This thesis tests a newly developed model based on the Natyashastra, an Indian treatise on performing arts, and uses this for theatrical analysis in the contexts of British Asian theatre productions and contemporary Indian theatre in English. The study offers a tool that can provide an alternative model of analysis. By extending the existing analytical models, we can ask questions concerning the actors’ emotional manifestation and their mental state while acting. This thesis attempts to interpret the actors’ gestures and provides a structure to analyse them. In order to do that, this project uses the Natyashastra and rasa/bhava concepts as performance analysis tools, which might provide an alternate perspective to theatre analysis. The thesis reviews existing models of theatrical analysis and argues for an alternative model in Chapter One. It examines the analysis of theatre productions by scholars of British Asian theatre and contemporary Indian theatre in English in Chapter Two. Here, I review the ways in which scholars of British South Asian theatre have examined theatrical productions so far. Chapter Three tests the proposed model on four theatre productions, illustrating the ways in which theatre productions could be analysed, and identifies the model’s limitations and advantages. Chapter Four discusses findings in the light of the results analysed in Chapter Three; it also outlines some questions which needs further investigation. By doing so, this thesis contributes to the field of performance analysis and theatre studies by developing strong links between the manifestation of the actors’ bodymind, the directors' reception after their first reading of a play’s text, and playwrights’ initial emotions within the text, through production analysis.

This thesis is a report on an administrative internship that was conducted at Zeitgeist Theater Experiments, Inc. from June to October of 1997. The internship fulfilled a requirement for the degree of Master of Arts Administration. Arts administration issues that are covered within the text are: fiscal management, marketing, fundraising. Board development, budget planning, and volunteer coordination. The nature of the internship, its specific tasks and responsibilities, are described in the report. The essay reviews the history of Zeitgeist as an organization and analyzes managerial problems occurring within the organization at the time of the internship .Explicit recommendations as to how the problems can be corrected and the steps required to implement the recommendations are laid out within the paper. The report concludes with the intern's expectations for the short term and long term effects of the work she conducted during the internship.

This thesis documents the process implemented in creating the character of Ellen Van Oss in Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms. It includes research, character analysis, script analysis and an evaluation of my performance. Two Rooms was produced by the UNO Department of Film and Theatre and directed by Erick Wolfe. The play was performed at the Robert E. Nims Theatre in the UNO Performing Arts Center November 7, 12, 13, 21, 2015 at 7:30pm and November 8 and 22, 2015 at 2:30pm.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University

Orientador: Cleide Antônia Rapucci / Banca: Solange Aranha / Banca: Sérgio Augusto Zanoto / Resumo: As obras de um dos mais conhecidos humoristas brasileiros, Millôr Fernandes, já foram bastante exploradas pelos pesquisadores de uma forma geral. Mesmo assim, há ainda uma vertente desse autor a ser estudada: o Millôr tradutor. O nosso objetivo nesta dissertação é analisar a peça Pygmalion, escrita por George Bernard Shaw em 1913, e sua tradução para o português pelo autor-tradutor Millôr Fernandes em 1963. A peça em cinco atos trata do professor de fonética Henry Higgins que se prontifica a transformar Eliza Doolittle, uma vendedora de flores que fala o dialeto cockney, em uma verdadeira dama, ensinando-a a falar "corretamente". O que nos chama a atenção nesta obra de Shaw é o dialeto cockney e as muitas expressões que encontramos no decorrer da peça. A nossa intenção é, portanto, mostrar as soluções encontradas por Millôr ao traduzir Pygmalion. No primeiro capítulo, temos um panorama geral do gênero teatral, da tradução em si e posteriormente a história da tradução de teatro, assunto pouco explorado até hoje pelos teóricos e que nos é importante para que possamos ter uma visão geral da linha que cada um destes teóricos seguem. No segundo capítulo exploramos um pouco acerca do autor da peça, George Bernard Shaw, mostrando suas obras, sua vida e suas características principais, além de termos uma análise da peça com o objetivo de que os leitores possam entender quais são os pontos principais da obra e sua idéia central. O terceiro capítulo é o que nomeia esta dissertação, pois é onde analisamos a tradução para o português de Pygmalion, mostrando quais foram as maiores dificuldades encontradas por Millôr, chamado por nós de autor-tradutor, e as soluções apresentadas por ele para resolver o problema da... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The works by one of the most known Brazilian humorists, Millôr Fernandes, have already been explored by many researchers in general. However there is still an aspect of this author to be studied: Millôr as a translator. Our main objective in this dissertation is to analyze the work Pygmalion written by George Bernard Shaw in 1913 and translated to Portuguese by the author-translator Millôr Fernandes in 1963. The play is divided in five acts and deals with the phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, who is in charge of transforming Eliza Doolittle, a flower saleswoman who speaks cockney dialect, in a truthful lady, teaching her how to speak English properly. What draws our attention in Shaw's work is the cockney dialect and the plenty of expressions that we can find in the play. Our main intention here is to show the difficulties and the solutions found out by Millôr during Pygmalion translation. In the first chapter we have a general panorama about the theatre genre, the translation itself and later about the history of the theatre translation, a subject that is not much explored by scholars and that is very important for us because we can have a general view of each tendency that these scholars follow. The second chapter explores a little bit about the play author, George Bernard Shaw, showing his works, his life and his main characteristics, besides having a play analysis to allow the readers a better understanding about the main points of the play and its central idea. The third chapter names this dissertation and analyses the Portuguese translation, showing the major difficulties found by Millôr, whom we call an author-translator, and the solutions he presents to the cultural... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Thesis advisor: Celeste Wells / As a young woman who plans on pursuing acting after graduation, I have begun to learn how I must craft myself in the professional world. In theatre, the importance of accurately portraying one’s “type” is a concept that has been consistently stressed. One sees the irony of “type” if they consider the very premise of acting, to portray someone other than oneself. If acting is actually “living truthfully under imaginary circumstances” as Meisner suggests, then any actor should be able to play any role. However, actors are constantly pigeonholed into roles that objectify them to a particular type. Academic research has failed to sufficiently address casting conventions, especially in theatre. My study aims to address this gap by gaining insight on casting practices from the director’s perspective. To put it simply, it is my hope that this thesis will reveal the intricacies of casting, including the prevalence of type. Consequently, this will generate a better understanding of the process so that others and myself can learn how to breed success and simultaneously maintain our dignity whilst adhering to a field that requires one to brand themself. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2017. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Communication.

