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Lachance, Lindsay. "Cultural Renewal in Aboriginal Theatre Aesthetics." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23425.
Full textMcHugh, Marissa. "The Invasion of the Home Front: Revisiting, Rewriting, and Replaying the First World War in Contemporary Canadian Plays." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24235.
Full textYoung, Dale J. "BRIDGING THE GAP: DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR, NATIVE CANADIAN PLAYWRIGHT IN HIS TIMES." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1131125416.
Full textSebestyen, 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.
Full textDe, 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.
Full textThrough 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.
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Bouchet, Pauline. ""La fabrique des voix" : l'auteur et le personnage dans les écritures théâtrales québécoises des années 2000." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030057.
Full textThe purpose of this doctoral thesis in drama studies is to investigate the models and practices in character writing in Quebecois drama in the years 2000, and from this investigation, which will have both a theatrical approach – through the study of plays and the elaboration of a typology of characters – and genetic – by entering into the authors’ factory to understand how they create their characters –, to identify the figure(s) of the playwright in this creative context. In Quebecois playwriting, characters still survive, while they are constantly questioned in other writing contexts. However, far from perpetuating realism as it prevails in American character writing, Quebecois authors in the years 2000 create deeply deterritorialized characters whose psychological depth disappears to make room for intertextual and metatheatrical profoundness. These creature-characters invite us into the authors’ factory to examine the sharing of voices they perform so as to circumvent North American drama’s still dominant realism. The four poles of character writing – language, body, intertext and stage – will then allow us to analyze the writing practices of several authors who belong to different generations and followed different trainings: Normand Chaurette, Daniel Danis, François Godin, Etienne Lepage and Larry Tremblay. These authors, who constantly have to deal with an otherness whether it is real – the production contexts in Quebec lead authors to interact with the other actors of drama’s creative process – or fictional – authors are deeply inhabited by others who speak through them –, find themselves demultiplied inside the writing process. It then seems that, when facing this demultiplication and the growing difficulty to make their voice heard, authors in Quebec are chosing the path of autopoiesis and using their “I” as authors in their latest creations as a material and as a supercharacter which dominates fiction. The act of writing then acquires a unified voice, constantly on the fringe of autofiction and autobiography, which inhabits plays that would may no longer be able to bring forth the other, a character which would be entirely separated from its creator’s voice
Hopton, Tricia. "Realizing the flexible imaginary : Canadian identity in contemporary theatre." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/16529.
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Berto, Tony. "Are We There Yet? Gay Representation in Contemporary Canadian Drama." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10214/7372.
Full textThe author would like to sincerely thank Ann Wilson, Ric Knowles, Matthew Hayday, Alan Shepard, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Chris Grignard, Edward Roy, Brad Fraser, Cole J. Alvis, Jonathan Seinan, David Oiye, Clinton Walker, Sean Cummings, Darrin Hagin, and Chris Galatchian.
SSHRC, The Heather McCallum Scholarship, Lambda Prize for achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered studies.
Basourakos, John. "Contemporary Canadian and Quebec theatre as an instructional medium for moral pedagogy." Thesis, 1996. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2849/1/NN18373.pdf.
Full textGrondines, Véronique. "Les nouvelles représentations dramaturgiques de la femme au Québec (2000-2010) : Fanny Britt, Evelyne de la Chenelière et Jennifer Tremblay, un féminisme diversifié." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10697.
Full textCan contemporary Quebec feminine drama be considered feminist? This master’s dissertation answers in the affirmative. It demonstrates that the new women’s theatre is still feminist, but more complex and more diversified than in the 1970s and 80s, as it tends to blend the intimate and the social. The plays of Fanny Britt (Chaque jour, 2011), Evelyne de la Chenelière (L’Imposture, 2009), and Jennifer Tremblay (La Liste, 2008), offer innovative elements in their dramatic portrayal of women, as they focus on three themes: the media, motherhood and men-women relations. By comparing the plays with one another, as well as with important plays from past decades, it will be shown that Chaque jour, L’Imposture and La Liste renew the representation of women in Quebec theatre and society. Finally, this dissertation will address the links between this contemporary feminist theatre and the third wave feminist discourse.
St-Jean-Raymond, David. "La québécité dans le théâtre contemporain Mythanalyse de Scotstown, Yukonstyle et Félicité." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/14026.
