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Mellas, Michael John. "Constructing multiple realities on stage conceiving a magical realist production of José Rivera's Cloud tectonics /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1218129542.
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Dailey, 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.
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Deng, Xiaoyan. "Modernity and Hybridity: Tian Han's Xingeju Creations and Theatre Criticism(1937-1958)." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1343706981.
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Mellas, Michael John. "Constructing Multiple Realities on Stage: Conceiving a Magical Realist Production of Jose Rivera's Cloud Tectonics." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1218129542.
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Nichols, Jeffrey Alan. "Everywhere You Look." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/619.
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Everywhere You Look documents the genesis, production process, performance history, and rewrites of a script informed by a concern for social justice issues in contemporary America. In the quest to generate believable, naturalistic dialogue and behavior informed by important questions of religious conviction, civil liberties, and the viability of violence as a political solution, the script is cast as social realism. After a discussion of the critical context in which the play exists, the lessons and pitfalls of collaboration in the production process are charted. A rewritten script is generated from a process of performance, talk-backs sessions, and committee recommendations. The thesis document includes Appendices containing pre-production and post-production versions of the script, as well as images from the program and color photos of the original thesis production.
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Zambrano, Gustavo. "A trajetória artística de Furtado Coelho nos palcos brasileiros : (1856-1867)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/152956.
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Este trabalho tem por objetivo descrever a trajetória artística de Luiz Candido Furtado Coelho nos anos de 1856 a 1867, período esse em que o artista português desenvolveu os cargos de ator, ensaiador e empresário teatral no Rio de Janeiro e em outras regiões do país. Para isso, consultamos jornais e revistas do século XIX, disponibilizados pelo sítio da Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional, fato esse que se justifica em razão de nessa plataforma haver um grande volume de informações sobre o trabalho de Furtado Coelho, fundamentais para a escrita da biografia do artista. Assim, todas as menções a Furtado Coelho encontradas nos periódicos do século XIX, e que foram apresentadas neste estudo, tem como intenção melhor compreender a história do artista português e do teatro no Brasil. Como resultado, o trabalho irá mostrar a grande importância de Furtado Coelho nos palcos do Rio de Janeiro e, de certa forma, do Brasil. Em outras palavras, iremos detalhar que o artista em estudo foi um dos grandes responsáveis pelo estabelecimento do realismo teatral no Brasil, pois como ator Furtado Coelho inovou nos palcos brasileiros ao apresentar uma nova maneira de atuar alinhada à escola realista e como empresário continuou a levar ao palco do Teatro Ginásio peças de valor literário, alternando-as com espetáculos de entretenimento, em um período no qual sofria a concorrência do teatro cômico e musicado.
This work aims to describe the artistic trajectory of Luiz Candido Furtado Coelho in the years 1856 to 1867, when the Portuguese artist worked as actor, rehearser and theater manager in Rio de Janeiro and other regions of the country. For this, we consulted newspapers and magazines of the nineteenth century, made available by the website of the Digital Library of the National Library, a fact that is justified because there is a large volume of information on the work of Furtado Coelho, fundamental for the writing of the biography of the artist. Thus, all references to the artist found in those periodicals presented in this study are intended to better understand his history, as well as the history of theater in Brazil. As a result, the work will show the great importance of Furtado Coelho on the stages of Rio de Janeiro and, to a certain extent, in the whole country. In other words, we will show Furtado Coelho as highly responsible for the establishment of theatrical realism in Brazil, since, as an actor, he innovated in Brazilian stages by presenting a new way of acting in line with the realist school and, as an entrepreneur, he continued to stage plays of literary value ate the Ginásio Theater, alternating them with spectacles of entertainment, in a period in which it suffered the competition of the comic and musical theater.
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Taylor, Aaron. "The Pathology of Alienation: A Psycho-Sociological Approach to the Theater of Paloma Pedrero." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1109022646.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2005.Advisor: Taylor. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed \May 20, 2008). Keywords: Paloma Pedrero; Theater; Gestalt therapy; Robert Merton; Sociology; Alienation; Marginalization; Pathology; Theatrics; Aristotle; Brecht; Antonio Buero Vallejo; Neorealism; Twentieth-century Spain; Realism; Deviancy; Deviance; Socialization; Deviant; Retr. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Peterson, Anne Cordelia. "Reconsidering "Liveness":Interactivity and Presence in Hybrid Virtual Reality Theatre." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu159507997218491.
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Erken, Emily Alane. "Constructing the Russian Moral Project through the Classics: Reflections of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, 1833-2014." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1449191980.
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Boudier, Marion. "La représentation du monde sans jugement : Réalisme et neutralité dans la dramaturgie moderne et contemporaine." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ENSL0796.
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L’idée de « représentation du monde sans jugement », double visée du réel et du neutre, rassemble des œuvres qui aspirent à donner à voir le monde sans en orienter le commentaire et en débusquant le jugement dans nos représentations. En faisant l’hypothèse d’un « réalisme neutre », nous étudions les stratégies dramaturgiques de suspension du sens qui répondent à cette intention. Nous interrogeons l’existence d’une lignée de dramaturges qui, depuis le théâtre clinique de Tchekhov et à l’opposé du théâtre critique brechtien, conduit le spectateur à « l’étonnement d’un monde sans procès » (Barthes). En confrontant ces représentations du monde sans jugement au théâtre documentaire et au réalisme critique brechtien, nous analysons un changement de paradigme dans la représentation du réel, sa modélisation clarifiante et engagée laissant place à une expérience ouverte à l’interprétation. De Horváth aux auteurs quotidiennistes, en passant par Fleisser, Adamov, Kroetz et jusqu’à des réinventions contemporaines d’un théâtre « presque documentaire », comment ces esthétiques de la monstration échappent-elles à une simple symptomatologie superficielle du monde ainsi qu’aux malentendus induits par la délégation du jugement au spectateur ? Cette question oriente notre étude des décentrements dramaturgiques du réalisme, à travers lesquels s’affirment une autre pensée de la responsabilité critique du dramaturge et une dimension politique du neutre. Les œuvres et démarches de M. Vinaver, O. Hirata, J. Pommerat et L. Norén illustrent quatre modalités de ce « réalisme neutre », de l’exemption à la pluralisation du sens, en passant par le trouble, l’errance ou le saisissement du spectateurPrejudice-free depictions of the world are the aim both of reality and of any neutral approach. They bring together works of art that show the world without inducing any commentary while exposing our opinions in all representations. We will hypothesise the concept of “neutral realism” to analyse the strategies used by dramatic arts to produce suspension of meaning. We question the existence of a tradition of dramatic authors – ranging from Tchekhov’s “clinical theater” to Brecht’s “critical theater” – that lead spectators to what Barthes termed the “astonishment upon discovering a trial-free world”. We will weigh such prejudice-free representations of the world against documentary drama and against Brecht’s critical realism. Such a comparison will evidence a paradigm shift where an explicit, committed type of modelling seems to give way to a more open interpretative experience. From Horváth to daily-life authors and to Fleisser, Adamov, Kroetz and other contemporary re-inventors of “quasi- documentary-style” drama, the question can be thus articulated: how do such illustrative aesthetics succeed in circumventing both merely superficial symptomatology of the world and the misunderstandings that might arise from the decision of leaving the viewer to judge the work on their own? The answer to the question guides our analysis of the dramatic arts’ decentering of realism, through which another vision of the responsibility of the dramatic author emerges, as well as a new take on the political nature of a neutral approach. The works and reflections of M.Vinaver, O. Hirata, J. Pommerat and L. Norén evidence four aspects of this “neutral realism”, ranging from the cancellation of meaning to multifaceted meaning and to troubled, disconnected or awed spectators
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Savard, Shannon N. Savard. "Growing Tribes: Reality Theatre and Columbus' Gay and Lesbian Community." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1524152632871631.
