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A Gathering of Voices: Storytelling with Nilo Cruz and Students in the Urban Core
(2016)
“A Gathering of Voices: Storytelling with Nilo Cruz and Students in the Urban Core”
examines the importance of storytelling and the impact it can have in our lives through
theatre, literature, and our own context and ...
Living and acting in Kansas City versus Southern California
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-31)
The purpose of this thesis is to compare theatre students' and recent theatre student alumni's descriptions of acting opportunities in Kansas City versus Southern California. Students from Southern California and Kansas ...
Family Systems Theory in Chekhov’s ‘Big Four’ Plays
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis discusses the Bowen family systems theory and its application to character
analysis and family relationships in drama. Chekhov’s plays are renowned for their
psychological realism. Each character has his ...
August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
(2016)
August Wilson’s Century Cycle has been studied by scholars as a documentation
of the history of African Americans. His ten plays in that cycle use historical events to
chronicle the African American experience in ...
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 ...
Battles of the sexes onstage: explorations of changing Gender roles by four American women playwrights of the 1910s-1930s
(2014-07-30)
as an introduction with three different female characters from three generations with varying marital statuses. The first group of plays focuses on women trapped in unhappy marriages and includes He and She (1911) by Rachel Crothers, Trifles (1916) and The Verge...
(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 legacy behind Literature to Life: a history and narrative of Wynn Handman, The American Place Theatre and Literature to Life
(2013)
Literature to Life is a performance-based literacy program developed under the
auspices of The American Place Theatre in New York City (1994). The American Place
Theatre was founded in 1964 and stewarded by the artistic ...
Nashville Community Theatre: from the Little Theatre Guild to the Nashville Community Playhouse
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-04-26)
In the early 20th century the Little Theatre Movement swept through the United
States. Theatre enthusiasts in cities and towns across the country sought to raise the
standards of theatrical productions by creating quality ...
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 ...
The Coterie Theatre’s Transition from Children’s Theatre to Multigenerational Theatre: 1991-2014
(2015)
The programming of The Coterie Theatre of Kansas City, Missouri, under Artistic
Director Jeff Church, was studied from September 1990 to August 2014. The works
researched included world, commissioned and American premieres ...
The Unicorn Theatre: A Brief History 1974-2020
(2020)
The Unicorn Theatre was originally founded under the name Theatre Workshop in 1974. It was a theatre company formed by three UMKC graduates, Jim Cairns, Rohn Dennis, and Liz Gordon who wanted to create an Off-Off-Broadway ...
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 ...
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 ...
Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study
(2015-08-12)
“Staging The Merchant of Venice in the 21ˢᵗ Century: A Dramaturgical Case Study”
aims to document the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 2015 production of The
Merchant of Venice by framing it within the historical ...
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, ...
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 ...
Mamet On Mamet: Politics and Poetics in Oleanna, Race, The Anarchist, and China Doll
(2016)
Mamet on Mamet: Politics and Poetics in Oleanna, Race, The Anarchist, and
China Doll” aims to illuminate Mamet’s mature aesthetic through a close examination of
four of his later plays. The thesis blends textual ...
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 ...