Browsing Theatre Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2013 Spring"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The show-man goes to war: a full-length play
(2013)This project is intended to educate and entertain audiences by presenting them with a creative interpretation of war-time resistance. Using the city of Arnhem, located in the Netherlands, as the location for the play, ... -
Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
(2013)This thesis addresses multiple social and psychological implications found within three types of theatre and their communities and audiences. In particular it embraces the theory that people can benefit from the group-healing ...