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Amato, Danielle Anna. "Collage corporeality : body and technology in contemporary American performance /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3099913.
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Liu, Yining. "Onstage Transformation and Identity Politics in Contemporary Asian American Theater." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1510769465203704.
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Sanders, Jennifer Lynn. "Audience development of theatres: a case study of Contemporary American Theatre Company Columbus, OH." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392308090.
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Rodríguez, Chantal. "Performing Latinidad in Los Angeles pan-ethnic approaches in contemporary Latina/o theater and performance /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1905664631&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Knight, Christina Anne. "Performing Passage: Contemporary Artists Stage the Slave Trade." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11178.
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My dissertation examines the work of George C. Wolfe, August Wilson, Lorna Simpson and Glenn Ligon, theater and visual artists working in the 1980s and 1990s who feature representations of the Middle Passage in their work. Despite their different mediums--Wolfe and Wilson created plays for the proscenium stage and Simpson and Ligon crafted art installations--all four critiqued the racialized social retrenchment of their historical moment by linking it to the slave trade, and each did so through an engagement with black performance traditions.<br>African and African American Studies
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Kazzazi, Seyedeh Anahit. "Performing science : new physics and contemporary British and American science plays." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67576/.
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McCool, Lauren Zawistowski. "Religion as a Role: Decoding Performances of Mormonism in the Contemporary United States." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343429819.
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Brinkman, Eric M. "Inclusive Shakespeare: An Intersectional Analysis of Contemporary Production." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1595003420023716.
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Sebestyen, John S. "Culture, Crisis, and Community: Christianity in North American Drama at the Turn of the Millennium." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1242080581.
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Davies, Ben. "Exceptional intercourse : sex, time and space in contemporary novels by male British and American writers." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2582.
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This thesis provides a theory of exceptional sex through close readings of contemporary novels by male British and American writers. I take as my overriding methodological approach Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception, which is a juridico-political state in which the law has been suspended and the difference between rule and transgression is indistinguishable. Within this state, the spatiotemporal markers inside and outside also become indeterminable, making it impossible to tell whether one is inside or outside time and space. Using this framework, I work through narratives of sexual interaction – On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, Sabbath’s Theater, and The Act of Love – to conceptualise categories of sexual exceptionality. My study is not a survey, and the texts have been chosen as they focus on different sexual behaviours, thereby opening up a variety of sexual exceptionalities. I concentrate on male writers and narratives of heterosexual sex as most work on sex, time and space is comprised of feminist readings of literature by women and queer work on gay, lesbian or trans writers and narratives. However, in the Coda I expand my argument by turning to Emma Donoghue’s Room, which, as the protagonist has been trapped for the first five years of his life, provides a tabula rasa’s perspective of exceptionality. Through my analysis of exceptionality, I provide spatiotemporal readings of the hymen, incest, adultery, sexual listening and the arranged affair. I also conceptualise textual exceptionalities – the incestuous prequel, auricular reading and the positionality of the narrator, the reader and literary characters. Exceptional sex challenges the assumption in recent queer theory that to be out of time is ‘queer’ and to be in time is ‘straight’. Furthermore, exceptionality complicates the concepts of perversion and transgression as the norm and its transgression become indistinct in the state of exception. In contrast, exceptionality offers a new, more determinate way to analyse narratives of sex.
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Schlenker, Caroline. "Le spectateur implicite dans le théâtre de Sam Shepard : les œuvres du Magic Theatre (1976- 1983)." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAL024.
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Influencé par le monde artistique et théâtral qui se transformait autour de lui pendant les années soixante et soixante-dix, Shepard va expérimenter lors de sa résidence d’écriture au Magic Theatre, une nouvelle manière d’écrire le théâtre pour ses spectateurs, à travers la confrontation entre texte et scène, personnages et acteurs, action dramatique et performance.Comment lire alors les pièces de cette période? Notre thèse propose d’examiner comment l’acteur, le son, la performance et l’expérience sensorielle du spectateur, sont inscrits dans les textes de notre corpus. Notre travail vise à montrer, à travers la prépondérance intentionnelle de ces éléments dans le texte, comment le texte de Shepard ne s’adresse pas à un simple lecteur mais à un lecteur/spectateur. En effet, contrairement aux autres textes littéraires, le texte de théâtre trouve son actualisation sur scène. Le spectateur est donc celui qui construit le sens in fine de la pièce de théâtre. Notre thèse examine en quoi les pièces de Shepard doivent, pour être comprises, être en partie élucidées par la scène. Notre travail a comme objectif donc d’identifier des éléments scéniques inscrits dans le texte de théâtre et de proposer des outils opérationnels pour les décrire. Il s’agit d’élaborer les prémisses d’une théorie du spectateur implicite pour l’oeuvre de Shepard, dans le but de pouvoir étudier plus rigoureusement le programme de réception inscrit dans son oeuvre<br>Influenced by the evolution of the artistic and theatrical context during the nineteen sixties and the nineteen seventies, Shepard began to experiment at the Magic Theatre with an innovative approach to writing theater for his audience. His approach was to confront the text and the stage, the characters and the actors, dramatic action and performance.How should one read Shepard’s plays from this period? Our study suggests that the actor, sound, performance and the sensory experience of the spectator are written within the texts of our corpus. Through our observation of the predominance of these elements in the texts themselves, our thesis demonstrates how Shepard’s text does not simply address the reader but reaches out to the reader/ spectator. The theatrical text, unlike other literary texts, reveals its essence on stage. In a play, it is the spectator that builds the meaning in fine. Our thesis examines how Shepard’s plays need to be clarified by the stage in order to be understood. The objective of our study is to identify the stage elements written within the text, and to draw out some methodological tools to describe them. The idea is to elaborate a theory of the “implicit spectator” for Shepard’s work, with the aim of studying more rigorously the reader’s response program inscribed in his works
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Gontovnik, Monica. "Another Way of Being: The Performative Practices of Contemporary Female ColombianArtists." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1420473106.