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Pelechová, Jitka. "Le théâtre de Thomas Ostermeier : en quête d’un réalisme nouveau à l’appui de quatre mises en scène de pièces d’Henrik Ibsen." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100039/document.
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Le travail théâtral (de 1994 à 2010) du metteur en scène allemand Thomas Ostermeier est ici étudié : à travers son parcours professionnel (de la période de sa formation à l’École Ernst-Busch à sa direction du théâtre de la Schaubühne de Berlin, en passant par celui de la Baracke), à travers ses choix esthétiques (sur le répertoire et la recherche de la narration, la revalorisation du récit, la direction d’acteurs, etc.) et ses collaborations principales avec le dramaturge Marius von Mayenburg et le scénographe Jan Pappelbaum, et à travers l’analyse des quatre représentations des pièces de l’auteur norvégien Henrik Ibsen : Une Maison de poupée (Nora) en 2002, Le Constructeur Solness en 2004, Hedda Gabler en 2005 et John Gabriel Borkman en 2008. Il en ressort le constat que le théâtre de Thomas Ostermeier résulte d’un subtil mélange d’influences diverses et variées, jusqu’alors souvent considérées comme opposées, contradictoires et incompatibles entre elles : les théories de Stanislavski, Meyerhold et Brecht coexistent et leurs procédés artistiques sont appliqués de façon complémentaire. Ceci est particulièrement visible dans le jeu des comédiens et, à l’appui et resitué dans les scénographies architecturées de Jan Pappelbaum, cet assemblage donne des œuvres artistiques d’un réalisme tout particulier, “contrarié”, qui devient même un signe distinctif du travail du metteur en scène, lequel a rencontré jusqu’à aujourd’hui un très grand succès publicThis thesis studies the theatrical work (from 1994 till 2010) of the German stage director Thomas Ostermeier: through his professional career (from the period of his studies at the Ernst-Busch School, to his direction of the Baracke Theater and later to that of the Theater of Schaubühne Berlin), through his aesthetic choices (concerning his repertoire, his search for the stories and for the narration, his directing of actors, etc.) and his major collaborations with the playwright Marius von Mayenburg and the set designer Jan Pappelbaum, and finally through the analysis of his four representations of the plays of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's house (Nora) in 2002, The Master Builder Solness in 2004, Hedda Gabler in 2005 and John Gabriel Borkman in 2008. The thesis shows that the theater of Thomas Ostermeier results from a subtle mixture of diverse and varied influences, until then often considered as opposite, contradictory and mutually incompatible: the theories of Stanislavski, Meyerhold and Brecht coexist and their artistic methods are applied in a complementary manner. This is particularly visible in the acting of the comedians and, while situated in the architectonical sets by Jan Pappelbaum, this mixture bears artistic works of a very particular, “perturbed” realism, which becomes even one of the distinguishing features of the work of Thomas Ostermeier, which met until today an important public success
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Kahoa, Erin. "From Fact to FarceThe Reality Behind Bulgakov's Black Snow." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1447719301.
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Evans, Christine. "Art, war, and objects : reality effects in the contemporary theatre." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318314.
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Garson, Cyrielle. "Beyond Documentary Realism : aesthetic Transgressions in Contemporary British Verbatim Theatre." Thesis, Avignon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AVIG1157.
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Le théâtre verbatim, une pratique scénique dont le texte repose entièrement sur les mots exacts énoncés par des personnes réelles, est au coeur d’une renaissance remarquable et inattendue du genre en Grande-Bretagne depuis le milieu des années quatre-vingt-dix. Au même moment, les metteurs en scène britanniques contemporains ont déclaré avoir trouvé de nouvelles approches pour une pratique du théâtre politique par son entremise. En dépit de la dominante anti-réaliste qui semble encore à l’heure actuelle caractériser la culture postmoderne, on admet le plus souvent que le réalisme documentaire est resté le mode par excellence de représentation des pièces verbatim sur scène. Il va donc de soi que ce théâtre, ainsi défini, ignore du même coup les récents bouleversements survenus sur la scène théâtrale britannique. À travers une étude comparative de sept spectacles que nous considérons comme représentatifs du théâtre verbatim, il est affirmé qu’il y a bien eu, malgré tout, des spectacles verbatim dont la nature discontinue implique l’éloignement du réalisme comme élément fédérateur de la représentation. Ces spectacles, qui font appel à l’expérimentation esthétique sous de multiples formes, approfondissent et transgressent ce que nous pourrions entendre par « théâtre verbatim ». Le but de cette analyse est donc d’étudier le théâtre verbatim à contre-courant de ses propres affirmations d’authenticité et de véracité et de suggérer la nécessité d'un discours qui articule mieux l’interdépendance entre les impératifs esthétiques et les possibilités d’un engagement social. Enfin, cette thèse rend compte de l’existence d’une diversité de variables esthétiques dans le théâtre verbatim d’aujourd'hui qui vise un public habitué aux nouveaux médias. À cet égard, ces variables sont regroupées selon trois positions théoriques, chacune étant analysée et traitée de manière distincte et illustrée par des exemples concrets. Par le biais de cette étude, nous espérons ainsi mettre en lumière les esthétiques mouvantes du théâtre verbatim, afin d’en établir une histoire critique et de contribuer à la formulation de ce champ de recherche si riche, autant d’un point de vue scientifique que du point de vue de la pratique vivante de l’art théâtralBeyond Documentary Realism: Aesthetic Transgressions in Contemporary British Verbatim Theatre Verbatim theatre, a type of performance based on actual words spoken by ‘real people’, has been at the heart of a remarkable and unexpected renaissance of the genre in Great Britain since the mid-nineties. Simultaneously, contemporary British theatre-makers claimed to have found a renewed avenue to politics through this particular medium. In spite of recent shifts in the British theatrical landscape as well as the much-vaunted postmodern culture of anti-realism, documentary realism is generally conceded to have remained the normative mode of presentation for verbatim plays on stage. Through a comparative examination of seven representative verbatim productions, this dissertation argues, however, that there has been an equally persistent strand of verbatim works that involves a move away from realism as the key element in performance. These productions make use of a wide variety of aesthetic experiments that broaden and transgress what we might understand as verbatim theatre. The strategy adopted by this study is thus to read verbatim theatre against the grain of its claim to ‘authenticity’ and ‘truthfulness’ and to suggest the need for a discourse which better articulates an interdependence between its aesthetic imperatives and the possibilities of social engagement. Finally, this dissertation accounts for the existence of a range of aesthetic variables in present-day verbatim theatre which is aimed at more media-aware contemporary audiences. These are grouped into three theoretical positions, each of them being analysed and discussed in a separate part and illustrated by case studies. It is hoped that, through this argument, the changing aesthetics of verbatim theatre will be illuminated and that – on however small a scale – this doctoral dissertation will contribute to a critical history and theoretical formulation of the complexity of this rich field as both a scholarly discipline and a lived practice
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Dias, Matheus Cosmo da Silva. "A teatralização do real: uma defesa da política e da cultura em um tempo de caminhos bloqueados." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27156/tde-02102018-164444/.
