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Theatre Arts Theses and Dissertations
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Dulba-Barnett , Anna
(University of Oregon, 2024-03-25)
In this dissertation, I map how the authors of canonical Polish dramas from Romanticism to the present construct and solidify the ideals of womanhood and its connection to land and nature. I analyze how the use of the ...
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Kress, Ellen
(University of Oregon, 2022-02-18)
The profession of voice and dialect is built upon the premise of maximum understanding for the audiences attending theatre. This maximum understanding, or intelligibility, has historically driven the practice and continues ...
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Lenk, Waylon
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
Theatre and Performance Studies have studied the ways in which theatre and performance act as auxiliaries of hegemonic state power at least since Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed explored the ways in which classical Greek ...
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Pointer, Mica
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
Civil War reenactors claim to be educational through the nature of their bringing the past to life. Their claims place them among heritage and cultural interpreters in how they connect the past with the audience before ...
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Evans, Joshua
(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)
After Augusto Boal passed away in 2009, a significant dispute developed within the Theatre of the Oppressed community concerning whether his methods should be reimagined to combat structural oppression more effectively. ...
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Sanchez Saltveit, Olga
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
The Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) emerged in 2012 in response and resistance to years of misrepresentation and erasure of Latinx artistic work and presence by the American theatre field in practice and in scholarship. This ...
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Rogers, Jessica
(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)
This dissertation looks at current theatre historiography in terms of pedagogy and performance practices on the topic of early modern (seventeenth century) female dramatists, via select dramatic works of Elizabeth Cary, ...
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Borowicz, Lydia
(University of Oregon, 2019-04-30)
Climate change is a persistent and growing threat to the well-being of both humans and nonhuman species, and little action has been taken to halt it. It is imperative the public gains a sufficient level of climate change ...
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Yeadon, Michelle
(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
Studies exploring the first wave of digital performance foregrounded technology by cataloging experimentation and novel interactions between liveness, projections and code. As exercises in medium, these high tech spectacles ...
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Brown, Rich
(University of Oregon, 2003-08)
This study identifies and examines Moises Kaufinan's theoretical questions and
rehearsal techniques from their development in initial works at New York University to
their specific application during the creation of Gross ...
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Cuskey, Lusie
(University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
The integrated musical is a vehicle for the creation and communication of a national identity, created through the use of coded performances of gender and, at times, rural settings conceptualized as essentially “American.” ...
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Gray, Leslie
(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
Theatre is often an invitation to enter the black home subject to its violations and crisis; this thesis repositions the black home and body in contemporary American and British theatre as constructed by the narratives and ...
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Rodley, Patricia
(University of Oregon, 2015-01-14)
This dissertation investigates the relationship between acting and dramaturgy. It proposes a change in the contemporary actor's work to more purposefully integrate practical dramaturgy as a preparation that parallels ...
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Sidden, Jean
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
Amas Repertory Theatre was founded in 1969 by Rosetta LeNoire, an African American actress who pursued a mission of developing original musicals while practicing interracial casting. The company's most successful show was ...
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Rorem, Jacob
(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)
For practitioners and scholars of site-specific theatre, attempts to understand the relationship between a site and performance have often focused on performance. The many ways a site can inform and enhance the audience's ...
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Morris, Damond
(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)
During the Great Depression President Roosevelt's New Deal brought relief to Americans through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was formed in 1935 under the WPA to lift spirits, ...
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Thomas, Kathleen
(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)
As the cultural upheaval of the `60s fought its way into the `70s, Bill Talen began his career first as a poet, hitchhiking the interstate highways from the Midwest to the Coasts eagerly engaging the literary, intellectual, ...
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Bates, Kimberly
(University of Oregon, 2012)
Historically, women have been largely discounted from the public comedic arena, typically serving as the butt of the joke or other various comedic fodder. As a female comedian, I became interested in how gender played ...
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Madzik, Christine
(University of Oregon, 2012)
This thesis examines contemporary community-based theatre processes and efficacy through a case study of Sojourn Theatre Company. Chapter II overviews Sojourn's production history and explores the company's style. Chapter ...
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Cook, Brian
(University of Oregon, 2012)
This dissertation examines the effects of conventionally categorizing working artists and looks specifically at the Cherub Company, London, as a case study. Cherub was an alternative British theatre company whose work in ...
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