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Anan, Nobuko. "Playing with America parody and mimesis in contemporary Japanese women's performance /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1930321591&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Rocco, Olivia. "Ethics and Theater-Making in Contemporary America: Making and Avoiding Unnatural Disasters." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors158773070360455.
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Anderson, Atwater Henry. "Re-presenting intersections of race, masculinity and sexuality in contemporary American theatre." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503096.
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Deus, Marcio Aparecido da Silva de. "Análise dos recursos épicos em Angels in America, de Tony Kushner (Part I, \'Millennium Approaches\', e Part II, \'Perestroika\')." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-06112014-105506/.
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Esta dissertação tem como objetivo exclusivo a análise do uso de recursos formais épicos na estrutura dramatúrgica da peça Angels in America (Part I, Millennium Approaches, e Part II, Perestroika), do dramaturgo norte-americano Tony Kushner [1956- ]. Trata-se, portanto, de uma análise voltada ao texto dramatúrgico das duas partes da peça, e não às suas encenações e à adaptação televisiva. Nesse texto, são tratadas algumas questões históricas, políticas e sociais dos Estados Unidos da América nos anos de 1980, momento esse em que o ex-ator norte-americano Ronald Reagan estava cumprindo seu segundo mandato como presidente estadunidense e uma doença sem precedentes a AIDS abatia principalmente a comunidade gay. Levando em consideração que esse conteúdo, dada a sua natureza histórica, não pode ser representado pela estrutura do drama convencional, e que por sua vez se insere na esfera formal do épico, procuramos evidenciar e problematizar criticamente os recursos épicos usados no arcabouço formal da peça e, por meio dessa análise, definir qual é o tratamento dado ao épico neste trabalho, que é um marco da dramaturgia kushneriana<br>This thesis aims at analyzing the use of epic resources in the dramaturgical structure of the play Angels in America (Part I, \"Millennium Approaches\" and Part II, \"Perestroika\"), written by the American playwright Tony Kushner [1956 -]. It is an essentially dramaturgical analysis focused on the text of the two parts of the play, and not on their stage productions or television adaptation. Kushners play deals with historical, political and social issues in the context of the United States in the decade of the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan, formerly an actor, was serving his second term as U.S. president and AIDS, a disease of unprecedented severity, spread and decimated the gay community mainly. Since the historical nature of this type of subject cannot be represented within the structure of conventional drama, and since it is characteristic of the epic sphere, we propose to examine the epic resources used in the formal structure of the play and, in the analysis, discuss Kushners approach to the epic in this play, which is a landmark of his dramaturgy
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Davy, Frédéric Angel-Perez Élisabeth. "La poetique du cliche dans le theatre americain contemporain [sic] Edward Albee, David Mamet, Sam Shepard /." Paris : Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV, 2007. http://www.theses.paris4.sorbonne.fr/davy/davy/html/index-frames.html.
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De, Wagter Caroline. "Mouths on fire with songs: negotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North american stage." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210237.
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A travers une étude interculturelle détaillée et comparée de la production théâtrale minoritaire canadienne et américaine, ma thèse cherche à mettre en lumière les les apports thématiques et esthétiques du théâtre multi-ethnicque nord-américain contemporain à la tradition anglo-américaine du 20ème siècle. Les communautés asiatiques, africaines et aborigènes sont retenues comme poste d'observation privilégié de l'expression esthétique de la condition multiculturelle postcoloniale dans le théâtre nord-américain de la période allant de 1972 à nos jours. Sur base d'un corpus de pièces de théâtre, ma recherche m'a permis de redéfinir les grandes articulations des notions d'hybridité, d'identité et de communauté/nation postcoloniale.<p><p>Through a detailed cross-cultural approach of the English Canadian and American minority theatrical production, my thesis aims to identify the thematic and aesthetic contributions of multi-ethnic North American drama to the Anglo-American tradition of the 20th century. My study examines North American drama from the vantage points of African, Asian, and Native communities from 1972 until today. Relying on a number of case studies, my research opened up new avenues for rethinking the notions of hybridity and identity in relation to the postcolonial community/nation. <p><br>Doctorat en Langues et lettres<br>info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
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Breedlove, Allegra B. "Hamlet #PRINCEOFDENMARK: Exploring Gender and Technology through a Contemporary Feminist Re-Interpretation Of Hamlet." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/667.