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Esta dissertação se propõe a analisar e redefinir as práticas dos chamados teatros do real, tais como foram nomeados por Maryvonne Saison, no final da década de 90. Negando, em parte, o comum argumento que insiste numa aproximação entre arte e vida, numa fricção incessante entre elementos reais e ficcionais, busca-se aqui uma análise teórica na qual se cruzem eixos estéticos, políticos e sociais, com base em um entendimento inteiramente histó-rico do tempo presente, compreendido como resultado de todo o processo de transformações orquestradas desde o advento da modernidade. Para isso, aqui se toma como base principal de trabalho os experimentos e interven-ções urbanas executados pelo Grupo OPOVOEMPÉ, coletivo atuante dentro e fora da cida-de de São Paulo há exatos treze anos, e pouco pesquisado e registrado minuciosamente em âmbito acadêmico até agora. Levando em consideração todo seu contínuo histórico de pes-quisas e apresentações, a análise aqui empreendida busca na imanência de tais criações os sintomas de um tempo histórico e de um estado geral da arte, a fim de possibilitar a compre-ensão de um inevitável trajeto, historicamente delimitado, potencialmente capaz de reinter-pretar e reavaliar os ensejos políticos da cena contemporânea. Dessa maneira, num movimento constante de análise do particular para o geral, da apropriação prática de formulações teóricas e do reconhecimento e elaboração de uma teoria contundente a partir de elementos reveladores da práxis cênica, mediada pelo exercício da crítica, sem reiterar ou corroborar qualquer traço da profunda dissociação que atualmente abate as três esferas, encontra-se aqui o desejo de aprofundar dois materiais que ainda per-manecem carentes de desdobramentos específicos a seu respeito, desviando dos estabelecidos lugares da performatividade e pós-dramaticidade, de modo a possibilitar um novo salto analí-tico em sua abordagem, bem como o aprofundamento de algumas de suas ideias e premissas, a partir do contato com outras áreas de conhecimento.This dissertation intends to analyze and redefine the practices of the so called theatres of the real, such as they were coined by Maryvonne Saison, in the end of 90\'s decade. Deny-ing, partly, the common argument that insists on an approach between art and life, in an unremitting friction between real and fictional elements, we seek here a theoretical analysis in which the aesthetic, political and social axes are interrelated, based on a fully historical understanding of the current time, understood as a result of all the processes of transfor-mation arranged since the advent of modernity. For this, here it is taken as central base of work the experiments and urban interven-tions created by OPOVOEMPÉ Group, a collective active inside and out of São Paulo City thirteen years ago, and not much researched and registered thoroughly in academic scope until now. Taking into account its continuous repertoire of research and presentations, the analysis announced here seeks in the immanence of such creations the symptons of a histori-cal time and a state of art, in order to enable the understanding of an inevitable path, histori-cally delimited, potencially able to reinterpret and reanalyse the political call of the contem-porary scene. This way, in a constant movement of analysis from the particular to the general, of the practical appropriation of theoretical formulations and of the recognition and elaboration of a steady theory starting from significant elements of the scenic praxis, mediated by the critic\'s exercise, without reiterating or corroborating any trace of the deep dissociation that currently decreases these three spheres, what can be found here is a desire to deepen two materials that still lach of specific unfoldings about them, avoiding the settled jargons of performativity and post-dramaticity, in way to make possible a new analytical leap in their approach, as well as a deepening of some of their ideas, starting from the contact with other investigative surfaces.
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Tseng, Hui-Min. "Reality and Imagination: A Place for Blacksburg." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31611.
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There is nothing impossible in the world. Humans use their imagination to make their dreams come true or to achieve their desires. In architecture, a project should be completed by team effort and technology. Architects and engineers transform their ideas and imagination into an real object: space. Like a film, reflecting the directorâ s thought and expression.
How can space be defined ? A wall, a column.... every element in architecture can define a space, even though it might be only a door. A wall can be a separation as defining edges of a space, but a wall also is a connection as indicating other spaces for human to enter. A column is not just a part of the structure in architecture; it may guide people approaching a space or imply that there is another different space beyond?....Master of Architecture
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Juhász, Dénes. "Le chant tragique de la terre hongroise "le realisme poetique populaire"." Paris 8, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA080193.
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Cette these sur le drame de la paysannerie hongroise en mutation constante est un tableau realiste ayant pour objet l'etude du "realisme poetique populaire" a travers l'histoire tragique des origines a nos jours. L'existence de la paysannerie est la base de la societe ; ancree dans une civilisation bien definie, exprimee dans des oeuvres d'une grande sensibilite poetique et presentant une image populaire de la hongrie; alors apparait un art populaire empreint d'un sentiment democratique. L'image "fixe" de l'histoire se met en mouvement, poussee par la lutte continuelle; la recherche douloureuse d'une vie florissante, le drame de l'adaptation, la difficulte de changer en renouant sans cesse un dialogue "impossible", inspirant une succession d'images cinematographiquesThe history of the hungarian peasantry is a tragic one, constantly changing. This thesis seeks to give a true picture of its "popular poetic realism" across the centuries. The peasants form the basis of the society, rooted in a well-defined culture, expressed in litterature of great poetic feeling and presenting a popular image of hungary; a popular form of art emerges marked by a sens of democracy. The "fixed" image of history begins to move, impelled by the continual struggle, the painful search for an abundant life, the difficulty of changing by constantly renewing an "impossible" dialogue, thus inspiring a succession of moving pictures
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GHASB, MARWANE. "Le theatre realiste moderne en syrie apres l'independance." Paris 4, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040153.
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La these est une etude critique consacree aux oeuvres des dramaturges syriens realistes qui ont laisse leurs empreintes specifiques et significatives dans ce domaine, depuis les annees quarante : adwan, bulbul, al-hallag, ihlasi, ismat, kayalli, maqdisi, as-sibai, ursan, wannus et zahlawi. Apres une etude preliminaire sur la naissance de l'art dramatique en syrie et les facteurs qui ont contribue a l'elaboration d'un courant realiste ( chapitre premier ), les analyses des oeuvres sont agencees, dans les quatre autres chapitres, autour des quatre themes majeurs de ce theatre : l'injustice sociale, le conflit israelo-arabe, le pouvoir politique et la lutte des classes. Cette etude constitu, bel et bien, une contribution serieuse pour combler les lacunes, dans la critique litteraire dans ce domaineThis thesis is a critical study denoted to the works of syrian realistic playwrights who have left their specific and signifigant traces in this field, since the 1940's : adwan, bubul, al-hallag, ihlasi, ismat, kayalli, maqdisi, as-sibai, ursan, wannus and zahlawi. After a preliminary study about the beginning of the dramatic art in syria and the factors wich contributed to the elaboration of a realistic current ( chapitre one ), the analyses of the works are organized, in the four other chapitres, around four major themes of this theatre : social injustice, israelo-arabic conflit, political power and class struggles. This study undoubtedly markes a serous contribution in filling in the gaps in the literary critique concerning this sphere
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Bormel, Sarah Debra. "Terror: the stage of reality a series of one-act plays." Thesis, Boston University, 2007. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27600.
