The Sacrilege of Alan Kent is a monodrama in nine scenes for baritone soloist, orchestra, and tape. This composition may be presented as a dramatic or concert work. From the standpoint of a dramatic form, it may be considered an opera for one performer in nine brief scenes or vignettes. As a concert work, it resembles a song cycle.

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This study presents a work of theatre art in the form of an autobiographical monodrama, supported by three exegeses: a review of informing literature, one of the writing process, the third of the critical reactions to the play at different stages of its development by readers and audiences. The thesis considers the two questions, How can theatre depict my autobiography? and How can monodrama be used to express this autobiography? The first question implies an examination of the process of writing and producing an autobiography for the theatre. The second question is answered through the process that developed in this study towards the choice of the form of a monodrama. The methodology emerged as the play was written and a journal recorded. At times the approach, particularly as it affected the writing of the play, was more like action research in which the play was reacted to and then amended in a cyclical manner, the writer also developing new understandings in the process. The reflective process was used to help in understanding the development that was taking place. A survey, and interviews with audience members were conducted as part of the investigation once the artwork was presented. In addition, after the piece had been developed to the point of presentation, it was subjected to critical evaluation, The data from the audience assisted in the development of the artwork as well as developing an understanding of the research question and the possible answers or further questions. The Generic Exegesis arose out of the reading, and developed as an exegesis accompanying the writing of the play once the form of the play had clearly become a monodrama. The Generic Exegesis is designed to show background reading that has informed directly the writing and performing of the play, 'The Changeling'. A principal objective for writing the play developed from a desire to help others to understand something of the conflicts and dilemmas facing adoptees towards the search for self identity and its relationship to acting. Part of the conflict for an adopted person was crystallised in Derridas concept of erasure and the use of the trace to recognise the coexistence of both sides of a binary, which rationalised the splitting of the central character into the two traces, Dominic and Frank. My need for control of the outcome affected the selection from the autobiography, the development of some scenes, and was one of the reasons for the use of fiction. The data for the Process Exegesis came from the journal that was kept during the writing, production, performance and rewrites of the play. The role of the audience had emerged in the interview data and one of the interview questions asked what kind of audience the respondent thought the play suitable for. The Process Exegesis shows that part of the answer to the research question is arrived at through the systematic recording and analysis of the processes that were involved in the writing of the autobiographical play. These have shown that artistic worth was increased as a factor of the distance achieved. The Critical Exegesis showsthat the issues that the play addressed such as adoption and a search for identity were also perceived as important by the readers and the audience. Significant contributions to the development of the play were made by the Dramaturg (Dl) and some cogent points were made by a second dramaturg. The respondents who were interviewed reacted to the content of the play, namely adoption, identity and the issues associated with them, as well as the performance. This study investigates the processes of the development of an autobiographical performance from the generation of the script to the public presentation. It shows that theatre can artistically depict an autobiography and that the perceived appropriate contemporary theatre formis the monodrama. The main issue to be recognised as arising out of the play and the process is that the whole project has been a search for identity. That identity is defined in the range of characters portrayed in the play as well as the process of writing it. The outcome of the investigation was a piece of dramatic performance text that I had written and performed, accompanied by a critical commentary on the creation, production and reception processes.

À partir d’un corpus de six pièces de théâtre produites entre 2006 et 2016 par des Palestiniens, ce travail étudie l’élaboration de la spatialité dans les textes et ses interactions avec l’espace réel dans lequel ils se déploient. En raison des fortes contraintes imposées aux Palestiniens dans leurs mobilités, la pratique du territoire représente d’abord une expérience identitaire quimarque les conditions de création et les choix dramaturgiques. Le théâtre offre un espace pour raconter cette expérience et c’est le témoignage qui occupe la scène, dans diverses formes d’autobiographie scénique. Le texte, support de mémoire devient un objet littéraire où le récit de soi monologué permet aux Palestiniens d’exprimer l’exil qu’ils vivent, dans sa doublenature : géographique et psychologique. Dans ces récits scéniques, les personnages finissent par se confondre avec l’espace qu’ils décrivent ; s’élaborent alors des figures littéraires spécifiques à ce rapport à l’espace. Ainsi, l’image de l’enfermement manifeste les liens entre le texte et la réalité vécue et décrite. Cette poétique de l’espace participe aussi à la remise enquestion du mythe de la Palestine qui occupe les textes de cette décennie, et fournit ainsi un angle privilégié pour analyser les dynamiques identitaires des Palestiniens. / This work studies how the spatial dimension is elaborated in six theatre plays produced between 2006 and 2016 by Palestinians and how these texts interact with the real space within which they unfold. Because of the strong constraints imposed on Palestinians’ mobility, the practice of territory embodies an experience. This alters the conditions and choices of production and theatre offers a space to tell this experience. In this body of texts, testimony takes center stage in the form of staged autobiography. The text therefore becomes a literary object, rather than a medium for memory. Self-narrative allows Palestinians to express their exiles in both geographic and psychological terms, by using the form of the monologue. In their stories, the characters are so affected by this experience of territory that they end up being conflated with the space they describe. The spatial dimension in the texts is elaborated from literary figures. The image of imprisonment expresses in a direct manner the links between text and reality. It participates in the questioning of the myth of Palestine that fills the texts of this decade. It is indeed in real and textual space that the identity dynamics of Palestinians are being built.

Babe Ruth, American Herois a one-person play that chronicles the life of sport's greatest legend and first superstar. The manuscript and performance represent over a year of research, writing and rehearsing. The process to produce a first draft of a manuscript began by researching biographies, autobiographies, documentaries, and the websites including Babe Ruth, the Babe Ruth Museum, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. A production staff was assembled and on April 27, 2002, at the Veterans Memorial Theatre, in Johnson City, TN, a staged reading of the play was performed before an audience. The manuscript underwent a series of rewrites, and the play premiered on October 18 and 19, 2002, at the Bud Frank Theatre, East Tennessee State University Campus. The article that follows contains the first and final drafts of the play, as well as supplemental, promotional, and program information.

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