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Mari, Anibal. "Relações venais, ou sucesso a qualquer preço: análise dos diálogos em \'Glengarry Glen Ross\', de David Mamet." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-03032008-105053/.
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Esta dissertação propõe analisar os diálogos da peça Glengarry Glen Ross, de David Mamet, um dos principais dramaturgos do teatro norte-americano contemporâneo. A hipótese sugerida é que esses diálogos substituem a ação dramática e representam o substrato social que serviu de ponto de referência para a criação do enredo. São neles que as \"relações venais\" e o jogo de poder entre os personagens se concretizam, numa linguagem ilusória e ambígua, na qual valores individuais e comunitários, como a confiança, a amizade, a afeição, a lealdade e a verdade se subverteram, diante da necessidade de sobrevivência ou do sucesso a qualquer preço, ditados pelas práticas comerciais, pelas relações de poder, por uma mentalidade de negócios predatória e se transformaram em mercadoria, lucro e roubo. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) faz parte da chamada \"trilogia do poder\", que abarca ainda American Buffalo (1975) e Speed-the-Plow (1985). As personagens dessas peças ou vivem à margem da sociedade capitalista norteamericana, como o triângulo masculino em American Buffalo, ou são representantes da baixa classe média, como os corretores de imóveis de Glengary Glen Ross, submetidos a uma competição feroz imposta pela direção da firma, onde os vencedores são promovidos e os perdedores, demitidos. Nessas circunstâncias, o contato humano entre eles foi corrompido pela ganância, pelo dinheiro, pela necessidade de sobrevivência. Essas peças são um exercício de crítica ao darwinismo social.<br>This dissertation aims to analyze the speeches in Glengarry Glen Ross, a play by David Mamet, one of the leading playwrights of the contemporary American theatre. The hypotheses suggested are that these speeches replace the dramatic action and that they represent the social stratum which has served as reference point for the creation of the plot. They also make the \'venal relations\' and the power game between the characters concrete, but they do so through the use of a deceptive and ambiguous language, in which individual and communal values, such as trust, friendship, affection, loyalty and truth, are subverted, in face of the need for survival or success at any cost, determined by commercial practices, power relations, predatory business mindset, and are turned into commodities, profit and theft. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) is part of the \"power trilogy\", which also comprises American Buffalo (1975) and Speed-the-Plow (1985). The characters in these plays either live on the margins of the American capitalist society, as the ones in the masculine triangle in American Buffalo, or are representatives of the lowermiddle- class, such as the realtors in Glengarry Glen Ross, subjected to a cutthroat competition by the corporation owners, in which the winners are promoted and the losers are fired. In these circumstances, genuine human contact among them is corrupted by greed, money, and the need for survival. These plays are an exercise of criticism of social Darwinism.
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Serban, Gabriella. "Penser les masculinités dans le théâtre colombien contemporain (1991-2015) : pistes conceptuelles pour appréhender les mutations de l'androcentrisme." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOU20086.
