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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 ... -
POP! or Slow Drag, A solo performance of my own design
University of Washington Abstract POP! Or Slow Drag A solo performance of my own design André G. Brown Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Tim Bond School of Drama POP! initially titled "Slow Drag" came from a series of ... -
Preachers' Kid
University of Washington Abstract Preachers’ Kid Allen Miller III Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Tim Bond Drama This thesis examines the skills of personal story-telling through artistic specificity that is needed,in ... -
PRO-LIFE: A Solo Performance of My Own Design
Cheryl is an unexpected voice of feminine fortitude in a small chapel in a small town in the middle of nowhere ‘Merica - and she needs your help. This short play is a modern nod to The Janes who ran an underground abortion ... -
Re-Stor(y)ing Theatre History in the Americas: Professional Players and the Callao Contract of 1599
University of Washington Abstract Re-stor(y)ing Theatre History in the Americas: Professional Players and the Callao Contract of 1599 Susan Finque Chair of the Supervising Committee: Dr. Scott Magelssen In neglecting ... -
Reading the Old Left in the Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop and Beyond: in Joan Littlewood’s engagements with the 1960s
Based on archival research, recent Joan Littlewood centenary events and contemporary scholarship on the Theatre Workshop of Joan Littlewood and Ewan MacColl, this dissertation proposes to take sides with the radical class ... -
Redeeming: Cultural Negotiations and their Remains in [De]Colonial Costa Rica
“Redeeming: Cultural Negotiations and their Remains in [De]colonial Costa Rica” is a dissertation project that studies and analyzes religious performance traditions in Central America, specifically the performances concerning ... -
Replacing the Image of the Ottoman Turk: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Turquerie as Resistance
This dissertation examines the cultural and diplomatic clashes that happened in the 17th century between the Ottoman Empire and France beginning with an Ottoman envoy’s visit to Louis XIV’s Court in France in 1669. This ... -
Running Out of Lies
Running Out of Lies Jarron Williams A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts University of Washington 2023 Committee: Jeffrey Fracé Valerie Curtis-Newton Scott ... -
Sources of the Character of Barabas in Marlowe's The Jew of Malta
(1964)No single literary source has been discovered for The Jew of Malta or for the character of Barabas. It is my intention in this work to present the known sources upon which Marlowe probably drew to create the character of Barabas.