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Thesis (B.A.)--Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Pinheiro, Gabriela Maria Lisboa. "A construção da comicidade no teatro de Machado de Assis." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8149/tde-24112009-102047/.
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Esta pesquisa desenvolve um estudo em torno do teatro escrito por Machado de Assis, privilegiando a análise das formas de comicidade utilizadas pelo autor em suas peças. Quatro comédias são analisadas no presente trabalho: O caminho da porta e O protocolo, publicadas em 1863, e Não consultes médico e Lição de botânica, publicadas, respectivamente, em 1896 e 1906. Além da análise formal das peças e de seus recursos cômicos, abordamos o contexto histórico e estético em que seu teatro foi escrito, o gênero do provérbio dramático - utilizado como modelo na criação das comédias estudadas - e a forma como a crítica especializada tem recebido, ao longo dos anos, a produção teatral de Machado de Assis.This research develops an analysis of the plays written by Machado de Assis, specially reflecting upon the comical forms used by the author in his plays. Four comedies are analyzed in this research: O Caminho da Porta (The Way to the door) and O Protocolo (The Protocol), published in 1863, Não consultes Médico (Dont Consult Doctors), published in 1896, and Lição de Botânica (Botany Lesson), published in 1906. Besides analyzing the formal construction of the plays and their comic resources, we also investigate the historical and aesthetic context in which these plays were written, the dramatic proverb genre used as a model in the creation of the comedies and the understanding the critics built concerning Machado de Assiss theater through the years.
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Kotwal, Kaizaad Navroze. "Variations of Virtual Reality in Theatre and Film: Truth and Illusions Via Art and Technology." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392809424.
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Kastel, Thiemo [Verfasser]. "Live Performances and Broadcast Productions with Augmented Reality / Thiemo Kastel." Gernsbach : Prof.(FH) Dr. Thiemo Kastel, kastel media solutions, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1139666266/34.
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Garner, Andre. "Reality TV singing competitions take Broadway down a discordant path." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527933.
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This thesis illustrates the effect of reality television singing competitions on Broadway musical theatre. Chapter 1 examines the current Broadway casting climate prioritizing name recognition. Chapter 2 explores the genesis of musical theatre singing styles. Chapter 3 offers Stanislayski and Uta Hagen's acting techniques as a guide for musical theatre acting, analyzes the Jukebox musical, and investigates the reality TV singing style and its relevance to the musical theatre actor. The chapter then scrutinizes the hypocritical stance taken by reality TV singing shows toward the Broadway singing style. Chapter 4 examines the loss of storytelling on musical theatre and advocates the seeking of mastery in the acting process. Chapter 5 explores the circumstances that allow for Broadway to incorporate pop music. Chapter 6 reinforces storytelling's importance to musical theatre.
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Lindsey, Sara N. "Subjective Reality| Expressing the Interior Experience of "Machinal" With Early Twentieth Century Abstraction." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10747633.
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Inspired by the heightened representation of reality in early twentieth century art, the costume design for Machinal utilizes techniques found in Cubism, Futurism, and Vorticism to reveal the principle character’s inner experience and communicate her state of mind to the audience. Modifying traditional twenties’ dress with these aesthetic practices provided an opportunity to emphasize aspects of each character in relation to the protagonist, Helen. Additionally, by seamlessly including moments of modernity, the costumes emphasize the relevance of Machinal’s themes to today’s social and political environment. In fusing the aesthetic practices that contextualize Sophie Treadwell’s play with historical fashion, a visual language developed that successfully meets Expressionist goals of communicating interior human reality while also remaining faithful to the twenties’ aesthetic and reinforcing the constraints of the patriarchal machine of society.
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BASSAL, MOUHAMMAD. "Realite et signification dans le theatre de sa'd allah wannus." Lyon 2, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991LYO20046.
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Etudier le theatre de sa'd allah wannus, le considerer comme un systeme signifiant, y reperer les principales unites et decouvrir leurs fonctionnements, afin de recolter leurs differents effets de signification, telles etaient nos principales preoccupations. Nous avons donne une grande place a l'analyse concrete de la production dramaturgique de wannus. Sur ce point, la mise en pratique de l'analyse semiologique est tres fructueuse, elle a en fait l'avantage de presenter le theatre dans son ensemble, et de mettre l'accent non seulement sur les signes linguistiques du texte, mais aussi sur les signes non linguistiques de la representationStudy sa'd allah wannus' plays, considering them as a signifying system, locating the main unities and discerning their functioning, so as to get the differents effects of meaning, that were our leading concern. We have given a big place to concrete analysis of wannus plays production. Hence, semiotic analysis proves to be fruitful. Its great asset is to present the plays as a whole, ans to highlight not only the linguistic signs of the text, but also the nonlinguistic markers of the representation
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Valenta, Reinhard. "Franz von Poccis Münchener Kulturrebellion : alternatives Theater in der Zeit des bürgerlichen Realismus /." München : W. Ludwig, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35598770t.
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Siegel, Elisheva S. "Challenging what we know with The Last Days of Judas Iscariot| Examining the reality." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10102587.
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The following report is on the point of view, conceptualization, and evolution in its final execution of the lighting design by Elisheva S. Siegel for California State University, Long Beach Theatre Department?s 2015 University Player?s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis. It is submitted in partial fulfillment for completion of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Lighting Design. I believe that the core of this story is about challenging what we know is to be true. Furthermore, to physicalize the break down of these philosophical walls throughout the court proceedings against Judas Iscariot, a grid of severe lighting angles was employed. This grid evolved from extreme isolation to a blur as these black and white lines of moral principles becomes grey. Other visual metaphors include personifying Judas? despair, a contrasting atmosphere for the Past, and propelling into another dimension during Pilate?s testimony.
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Jaireth, Subhash, and Subhash Jaireth@ga gov au. "Theatre of the times of Socrates, Lunin and Nero : Time and space in Edvard Radzinskiis trilogy Theatre of the Times ." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1996. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20091027.093131.
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Between 1969 and 1980 Edvard Radzinskii wrote three historico-political plays which were later published as a trilogy entitled Theatre of the Times
. This thesis attempts to unravel the nature of time in the trilogy and invokes Mikhail Bakhtins notion about the forms of time and the chronotope in literary narratives to do that. Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope provides a suitable strategy for reading a trilogy that aims to re-present real time, place and human beings. The concept also provides a vantage point from where the trilogy can be read both from within the time-space of its main protagonists and from that of its author, readers, performers and spectators.
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Both Dialogues with Socrates' and 'Lunin
are structured around the chronotope of the prison which is associated with the chronotope of the acropolis in Dialogues with Socrates and with the chronotope of the masked-ball in Lunin
. In Theatre of the Times of Nero and Seneca the circus-theatre functions as the main chronotope. All these chronotopes serve as plot-constitutive devices and provide appropriate space in which the lives and times of the main protagonists can be adequately re-presented. However, the use of the concept of the chronotope in reading the trilogy does not imply that it can be read meaningfully only from within the time-space of its protagonists. The trilogy reconstructs the historical time-space but also engages in a substantial way with contemporary Soviet reality. This is achieved through an interaction between literary and real chronotopes. There is little doubt that most Soviet readers, performers and spectators negotiatied the chronotopes of the prison and the circus-theatre and the motifs of show-trial and execution from within their own time-space, their own historical experience. The thesis discusses a large number of reviews published in Soviet media to show that most critics read the trilogy from within the discourses about positive hero and socialist realism, because of which Socrates and Lunin were also turned into positive heroes.
