions of avantgarde theatre movements in China and the West in the early 20th century. Western and Chinese theatre artists went opposite ways: while the former initiated the Re-theatralisation in their criticism of the bourgeois theatre concept and of industrialisation; the latter focused on De-theatralisation which had become a new concept, that of realism/ naturalism. The new experiences of the time could no longer be expressed in their folktales and historical analogies of the traditional Chinese theatre and its stylised theatricality. Amateurs (in particular students of big cities) were the first to invent the various categories of a Chinese "experimental" theatre and later transformed its status into a professional one. Apart from cultural influences of Western (including Japan) imperialism China faced the same problems with the Soviet cultural imperialism. The Soviet cultural policy favoured Stanislavsky's concept. This idea became the basis of a new Chinese national theatre which was to develop after the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Since the 1980s it has increasingly been criticised. In addition other Western concepts have attracted attention including concepts of the Western historical avantgarde, the theatre of the absurd and post-modern theatre. Since the 1990s two major tendencies of modern Chinese theatre can be stated. On the one hand, the theatre is subject to rigid tendencies of commercialisation (which means that the state cut the subsidies), on the other hand, the theatre is confronted with a variety of new entertainment media (TV, cinema, karaoke, shows etc.) which make it remember its specific oppor-tunities of theatrical expression (now including traditional Chinese theatre forms). At the moment a new heated debate about the term and the content of experimental theatre is going on.
Fahrmeir, Matthias. "Kunstfreiheit im Theater Theater zwischen Beschränkung und Förderung durch den Staat." Hamburg Kovač, 2005. http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/3-8300-1905-X.htm.
Full textRouse, Rebecca. "A new dramaturgy for digital technology in narrative theater." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48960.
Full textDailey, Zachary Elijah. "Finding the Rhythms and the Accidental Poetry: Annie Baker and the Condition of a Contemporary Female Playwright." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1439378464.
Full textOliver, Sarah Miranda Londré Felicia Hardison. "Kansas City's Community Children's Theatre a history /." Diss., UMK access, 2008.
Find full text"A thesis in theatre." Typescript. Advisor: Felicia Hardison Londreʹ Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Sept. 12, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-120). Online version of the print edition.
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.
Full textPhillips, Chelsea L. "“Carrying All Before Her:” Pregnancy and Performance on the British Stage in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1689-1807." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1418649014.
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