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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. -
Spatial Maneuverings in Post-Uprising Syrian Performances: Scarring Space and Language
The aftermath of the Syrian uprising in 2011 and the civil war that ensued resulted in the exodus of a considerate number of Syrian artists, theatre, and performance makers on one hand, and, on the other, it caused a drastic ... -
Spectacular feasts: Herbert Beerbohm Tree and the mise-en-scene of consumption
(1995)The production style of English actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree embodied the mechanisms of conspicuous consumption. Producing spectacular Shakespeare, lavish historical melodramas, and high society dramas for English ... -
Staging the Blackface Nation: The Performance of Blackness in Modern China
This dissertation, Staging the Blackface Nation: The Performance of Blackness in Modern China, examines Chinese performances of racial blackness for Chinese and international audiences. By telling the history of Chinese ... -
Staging Theater to Realize a Nation: The Development of German National Theater in the 18th Century
University of Washington Abstract Staging Theater to Realize a Nation: The Development of German National Theater in the 18th Century Elizabeth Coen Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Dr. Odai Johnson School of Drama This ... -
STARDUST: A study of transformation
This thesis documents the creation of the capstone assignment for the Professional Actor Training Program - the creation and performance of a solo show entirely of my own design. The assignment was intentionally sparse: ... -
Stop. Look. Go.: A Solo Show of My Own Design
“Stop. Look. Go.” follows BP, a young man confronted with his mortality while in (or what he perceives to be) limbo, the void that is neither heaven nor hell. Guided by LORIEN, an enthusiastic and seemingly omniscient voice ... -
The Strength of the Few: Dominant and Subdominant in the Poetic Function of Theater
(2013-04-17)<italic>The Strength of the Few: Dominant and Subdominant in the Poetic Function of Theater<italic> is a semiotic study that, resorting to the contribution of the Russian formalists (Shklovsky, Tynianov, and Jakobson) and ... -
Sweet Bea’s: A Cabaret
Sweet Bea’s is a cabaret, the goal for this project was not only to fulfill the University of Washington’s MFA thesis requirement but to create a piece of work that could be performed across the country. In my admissions ... -
The (Im)mediate Animal: Interspecies Entanglements in Early Enlightenment Transactions
This dissertation excavates, manipulates, and questions the intimate relations between political and epistemic ecologies formalized within modes of performance as interspecies constitutions in England from the seventeenth ... -
The Amazing Adventures of Bewbs the Clown: a solo performance of my own design
The Amazing Adventures of Bewbs the Clown is a solo performance of my own design in which a topless, opera-singing, feminist clown embarks on the absurdly impossible journey of finding something appropriate to wear. In ... -
The Best Show Ever, Humbly Speaking: A Solo Performance of My Own Design
Erica MatthewsGraduate Thesis – The Best Show Ever, Humbly Speaking Jeffrey Fracé 11 March 2021 During my first year in the Professional Acting Training Program (PATP), L. Zane Jones asked my class to share our artistic ... -
The Direction of Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm
This thesis paper documents the directorial process of a theoretical production of Henrik Ibsen’s Rosmersholm, translated by Charles Archer, and adapted and directed by this author. Due to COVID-19, the live performance ... -
The Direction of In the Heart of America by Naomi Wallace
This thesis documents a portion of the capstone assignment for the Professional Director Training Program. It specifically includes the text analysis and director’s concept for Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America. The ... -
The Direction of The Oresteia by Ellen McLaughlin
This thesis documents a portion of the capstone assignment for the Professional Director Training Program. It specifically includes text analysis and concept information that led to the direction of a full length production ...