Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special report study entitled :Integration of architecture and ground form. Includes bibliographical references.

published_or_final_version / Architecture / Master / Master of Architecture

The drive-in theater was a phenomenon unique and prosperous in 1950s America. At the height of their popularity, there were over 4,000 drive-in theaters located across the United States. Their great success came because they were suitable to the mindset of the time-they provided a place for a family to be together without dress code, babysitter, or parking problems, and without having to leave their beloved cars. Construction of 23 drive-in theaters occurred in the Indianapolis area between 1940 and 1974. These varied in size and location, but all contained the essential ingredients-a large concession stand, children's playground, and any other gimmick that would gather their audiences before sunset.By the mid-1960s, the drive-in theater industry began a steady decline which has continued to present. The drive-in theater always faced obstacles, including weather, insects, seasons, and poor technical quality of both picture and sound. Adding to this was the change in the American mindset, increased opposition from community moralists, and especially, the rise in property values.This creative project documents the general history of drive-in theaters across the United States, takes a closer look at the drive-in theaters in the Indianapolis area, and records them in an inventory. / Department of Architecture

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 54-55).

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes special report study entitled :Integration of architecture and ground form. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a figuração dramatúrgica do indivíduo em duas peças produzidas pelo grupo teatral The Provincetown Players: Suppressed Desires (1915), de Susan Glaspell e George Cram Cook, e Before Breakfast (1916), de Eugene ONeill. Consideramos que o estudo da produção desse grupo norte-americano traz importantes reflexões acerca da representação de questões históricas, políticas e estéticas recentes naquela época , e que vieram a ter desdobramentos em diversas direções no teatro contemporâneo. / This work aims at analyzing the dramaturgical figurations of the self in two plays produced by The Provincetown Players: Suppressed Desires (1915), by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, and Before Breakfast (1916), by Eugene O\'Neill. We believe that the study of the production of this American group introduces important reflections on the representation of historical, political and aesthetic factors recent then , which came to have developments in several directions in contemporary theater.

The following report describes the activities and outcomes of a fourteen-week internship in the fall of 2004 in the Marketing, Booking & Special Events and Group & Corporate Sales Departments of the Saenger Theatre. The first section contains an organizational profile. The second is a detailed description of the internship. The third section is an analysis of the internal and external problems within the organization. The fourth is an explanation of the Best Practices found within the organization and any recommendations for the resolution of challenges. The conclusion of the report contains a discussion of the short and long term effects of the intern's contributions to the organization.

This dissertation demonstrates that seventeenth-century dramatists and theatrical practitioners invented a dazzling series of specialized technologies for representing space. I argue that ubiquitous stage technologies, such as doors, props, musical instruments, and curtains, were used to create a dynamic sense of location—both fictional locations within the represented action and the audience’s location within a specific theater structure. Scholarship on the early modern spatial imaginary has tended to focus on broader cultural changes in how English people understood the world around them, in part through the massive growth of London as an urban center, and in part through England’s burgeoning empire and increasing contact with the world beyond its shores. At the same time, theater scholars have increasingly emphasized the material conditions of theatrical production, including the composition of theatrical companies, the features of different theater buildings, and the nature of costumes and cosmetics. My research extends this theater historical work to show how the details of theatrical practice shaped perceptions of space, including the space of the theater itself as well as the rapidly expanding sense of both urban and global space outside the theater’s walls. My chapters are organized around the different tools used to represent particular types of place, while also tracing a chronological development marked by both continuity and change. In part, this means looking back towards the theatrical traditions out of which this drama sprang, as when I show how the disposition of stage doors in Roman New Comedy or the use of props in medieval morality plays were redeployed by playwrights such as Ben Jonson or Thomas Dekker. I also argue for a more complex relationship than we have assumed between the spatial arrangements of the prewar Shakespearean stage and that of the Restoration. While the introduction of painted scenery is typically taken to mark a break in how space was represented onstage, I establish that playwrights in this era continued to experiment with many of the same spatial techniques used by their precursors in the prewar theaters. By carefully tracing how the same spatial tools – the movement of actors in and out of the doors, the management of discovery spaces, and the positioning of musicians and sound machines – continued to be used alongside the painted scenery, I help us see more clearly how those tools were already active in shaping the perception of theatrical space in the pre-1642 theaters.