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Comment le tournant esthétique et politique de la fin du siècle affecte-t-il les représentations des masculinités ? Après les différentes guerres qui ont marqué le XXe siècle – les guerres mondiales, mais aussi le conflit armé colombien –, les valeurs les plus martiales de la virilité sont en déclin. Cela est visible dans une déliquescence de la figure du héros dans les textes contemporains, alors même que celle du tyran est plus vive que jamais, en accord avec l’ère postmoderne. L’enjeu de cette thèse est d’observer ces mutations et d’interroger leurs implications, enjeux et limites au sein d’un théâtre d’un dynamisme remarquable : le théâtre colombien. En quoi les textes sont-ils susceptibles d’impulser de « nouvelles masculinités » et/ou de refonder profondément la structure dramatique et le système de genre ? Ce travail propose ainsi d’explorer des textes méconnus du public français et de forger des outils conceptuels pour saisir les tendances actuelles sur ces questions<br>How does the aesthetic and political turn of the end of the century affect the representation of masculinities? After the various wars that marked the 20th century - the world wars, but also the Colombian armed conflict - the most martial values of manhood are in decline. This can be seen in the relative deliquescence of the figure of the hero in contemporary texts, whereas the figure of the tyrant is more vivid than ever, in accordance with the postmodern era. The challenge of this thesis is to observe these changes and to question their implications, challenges and limits within a remarkably dynamic theatre: the Colombian theatre. In what way are the texts likely to stimulate "new masculinities" and/or profoundly rebuild the dramatic structure and gender system? This work thus proposes to explore texts that are not well known to the French public and to forge conceptual tools to capture current trends on these issues<br>¿Cómo afecta a la representación de las masculinidades el cambio estético y político finisecular? Después de las diversas guerras que marcaron el siglo XX - las guerras mundiales, pero también el conflicto armado colombiano - los valores más marciales de la hombría están en declive. Esto puede verse en la relativa decadencia de la figura del héroe en los textos contemporáneos, mientras que la figura del tirano es más viva que nunca, de acuerdo con la era postmoderna. El reto de esta tesis es observar estos cambios y cuestionar sus implicaciones, desafíos y límites dentro de un teatro notablemente dinámico: el teatro colombiano. ¿De qué manera los textos pueden estimular "nuevas masculinidades" y/o reconstruir profundamente la estructura dramática y el sistema de género? Este trabajo propone, pues, explorar textos poco conocidos por el público francés y forjar herramientas conceptuales para captar las tendencias actuales sobre estos temas
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Jambrina, Nina. "Politique du jeu : les dispositifs ludiques dans la dramaturgie latino-américaine contemporaine (Fabio Rubiano, Rafael Spregelburd et Gabriel Calderón)." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20004/document.
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Que peut-il y avoir à penser entre jeu et politique ? A priori, peu de chose. Cette thèse questionne pourtant l’écart apparent entre le mode ludique et la perspective politique à l’heure où cette dernière est sommée de renouveler ses formes et ses moyens au théâtre dans le cadre d’un désaveu de l’activité politique plus général depuis la fin des années quatre-vingt. Dans un dialogue ouvert entre l’expérience latino-américaine et le reste de la scène internationale, il s’agit d’observer en quoi le modèle du jeu participe au travail de redéfinition d’un théâtre qui se voudrait politique aujourd’hui. D’une part, il permet d’appréhender les transformations du contexte théâtral latino-américain à la fin du XX° siècle qui voit son modèle de théâtre politique engagé remis en question. D’autre part, il devient un outil pour étudier les textes de Fabio Rubiano (Colombie, 1963) Rafael Spregelburd (Argentine, 1970) et Gabriel Calderón (Uruguay, 1982), dans leur articulation spécifique au politique. Se dessine alors une politique du jeu, dans les pas de Jacques Rancière et de sa « politique de l’esthétique », qui dispose la perspective politique, en tant que critique du présent et désir de transformation, depuis un rapport au réel, une production de sens et une conception du spectateur qui lui sont propres. Entre jeu et politique, deux dynamiques majeures s’établissent au sein du corpus. Le jeu s’offre d’abord comme un moyen paradoxal de critique. Il dispose des hétérotopies ludiques qui mettent à distance le présent pour mieux faire la peinture dystopique de ses failles et ses manquements. Dans un second temps ou simultanément, il brouille cette première interprétation critique par des expérimentations formelles et fictionnelles qui mettent l’accent sur la créativité elle-même. Si la portée utopique de ces expérimentations varie selon les textes et les auteurs, toutes participent à formuler les prémices de transfigurations à venir<br>At first glance, there is not much to be said about the relation between play and politics. And yet, this thesis questions the gap between playful mode and political perspective at a time when the latter is being asked to renew its theatrical forms and means in a more general context of disavowal of the political practice since the end of the 1980s. As part of an open dialogue between the Latin-American experience and the rest of the international scene, this work focuses on the ways in which the play model participates in a redefinition of a theatre striving to be political. First, it allows for the apprehension of transformations within the Latin-American theatrical context of the end of the 20th Century when its model of a politically engaged theatre was being questioned. Furthermore, it becomes a tool to study texts by Fabio Rubiano (b. 1963, Colombia) Rafael Spregelburd (b. 1970, Argentina) and Gabriel Calderón (b. 1982, Uruguay), and their specific articulation to the