This thesis studies the process of creating, producing and performing a solo performance titled UNLISTED PROPERTIES. We intend to intertwine historical text and contemporary narratives to create portraits of women throughout different periods of history/her-story dealing with the theme of women as property or owning others as personal property. The historical text will be taken from the self-written works of Mary Chesnut, Harriet A. Jacobs, and Elizabeth Packard. The contemporary pieces have been pulled from a variety of sources, which include an interview with Mary Ford, an Army bride during World War II, Pagan Moss, a website blogger describing her experiences working in the sex industry, and Bhumika Ghimire a New York freelance writer who recalls her trials as a new housewife in an article for American Chronicle. Lauren will discuss her roles as actor, co-writer, and dramaturge, and Jason will discuss his work as a director, co-writer and producer.

This study examines the potential of Schwann cells (SCs) to be manipulated by electric fields (EFs) in order to improve recovery from spinal cord injury (SCI). It had long been believed that the central nervous system (CNS) is incapable of regeneration, but recent studies have proven otherwise. SC transplants are known to be useful in promoting axon regeneration after SCI, but is not sufficient for functional recovery. EFs are known to exist in vivo, and have been known to drastically affect the morphology and behavior of cells in various tissues. It was the hypothesis of this study that the conditioning and observed alignment of SCs was a reproducible phenomenon that could promote the growth of axons. It was found that SCs could be aligned at various field strengths and preliminary data suggest that aligned SCs increased the length and directionality of axons extending from DRG explants.

The Visual Staging of Audio Plays explores the directing practice of radio dramas that are staged for viewing purposes rather than their typical solo-auditory purposes. The thesis is comprised of three separate parts: a brief history of theatrical sound, an introduction to radio drama theory and practice, and application. The application portion is a detailed first-person account of my personal experience staging It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play by Joe Landry for TheatreVCU’s Mainstage winter special event in 2015. It is also in this section where I integrate history, theory, and practice to formulate technique for directing the genre for stage.

INTERNET BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS WITH AN INTERNATIONAL ELEMENT The recent developments in technology have raised new forms of electronic communication and business strategies on the Internet, in particular the direct e-commerce operated through dynamically generated websites. As a consequence, the suitability of traditional legal norms has been challenged, including the rules governing jurisdiction. The law therefore tries to respond by adoption of new legal concepts and principles or adaptation of the old ones. One of them is the concept of directing business activities, which was incorporated into EU law in relation to the special jurisdictional rules protecting the consumers of the member states under the Brussels Regulation. Accordingly, the aim of the thesis is to characterize the nature of the concept of directing business activities under the article 15 of the Brussels Regulation, as well as to identify the relevant criteria as to its fulfilment, all in the context of the disputes arising from the consumer contracts concluded as a result of the business activities directed towards the consumers of a member state on the Internet. The first section of the thesis deals with the traditional basis of the state's sovereignty and jurisdictional rules, whereas the second section identifies the specific nature...

This thesis is an endeavor to accurately document and define my actor coaching process as a director through Robert Harling's Steel Magnolias. The following chapters contain a record of the development of my actor coaching process in this production, including character & actor analysis, a rehearsal log that provides a daily track of my progress, and an evaluation of the process and resulting performance.

The following thesis is a documentation of the production of Two Rooms, including analysis, research production book, script, documentation, and evaluation. The play was performed in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center Lab Theatre on November 7th, 8th, 12th, 13th, 21st, and 22nd, 2015.

A presente pesquisa examina um processo próprio de metodologia de ensaio teatral denominada Teatro Playground. Nesta os atores são colocados em um ambiente de criação (Playground), construído para instaurar o estado de jogo e através deste encontrar as relações e sintonias necessárias à performance. A partir do estudo de exemplos práticos de utilização destes procedimentos na direção de espetáculos e condução de grupos de trabalho, são abordadas questões relativas ao treinamento de atores e diretores de teatro. O objetivo principal desta tese é verificar a reverberação de uma abordagem prática de técnicas relacionadas ao jogo, principalmente sob a ótica de Phillipe Gaulier, Luke Dixon, Anne Bogart e Jacques Lecoq. Examinar os fundamentos de relação que permitirão este jogo, baseados principalmente em Meyerhold, Barba, Grotowski, Stanislávski e Vakhtangov. E perceber até que ponto um grupo de trabalho organizado sob certas premissas lúdicas e psicofísicas pode suavizar rupturas encontradas no decorrer de um processo de ensaio, principalmente quando o espetáculo precisa encontrar uma forma definitiva e a improvisação ceder lugar às marcações de cena. / The present research looks upon an original methodology for rehearsal process called Theatre Playground. In it the actors are put in a creative environment (Playground), built in order to establish a playfulness state and through it find the relationships and right tune needed to the performance. From the study of practical examples, specific procedures on directing shows and conducting theatre groups are taken as possibilities for training theatre actors and directors. The main aim for this thesis is verify the resonance of a practical approach on techniques related to theatre games, mainly according to the vision of Phillippe Gaulier, Luke Dixon, Anne Bogart and Jacques Lecoq. Also getting deep on the foundations that will allow this game to happen, based mainly on Meyerhold, Barba, Grotowski, Stanislávski and Vakhtangov. And perceiving on which level a group of theatre work, organized under specific ludic and psychophysics premises, can soften the ruptures found in a rehearsal process, specially when the show needs to find the fixed forms and the impro has to give place to the final movements on stage