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One of the most intriguing aspect of the three plays is the play within a play structure which achieves its maximum potential in the final play of the trilogy where it is combined with the theme of metamorphoses and multiple role playing. The trilogy, like Pirandellos trilogy about theatre, is able to foreground its own theatricality and explore the role of theatricality and role playing in and outside theatre. In Theatre of the Times of Nero and Seneca the boundary between role playing in life and in theatre becomes so blurred that history begins to resemble the writing and staging of a play.
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in which the frequent use of verbs in the past tense in the extra-dialogic text can be linked to the presence of a mediating narrator.
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Engel, Grace Eve Cheaney. "“The Utter Reality of Characterization”; Presentational and Representational Work in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1294188870.
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Ellis, Mark Richard. "A masquerade dance of liars : reality, fiction and dissimulation in immersive theatre." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/19278/.
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This research engages with the complex relationship between reality and fiction in immersive theatre. It proposes a theoretical standpoint, based upon the constructivist epistemological theory of Maturana (1980) and Schmidt (1984), which allows critical analysis of the reality/fiction complex. The study then tests this method of analysis on nine existing pieces of work by other artists. The findings from this analysis are then used to explore the notion of dissimulation, the manner by which the constructed fictional artifice of the performance is presented in such a way as it begins to appropriate the conventions of everyday reality. Dissimulation is also used as the basis upon which to suggest points for development in existing work as a means of highlighting the potential use of analysis for practitioners. The application of the strategies used to dissimulate existing work along with application of theory behind the process of dissimulation are then applied practically to the creation of scripts for two new pieces of work, Menagerie and Wonderland. The study also suggests the utilisation of the technique of retrospecting and the proposes the concept of char/actor augmentation as a means of facilitating improvisation through a performance script. The study concludes that the application of constructivist epistemological theory through the proposed method of analysis can reveal information about the manner by which works of immersive theatre apply dissimulative strategies that is re-applicable in the creation of new work and therefore presents a means of thinking that can help practitioners to develop new and existing work.
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Youngleson, Penelope. "Recommencing reality : the intersection of public and private identity in performative contexts." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7700.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).This paper explores the convergence and cusp of colliding realities in private and public identities in performative contexts. It draws heavily on a Socio-Anthropological system of the self and fictive personas within these constructs - as well as the perscnlpersonalpersonality trichotomy inherent in self~presentation and preservation. It is written in subservience and supplication to the practical component of the University of Cape Town's MA in Theatre and Performance (Theatre Making) which is also documented and archived with supplementary photographs as part of the research. The paper addresses notions of collective identity (such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, socio-economic and socio-political group clusters) with a peripheral focus on the South African, middle-class, Caucasian identity and a particular focus on a female, hetero-normative orientation (as it forms the premise of many concerns presented in the practice of the inquiry: the artist as still iife, the subject as object). It suggests a methodology towards aligning the research and its actualisation in performance through a series of installation-based works presented on and around Hiddingh Campus, Cape Town between May 2008 and September 2009. At the time of publication, the culminating project of the degree was in its pre-production phase.
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Friederichs-Büttner, Gesa [Verfasser], Rainer [Akademischer Betreuer] Malaka, and Patrick [Akademischer Betreuer] Olivier. "An Explorative Approach to Interaction Design in Mixed-Reality Performances / Gesa Friederichs-Büttner. Gutachter: Rainer Malaka ; Patrick Olivier. Betreuer: Rainer Malaka." Bremen : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1072226138/34.
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Macias-Gutierrez, Elizabeth. "Traumagical realism and the re-creation process : subversive commun(e)ication of the traumatic in theatre and performance." Thesis, Brunel University, 2014. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9974.
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This thesis approaches 'trauma' in theatre and performance from the perspective of communication studies. Since 'trauma' is an unspeakable and unrepresentable inner state, I thus conceptualize the term 'the traumatic/spectrum' to refer to layers of reality, meaning and experience that can be expressed, represented and/or spoken about in relation to a traumatizing encounter. Through practice-led research, I propose a multi-sensorial devising tool for theatre & performance makers primarily, and artists of all disciplines, to facilitate a performance process for individuals who have walked through a traumatic or post-traumatic journey ('journeyers'), and have a desire, need or purpose to communicate to an audience. Based on a syncretism in journalism, ethnography, psychology, and art therapy techniques, this methodology draws out the form and the content through which individuals desire to communicate about their experiences. Conceptualized here as the re-creation process, this methodology tackles different types of communication predicaments or 'distance' between audiences and 'journeyers' when addressing the traumatic, including: disbelief, voyeurism or sensationalism, and the tendency to habituate, fatigue, de-sensitize, avoid, avert and/or alienate from the traumatic and those who journey with this reality. In response, I endorse the interrelation of two aesthetic manifestations that can 'bridge' different types of psychological, emotional, sociocultural and physical 'distance': one is a realm of theatre & performance which renders semantic and somatic forms of expression indivisible, and the other is Magical Realism. These aesthetics are applied as channels and strategies to engage participants in a meaningful, empowering, and pleasurable 'shared' experience beyond the therapeutic. Finally, I propose the term traumagical realism to further identify and explore the parallels between Magical Realism and the traumatic. Traumagical Realism is a liminal territory that can offer a deeper understanding of the traumatic, and catalyze a social, aesthetic and affective force of engagement or 'commun(e)ication' between 'journeyers' and all participants involved in the devising process and culmination of a performance.
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van, Pelt Nadia. "Play-making on the edge of reality : managing spectator risk in early English drama." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366616/.
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This thesis places the notion of risk and the diversity of treatment that the management of risk involves, at the centre of the discourse about Early English drama. It locates the spectator’s experience on the edge of reality and fiction. Offering an alternative to current theories of metatheatricality and cognitive theory, this research attempts to contribute to knowledge by arguing that the most important element of the dramatic experience exists between the two poles of an awareness of artifice and absorption, and that the dramatic experience is managed by playwright, actor and spectator with respect to these two poles. This thesis focuses on the spectator, not just on the absorbed spectator who ‘lives’ in the drama, such as one finds in cognitive studies, or on the reflective spectator who is conscious of the artifice of drama, such as in metatheatrical studies, but rather on participatory spectators, and on spectators moving between the two positions of absorption and reflection. The case studies in this thesis are reflective of the contexts of early English dramatic performance: they show how similar issues were controlled differently in different contexts; that there might be no clear boundary between Catholic and Protestant drama in terms of spectator management; that some playwrights had political reasons to believe it best if they did not manage their spectators’ experience, while other playwrights displayed a deep commitment to controlling not only spectators’ experiences and responses during the performance but also afterwards, suggesting that risk management is not an act but rather a process; that dramatic performance could cause disaster if not sufficiently managed, or if the performance context in which the drama was performed, was misjudged, but that the use of the dramatic medium could also be recuperated by later events of a similar nature. Examining drama in its specific literary and historical context, this thesis reconstructs the play-experience not only through the plays, but also through a study of how plays were described in Star Chamber records, ambassadorial records, eye-witness accounts, and other records. It clarifies early drama’s most fundamental characteristic to be an intervention in society, and as such always relating to non-dramatic issues, and inevitably carrying risk with it.
