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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bloodlines
(2015-08-12)
A drama in two acts, Bloodlines centers upon a traditional farm family in Iowa,
several years in the future. The climate has changed, and though they struggle to
maintain the centuries-old family home and traditions ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...