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Nossa pesquisa partiu dos achados advindos de nossa experiÃncia clÃnica junto a uma equipe de trabalho interdisciplinar que tinha o propÃsito de tratar transtornos alimentares. No nosso caso, trabalhamos mais especificamente com pacientes que nos eram indicados com o diagnÃstico prÃvio de transtorno de compulsÃo alimentar. Os problemas clÃnicos decorrentes desse tipo de diagnÃstico nos levaram a problematizar os diferentes fenÃmenos relacionados com o esse tipo de patologia que incide sobre a pulsÃo em sua relaÃÃo com o alimento. Tal aspecto nos levou ao objetivo de procurar compreender e diferenciar, à luz da teoria psicanalÃtica, as manifestaÃÃes psicopatolÃgicas da impulsÃo e da compulsÃo em geral e mais especificamente em relaÃÃo ao alimento, em suas relaÃÃes com os conceitos de gozo, desejo e angÃstia. AlÃm disso, buscamos refletir acerca das implicaÃÃes clÃnicas dessas relaÃÃes para o tratamento de pacientes que manifestam tais sintomas ou atos, levando em consideraÃÃo, principalmente, as possÃveis medidas terapÃuticas a serem propostas pela equipe para o tratamento do paciente, sobretudo sobre a prescriÃÃo ou nÃo da cirurgia bariÃtrica e suas possÃveis consequÃncias para os pacientes em sua singularidade, tendo em vista a ocorrÃncia, jà registrada em pesquisas anteriores, de Ãbitos ou de reganho de peso apÃs a realizaÃÃo da mesma. Do ponto de vista metodolÃgico, nos valemos da precisÃo de conceitos necessÃrios à nossa reflexÃo clÃnica, principal condutora de nossa anÃlise, acerca de casos por nÃs atendidos e por casos clÃssicos e contemporÃneos que se revelaram relevantes para o tratamento de nossas questÃes de pesquisa. Neste contexto nos ocuparmos, mais detidamente, na anÃlise desses casos para compreendermos a complexidade e a relevÃncia clÃnica das articulaÃÃes que as impulsÃes e as compulsÃes estabelecem com as categorias de sintoma e ato. A partir disso, destacamos a importÃncia de diferenciar a direÃÃo do tratamento e a posiÃÃo do analista, quando no contexto de um tratamento padrÃo e quando inserido em equipes interdisciplinares que se dedicam ao tratamento de pacientes que manifestam tais sintomas ou atos como, por exemplo, à o caso dos programas voltados para o tratamento de patologias que produzem efeitos de recusa ou excesso alimentares e que, em geral, as definem, segundo a classificaÃÃo internacional das doenÃas, como Transtornos Alimentares. Dentre nossos principais achados conclusivos, constatamos que as aÃÃes compulsivas devem ser compreendidas como encarnaÃÃo dos sintomas, estÃo inseridas na lÃgica do gozo fÃlico e sÃo formadas com o fito de evitar a emergÃncia da angÃstia. Jà as impulsÃes sÃo atos que emergem suscitando uma satisfaÃÃo corporal que deixa o sujeito mudo e sem lugar e estÃo inseridas na lÃgica de um gozo autoerÃtico, situado entre o gozo do ser e o gozo fÃlico. Por nÃo serem compreendidas como sintomas, mas como atos, as impulsÃes podem aparecer em sujeitos organizados em qualquer uma das trÃs estruturas clÃnicas. Tais achados nos possibilitaram refletir acerca da direÃÃo do tratamento em casos de compulsÃo e/ou impulsÃo diagnosticados pela psiquiatria como portadores de compulsÃo alimentar. Assim, a originalidade do nosso trabalho està na abordagem que realizamos do diagnÃstico psiquiÃtrico de compulsÃo alimentar, a partir da perspectiva psicanalÃtica da impulsÃo e da compulsÃo. Consideramos, afinal, que os resultados deste trabalho podem contribuir para o tratamento de casos relacionados a outros quadros clÃnicos que envolvem outros objetos que nÃo aqueles das patologias alimentares como, por exemplo, as adiÃÃes em geral, o vÃcio em jogo, o consumo patolÃgico, dentre outros.

The direction of the play Three the Hard Way by Linda Eisenstein achieved the playwright's intent and the super objective of the play. The application of theatrical and communicative processes facilitated the direction of the desired metacommunicatations associated with the family's dynamics by expressing the struggles and perceptions associated with the family and their relationships. The implementation of the director's prompt book illustrates the use of proxemics in creating picturizations for the stage. In addition, the exploration of the directing process and the progression of the production are examined in daily journal entries. The successes of the directorial approach and implementations are considered, as well as the aspects of the production that may not have reached full potential.

Kristin Clippard's MFA Thesis Project: A Director's Mash-up of She Stoops to Conquer or the Mistakes of a Night by Oliver Goldsmith