political. A politics of play, following Jacques Rancière’s “politics of aesthetics”, is being charted here, and it allows for the political perspective to exist as a critique of the present and as a desire for transformation, based on its own relation to the real, production of meaning and idea of the viewer. Between politics and play, two main directions can be drawn out within this corpus. Play first functions as a paradoxical means for a critique. It creates playful heteropias which distance themselves from the present to better outline the dystopic map of its flaws and failures. Subsequently or simultaneously, it complicates this first critical interpretation with formal and fictional experimentations which put forth creativity itself. Although the utopic impact of these experimentations varies according to the text and its author, they still participate in formulating the premise of a transformation to come<br>¿Qué relaciones podemos establecer entre juego y política? Supuestamente, muy pocas. Esta tesis quiere sin embargo cuestionar la aparente divergencia entre el modo lúdico y la perspectiva política cuando ella se encuentra con la obligación de repensar sus formas dentro de un contexto de sospecha general hacia la actividad política desde el final de los años ochenta. A través de un dialogo abierto entre la experiencia latinoamericana y los escenarios teatrales internacionales, este estudio observa como el modelo del juego participa en redefinir un teatro político para hoy en día. Por una parte, el juego permite entender las transformaciones experimentadas por el contexto teatral latinoamericano al final del siglo XX frente a las alteraciones de su modelo dominante de teatro político comprometido. Por otra parte, permite estudiar los textos de Fabio Rubiano (Colombia, 1963) Rafael Spregelburd (Argentina, 1970) y Gabriel Calderón (Uruguay, 1982), en su articulación especifica con lo político. Allí surge una política del juego, en los pasos de la reflexión sobre la “política de la estética” por Jacques Rancière, que dispone la perspectiva política, como crítica hacia el presente y deseos de transformación, desde una relación con lo real, una producción de sentido y una concepción del espectador que le son propios. Entre juego y política, dos dinámicas principales se desarrollan en los textos. Primero, el juego se presenta como una medio paradoxal para la crítica. Dispone heteropías lúdicas que se distinguen de la realidad para poder pintar de manera distópica las fallas y los mancamientos del presente. Después o simultáneamente, el juego desordena la interpretación critica inicial a través de exploraciones ficcionales y formales que subrayan la creatividad en sí misma. La dimensión utópica de estas experimentaciones va cambiando según los textos y los autores pero todas obran a constituir las premisas de unas transfiguraciones por venir
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Tchamitchian, Raphaëlle. "Dramaturgie / jazz. Le théâtre de Suzan-Lori Parks ˸ poétique et expérience créatrice." Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030038.
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Cette thèse en Études Théâtrales vise à théoriser la tension « dramaturgie / jazz » à travers l’œuvre de l’autrice dramatique africaine américaine Suzan-Lori Parks. Née en 1963, Suzan-Lori Parks est aussi célèbre aux États-Unis qu’elle est inconnue en France. Traversé par la mémoire de l’esclavage et de la traite négrière, son théâtre dé(re)configure l’Histoire pour inverser le point de vue dominant, fabriquer un nouveau récit et apporter réparation aux vivants et aux morts. Aborder son écriture au prisme du jazz, c’est inclure dans l’espace de la réflexion la « double conscience » constitutive de sa poétique, et les enjeux anthropologiques, historiques et politiques qui y sont associés.Dans son théâtre, le jazz n’est pas seulement une présence musicale, mais une vision du monde, un complexe de conduites poétiques et une présence organique qui met l’écriture en mouvement de l’intérieur. De cette présence/absence paradoxale émerge non pas un modèle mais un ensemble de lignes de fuite. Instruites par le jazz, la liquidité et la fugitivité apparaissent comme les éléments clefs d’une poétique de la variabilité. Cette poétique est tributaire de l’expérience créatrice de l’autrice, laquelle donne en retour naissance à une expérience créatrice chez le spectateur. In fine, il s’agit de comprendre la manière dont le jazz affecte le théâtre au point de produire un autre type de théâtre<br>This dissertation in Theatre Studies aims to theorize the tension between “drama / jazz” through the works of African American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Born in 1963, Suzan- Lori Parks is as famous in the United States as she is little known in France. Informed by the memory of slavery and the African slave trade, her theatre dis(re)members History to reverse the dominant discourse, make a new story and provide reparation to the living and the dead. By approaching her writing through jazz, we take into account the “double consciousness” that is constitutive of her poetics, and the anthropological, historical and political issues it raises. In her theatre, jazz is not only a form of music, but also a way of looking at the world, a cluster of poetic conduits and an organic presence that sets the writing in motion from within. From this paradoxical presence/absence what emerges is not a model but instead a group of converging lines of flight. Liquidity and fugitivity appear to be key jazz-shaped elements of a poetics of mutability. This poetics is linked to the creative experience of the playwright, which in turn gives birth to a creative experience for the spectator during performance. In short, the task is to understand the ways jazz affects theatre to the point of producing a new kind of theatre
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Sanchez, Joana. "Un imaginaire du lien : famille et société dans le théâtre indépendant argentin (1975-2015)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. https://publication-theses.unistra.fr/restreint/theses_doctorat/2019/Sanchez_Joana_2019_ED520.pdf.