Full textThis memoir addresses three works of contemporary Quebec theatre, Fabien Cloutier’s Scotstown, Sarah Berthiaume’s Yukonstyle and Olivier Choinière’s Félicité, for the purpose of comparing them. This comparison must fuel a reflection on the concept of Quebec-ness, herein defined as the establishment of a treatment of identity promoting the development of an ambivalent identity. By providing that identity discourses are marked by what Gérard Bouchard calls “social myths”, this memoir analyses the proposed corpus with the intent of extracting the rational part of such myths along with their emotional parts, with both parts considered equally significant in the foundation identity. This memoir seeks to move away from common conceptions of Quebec-ness that are rooted in a political and historical tradition influenced by nationalism and proposes a more global definition of this concept, a definition that takes into account various meanings, allowing us to revisit the history of Quebec dramaturgy, as said dramaturgy ironically maintains an ambivalent position in regards to identity discourses since the Quiet Revolution.
Zaiontz, Keren. "The Stagehands of Subversive Spaces: Site-specific Performance and Audience Labour." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42606.
Full textTran, Maya Lan Anh. "Entre proximité et distance : comique et rire bergsonien dans le théâtre de Fabien Cloutier." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19356.
Full textFabien Cloutier’s plays spark copious laughter in spectators, but said laughter is often accompanied by a sense of discomfort which takes over the theatre. What part does the comic play in Fabien Cloutier’s work, and what is the function of audience members’ laughter during performances? This paper argues that laughter, as provoked by Fabien Cloutier’s theatre, serves a fundamentally critical purpose. Using the dynamics of both identification and distanciation at play in Fabien Cloutier’s theatre, this paper proposes that the critical function of laughter in plays Scotstown, Cranbourne, Billy [Les jours de hurlement] and Pour réussir un poulet be studied in light of the Bergsonian theory of laughter, which conceives of laughter as a social corrective.
Beaudin-Gagné, David. "Procès-verbal ; suivi de Filiation(s) rompue(s) : mémoire en pièces et tissus de parole dans Parents et amis sont invités à y assister d’Hervé Bouchard." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10701.
Full textThe first part of this thesis consists of a short theatrical text entitled Procès-Verbal. It features a fragmentary story and explores the ideas of burst identity, broken memory and mimicry. These themes are related with mechanisms of repetition, minimalist formal treatment and abundant silences, representative of the faded identity of the characters. The second part of the thesis, entitled Filiation(s) rompue(s) : mémoire en pièces et tissus de parole, gets into the themes of memory and heritage in Hervé Bouchard’s novel Parents et amis sont invités à y assister. The analysis aims to highlight the link between textual fragmentation and disrupted legacy. It focuses specifically on the dislocation of speech, indication of a broken identity.
Béland-Leduc, Anne. "L'émancipation spectatrice dans le théâtre d'Olivier Choinière." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25064.
Full textThis master’s thesis addresses three works of the Quebec playwright Olivier Choinière, Beauté intérieure, Projet blanc and Manifeste de la Jeune-Fille with the aim of highlighting the possibilities of spectator emancipation. From his very beginnings, Choinière has held a critical discourse on the theater spectator, and he consequently seeks to include and involve him in his creations. In the light of the theories of reception and especially those of Jacques Rancière in Le spectateur émancipé, this master’s thesis aims to assess the emancipatory possibilities of Choinière's work by analyzing the different means he uses to include the spectator, both formally and politically. At the heart of Rancière's theory is the spectator paradox, which refers to the various means used by contemporary playwrights to force spectator activity and which, according to him, undermine his emancipation. This dissertation will therefore analyze Choinière's work, paying particular attention to the possible reproduction of this paradox in order to establish a degree of probable spectator emancipation in the three chosen pieces.
Malo, Joannie. "L’affirmation de soi au détriment de l’autre dans le théâtre de Fabien Cloutier : analyse de Scotstown, Billy (Les jours de hurlement) et Bonne retraite, Jocelyne." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24207.
Full textThis memoir argues that self-affirmation in Fabien Cloutier’s theatre is made at the expense of or even against others. I will verify this theory through the analysis of the plays Scotstown, Billy (The Days of Howling) and Bonne retraite, Jocelyne. I will begin from the idea that nowadays, the affirmation of identity goes hand in hand with the principles of “gap” and “difference”, which were developed by François Jullien in his essay Il n’y a pas d’identité culturelle. In many theories, identity and alterity are intrinsically linked. They even go as far as to oppose identity and alterity. Within the collective imaginary and in Fabien Cloutier’s dramatic universe, the notion of alterity implies a strongly negative connotation. However, the strength of Cloutier’s plays lies in them going beyond the simple fact that the self is confronted to others. Instead, they undergo the transition from François Jullien’s “difference” system to the one of “gap”. The “difference” system implies a vertical relationship, or in other words one of superiority. The “gap” system implies a horizontal relationship, where the two entities that make it up are taken for what they are, for what links them together and what separates them, without one serving as a model or as a point of comparison to the other. To identify and analyse expressions of self-affirmation and their effects on others, as they are notable in the three works of the corpus, I will focus on the enunciation modalities and the nature of dialogism as Hervé Guay defines them. Finally, I will attempt to demonstrate how Scotstown, Billy (The Days of Howling) and Bonne retraite, Jocelyne denounce the tendency to depreciate others in order to better empower oneself, as well as how these plays attempt to change the notion of alterity.
