The thesis is a record of the writing and rehearsal process which led to the British premiere of the full length Canadian play, Danceland, at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in November of 1994. The first chapter is a discussion of the dramatic theories and historical research which informed the initial creative writing process. The second chapter is the final draft of the play itself. The third chapter is a record of the rehearsal and production process, as well as an overview of the major dramaturgical problems which the actors, director and designers encountered during rehearsals of the play. A full cast and crew list and the reviews from the British press are contained in the appendices. The playwright's "experiment" which sits at the heart of this production record is that Aristotle's idea of "place" is essential to the creation of an indigenous, Canadian dramatic literature. The writing process, however, is only the beginning of the translation of drama from the page to the stage; and it is this final, rehearsal and production process which demands that all dramatic theory be placed within the context of believable characterization and dramatic action.

Many contemporary theater practitioners and scholars agree that the investigation of the relationship between digital technologies and theater is an important yet relatively unexplored topic, both in theory and practice. A debate regarding the fundamental nature of performance and more specifically the quality of liveness in the face of media has been the dominant conversation on this topic. While the liveness debate is important, it is not the only angle from which to approach questions of specific types of technology and performance. This dissertation takes a different approach, while taking the liveness debate into account. This dissertation examines relevant historical and contemporary theory and practice in the area of digital technology in theater, and then describes a new method of practice and analysis in the form of a new dramaturgy. This new dramaturgy is then applied to examples of selected work and also used hands-on to create a two-part case study to try out its usefulness in practice. The first part of the case study is a production design created with the new dramaturgy in collaboration with undergraduate students within the context of a special topics course. The second part of the case study is a full-scale production by a professional director, incorporating elements of the production design created in the first part of the case study.

Orientador: José Manuel Lázaro de Ortecho Ramírez / Banca: Luiz Fernando Ramos / Banca: Vinicius Torres Machado / Resumo: A proposta desta dissertação é analisar textos de dramaturgos contemporâneos paulistanos, entre os anos de 2005 e 2015, tendo em vista a relação entre texto e cena no interior dessas dramaturgias, identificando e refletindo sobre a presença de elementos incorporados de uma gramática cênica que evocam materialidades em suas estruturas textuais. A análise parte do debate sobre a mudança de status do texto ao longo do século XX, considerando o duplo movimento de emancipação do texto e da cena em relação à tutela do gênero dramático, o que configura novas possibilidades de escrita e encenação mais permissíveis entre si. Com base nas referências teóricas cotejadas no primeiro capítulo, cria-se uma grade de análise para o exame das dramaturgias selecionadas, com o objetivo de posicioná-las, no terceiro capítulo, entre dois polos: mythos e opsis - e posteriormente serem consideradas polaridades recorrentes entre dispositivos dramatúrgicos encontrados nos textos. O corpus desta dissertação, analisado no segundo capítulo, é composto por textos de autores vencedores do Prêmio Shell de Teatro em São Paulo na categoria de Melhor Autor no período de onze anos - até o início desta pesquisa. Este recorte é retomado no final do terceiro capítulo com o objetivo de estabelecer conexões entre o processo de legitimação de bens culturais por instâncias de consagração, segundo a conceituação do sociólogo Pierre Bourdieu, e as estruturas dramatúrgicas analisadas, pensando sobre os desdobramentos en... