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Repossessing Spectatorship in Immersive Theatre and Virtual Reality proposes that material constructions borne by the ambitions of “immersion” do not fulfill their intended purpose: total passage to the reality of the performance. These...
When aerial performance became popular in the 20th century, critics reported the confusing gender appearance of its performers. Muscular women were described as mannish and Amazonian while men were observed to be graceful and feminine. I...
This dissertation examines David Mamet's non-dramatic writings and interview responses to posit in an organized manner his theories about the power and potential of dramatic language in order to clarify his dramatic language strategy to...
This thesis' focus lies deep within the Filipino immigrant's "home" in the U.S. and offers an investigation of how different Filipino/Filipino-American homes in the texts examined challenge and confront the seeming viability and...
Using Carlson's theory that text can be considered "haunted" in the ways it recycles material already familiar to the audience, I suggest that Romanian playwrights writing after the year 2000 are highlighting the historical struggles...
Disneyland theme park's significance draws from its development as the first themed park in conjunction with its position as representative of a 1950s suburban American psyche. In attending a themed space, a visitor supplements and...
This thesis focuses on the intersection of nationalism and secularism. Specifically, I studysema, the whirling ritual ofMevlevis, and its representations in Turkey. I analyze Turkey's dissemination of a national image therefore its...
This dissertation examines the aging woman trope and the idea of the "trauma and aging" in theatre and performance. I argue that the pervasiveness of negative imagery associated with aging women as well as decline narratives of age...
This thesis focuses on Sharon Bridgforth's performance pieces. Examining Bridgforth's performance texts, a more complicated and--at times-- contradictory way of approaching subjectivity emerges, challenging ideas of cultural authenticity...
This thesis addresses two plays and their entanglement with ecological crises in the United States and abroad, specifically Mexico and Canada: Chantal Bilodeau’s Sila and Victor Cazares’ Ramses Contra Los Monstruos: Salmas para el fin...
U.S. and Western media depict the Yugoslav Civil War of the 1990s as one of the most horrific ethnic conflicts since the Holocaust. The Yugoslav Civil War developed while Yugoslavia was attempting to adjust to new definitions of state...
The nineteenth-century "moral reform" melodrama joined reform newsletters to warn audiences about social evil. These melodramas necessarily depicted vices like drunkenness, slavery, vanity, and rage. In Spectacles of Reform, Amy Hughes...
Since its inception in the early twentieth century, academic theatre has used practical production experiences as a link between education and the professional industry. This experience was propelled by the educational pioneers, George...
This thesis analyzes two plays from Madagascar that confront colonialism and its continuing presence in a "post" colonial world. It traces the shifting definitions of "postcolonial" theatre, settling on a lesser used configuration of the...
Ann Jellicoe’s (1927-2017) career largely parallels the development of postwar British theatre. She entered the London theatre scene after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama around 1948, and continued to produce...
Black feminist scholars such as Lisa Anderson describe the most common stereotypes as that of the mammy, the mulatta, and the mistress. My research analyzes how each of these negative stereotypes are articulated or challenged in...
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