Deschamps, Gabrielle. "Le pouvoir des médias et la fragmentation identitaire dans les oeuvres de Larry Tremblay." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24198.
Full textMany studies have already examined the singular place occupied by the character in Larry Tremblay’s dramaturgy. This Quebec author’s works are filled with many individuals who are deeply affected by the environment they live in. For the past 20 years, the playwright’s particular interest in the theme of media has been observed. By creating plays in which the media are at the forefront, Larry Tremblay takes a critical look at an important aspect of current society. In the context of this thesis, the objective is therefore to study more specifically Tremblay’s characters who are in environments pervaded by the media. In order to show how the author exposes the negative impacts of the power of the media, we will address the question of the gaze, the banality, the void, the narcissism, as well as that of the disillusion that touches our time. The analysis of Ogre (1995), Téléroman (1997) and Grande écoute (2015) will demonstrate that it is through characters whose identity is crumbling and changing that Larry Tremblay denounces the most disastrous consequences stemming from the media for individuals. The purpose of this thesis is to grasp the evolution of the author’s thought regarding media and to understand how his characters have evolved over time alongside the media.
Charafeddine, Nadine. "La théâtralisation de l'exil dans la dramaturgie migrante au Québec (1980-2010)." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21717.
Full textBolduc, Miriam. "Nuage de cendres, suivi de Voir à travers les murs : la teichoscopie dans Yukonstyle de Sarah Berthiaume." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18704.
Full textComposed of a play and an essay, this M.A. thesis examines the use of narration in contemporary theatre in Quebec. It focuses specifically on the renewal of the device known as teichoscopia, considered as “vision through the wall”, and its relationship with images. The play, Nuage de cendres, begins with a true event: it relates, with a tone of tragic irony, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010, experienced remotely by an Icelandic volcanologist and a young woman escaping from her life in Quebec. Considering teichoscopia both as an editing process and a means of converting words into vision, the play explores the issues of loss, silence, ashes and fascination for images. The second part of the thesis consists of an essay titled Voir à travers les murs : la teichoscopie dans Yukonstyle de Sarah Berthiaume. In order to analyze the relay of omniscient ability between the characters who narrate what they see through the wall, the essay proposes the concept of the character-seer. It studies how the play integrates the Native American figure of the crow, and how the concepts of “everywhen” (Dominique Legros), anachronism and survival (Georges Didi-Huberman) intersect. Teichoscopia thus builds a territory that resists delimitation: the “vision through the wall” marks the crossing not only of spatial and temporal boundaries, but those between beings as well. Finally, this essay shows how, in Yukonstyle, contrary to other contemporary plays that often use narration to express withdrawal into oneself and lack of communication, teichoscopia makes possible true openness and transmission.
Drouin, Gabrielle. "Transactions, suivi de Dédramatiser le drame : usages et enjeux de l’humour et de la violence du langage dans la pièce Rouge Gueule d’Étienne Lepage." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19352.
Full textLe présent mémoire propose d’interroger la construction du récit médiatique dans la fable théâtrale contemporaine. D’abord par une fiction au dispositif épuré, mais au verbe cru et humoristique, la pièce de théâtre Transactions, puis par un essai sur la pièce de théâtre Rouge Gueule d’Étienne Lepage, nous désirons explorer les liens qui unissent le comique et la violence du langage, notamment par des affinités avec le mouvement britannique In-Yer-Face (Sarah Kane) et tels que mis de l’avant par un « personnage-réseau » porteur de discours, en écho à l’« impersonnage » de Jean-Pierre Sarrazac. En ce sens, nous avons convoqué les notions de dialogisme (Bakhtine) hétéromorphe (Hervé Guay), d’esthétique de la divergence (Hervé Guay), de polyphonie (Bakhtine) hétéromorphe (Hervé Guay) et de la mise à mal d’un conflit afin d’expliquer le renouvellement d’une esthétique dramaturgique tout à fait contemporaine, se rapportant à la Toile et dont le spectateur émancipé (Jacques Rancière) devient un actant principal par l’intermédiaire duquel le théâtre prend tout son sens.
