RSS 1.0Theatre electronic theses and dissertations (MU)
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cover (a play about trafficking) The power of creating performative auto/ethnographies in a theatre community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. This idea that the devil (or depravity) is sly enough to make us believe it doesn't exist comes rushing forward up to this moment. I connect ... -
No crown without the cross: the formation, existence, and disappearance of the Catholic Stage Guild of Ireland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)In December 1948, an article by Seamus Brady in The Manitoba Ensign claimed, “[The Catholic Stage Guild of Ireland] has branches in every city in Ireland, as well as in Britain, America and Australia.” Its presence, according ... -
Coriolanus versus the warrior women : a dramaturgical analysis of an adaptation of Shakespeare's play
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)Coriolanus by William Shakespeare has a respectable performance history, although it has never been as popular as Hamlet, Macbeth or Romeo and Juliet. Adapting the work of Shakespeare is common both on stage and screen, ... -
Devising and Collective Organization in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's History
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The evolution of the collective structure and use of devising in the San Francisco Mime Troupe's history are intertwined with one another. In order to understand this relationship, and discover what it might contribute to ... -
Bodily difference, interdependence, and toxic half-lives: representations of disability in D.W. Gregorys Dirty Pictures, The Good Daughter, and Radium Girls
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)People with disabilities have been a part of theatre for thousands of years. But typically they are represented as metaphors, where blindness or a limp symbolizes something about their character and has nothing to do with ... -
From Stonewall to Millennium: Lesbian Representation in Three Representative Late 20th-Century Plays by American Women.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)From Stonewall to Millennium: Lesbian Representation in Three Late 20th-Century Plays by American Women explores the relationship between the lived experiences of LGBT people (especially lesbians and bisexual women) and ... -
Kiss today goodbye, and point me toward tomorrow : reviving the time-bound musical, 1968-1975
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)As musical theatre scholars Stacy Wolf, Sheldon Patinkin, and John Bush Jones have argued, American musicals are among our country's most valuable social documents as they depict the dominant discourses and reigning values ... -
In her own words : Connie Regan-Blake, the foremother of the festival-based American storytelling revival
([University of Missouri--Columbia], 2014)This ethnographic and historiographic study is grounded in archival interviews with Connie Regan-Blake (b. 1947), the foremother of the festival-based American storytelling revival, found in the Cotsen Storytelling Project ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Performance, playwriting and pedagogy: teaching devised theatre in the digital age
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Education scholars Mark E. Engberg and Sylvia Hurtado state in their article "Developing Pluralistic Skills and Dispositions in College: Examining Racial/Ethnic Group Differences" that as the United States is becoming more ... -
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 ... -
Journeying a/cross the divide: an auto/ethnographic performance of coming out
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Over the past two years, I conducted ethnographic interviews of respondents who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual to collect their coming-out narratives. I then devised, along with a cast of nine, an auto/ethnographic ... -
From Hattie to Halle: an autoethnographic exploration of a black actress performing weight loss
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This dissertation uses autoethnography to explore the performance of weight loss both on the stage and off, identifying three levels of metaphysical ambiguity that occurred after losing nearly 100 pounds when I was selected ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...