Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Wien, 1961. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-438) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Wien, 1961. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-438) and index.

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This thesis looks to explore the musical Cabaret through a critical, historical and political lens, with particular focus on Sally Bowles, questioning the creation and agency of this character in contrast with the political and societal values of various productions. Using a socio-political analysis, this thesis discusses the important relationship between politics and theater, using the pro-choice abortion movements of the 1960's as a way to understand Sally Bowles as a complex device for political and social commentary.

On championing the villain, there is a naive quality that must be maintained even though the actor has rehearsed his tragic ending several times. There is a subtle difference between to charm and to seduce. The need for fame, glory, power, money, or other objects of affection drives antagonists so blindly that they ve no hope of regaining a consciousness about their actions. If and when they do become aware, they infrequently feel remorse. I captured the essence of the villain by exposing these lightless characters to the sun. On Monday, April 9th and Tuesday, April 17th, 2007, on the Gillespie stage in Daytona Beach, Florida, I performed a thirty-minute, one-act cabaret entitled The Dark Side of the Tune. By selecting pieces from the musical theatre genre to define and demonstrate the qualities of the stock character, the villain, I created a one-man show; a musical play, including an inciting incident, rising conflict, climax, and denouement, with only a few moments of my own dialogue to help handle the unique transitions for my own particular story. By analyzing the arc of major historical villains and comparing them to some of the current dark characters, I will discuss the progression of the villain s role within a production and the change from the clearly defined villain to modern misfits who are frequently far less scheming or obvious. My research includes analysis of the dark references within each piece s originating production, and how it has been integrated into the script for The Dark Side of the Tune and a breakdown of my cabaret s script (Appendix A). I explore actors tools, specifically voice, movement, and characterization, and their use in creating villainous characters. I also discuss similarities in story progression for the deviant s beginning, middle, and final positions within the plot structure of a production.

Cette thèse se présente comme une enquête : elle constate tout d’abord l’existence, sur les scènes contemporaines (XXe-XXIe siècles), de personnages de bonimenteurs et d’une référence récurrente à un art du bonimenteur. Que charrie cet imaginaire ? Comment s’est constituée cette figure fictive, qui s’ancre néanmoins dans une histoire concrète ? En quoi les particularités du dispositif oral du boniment ont-elles pu contribuer à la pérenniser ? Notre recherche s’est organisée selon une double enquête historique : sur ce qui a constitué, au XIXe siècle, l’art du boniment, et sur l’entrée du boniment dans la fiction, notamment grâce à une artification partielle datant elle aussi du XIXe siècle. L'examen de la transition entre une fonction théâtrale précisément située dans le temps et une fonction dramatique active sur les scènes et les écrans modernes met au jour les spécificités du bonimenteur, qui, du fait de sa position entre salle et scène et entre son et image, semble créer un geste théâtral particulier.Cette enquête nous conduit ainsi à voir dans le bonimenteur une figure qui interroge le rapport du théâtre à l’oralité et à son histoire. Qui pourrait incarner en somme une autre image du théâtre, reposant sur la force d’un oral performé. / This thesis was written as an investigation. It first focuses on the presence on contemporary stages (20th and 21st centuries) of characters commonly known as bonimenteurs and the recurrent reference to the art of boniment. What does this imaginary world convey? How was this fictional figure constructed and how is it rooted in a tangible history? And how have certain specific oral codes used in boniment contributed to its historical durability? Our research was developed around a dual historical investigation. It examines what constituted the art of boniment throughout the 19th century, while also considering the introduction of boniment into fiction, due in part to a partial shift into an art form also observed in the 19th century. The study of the transition between a theatrical function precisely defined in a historical timeline and an active dramatic function on stage and modern screens highlights the specificities of the bonimenteur. Thanks to his or her position between room and stage, sound and image, the bonimenteur seems to create a specific dramatic gesture.This work also leads us to consider the bonimenteur as a figure questioning theatre’s relationship with orality and its history, which may embody another representation of theater based on the power of orality as performance.

This thesis adduces the benefits in teaching undergraduate theatre majors the competency to create a cabaret. It expostulates that doing so during college gives students an advantage in marketing themselves professionally. It substantiates the general lack of cohesive undergraduate training in this area. The results of a survey of casting directors, assessing the worth of implementing the study of cabaret into theatre curricula, are incorporated. Those that responded agreed that performing cabarets can play a role in a performer’s career, even if the opinions varied as to what that specific role is. There was general agreement that the study of cabaret could benefit students in ways which potentially go beyond securing immediate employment. I have included a sample syllabus for a course focusing on the construction, and performance of a cabaret. It is anticipated this would serve for a performance class taught during a student’s fourth year of undergraduate study.

The thesis titled Putting Chopin and the Rez Together: Multicultural Features in Tomson Highway's Work focuses on the work of renowned Native Canadian playwright, novelist, and musician Tomson Highway. The paper analyses those features of his writing and music that express the idea of multiculturalism and hybridity. It discusses the nature of the characters in his work and the image of the central character of Native mythology, the trickster. The analysis of dramatic techniques and music shows the way Highway combines his Euro-Canadian education and Native sensibility. Highway supports and promotes the notion of multiculturalism by his work. It has helped him to find personal as well as creative independence.

"The transformation of television variety show in Czech lands" tackles the historical development of variety shows and offers an insight into the television entertainment as such in the historical context. For the sake of a more complex approach, the paper also deals with the radio variety shows and touring variety shows as a form of public entertainment. Furthermore, the thesis discusses the history of Czech cabarets, which are also an important source for the TV shows and two period programmes, Televarieté "Television variety show" and Možná přijde i kouzelník "Perhaps a Magician Will Come Too" shall be analyzed. The thesis aims to capture the spectrum of variety shows featured in the Czech television and also outline the form their production has transformed into.

Title of the thesis: The chanson as a complex speech act and its translatability Keywords: chanson, translation, song lyrics, chansonnier, interpretation, acting, nonverbal communication, Aznavour, Bécaud, Piaf, Hegerová, Gott, Čeřovská, cabaret Abstract: The aim of the thesis is to describe the possibilities and the limits of translatability of chanson with regard to song lyrics and dramatic performance. The main contribution consists in determination of a relation between borrowed chansons and their French originals. The realization of the thesis is based on a research on the field of literary translation and acting on the one hand and on the analysis of song lyrics and dramatic performances on the other hand. The analyses in both cases concern three selected French chansons and Czech versions corresponding to them. The first part of the thesis defines the chanson and explains its historical development in the Czech territory. The theory of literary translation and lyrics translation is presented and applied to the translation of chanson in the second part. The third part deals with possibilities of a dramatic interpretation of chanson on the basis of the theory of acting. The last part brings a double analysis which concerns song lyrics and dramatic interpretation of chosen pairs of chanson.