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Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
(2020)
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II forever changed the face of American musical theatre when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. This collaboration is often cited by historians as the first fully-integrated book ...
No Way Out: Violence in Selected American Expressionist Plays
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis discusses the American expressionist plays of the 1920s and the acts of
violence that occur in several of them. The expressionist plays of Eugene O’Neill, Elmer Rice,
Sophie Treadwell, and Susan Glaspell ...
Redating Pericles: A Re-examination of Shakespeare’s Pericles as an Elizabethan Play
(2015)
Pericles's apparent inferiority to Shakespeare’s mature works raises many questions for
scholars. Was Shakespeare collaborating with an inferior playwright or playwrights? Did he
allow so many corrupt printed versions ...
Picasso : theatre artist
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-09-27)
Picasso: Theatre Artist is centered upon Pablo Picasso‟s work in the theatrical field. Pablo Picasso is internationally known as a Spanish painter who championed the Cubist perspective in graphic art. However, his extensive ...
The Deputy
(2021)
The Deputy is a play written by Rolf Hochhuth. Hochhuth was a German editor-turned-playwright who grew up as a Nazi youth. Something that we must understand is that to the Nazi youth of the 1930s and ‘40s, their own ...
We Happy Few: An Exploration of the Feast of Crispian and Military Stories in Shakespeare
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis examines the theatre group Feast of Crispian, a non-profit organization which
brings together professional actors with post-deployment service veterans. The group
formed in 2012 and is in the process of ...
The Ruhls of Relationships: Connecting with Others Through Theatrical Ambiguity
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The Ruhls of Relationships: Connecting with Others Through Theatrical Ambiguity aims to
bring attention to the enjoyable relationship one should have with theatre that encourages
ambiguity and to highlight the joy and ...
Emerging from the Ground: The Meaning of Messiah in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle
(2013)
Pittsburgh playwright and poet August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays in which each play
is set in a different decade of the twentieth century. This series of plays is often referred to as the
Pittsburgh Cycle. The ...
Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
(2014-07-30)
Battle of the Sexes Onstage: Explorations of Changing Gender Roles by Four American Women Playwrights of the 1910s-1930s analyzes plays by Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, and Dawn Powell in order to ...
Jet Propulsion : a play about John Whiteside Parsons
(2013)
Jet Propulsion, a two-act drama on the life of John Whiteside Parsons, is the candidate's thesis, along with the essay "American Weird: Researching John Whiteside Parsons, the Occult Religion of Aleister Crowley and the ...
Jessie Bonstelle: A Biography
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 1988)
This thesis is a study of an oft-forgotten trailblazer in the theatre, Jessie Bonstelle, nee Laura Justine Bonesteele-Stuart. Through this paper I hope to bring her back into prominence among theatre historians as she ...
Skywalk
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This project, a full-length play, intends to illuminate the facts surrounding the
architectural collapse at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in July 1981, when two bridges in
the hotel lobby called skywalks collapsed, ...
Joanna Baillie: The Theory in Her Plays on the Passions and an Analysis of Four Dramas Within that Series
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2010)
This thesis examines the theatre theory as outlined by Joanna Baillie in the Introductory Discourse to her Series of Plays in Which it is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion Being the ...
Connecting the dots: a history of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-22)
This thesis is a history of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984), which was inspired by Georges Seurat's masterpiece: Un dimanche à la Grande Jatte (1886). By first examining the lives and ...
Setting the Stage for Kansas City talent and Diversity The KC Meltingpot Theatre
(2015)
This thesis aims to chronicle the origins of The KC MeltingPot Theatre Company, owned and operated by Kansas City area couple Harvey and Linda Williams. The primary focus will be on the works produced by The KC MeltingPot ...
We are our Heroes: Understanding Western Culture through Faust, Don Juan, and Joan of Arc
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The purpose of this work is to identify and analyze patterns in three of the most
popular characters in Western (Europe and the Americas) theatre history. Faust/Faustus, Don
Juan, and Joan of Arc are the subjects of ...
Theatre for Young America: A History
(2015-05-19)
In the spring of 1974, a family of actors has recently landed in Kansas City,
Missouri. Father, Gene Mackey, is working for one of the areas four professional dinner
theatres and has been authorized by his employer to ...
(In)Visible: performances of gay and lesbian dramatic literature on the American stage from 1910 to 1969
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-01)
(In)Visible: Performances of Gay and Lesbian Dramatic Literature on the American Stage from 1910 to 1969 provides a decade-by-decade analysis of plays with queer content from the 1910s to the 1960s. The aim is to chronicle ...
Expanding Theatre: Directing Approaches from Contemporary Chilean Women Directors
(2020)
This thesis examines the careers, theatrical ideologies, and directing methodologies of three contemporary Chilean women stage directors: Andrea Giadach, Alexandra von Hummel, and Ignacia González. Respective chapters ...
The application of Jungian archetypes to the analysis of character in three early plays by W. B. Yeats
(2014-07-16)
The purpose of the following study is to explore and examine three early plays authored by the iconic late-19th and 20th-century Irish poet-playwright W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) through the identification and conscious ...