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The casting and fate of "older" women in nineteenth-century American plays
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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 ... -
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Egyptian Attitudes toward Warfare in Recent Theatre and Dramatic Literature
(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
(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
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
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
(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 ... -
The Hibernicon and Visions of Returning Home: Popular Entertainment in Irish America from the Civil War to World War I
(2012-09-13)Combining a moving panorama, lecture, musical numbers, and comic sketches, the hibernicon depicted a return trip to Ireland for an Irish, Irish-American, or American tourist. Beginning in New York, the tourists board a ... -
How I Got Over - A Solo Show of My Own Design
How I Got Over is a thesis solo show that examines my experiences as a black woman making my way through the world. It follows my journey from a little girl, to a teenager, and ends with the present, a 25 year old woman ... -
I'm Free Now: A Solo Show of My Own Design
I spent a great deal of time these past three years in the University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program waiting for someone, or something, to give me permission to make choices that align with my integrity. ... -
The influence of Barret H. Clark on American theatre
(2003)Barrett H. Clark (1890--1953) was an influential editor, critic, historian, lecturer and literary manager. He also helped create theatre companies that encouraged experimental American dramatists in the pattern of the ... -
LA MOSCA: A Solo Performance of my Own Design
La Mosca is a solo performance intended for the stage that highlights the significance of familial values. It examines the way that values of masculinity were imposed upon me throughout my life, and how that directly ...