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À partir d’une approche transdisciplinaire croisant la sociologie, l’anthropologie, l’histoire et la philosophie, il s’agit d’abord de penser comment la famille, lieu quotidien d’un maillage dialectique entre le même et l’autre, peut être le support privilégié d’un « imaginaire du lien ». C’est au regard de cette hypothèse, et depuis une perspective sociocritique, que la thèse questionne les croisements entre le lien familial (exposé sur la scène), le lien social (qui s’y projette, par la médiation de l’imaginaire) et le lien théâtral (qui structure les dramaturgies et définit une théâtralité spécifique), durant deux périodes particulièrement complexes d’un point de vue socio-politique : la dernière dictature militaire puis la post-dictature. À la croisée des études théâtrales et des sciences sociales, cette recherche explore les enjeux politiques et sociaux du sujet, tout en plaçant l’analyse dramaturgique du corpus au premier plan de la démonstration<br>From a transdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of sociology, anthropology, history and philosophy, this research, in a first instance, considers how the family, everyday playground of a dialectic mesh between the same and the other, can be the privileged substrate of an “imaginary of the bond”. In the light of this hypothesis, and through the social criticism, this thesis interrogates the intersections between family bond (exhibited on stage), social bond (projected on it) and theatrical bond (which structures the dramaturgy and defines a specific theatricalness), during two timeframes particularly intricate on a socio-political standpoint: the last military dictatorship and the post-dictatorship. On the crossroads of theatrical studies and social sciences, this research explores political and social issues while bringing to the forefront the dramaturgical analysis of the corpus<br>¿Por qué el teatro, y en particular en Argentina, parece tan obsesionado con el tema de la familia ? Rechazando la retórica de la «familia disfuncional», esta tesis analiza las ficciones familiares en su relación con lo social. Desde una perspectiva pluridisciplinar (con herramientas de sociología, antropología, historia y filosofía), se trata primero de pensar cómo la familia, espacio cotidiano de una dialéctica entre lo mismo y lo otro, puede ser el soporte de un «imaginario del vínculo». A partir de esta hipótesis, y con las herramientas de la teatrología y la sociocrítica, la tesis interroga los cruces entre vínculo familiar, vínculo social y vínculo teatral (el que estructura la dramaturgia y la teatralidad), durante dos períodos complejos a nivel sociopolítico: la última dictadura militar y la posdictadura. Respecto al teatro producido durante la dictadura, se matiza la idea de una intención sistemáticamente metafórica (al asumir que un teatro concebido como mero código sería un vínculo teatral profundamente vertical que no corresponde con gran parte de las obras), y se analizan «manchas temáticas» recurrentes, que plasman en las ficciones familiares un «vínculo tiránico», a la par de la política de terror de la Junta militar.En la posdictadura, se sigue profundizando una dinámica de fragmentación social, que también se puede vislumbrar en la producción teatral. Mientras que las condiciones de producción del teatro independiente (en espacios cada vez más íntimos) favorecen la multiplicación de dramas familiares, las nuevas dramaturgias, a pesar de reivindicar su autonomía, también están atravesadas por el contexto social e histórico (mediante motivos temáticos recurrentes y formas dramáticas fragmentadas). Entre los estudios teatrales y las ciencias sociales, este trabajo de investigación explora la dimensión política y social del tema familiar, con el análisis dramatúrgico del corpus en el primer plano de la reflexión
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Eldridge, Joan Tibbs. "Satire in selected contemporary Spanish American theater." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/29494670.html.
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"Confronting Convention: Discourse and Innovation in Contemporary Native American Women's Theatre." Doctoral diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9175.
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abstract: In this dissertation, I focus on a subset of Native American theatre, one that concentrates on peoples of mixed heritages and the place(s) between worlds that they inhabit. As it is an emergent field of research, one goal of this project is to illuminate its range and depth through an examination of three specific points of focus - plays by Elvira and Hortencia Colorado (Chichimec Otomí/México/US), who create theatre together; Diane Glancy (Cherokee/US); and Marie Clements (Métis/Canada). These plays explore some of the possibilities of (hi)story, culture, and language within the theatrical realm across Turtle Island (North America). I believe the playwrights' positionalities in the liminal space between Native and non-Native realms afford these playwrights a unique ability to facilitate cross-cultural dialogues through recentering Native stories and methodologies. I examine the theatrical works of this select group of mixed heritage playwrights, while focusing on how they open up dialogue(s) between cultures, the larger cultural discourses with which they engage, and their innovations in creating these dialogues. While each playwright features specific mixed heritage characters in certain plays, the focus is generally on the subject matter - themes central to current Native and mixed heritage daily realities. I concentrate on where they engage in cross-cultural discourses and innovations; while there are some common themes across the dissertation, the specific points of analysis are exclusive to each chapter. I employ an interdisciplinary approach, which includes theories from theatre and performance studies, indigenous knowledge systems, comparative literary studies, rhetoric, and cultural studies.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Ph.D. Theatre 2011
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Champagne, Carole Anne. "Social commitment and dramatic discourse in three contemporary Costa Rican playwrights." 1998. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9909153.
