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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 ... -
Let Me Hamlet
Let Me Hamlet is a solo performance, a monologue of a middle-aged actor who has been yearning to play the lead role Hamlet but ended up with being cast in minor and supporting roles throughout his career. Through him, the ... -
Mediating Black Modernisms: Charles S. Johnson and His Circle, Printing Opportunity and Performing the New Negro
This dissertation explores Black American citizenship and liberal subjecthood, as they were envisioned, defined, and performed during the early twentieth century by the artists, activists, and amateur intellectuals of the ... -
Moved By What Does Not Belong to Me: Kinesthetic and Affective Possibilities of Staging Trauma
This dissertation explores the ways in which narratives of trauma are staged and represented in contemporary drama within the United States. To do so, I engage in a close reading of Nina Raine’s Tribes (produced at the ... -
Never Mere Observation: Performance, Technology, and the Act of Looking
Herbert Blau, in defining the act of looking as “never mere observation,” describes how the action of the visual faculty is not simply about seeing, but the engagement in an active, circulatory exchange between culture and ... -
On Directing Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo
This thesis document is a portion of the capstone assignment for the Professional Director Training Program. It specifically includes the text analysis and director’s concept for Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist. ... -
On Directing Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son
University of Washington Abstract On Directing Githa Sowerby’s Rutherford and Son Cody Holliday Haefner Chair of Supervisory Committee: Valerie Curtis-Newton School of Drama This thesis documents the pre-production process ... -
OVARYACTING by Bridget McKevitt “A Solo Performance of My Own Design”
“Stop joking around and act your age!” is a complaint that I’ve heard, somewhat like a broken record, my entire life. I often wonder, how does a woman my age act, exactly? If you prick us, do we not bleed? Some believe, ... -
Pandora: The First Greek Woman Created by the Gods
University of Washington Abstract Pandora: The First Woman Created by the Greek Gods Porscha Shaw Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Tim Bond UW Drama -
Performing an 'Absent' China: Cultural Propaganda in anti-Communist Taiwan in the 1950's and 1960's
(2013-07-25)Taiwan was liberated from its fifty year Japanese colonization in 1945. In 1949, an estimated 1.5 million Chinese migrants retreated to Taiwan along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government, due to the defeat to the ... -
Performing Precarity: Decolonial Performance Collaborations with Undocumented Communities
This dissertation draws upon my field work relating to contemporary performance practices in the United States that collaborate with undocumented Latina/o immigrants. Drawing on the latest scholarship regarding undocumentedness, ... -
Permission To Perform: Palestinian Theatre in Jerusalem (1967-1993)
(2013-07-25)In the period of 1967 to 1993, Palestinian theatre became a major platform for the expression of the Palestinian identity. This dissertation asks the following question: Why and how did Palestinian theatre thrive in Jerusalem ...