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    • Being Big, Black & Ugly in a World that Ain't Got Space For Your Fat Ass: A Solo Performance of My Own Design 

      Henderson, Bria Samoné
      Being Big, Black, & Ugly in a World that Ain’t Got Space for Your Fat Ass is a thesis solo show that examines the direct effect of beauty standards and body images on the big, black female body. This thesis explores my ...
    • Bless Me Anyway- A Solo Performance of My Own Design 

      Castaneda-Gonzales, Tricia M.
      The fight against HIV/AIDS is not over. Since the beginning of the epidemic over 39 million people have lost their lives due to HIV/AIDS related complications. And yet, HIV/AIDS continues to disproportionately affect ...
    • BLM*: A Solo Performance to Bring Awareness 

      Mitchell, Antonio
      University of Washington Abstract BLM*: A Solo Performance to Bring Awareness Antonio Mitchell Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Jeffrey Fracé, School of Drama BLM* is a solo performance piece that questions the exclusion ...
    • Brecht Between Mediums 

      Seifert, Kristin Marie
      University of Washington Abstract Brecht Between Mediums Kristin M. Seifert Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Stefka Mihaylova Department of Drama Is Epic theory solely applicable to live performance? Was German writer ...
    • Buda Errante (Wandering Buda) 

      MARTEL MARTEL, IVELIZ KATHERIN
      Buda Errante (Wandering Buda) is a solo performance inspired by the life of the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize in Literature (1945), Gabriela Mistral, in conversation with the personal experiences of the creator of this ...
    • The casting and fate of "older" women in nineteenth-century American plays 

      Holland, Dorothy J (1999)
      In this study I apply feminist theory and age theory to the analyze the representations of older women in nineteenth-century American plays. Reading the play scripts against contemporary sources drawn from medical treatises, ...
    • Crazy Hex Girlfriend: A Solo Performance of My Own Design 

      Hahn, Gretchen
      Crazy Hex Girlfriend is a solo performance that questions the compulsory nature of the heterosexual experience in contemporary American society, and the cascading effects it has on an individual’s relationship to internalized ...
    • Creating a Public: Love Suicide on the Osaka Stage, 1703-1722 

      Browne, Jyana S.
      This dissertation investigates how the representations of love suicide on stage at the dawn of the eighteenth century called forth an urban, commoner public in Osaka. As a result of the repeated bans on publishing print ...
    • Creation & Performance of Solo Show Their Eyes Get Big 

      Stone, Emily Petrice
      Their Eyes Get Big is a solo performance about the reverbrations of sexual assault and bystander responses in my life. In this performance, I attempt to bring the audience into my own experience of sexual assault, using ...
    • Cruel and Unusual Performance: (Re)producing Capital Punishment on the U.S. Stage 

      Lunderman, Shelby Caitlyn
      This dissertation examines theatrical representations of state-sanctioned executions in the U.S. from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century alongside real-life executions and federal capital punishment ...
    • Dahlia: A Solo Performance of My Own Design 

      Walker, Amber
      Dahlia is a solo performance piece about a young woman’s journey for self-advocacy in the face of systemic and institutional sexism, under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. This story derives from the universal experience ...
    • DAPHNE: An Experiment in Contemporary Myth 

      Sweeney, Joellen
      DAPHNE is a short solo-play depicting the final moments of Daphne, a nymph-turned-tree, as she faces down an advancing forest fire and considers what it means to be transformed against one’s will. The piece utilizes classical ...
    • Dionysus and eros: the shape of intimacy in theatrical conceiving 

      Black, Robert Morris (2002)
      This study offers a theory of theater by way of an exploration of the role of metaphor in theatrical conceiving. Its focus is on the ways in which theater joins together its worlds---linguistic, optic, acoustic, and so ...
    • Drop 

      Bryant, Nick
      University of Washington Abstract Drop Nick Bryant Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Jeffrey Fracé School of ...
    • Egyptian Attitudes toward Warfare in Recent Theatre and Dramatic Literature 

      Scott, William Allen (1984)
      Egypt is the center of theatre activity in the Arab world. During its brief but productive history, Egyptian theatre has frequently broached sensitive political topics. Ali Salem's The Oedipus Comedy or You Who Killed ...
    • European Modernism and the Resident Theatre Movement: The Transformation of American Theatre between 1950 and 1970 

      Guthu, Sarah Elizabeth (2013-07-25)
      This dissertation offers a cultural history of the arrival of the second wave of European modernist drama in America in the postwar period, 1950-1970. European modernist drama developed in two qualitatively distinct stages, ...
    • Foreign and Domestic 

      FRIDAY, ARION Jermaine
      I believe that art is objectively quantifiable. I believe that vets come home to country that’s worse than what they deserve. I believe that this country is killing its vets. I believe that we can change the world. I believe ...
    • Hand Me the Sword: A Modern Fairytale A solo performance of my own design 

      Holman, Asialani
      Hand Me the Sword: A Modern Fairytale follows Asialani, a young woman who has experienced a lot of trauma, while she learns that she is worthy of love and respect. So many women feel that they are defined by their trauma, ...
    • Harlem Holiday: The Cotton Club, 1925-1940 

      Womack, Malcolm (2013-07-25)
      This study looks at the Cotton Club, the most famous nightclub in American history, and its position in the histories of the American urban landscape and the white imagination. The Cotton Club is remarkably both very ...