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze texts written by contemporary playwrights from the city of São Paulo, between the years of 2005 to 2015, considering a relationship between text and the scene within the dramaturgies, identifying and reflecting on a presence of incorporated elements of a scenic grammar that evoke materialities in its textual structures. The analysis starts from the debate about the change in the state of the text throughout the twentieth century, considering the double movement of emancipation of the text and the scene in relation to the tutelage of the dramatic genre, which sets up new possibilities of writing and staging more permissible among themselves. Based on theoretical references in the first chapter, an analysis evaluation is created for the examination of selected dramaturgies, with the aim of positioning, in the third chapter, between two poles: mythos and opsis - and later considered recurrent polarities between devices found in the texts. The corpus of this dissertation, analyzed in the second chapter, is composed of texts by authors who won the Shell Prize of Theater in São Paulo in the category of Best Author in the period of eleven years - until the beginning of the research. This methodological cut is resumed at the end of the third chapter with the aim of establishing connections between the process of legitimation of cultural goods by instances of consecration, according to a conception of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, and the dramaturgical structures analyzed, on the unfolding between theory and practice in contemporaneity, as well as on the function of the author and the notion of authorship, in the context of the new state of the theatrical text - and in the place of the playwright - in the process... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Mestre

Orientador: Alexandre Luiz Mate / Banca: Rosangela Patriota / Banca: Maria Sílvia Betti / Resumo: Os Seminários de Dramaturgia do Teatro de Arena de São Paulo significam um momento de fundamentais transformações no pensamento e na prática teatral paulistana e nacional. A partir de uma concepção do nacional e do popular que busca a formação de novos autores brasileiros através da prática sistemática da discussão de teoria estética, de textos teatrais e da apresentação de obras autorais abertas e sujeitas ao debate em trabalho colaborativo. Sua eclosão, em 1958 e seu desenvolvimento até o ano de 1961 deu origem a peças que pela primeira vez no País se valerão da utilização de expedientes épico-dialéticos. Entre as obras oriundas desse processo, duas serão analisadas: Chapetuba Futebol Clube de Oduvaldo Vianna Filho e Revolução na América do Sul de Augusto Boal / Abstract: The dramaturgy seminars of Teatro de Arena from São Paulo means a moment of fundamental transformations in the thought and theater practice in the city of São Paulo and nationally. Starting from a conception of national and popular which aims the formation of new Brazilian writers through de systematic practice of discussion on aesthetic theory, theatral writings and presentation of open authoral works, subjected to debates and collaborative production. It's outbreak, in 1958 and it's development until 1961, gave origin to plays which, for the first time in Brasil, will resort epic-dialectic expedients. Between the theater plays that arose from this process, two will be analyzed: Chapetuba Futebol Clube written by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho and Revolução na América do Sul written by Augusto Boal / Mestre

The thesis is a record of the writing and rehearsal process which led to the British premiere of the full length Canadian play, Danceland, at The Old Red Lion Theatre, London, in November of 1994. The first chapter is a discussion of the dramatic theories and historical research which informed the initial creative writing process. The second chapter is the final draft of the play itself. The third chapter is a record of the rehearsal and production process, as well as an overview of the major dramaturgical problems which the actors, director and designers encountered during rehearsals of the play. A full cast and crew list and the reviews from the British press are contained in the appendices. The playwright's "experiment" which sits at the heart of this production record is that Aristotle's idea of "place" is essential to the creation of an indigenous, Canadian dramatic literature. The writing process, however, is only the beginning of the translation of drama from the page to the stage; and it is this final, rehearsal and production process which demands that all dramatic theory be placed within the context of believable characterization and dramatic action. / Arts, Faculty of / Theatre and Film, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Antonio Arnoni Prado / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-05T11:09:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Medeiros_Elende_M.pdf: 867595 bytes, checksum: 250d9a7d3d3f590ebf975000b299def2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Esta dissertação é constituída de quatro capítulos que abordam a leitura primordialmente social da obra dramática de Nelson Rodrigues. Constituída