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Shoffner, Kristin E. "Realism Revisited: An Exploration of Ibsen's A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler in Contemporary Contexts." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2519.
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The following thesis is an exploration in creating TheatreUNO’s production of A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler. The goal of directing the production of A Doll’s House and in performance of Hedda Gabler in repertory was to walk the fine line of honoring the original intentions of the playwright while simultaneously making the performances accessible to a contemporary audience. This thesis will include an in-depth look at the process of both productions, analysis, research and production materials. A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler ran in repertory at The University of New Orleans April 12-28 2018.
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Stewart, Lucy Claire. ""Theatre of the dancing language" : new possibilities in contemporary Australian playwrighting." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/28477/.
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This study focuses on trends in contemporary Australian playwrighting, discussing recent investigations into the playwrighting process. The study analyses the current state of this country’s playwrighting industry, with a particular focus on programming trends since 1998. It seeks to explore the implications of this current theatrical climate, in particular the types of work most commonly being favoured for production. It argues that Australian plays are under-represented (compared to non-Australian plays) on ‘mainstream’ stages and that audiences might benefit from more challenging modes of writing than the popular three-act realist play models. The thesis argues that ‘New Lyricism’ might fill this position of offering an innovative Australian playwrighting mode. New Lyricism is characterised by a set of common aesthetics, including a non-linear narrative structure, a poetic use of language and magic realism. Several Australian playwrights who have adopted this mode of writing are identified and their works examined. The author’s play Floodlands is presented as a case study and the author’s creative process is examined in light of the published critical discussions about experimental playwriting work.
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Kotwal, Kaizaad Navroze. "Variations of virtual reality in theatre and film : truth and illusion via art and technology /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488203552779304.
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Rayneard, Max James Anthony. "Performing Literariness: Literature in the Event in South Africa and the United States." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12083.
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x, 208 p.In this dissertation "literariness" is defined not merely as a quality of form by which texts are evaluated as literary, but as an immanent and critical sensibility by which reading, writing, speaking, learning, and teaching subjects within the literary humanities engage language in its immediate aesthetic (and thus also historical and ethical) aspect. This reorientation seeks to address the literary academy's overwhelming archival focus, which risks eliding literary endeavor as an embodied undertaking that inevitably reflects the historical contingency of its enactment. Literary endeavor in higher education is thus understood as a performance by which subjects enact not only the effect of literary texts upon themselves but also the contingencies of their socio-economic, national, cultural, and personal contexts. Subjects' responses to literature are seen as implicit identity claims that, inevitably constituted of biases, can be evaluated through the lens of post-positivist realism in terms of their ethical and pragmatic usefulness. Framing this reoriented literariness in terms of its enactment in higher education literature classrooms, this dissertation addresses its pedagogical, methodological, and personal implications. The events of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the literature arising from it serve as a pivotal case study. The TRC Hearings, publically broadcast and pervasive in the national discourse of the time, enacted a scenario in which South Africans confronted the implications for personal and national identities of apartheid's racial abuses. The dissertation demonstrates through close reading and anecdotal evidence how J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull formally reactivate this scenario in the subject in the event of reading, while surveys of critical responses to these texts show how readers often resisted the texts' destabilizing effects. A critical account of the process that resulted in Telling, Eugene - a stage production in which U.S. military veterans tell their stories to their civilian communities - analyzes the idea of literariness in the U.S. and assesses its potential for socially engaged literary praxis.
Committee in charge: Linda Kintz, Chairperson; Suzanne Clark, Member; Michael Hames-Garcia, Member; John Schmor, Outside Member
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Payne, Benjamin John. "Facing reality: idealism versus conservatism in Australian theatre and politics at the turn of the twenty-first century." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Arts, 2005. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00001484/.
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This dissertation aims to provide an analysis of mainstream Australian playwriting at the turn of the 21st Century. It will argue that mainstream theatre in the 1990s and early 2000s in many ways reflects the concurrent national political developments, in particular the revision of many of the dominant ideals of previous eras, such as those of the sixties. In this dissertation, I will attempt to outline briefly some of the hallmarks of the theatre of the New Wave, and their relation to the broader social movements occurring in Australia at the time. I will trace the beginnings of disillusionment and revising of these ideals in the late seventies and early eighties. The majority of the argument will then discuss the ways in which early nineties theatre engages with and frequently rebuts these earlier ideals, just as nineties politics saw a revision of many of the ideals of the sixties in society as a whole. I will argue that in the latter nineties, mainstream playwrights begin to reverse this conservative shift, reinstating a number of the ideals of the earlier period. I will demonstrate that Australian mainstream theatre at the turn of the century is integrally related to the politics of the society of the time, and that mainstream theatre demonstrates both radical and conservative tendencies through the period under consideration.
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Arnold, Nathan S. "Reexamining Deus ex Machina: Artificial Intelligence, Theater, & a New Work." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1569001838298508.
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Wagner, Grant A. "Man With a Chain Saw: Post-Truth Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1593171474518357.
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McCurdy, Marian Lea. "Acting and its refusal in theatre and film." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/10038.
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This thesis examines works of theatre and film that explore a refusal of acting. Acting has traditionally been considered as something false or as pretending, in opposition to everyday life, which has been considered as something real and truthful. This has resulted in a desire to refuse acting, evident in the tradition of the anti-theatrical prejudice where acting is considered to be seductive and dangerous. All the works that I examine in this thesis are relatively recent and all of them explore the paradox that in our (postmodern) times a gradual reversal has occurred where everyday life is seen as more and more false or as pretending or simulating (ie. containing acting and theatricality) and conversely, acting in theatre and film has become the place where people have begun searching for reality and truth and where ‘acting’ and pretending in life can be revealed and refused. The result of this paradox - and what I also discuss as a confusion of acting and living - is that the place in which acting can be refused has shifted; the ethical desire to refuse acting (in theatre and in life) is turning up in the aesthetic domain of acting itself.
In my first chapter I study works by filmmaker István Szabó and playwright Werner Fritsch, who represent the desire to refuse acting in the context of fascism where theatrical and filmic spectacle was used by the Nazis to seduce the population and where actors during this period also experienced an inability to separate their political and artistic lives. In my second chapter I look at the way Genet’s The Balcony and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution explore the desire to refuse acting as a result of a confusion of acting and living in the context of sexual (sadomasochistic) role-play. And in my third chapter I examine the way Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls, von Trier’s The Idiots and Affleck’s I’m Still Here represent a refusal of acting and theatricality altogether, responding to the way that ‘acting’ in life may have become an all-pervasive substitute (a simulation) for living. Foundational to the development of this thesis and a major source of material is my analysis of three theatrical productions with Free Theatre Christchurch, directed by Peter Falkenberg, in which I was involved as an actor and in which a refusal of acting was explored.
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Younge, Janni. "Creating resonance in emptiness with visual theatre : how the metaphorical potential of puppets, objects and images in theatre can be used to explore the constructed nature of reality and the complexity of the self." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8158.
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Includes the performance script of the play.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).
