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Sarah Ruhl's women : gender, representation and subversion in the Clean house, Eurydice and In the next room, or the vibrator play
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Sarah Ruhl is one of the most promising young playwrights working in the theatre today. While she is still in the early phases of her career, her work has garnered significant critical attention and has been produced by ...
Social critiques in three prose plays by Maxwell Anderson : Saturday's children, Both your houses, and The star-wagon
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
This dissertation examines three plays by Maxwell Anderson from 1927 to 1937. As Anderson was most noted for aesthetic experiments with verse drama, this study attempts to re-evaluate Anderson's contribution to American ...
Dramatic conflict : exploring interactive theatre as a pedagogical tool for addressing issues of heterosexism in the educational system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
The purpose of this grounded theory study was to determine the impact of interactive theatre on college students in regard to heterosexism and/or homonegativity. Students experienced the presentation of an interactive scene ...
The Harold : a revolutionary form that changed improvisational theatre & American comedy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The Harold is widely regarded as the foundation of long form scenic style improv. First developed in the late 1960's by the San Francisco group The Committee, work-shopped by Del Close in the 1970's, and transformed into ...
The labor of action for the operation of truth : the phenomenology and dramatic Platonism of Meisner technique as refined and extended by William Esper
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This dissertation deals with the application of philosophical thought and methods to school of actor training known as Meisner technique. The initial goal is to illuminate and improve the theory, practice, and pedagogy of ...
Journeying a/cross the divide : an auto/ethnographic performance of coming out
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Over the past two years, I conducted ethnographic interviews of respondents who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual to collect their coming-out ...
Becoming a feminist director in the academy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In this dissertation, I investigate the creation of my performance of a feminist director. I examine how I became a feminist, what led me to directing, and what choices I made when I intentionally attempted to embody ...
Tempting the miracle : sacred theatre, or exploring Suzuki/Viewpoints and composition in directing John Pielmeier's Agnes of God : an auto/ethnographic memoir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In December of 2008, I directed John Pielmeier's Agnes of God as part of the University of Missouri-Columbia's academic year season. I took this opportunity to seize the moment and, through intense actor training and an ...
The theatre lobby experience : the audience's perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
What meaning does the audience give to the lobby? Using the qualitative methodology grounded theory, analysis of directed interviews were collected for this study, and the following theory emerged: An audience member with ...
Performance, playwriting and pedagogy : teaching devised theatre in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Education scholars Mark E. Engberg and Sylvia Hurtado state in their article "Developing Pluralistic Skills and Dispositions in College: Examining ...
An exploratory and descriptive inquiry into the relationship between the goals of general education and disciplinary content in acting for non-majors courses in colleges and universities in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
A foundational requirement of undergraduate education in the United States is the completion of a general education curriculum. One goal of general education is to introduce students to habits of mind leading to the ...
The American musical stage as a site of utopian possibilities : subversive representations of race and gender in Violet and Caroline, or change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
When considering American musicals as social barometers that both reflect and shape the national zeitgeist, two major traditions have been identified: the mid-twentieth-century Golden Age model, which champions the mainstream ...
From Hattie to Halle : an autoethnographic exploration of a black actress performing weight loss
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation uses autoethnography to explore the performance of weight loss both on the stage and off, identifying three levels of metaphysical ...
Women of the northern stage : gender, nationality and identity and the work of Canadian women stage directors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Studies in 1982 and 2006 conducted by the Canadian government and Canadian professional theatre organizations, respectively, revealed that Canadian women directors have been and continue to be underrepresented in relation ...