de oito peças, a fase denominada Tragédias Cariocas é caracterizada por uma maior aproximação com o público, seja por um olhar voltado ao social (diferente das Peças psicológicas e Peças míticas), seja por aspectos melodramáticos. O primeiro capítulo inicia o estudo das peças por meio de suas personagens ao perceber como as protagonistas ou antagonistas liberam seus desejos a ponto de fazer a trama das peças mudar de rumo e levá-las a um fim trágico. A partir do fim tido por trágico, o segundo capítulo faz a aproximação desse conjunto de peças com o Expressionismo, que, embora já identificado em peças anteriores do dramaturgo, está agora menos presente. No terceiro capítulo verifico a concepção do gênero trágico em Nelson Rodrigues, em convergência com o sentido trágico. Assim, investigo como acontece a formulação do trágico moderno em um autor nacional. Por fim, volto-me para a constituição e consistência dramática das peças, visando a sua formação estética. Neste quarto capítulo, estudo a formação das personagens, dos diálogos e das rubricas, elementos fundamentais para a obra dramática / Abstract: This dissertation is divided in four chapters which approach the primarily social reading of Nelson Rodrigues¿s dramatic work. Formed of eight plays, the phase called Tragédias Cariocas is characterized by the fact that it gets closer to the audience, be it through a socially conscious outlook (different from the Peças pscicológicas and Peças míticas), be it due to melodramatic aspects. The first chapter begins the study of the plays through their characters by noticing how the protagonists or antagonists release their desires to the extent of changing the directions of the plays and taking them to a tragic ending. Just from the endings regarded as tragic, the second chapter brings this set of plays closer to the Expressionism which, although had already been identified in former plays by the playwright, is now present to a minor extent. In the third chapter I verify the conception of the tragic genre in Nelson Rodrigues, in convergence with the tragic sense. Thus, I investigate how the formulation of the modern tragic takes place in the work of a national author. At the end, I turn to the constitution and consistency of the plays, aiming its aesthetics formation. In this fourth chapter, I study the construction of characters, as well as the construction of the dialogues and of the rubrics, which are essential elements in drama / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

Orientadores: Eusebio Lobo da Silva, Sara Pereira Lopes / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T17:05:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias_MarinaFernanda_M.pdf: 1393264 bytes, checksum: b45b1100c2f16ad4983f15813ffd2ed6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa apresenta um estudo sistemático sobre a improvisação enquanto ferramenta para o processo de criação coletiva nas artes cênicas, e a conseqüente sistematização de um jogo teatral ao qual chamamos Zona do Improviso. Utilizamos como norteadores da investigação dois sistemas com evidentes possibilidades de diálogo e entrelaçamento: o Sistema Effort-Shape, desenvolvido por Rudolf Von Laban, e o exercício do Campo de Visão, desenvolvido pelo Prof. Marcelo Ramos Lazzaratto. A partir do interjogo entre esses dois sistemas e, somando como suporte teórico e prático os estudos sobre jogo e improvisação de Viola Spolin, sistematizamos a Zona do Improviso que nos proporcionou juntamente com os dois citados sistemas, a montagem do espetáculo ¿Alma de Papel¿. Levantamos a hipótese de que a relação de cada intérprete com seu material criativo e espontâneo interfere no seu desenvolvimento técnico poético e na criação cênica em si. O desenvolvimento desta pesquisa se deu a partir da experimentação destes conceitos aplicados a dois tipos de propostas realizadas em laboratórios práticos: um processo pedagógico de sistematização destas idéias (Zona do Improviso) e uma experimentação de criação cênica (Alma de Papel). Participaram dos laboratórios vinte estudantes dos cursos de graduação em Artes Cênicas, Artes Corporais, Artes Plásticas e Música, da Unicam / Abstract: This research presents a systematical study about the use of improvisation as a tool for the collective creation in the performing arts, and the consequent systematization of an improvisation game called 'Improvisation Zone¿. As references of this research, we made use of two systems with clear possibility of dialogue and interlacement: the Effort-Shape System developed by Rudolf Von Laban, and the 'Vision Area¿ game, developed by Prof. Marcelo Ramos Lazzaratto. Starting from the 'intergame¿ between theses two systems and