From the establishment of the English Stage Company at The Royal Court Theatre in 1956 through to the late 1960s, the Court was widely viewed as a champion of theatrical freedoms and progressive ideals, playing a decisive role in the abolition of censorship as exercised by the Lord Chamberlain until 1968. Narratives of the ensuing 1968-1975 period tend to recount an era when the Court was out of step with contemporary developments in theatre and blame is frequently placed on intergenerational tensions between the Court's established management and a band of emerging English male playwrights who claim to have been unsupported by the theatre at this time. This study goes against the received scholarly grain concerning these years at the Court, and maps an alternative reading of this narrative. This thesis provides evidence that the Court of the early 1970s experienced a time of significant seed-sowing, that these were years in which the Sloane Square institution experimented with alternative theatre and enthusiastically programmed subaltern and female playwrights, and that this was a move instep with contemporaneous international trends in theatre. By revealing this understanding of events, the thesis contends that the artistic directorship of Oscar Lewenstein (1972-1975) was a direct reaction against an elitist culture at the Court and an institutional habitus which was rooted in and informed by the decline of the British Empire and a related fear of the foreign. This thesis proposes that the subsequent occlusion of this version of events is due in great part to the consistent and ongoing privileging of negative accounts of the period by the emerging young white English male playwrights of the era, over the more positive commentary provided by their subaltern and female counterparts who were empowered under Lewenstein's aegis.

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My Year as a Choreographer analyzes the art and craft of dance choreography. My training as a theatre and dance student at East Tennessee State University from 2010-2014, culminated in my final senior capstone experience as a choreographer for two productions, the ETSU Division of Theatre and Dance’s 2014 Dance Concert and University School’s musical, Sleepy Hollow. Composing a new dance in a concert setting and choreographing for musical theatre provided significant material for analysis, and the following research compares the two processes. In addition, the research of the history and development of dance choreography and its modern practices created a better understanding of the artistic field. Both in theory and in practice, I explored the multitude of artistic responsibilities that are imperative to the process of a choreographer.

Echoes: A Dance Composition and Performance analyzes the creative process of choreographing a dance with aerial elements to convey an emotional narrative. My experiences as a theatre and dance Fine and Performing Arts Honors student at East Tennessee State University from 2013-2017, culminated with my final senior capstone project as director, choreographer, and performer of The Echoing Effect, performed February 9, 2017 at the Bud Frank Theatre. The following research of the history and development of aerial dance as an art-form created a better appreciation of the artistic field and informed how I approached the daunting task of composing expressive dance that seamlessly connected movement from the ground to the air on an aerial apparatus. Through research and practical application, I explored the world of the aerial dance choreographer, and this thesis serves as a record of my journey.