The aim of this explication is to set my practical theatre research, and the production Dolos in particular, in a theoretical framework and performance historical context. Since the central theme of Dolos is the construction of reality and the consequent attachment to aspects of the self, my study draws on the ideas proposed by Phenomenology and Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy.According to these two philosophical systems, the concept of reality is subjective and relative. This leads me to question the functioning of meaning-making in artistic practice. Metaphor is explored as a vehicle for the meaning-making process and for the creation of resonant experience in theatre and performance. The production style of Dolos is one that I have defined as Visual Theatre, a theatre of puppets, objects, visual and theatrical images. Visual Theatre is examined in the context of theatre as an artistic medium; it is then contextualised in terms of its 20th development through the Century; and definitions are offered of the major elements at play within Visual Theatre. A series of interviews conducted with five creator/ directors from four South African companies working in the general terrain of Visual Theatre is used to contextualise current practice in South Africa and to locate my own work. The interviews are used to establish trends of thought around the object/puppet and its relationship in theatre to constructed reality. The views of these practitioners on their own creative process as well as my observations about their practical work are used as examples throughout.
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Simões, Nenita Gouveia. "Rehearsing reality : an interactive docufragmentary exploration of the Theatre of the Oppressed's engagement with the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST)." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2007. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5636/.
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This thesis explores the Theatre of the Oppressed's practices at the point of interaction with peasants of Brazil's Landless Movement. It uses the interactive docufragmentary entitled Rehearsing Reality to explore the social and political role of art, and to ask whether particular applications of theatre and film can be used to understand and possibly transform points of view and raise consciousness about contemporary issues in the world. The Theatre of the Oppressed created by Augusto Boal comprises a series of interactive games, exercises and other theatrical methods developed with the purpose of using these drama techniques as a subjective medium contributing both to question and search alternatives for personal and social problems. Amongst its theatrical methods is Forum Theatre, the main practice adopted by Brazil's Landless Movement. This technique breaks with the conventions of the traditional language of theatre. Its main aim is to transform passive audiences into active participants of a theatrical scene. This thesis argues that Forum Theatre is an open medium that offers people the chance to participate democratically in the theatrical space in order to suggest and rehearse new ideas to be applied into their lives. In order to explore how these theatrical experiences work in practice this thesis includes a central element entitled Rehearsing Reality, which is specifically designed to adapt some of the main features from Forum Theatre to film language. Its aim is to activate viewers to interact with the film process. This thesis also explores the historical developments of the Theatre of the Oppressed with major emphasis on Forum Theatre and its practices amongst members of Brazil's Landless Movement living in camps and settlements in the hinterland of Sergipe State, North-East of Brazil. The structure of the thesis is divided into five parts: Chapter One analyses the relevant literature on the subject; Chapter Two provides a reflective account of the filming period; Chapter Three offers an overview of Boal' s life and the development of the Theatre of the Oppressed methods; Chapter Four briefly looks at the history and development of the Brazilian Landless Movement and provides a practical analysis of the experiences of Theatre of the Oppressed amongst the Landless Movement and Chapter Five analyses the creative process of making the docufragmentary Rehearsing Reality. The Conclusion suggests that the social and political aspect of art can significantly contribute to the process of comprehension and transformation of the world.
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Rosell, Mariana Rodrigues. "\'Ator sem consciência é bobo da corte\': frentismo cultural e realismo crítico na dramaturgia brasileira de matriz comunista, 1973-1979." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-25092018-123701/.
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Este trabalho analisa quatro peças brasileiras dos anos 1970: Um grito parado no ar (Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 1973), Rasga coração (Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, 1974), Gota dágua (Chico Buarque e Paulo Pontes, 1975) e O último carro (João das Neves, 19641967-1976). Escritas por diferentes dramaturgos, essas peças são representantes de um projeto de teatro que se constituiu na década de 1970, marcado pelas tentativas de retomada dos palcos brasileiros com uma dramaturgia cujas principais características são a valorização da palavra como eixo estruturante das peças, o investimento na busca por uma síntese formal de acordo com a matéria histórica a ser representada e a reafirmação do compromisso com o engajamento. A análise das peças permitiu identificar a forte presença de elementos da cultura política comunista e a proximidade de seu discurso com o projeto político do Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB), o que permitiu caracterizá-las como dramaturgia de matriz comunista. As tentativas de retomada dos palcos se deram através de um processo de avaliação da prática teatral no qual os dramaturgos reafirmaram alguns dos pressupostos que haviam tido no horizonte de sua escrita dramatúrgica até então, ao mesmo tempo em que tentaram abandonar outros. Tentando deixar de lado o idealismo com que haviam lido a realidade brasileira e a teleologia revolucionária com que haviam representado os personagens populares, esses dramaturgos não abandonaram a defesa de uma estratégia de resistência ao regime militar através de uma frente ampla pela redemocratização. O frentismo, porém, surge reconfigurado, tendo seu foco deslocado de uma frente policlassista para uma frente entre membros de uma mesma classe social cujas estratégias de ação política divergiam. A busca por uma síntese formal sugere a constituição de uma \"frente estética\" em que diferentes matrizes teóricas foram conjugadas, evidenciando a importância da pesquisa formal para o teatro engajado. No entanto, apesar dessas características convergentes, as peças não deixam de expressar tensões entre si e expõem os impasses e contradições que marcaram a modernização do Brasil nos anos 1970.This work analyzes four brazilian plays from the 1970s: Um grito parado no ar (Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 1973), Rasga coração (Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, 1974), Gota dágua (Chico Buarque e Paulo Pontes, 1975) and O último carro (João das Neves, 1964/1967-1976). Written by different playwrights, these plays are representative of a theatre project constituted in the 1970s, marked by attempts to retake brazilian stages with a dramaturgy whose main characteristics are the valorization of the word as the structuring axis of the plays, the investment in the search for a formal synthesis according to the historical matter to be represented and the reaffirmation of commitment to political engagement. The analysis of the plays allowed to identify the strong presence of elements of the communist political culture and the proximity of its discourse with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB)s political project, which allowed to characterize them as dramaturgy of communist matrix. The attempts to retake the stage took place through a evaluation of theatrical practice in which the playwrights reaffirmed some of the assumptions they had had in the horizon of their dramaturgical writing until then, while attempting to abandon others. Trying to put aside the idealism with which they had read the Brazilian reality and the revolutionary teleology with which they had represented the popular characters, these playwrights did not abandon the defense of a strategy of resistance to the military regime through a front for redemocratization. But the front strategy appears reconfigured, with its focus shifting from a polyclassist front to a front among members of the same social class whose strategies for political action diverged. The search for a formal synthesis suggests the constitution of an \"aesthetic front\" in which different theoretical matrices were conjugated, evidencing the importance of the formal research for the engaged theater. However, despite these convergent characteristics, the plays express tensions among themselves and expose the impasses and contradictions that marked the modernization of Brazil in the 1970s.
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Borglund, Dawn. "EVELYN OFFSCREEN: AN APPLICATION OF INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE METHODSIN ALTERNATE REALITY GAMING." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3066.