guided by the practical and theoretical studies of Viola Spolin, we systematized the 'Improvisation Zone¿, playing a key role in our creation of the play 'Alma de Papel¿. This research enquires the relationship of each interpreter with his own spontaneous and creative material, and how it interferes with his technique and poetic development and in the scenic construction. The development of this research was based on the experimentation of these concepts, applied on two propositions: the pedagogic process of systematization of these ideas ('Improvisation Zone¿) and the experimentation of the scenic construction / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T23:03:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Negrao_Liliane_M.pdf: 1156344 bytes, checksum: 68a307d57d206076b9af5d000049792f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Essa dissertação propõe uma leitura das peças Álbum de Família, Anjo Negro, Dorotéia e Senhora dos Afogados, de Nelson Rodrigues, com o propósito e analisar as obras enquanto textos, enquanto obras dramatúrgicas, e não enquanto espetáculos teatrais em que estas se concretizam. Restringe-se, pois, às obras nos termos dos diálogos, com seus silenciamentos, embates, exclamações; das indicações cênicas e rubricas, dos elementos constitutivos do gênero trágico, assim como da construção das personagens. Isso posto, essa dissertação propõe que, a despeito das obras dramatúrgicas em questão, seja possível demarcar um viés de leitura em que figuram conceitos e elementos oriundos da mitologia cristã. De todas as dezessete peças de Nelson Rodrigues,a leitura que propomos diz respeito a Álbum de Família, Anjo Negro, Dorotéia e Senhora dos Afogados por entendermos que elas se destacam das demais pela recorrência de referências e indícios de idéias de moralização oriundas do cristianismo. Além disso, entendemos que, nessas quatro peças, Nelson Rodrigues engendra um trabalho com os elementos do gênero trágico - que constitui parte importante da análise que fazemos - que não se acha tão marcadamente presente nas outras obras dramatúrgicas do autor. Através de gênero trágico peculiar, tipicamente rodriguiano, que se caracteriza, principalmente, pela ênfase no horror, entendemos que Nelson Rodrigues trabalha com elementos cristãos em um mecanismo de moralização, que pode ser percebido, nas quatro peças, por um engendramento de "não-ditos". Sendo assim, nossa leitura questiona a caracterização comumente aceita da obra rodriguiana como pornográfica, torpe, amoral e imoral. Essa dissertação aponta um caminho através do qual se pode identificar uma intenção moralizante de raízes cristãs na obra dramatúrgica rodriguiana em questão, em uma espécie de mecanismo de constatação à verificação, feita por George Bataille, de que "a literatura é, com efeito, o prolongamento das religiões". / Abstract: This dissertation proposes a reading of the plays Álbum de Família, Anjo Negro, Dorotéia and Senhora dos Afogados, by Nelson Rodrigues, with the puppose of analysing them as texts, dramaturgical works, not as the theatrical entertainment in which they come true. It is restricted, so, to the works in terms of dialogues, with silences, clashes, exclamations; in terms of stage indications and rubrics, of constitutive elements of tragic genre, as well as of the construction of the characters. Having all that in mind, this dissertation proposes that in spite of these dramaturgical works, it would be possible to mark out an approach of reading in which are present concepts and elements from christian mithology. Of all the seventeen Nelson Rodrigues' plays, the reading that we propose concerns Álbum de Família, Anjo Negro, Dorotéia and Senhora dos Afogados for the fact we conceive they stand out from the others due to the recurrence of references and evidences of ideas of moralization from christianism. Besides, we believe that in these four plays, Nelson Rodrigues comes up with a work with elements of tragic genre - what constitutes important part of the analysis carried out here - which is not so remarkably present in other dramaturgical works of the author. Through his peculiar tragic genre, typical of Nelson Rodrigues, which is mostly characterized by the emphasis in the horror, we see that Nelson Rodrigues works with christian elements in a mechanism of moralization, which can be realized, in the four plays, by an engendering of what is not said. Therefore, our reading questions the characterization normally accepted of Rodrigues' work as pornographic, vile, amoral and immoral. This dissertation points out a way through which it is possible to identify a moralizing intention with christian roots in the Nelson Rodrigues' work cited, in a sort of mechanism of observation to the checking, done by George Bataille, in what "literature is, with effect, the extension of religions". / Mestrado / Teoria e Critica Literaria / Mestre em Teoria e História Literária