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In the second half of the twentieth century Costa Rica has witnessed a resurgence of the performing arts. Motivated by political and social reforms, playwrights have searched for a national identity through the dramatic medium. Chapter I examines historical developments of the genre. Until the turning point of 1948, when a democratic administration established a ministry for the arts to expand and diversify audiences, theatre was primarily reserved for the bourgeoisie, dependent on European models and critiques. Chapter II examines dramaturgy by national playwrights of the generacion socialdemocrata: Samuel Rovinski, Alberto Canas, and Daniel Gallegos. They transformed a stagnating art form into a dynamic cultural phenomenon. Emerging playwrights such as Miguel Rojas, Ana Istaru, and Guillermo Arriaga connect audiences dramatically to social, economic, and political upheavals in Central America. The Teatro Joven in Chapter III is motivated by national and regional issues. Miguel Rojas focuses on historical drama linking the developing nation to the present. The independence movement, folklore, and the advent of industrialism are threads in the national fabric spun by his dramas. Ana Istaru is an accomplished poet as well as award-winning actress and playwright. She poignantly portrays the Costa Rican women's experience, characterizing memorable female figures who speak for the voiceless victims of injustice, social conventions, or neglect. Guillermo Arriaga addresses regional crises and social degeneration. He attacks political corruption, class and gender power struggles, and clashing value systems. These dramatists herald a new social consciousness. Chapter IV analyzes their plays through a semiotic approach. Correlating levels of meaning in the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic dimensions of representative plays connect texts to their cultural context. Thematic and stylistic tendencies established by the generacion socialdemocrata are developed through structural and linguistic experimentation. Chapter V, the conclusion, relates textual messages to more critical and informed audiences who challenge playwrights to create original drama relevant to a new generation. In the continuum of socially conscious playwrights, the Teatro Joven develops the objectives of the "dramaturgos nacionales de la Social Democrata." Examining these objectives means observing the creators at work and their works in creation.
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Denison, Emily E. "Dramaturging Contemporary Feminism(s): A Festival of New American Plays by Women." 2011. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/596.
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In the wake of Emily Glassberg Sands' well-publicized thesis, Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender, theater artists across the country are up in arms about the disparity that has long existed between male and female playwrights. Glassberg Sands’ audit study showed that literary managers and artistic directors rate female-authored scripts lower in terms of quality, marketability, and audience response. In addition, recent studies show that only 20% of the plays produced in American regional theaters each year have female playwrights. As a positive step towards equality, I curated and produced a festival of new American plays by women entitled Voices in Contemporary Feminism(s). It was my goal to instigate change first by staging new American plays by women and then by engaging artists and audience members alike in conversation about feminism(s) and feminist themes, female playwrights, the current position of women in American theater, and how we can change the status quo. This thesis describes in detail the impetus behind creating the festival, the planning process, and the events of the festival itself, and then draws conclusions about the role dramaturgs can play in combating gender inequity.
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Chang, Su-Chen, and 張素蓁. "(Im)possible Love: Queer Affects in Contemporary American Theatre." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4kj297.
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博士<br>國立東華大學<br>英美語文學系<br>106<br>This dissertation participates in the debate about the negative affective turn in queer studies. The main inquiry is whether the representations of negative affects associated with queer experience can produce affirmative perceptions of homosexuality. In my discussion, I focus on affects such as grief, shame, fear and hate in several American post-AIDS plays. In this context, I examine how these playwrights uncover the underlying force that contributes to the production of negative affects by utilizing different theatrical strategies. Close attention will also be paid to the sociocultural meanings of these affects and their relationship with gender inequalities. This study ultimately argues that the representations of queer negative affects serve as crucial means to confront the social stigmatization and thereby to affirm the existence of homosexuality.
The dissertation is divided into six chapters, comprising Introduction, four body chapters and Conclusion. The first chapter gives a brief overview of the study, consisting of the research objectives, theoretical framework and chapter outlines. In chapter two, I focus on Larry Kramer’s interrogation of “the hierarchy of grief, ” examining how queer grief works as means to disconnect the homosexuality from illness and to negotiate the alternative meanings of AIDS losses and gay existence in The Normal Heart and The Destiny of Me. In chapter three, I focus on “the doubleness of shame” in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, exploring how shame plays a social role in stigmatizing the gendered others, while at the same time serving as a powerful resource for reconstructing queer history. Chapter Four turns to fear and spatial violence. I examine how the gendered others are reshaped as sexual strangers and consequently become the targets of heterosexist violence in Maria Irene Fornes’ Enter THE NIGHT and also how the place of belonging and un-belonging is constructed and how difficult it is for those sexual strangers to claim a place of belonging in Diana Son’s Stop Kiss. In chapter five, I examine how the heterosexist hatred serves as a significant contributor to the gender inequalities that perpetuate all forms of oppression. I also discuss whether the representations of negative affect challenge the social stigmatization and thereby transcend the racist and sexist hatred in Chay Yew’s Porcelain and A Language of Their Own. By examining the negative affects embedded in various plays, this dissertation offers a new approach for mapping the relations between the theatre and queer affects.