This thesis aims to question the construction of the media narrative in the contemporary theatrical fable. First, by analyzing the play Transactions and its sober scenography, yet raw and humorous words, and subsequently examining Étienne Lepage’s Rouge Gueule, we will explore the links between the humor and violence of language. This includes the affinity with the British movement In-Yer-Face (Sarah Kane) as put forward by a "network-character" speech bearer in response to Jean-Pierre Sarrazac’s "non-character". Thus, this paper will study concepts including heteromorph (Hervé Guay) dialogism (Bakhtin), aesthetics of the divergence (Hervé Guay), heteromorph (Hervé Guay) polyphony (Bakhtine) and the redefinition of conflict in order to explain the replenishment of an aesthetic dramaturgy that is quite contemporary, relevant to the Web and in which the emancipated audience (Jacques Rancière) becomes a main actor through which the play takes on its full meaning.
Goulet, Gabrielle. "Impact et résonances du théâtre In-yer-face au Québec : Shopping and Fucking de Mark Ravenhill (adaptation de Christian Lapointe), Faire des enfants d’Éric Noël et En dessous de vos corps je trouverai ce qui est immense et qui ne s’arrête pas de Steve Gagnon." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16115.
Full textMorin, Fannie. "Pour une poétique du silence : transmédialité théâtrale et passage à la plateforme cinématographique dans le Québec contemporain : le cas de Bashir Lazhar." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22004.
Full textCôté, Maja. "Chroniques de maux (de l’extrême ordinaire) ; suivi de Attaques à vide : bousculer la situation théâtrale au confluent de l’humour et de l’invective dans la pièce Rouge Gueule d’Étienne Lepage." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13466.
Full textAlice in wonderland and Nietzsche have in common neither the lace nor the song. However, something much stronger unites them; we shall discover it maybe this day when pigs will fly, or at the end of this play, according to the goodwill of the characters within. Meanwhile, by the very depths of their enclosure, they can’t wait anymore. For what ? Their salute ? The hour of the knell? Their hour of glory? Tremendous incapables, decadent pugilists who kill themselves trying not to kill themselves, who burst out in verbosity, setting themselves up in spite of themselves against eloquence. Fighting this Other who interferes insidiously in itself and who drives to the loss of the me. It is in a crazy lucidity that egos disturb each other without exchanging, attack without reaching, roar without being heard, in the hope, maybe, of waking up in the land of Nod. As indicated in the title, Chroniques de maux (de l’extrême ordinaire) stages a series of chronicles among which the characters are testifying their ill-being. The language and the situation of utterance of this play without acts, falls within resolutely "poetic-trash" esthetics, and the atmosphere aims to alternate heaviness with playfulness. Rouge Gueule, by Étienne Lepage, presents a structure aiming obviously at "attacking" the Other, whether it is about a character or about a reader-spectator. Attacks commited on the one hand by raw humor, influenced by the popular culture, the trivial; a humor which works in a rather classic way by using processes easily identifiable and ceaselessly reused by the author. On the other hand, the structural design of "fight" shows itself by the invective, as well as by the violence characterized, from the beginning to the end, by a lack in the motivation of the actions. So, this study, Attaques à vide. Bousculer la situation théâtrale au confluent de l’humour et la violence, looks into Rouge Gueule, by being interested in the relations that maintain the humor and the brutal universe of the play, in the perspective where the humor is inextricably connected to the violence. A particular attention is dedicated to the typical character of Lepage as well as the esthetics of the trash "arsenal". The latter is analyzed to better circumscribe the attacks: are they the means, and, if so, to what end considering that the fable, and thus the "quest", in contemporary theater is often questioned. This study will see how, in Lepage’s play, the "vacant" attacks are the driving strength of what Hans-Thies Lehmann appoints the "theatrical situation".
Constant, Marie-Hélène. "Caille-moi ; suivi de La violence du langage comme modalité de négociation avec le réel dans la pièce Rouge gueule d’Étienne Lepage." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10699.
Full textThrough a twofold approach, the current M.A. thesis suggests an investigation of violent language in contemporary theatre as a means of coping with reality. By proposing first the play Caille-moi and its sober scenography and subsequently an essay on Étienne Lepage’s Rouge gueule, this thesis aim to draw attention to a desubjectified language (Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Pierre Ouellet) in which alterity replaces an undeniable alienation. At the cross road of Literature and Theatre Studies and following Marion Chénetier-Alev’s work on the oral nature of theatre, the present study wants to address violence as both a theatrical apparatus and as directed towards the readers-viewers in the space of the theatre by use of language. The reflection on the subject also expands to investigate the British In-yer-face Theatre (Sarah Kane) and its ramifications on Quebec’s contemporary theatre by demonstrating its broad knowledge as proven by the play. Consequently, the young playwright’s invented language offers a counterpoint to contemporary cynicism and imposes a rich language conscious of its history.