From the 1970s onwards Applied Theatre (AT) has become an ever more popular tool for communication in fields as varied as education, development, therapy, social action, business and others (see for example Blatner (ed.), 2007; Prentki & Preston (eds.), 2009). Over the same time period there has been a continuous questioning amongst academics not only of the most effective research methods but increasingly also of the philosophy underlying research efforts (Narayan & Srinivasan, 1994; Parks et al, 2005; Wilkins, 2000). There are therefore more and more researchers who, in their attempts to 'democratise‘ the research process, are beginning to use arts-based inquiry methods (Sanders, 2006). These generally allow a more inclusive, creative and in-depth approach to research, allowing the participants (the researched‘) more control over the process and the issues discussed and often benefiting them by imparting skills through the process (Belliveau, 2006; Peseta, 2007). Applied Theatre based research is part of this relatively new development (Conrad, 2004; Nelson, 2009) and it is at this junction of academic inquiry and AT where this research is situated. The major objective of this dissertation is to investigate the possible usage and value of Applied Theatre techniques as a tool for qualitative research, specifically when working with participants not familiar with drama and theatre exercises over a short period of time (a few hours). In partnership with the student society Students Against Rape And Hate (S.A.R.A.H.), a once-off Applied Theatre workshop was conducted in a UKZN residence in September 2009. The aim of this workshop was to establish some answers to the questions provided by S.A.R.A.H. about students‘ views of relationships in general and in residences specifically and the society‘s possible work there. To be able to compare the outcome of the workshop with the outcome of a more common research tool, a questionnaire asking the same questions was given out among other students in the same residence. Research subjects from both groups as well as S.A.R.A.H. members were later interviewed about their experiences and impressions. Comparing the data obtained through the different research methods described above, this dissertation not only evaluates whether the data collected with AT was useful and whether the process was practical for the researchers, but it also looks at the benefits the process itself had for all stakeholders involved. Indeed, it is this comparison of the 'product outcomes‘ and the 'process outcomes‘ that forms the backbone of the conclusions drawn. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-10T06:43:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Henrique_MariliaGomes_M.pdf: 721441 bytes, checksum: 8ab25c43ab785a97a3d4e249183dba1d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa analisa a produção dramatúrgica de João das Neves, compreendendo, assim, os seguintes textos: O último carro (1964), O quintal (1978), Mural mulher (1979), Café da manhã (1980) e A pandorga e a lei (1983-1984), que, na sua totalidade, foram produzidos durante a ditadura militar no Brasil. O engajamento político de João das Neves possibilitou o desenvolvimento de um teatro voltado para os problemas candentes da realidade social brasileira, levando-o a formular uma obra de estrutura épica com suas especificidades próprias. Seu teatro, nesse sentido, procura esclarecer ao público certos aspectos da engrenagem social, integrar o espectador no espaço cênico e apresentar as personagens a partir de uma ótica social - e não individualizada, como é o caso do drama burguês / Abstract: This research analyses the dramaturgic production of João das Neves, encompassing the following plays: O último carro (1964), O quintal (1978), Mural mulher (1979), Café da manhã (1980) e A pandorga e a lei (1983-1984). These works were produced during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The political engagement of João das Neves made possible the development of a theatre turned to the effervescent problems of the Brazilian social reality, and leading the author to formulate an epic-structured play with its particular specificities. In this sense his dramaturgy aims to enlighten the public about some aspects of the social machinery, integrating the viewer to the scenic space. He also presents the characters from a social perspective ¿ non-individualized, as it is the case of the bourgeois drama / Mestrado / Artes / Mestre em Artes