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Figueroa, Brianna Lynn. "Dancing Latina identity : a rendering of contemporary Latina self-representation in American concert dance." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22463.
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When considering the Latina dancer in the United States it is easy to conjure images of a fruit crowned Carmen Miranda shimming in front of the camera, videos of Jennifer Lopez swinging her hips in dark and crowded clubs, sultry salsa dancers rocking and twisting on their bedazzled stilettos, or Jalisco girls who swirl the hemlines of their rainbow colored skirts as they parade down the street. These depictions of the Latina dancer are duly noted for creating a means of visibility for an otherwise invisible demographic. However, they also function to reinforce stereotypical ideas of the Latina moving body which limit Latina agency by positioning dancing Latinas within a set of prescribed representational practices. My study bridges Latina/o studies with dance studies in order to ask how Latina women are utilizing modern and contemporary dance styles to upset and redefine notions of the dancing Latina. I focus on the choreography of four women in particular; Michelle Manzanales, Maray Gutierrez, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Nancy Turano who each presented work in association with Luna Negra Dance Theatre’s Latina Choreographers Project. Through my study I place the project’s mission into dialog with the corpus of choreography commissioned during its three-year lifespan (2006-2009). My close analysis serves to elucidate the stories that the choreographers chose to tell. For some, the deconstruction of icons provided the most compelling exercise in the process of excavating beneath quintessential Latino facades. For others, the strong recollections of home and the feeling of not being able to assert a defined location characterized their investigations of cultural identity. The Latina Choreographers Project, I contend, sets a historical precedent by pursuing and presenting the work of Latina choreographers in a field that has traditional excluded the Latina voice. I argue that by engaging four choreographers with extraordinarily diverse relationships to Latinidad and presenting them to an American audience, the Latina Choreographer Project presents an invaluable opportunity for intercultural and cross-cultural dialog that aims to relay the complexity and nuances of a contemporary Latina experience.<br>text
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Hayes, Lisa. "Theatricalizing oral history how British and American theatre artists explore current events and contemporary politics in the journey from interview to performance /." 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1542153011&sid=51&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 13, 2009) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Frisch, Michael Includes bibliographical references.
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Hartana, Sutrisno Setya. "Origins, journeys, encounters: a cultural analysis of wayang performances in North America." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8047.
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This dissertation examines an Indonesian-North American version of an evolving, transnational and hybrid multimedia art form which has come about through forty years of adaptations made by cross-culturally located artists in creative conversation with Indonesian performers involved in the Javanese and Balinese forms of musical theatre known as wayang.
Wayang theatre employs puppets and other components including gamelan music (Indonesian percussion instruments, drums, flutes, strings and vocals). Given this complexity, there are many possibilities for variations, changes, and hybridization. In this research project, I analyze aspects of this hybrid performance by analyzing select Indonesian-North American wayang performances, as case studies.
In order to isolate complex changes and various adaptations of wayang performances in the North American setting, I also analyze and contextualize a hybridization of Javanese and Balinese wayang performances. As a performance art form, wayang has always been changing historically—at some points more quickly and dramatically than at other periods of time, thus resisting firm categorization that would provide a baseline for comparison. I have developed the wahiyang theoretical framework as an analytical tool to identify the influence of North American culture on the wayang performances in my case studies.
I argue that new genre of wayang is emerging, creating a hybridized form that I call wahiyang gaya NA. This process has progressed to the point that wahiyang gaya NA can be said to represent a new genre of multimedia world art, which combines elements of local and global artistic practises, making the form even more flexible and adaptable than its original forms in Indonesia.
The gradual spread and popularization of wayang in North America has definite historical contexts, namely the early 19th-to-mid 20th century conjunction of decolonization and Third World nationalism, with the more recent decades’ layering of multiculturalism and push towards conscious cultural responses to economic globalization. This developing continuum of new hybrid forms spans a spectrum of cultural inclusion and expansion of wayang and new components. At times these may be seen as wayang influence upon Western performance practice; at other times an entire Indonesian wayang production with additional elements added from Western music, theater, and other disciplines may be presented. These developments signify an enhanced and expanded exchange of cultural products between the nations of the world, taking place in an expanded space for dialogue between the artists of the developed and developing countries.
I will show, using case studies, how this process has produced and is producing a new branch of wayang as part of a continuum of hybridized wayang forms. By examining selected performance collaborations that have taken place over the last 40 years, I will provide a detailed analysis, which for the first time, lays out the components that constitute the variation of wayang art performance that has developed in response to geographical and cultural contexts of the Pacific Northwest of USA and Westcoast Canada.<br>Graduate<br>2018-04-12<br>0377, 0357, 0465<br>sutrisno@uvic.ca