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For my thesis project for the Masters of Fine Art in Film and Digital Media, I designed and produced Evelyn Offscreen, an alternate reality game (ARG) that was facilitated by interactive performance. The goal was to create an interactive experience that allowed several players to collaboratively create story across numerous media within the field of alternate reality gaming. The approach used in Evelyn Offscreen was intended to provide a degree of creative freedom to the players that has not been demonstrated in other ARG experiences and to use digital media to capture information about the relative effectiveness of the different techniques that were employed. During the month of October 2009, Evelyn Offscreen invited players to participate in an overarching story as characters. The game existed simultaneously through several media platforms such as Ning, twitter, and blogger as well as scenes located in Central Florida where players could embody their character in a real world setting. The results revealed insights into techniques for massive collaboration of story and player reactions to this hybrid form of alternate reality gaming and interactive performance.M.F.A.
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Basdevant-Corbier, Patricia. "Edward Albee, dramaturge iconoclaste." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0399.
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Figure patricienne incontournable du panorama de la création théâtrale, digne successeur d’Eugene O’Neill, de Tennessee Williams et d’Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (1928-2016) a insufflé une nouvelle vitalité au théâtre américain. Son œuvre iconoclaste, reçue avec ricanements, consternation ou enthousiasme, rejette l’existence d’une coupure entre la réalité, ses apparences, et l’imaginaire. Meneur de jeu imaginatif et provocateur, Albee cherche à produire un théâtre “réaliste” en abordant le problème des rapports entre apparences et réalité dans le théâtre du monde (Theatrum Mundi), sur le plan social (rôle et dimension humaine), logique (sens et non sens) et psychologique (raison et folie), ainsi que sur le plan de la représentation théâtrale (personnage et acteur). Cette étude explore, sous l’angle de la métaphore du jeu, les dernières pièces du dramaturge, riches en questionnements philosophiques, qui présentent le parcours initiatique du Sujet entre représentation et expérience, imaginaire et réalité. Du jeu au “je”, le personnage protéen, dans les coulisses du théâtre de l’intime, prépare son audition sur la scène du théâtre du monde. Empreinte de mystère, de poésie, de sagesse, de cocasserie ou de pathétique, l’aire de jeu inédite du dramaturge, où se prépare une expérience de vérité, déploie une vision humaniste optimiste qui ouvre in fine sur l’expérience esthétique de la catharsisA patrician key figure of the theatrical landscape, the worthy heir of Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, Edward Albee (1928-2017) has breathed new life into the American theatre. His iconoclastic body of work, which was met with sneering, dismay or enthusiasm, disproves the split between the real, its appearances and imagination. An imaginative, provocative playmaker, Albee aims at producing a “realistic” drama by tackling the problem of the links between appearances and reality in the Theatrum Mundi on various levels : social (role and human dimension), logical (meaning and absurdity), psychological (reason and madness), as well as on the level of performance (character and actor). Through the game metaphor, this study focuses on the playwright’s last plays, which are rife with philosophical interrogations and stage the Subject’s initiatory journey between representation and experience, imagination and reality. As a player, Albee’s protean character prepares backstage to audition for his role on the stage of the Theatrum Mundi. Imbued with mystery, poetry, wisdom, comicality and pathos, the playwright’s original playground, where an experience of truth is under way, brings forth an optimistic, humanistic vision that opens onto the aesthetic experience of catharsis
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Liljeberg, Johan, and Anton Bjäreborn. "Hur kan fysisk teater integreras i Virtual Reality för att främja kroppsligt berättande?" Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för teknik och estetik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-21845.
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Artikeln behandlar blandningen av fysisk teater och Virtual Reality(VR) och ämnar att besvara vilka fördelar kroppsligt berättande kan generera ur en digital miljö. Sammanhangen och kopplingarna leder till en diskussion hur VR som medieform kan liknas vid en teatermask som främjar kroppslig berättande. Artikeln tar också upp hur kroppen är viktig i både VR och teater samt hur gestaltningen Get Your Act Together översätter den fysiska världen till en digital plats. Avslutningsvis presenteras ett sammanhang mellan VR och teater vilket leder till en diskussion om VR:ens roll som medie i teatersammanhang.This article deals with the mixture of physical theater and Virtual Reality(VR) and aims to answer what benefits physical storytelling can generate from a digital environment. The context and the connections leads to a discussion of how VR as a media form can be compared to a theatrical mask that promotes physical storytelling. The article also addresses how the body is important in both VR and theater and how the design “Get Your Act Together” translates the physical world into a digital place. Finally, a connection between VR and theater is presented, which leads to a discussion about VR's role as a medium in a theater context.
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Edy, Delphine. "Le réalisme et son double au théâtre. Thomas Ostermeier, mise en scène et recréation." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL150.
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Les mises en scène récentes de T. Ostermeier explorent les liens entre littérature et art théâtral pour questionner, à l’aide d’un réalisme complexe qu’il réinvente, ce que les œuvres ont à dire de la réalité politique et sociale de notre présent. Il privilégie toujours pour cela des espaces entre qui permettent de briser la rigidité d’un respect littéral étouffant et de faire dialoguer le passé et le présent, l’actuel et le virtuel, le proche et le lointain. A la surface visible, son réalisme articule la profondeur invisible qui dédouble le réel en explorant sa spectralité à travers les personnages eux-mêmes, leur mémoire, leurs fantômes ; leur langue qui, entre traduction et retravail, crie le non-dit, le refoulé, l’absence ; l’espace des lieux-seuils, des (non)-lieux et des passages, des images du hors-scène, trop présent, ou de l’intime, insaisissable ; et même la musique dont les échos démultiplient les réseaux de sens. C’est dans la hantise de ces doubles que T. Ostermeier cherche à reconstruire un sens qui ne fasse pas abstraction des fêlures ni des fractures. Son travail doit être analysé comme une œuvre autonome qui convoque l’œuvre littéraire support pour la faire parler à nouveau, lui faire dire à nos oreilles d’aujourd’hui la douleur intemporelle du réel et l’espoir politique de reconstruire ce présent. La « déterritorialisation » constante du théâtre de T. Ostermeier, assumée, donne corps aux spectres qui sont l’autre nom de notre réalité pour que nous, spectateurs, puissions, finalement, nous en saisir. Refusant un théâtre et une littérature qui ne font qu’interpréter le monde, il s’agit pour T. Ostermeier de faire dialoguer l’un et l’autre pour le transformerIn his recent productions, T. Ostermeier investigates the links between literature and drama with complex, renewed realism to question what insights the works of the past can give us into today’s political and social reality. He always favours the in-betweens which enable him to break through the stifling inflexibility of literal interpretation and initiates a dialogue between the past and the present, the actual and the virtual, what is close at hand and what is distant. His realism connects the visible surface of reality to its invisible depth – its double. He delves into this spectrality by focusing on the characters’ memory, their ghosts; on their language, hanging between translation and reworking, as their unsaid, repressed words speak loud; on space viewed as space between – thresholds, somewhere/nowhere, passages, pictures of all too present off-stage scenes or of elusive intimacy; on music too, echoing meaning in multiple layers. These ghost-like doubles are T. Ostermeier’s material to rebuild a meaningful present without ignoring its cracks and fault lines. His productions should be analysed as an autonomous oeuvre which calls on literary works to make sense afresh, to voice the painful, timeless experience of the real and the political hope to rebuild the present. His constantly ‘deterritorialising’ theatre substantiates our ghosts – the flipside of our reality – so that we, spectators, may finally get a grasp on them. T. Ostermeier will not confine theatre and literature to merely interpreting the world, he wants them to dialogue in order to transform it