The investigation is a historical survey tracing the development of Casa Mañana Musicals, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, from its experimental beginning in 1958 as the first permanent musical arena theatre in the United States, through twenty-three subsequent seasons. The study includes a chapter on the origins of theatre and the influences behind its concept dating back to the 1936 Casa Mañana produced by Billy Rose. Subsequent chapters deal with the theatre's seasons and its struggle to gain acceptance. The theatre's more recent financial and labor problems are also considered. Major sources include such unpublished data as production and financial records of the theatre, contracts, correspondence, minutes of the board of directors, and interviews. Published sources include accounts in newspapers and periodicals.

L’étude du fonctionnement des reprises parodiques d’Hernani en 1830 et l’édition de Harnali, N, I, ni et Oh ! Qu’Nenni, établie à partir des manuscrits, des rapports de la censure et de différentes versions imprimées, permettent de constater que les parodies d’Hernani sont à la fois déterminées par la pièce qui sert de modèle référentiel initial et par des intertextes contemporains avec lesquels elles dialoguent. Les conventions des spectacles du temps, le goût du public, font que la parodie sert paradoxalement d’imitation subversive au service d’une norme. En effet, la déconstruction parodique devient une source de construction des pièces qui, à travers les incohérences et les invraisemblances relevées dans Hernani, se positionnent dans un fonctionnement de spectacle qui leur est propre. Au-delà d’une simple critique, satire ou imitation d’une pièce initiale à travers l’écriture, l’intertextualité et les genres, les reprises parodiques renvoient ainsi une image du contexte du temps et des spectacles joués sur les théâtres secondaires. Ces parodies sont donc également des spectacles, qui s’inscrivent dans la contemporanéité de jeux d’acteurs, d’airs et couplets des théâtres secondaires parisiens de 1830. / The study of procedures used in parodies of Hernani in 1830, together with an edition of manuscripts of Harnali, N, I, ni and Oh! Qu’Nenni, of censors’ reports, and of different printed versions, show that parodies of Hernani are at the same time informed by the play that serves as an initial model and by cultural intertexts with which they establish a dialogue. Performance conventions of the time, as well as public taste, create a paradoxical situation in which parodies act as subversive imitation in the service of a norm. Indeed, parodic deconstruction becomes a source of construction of plays which, pointing out the incoherencies and improbabilities in Hernani, create their place in a type of performance that is unique to them. Beyond simple criticism, satire, or imitation of an earlier play through style, intertextuality, and genre, parodies also reflect an image of the context of the times and of plays performed on secondary theatres. These parodies are thus plays in their own right, a part of contemporary style of acting and of the use of airs and refrains in Parisian secondary theatres in 1830.

Este trabalho é resultado de nossa investigação histórica e arquitetônica acerca dos projetos de teatros elaborados entre os anos de 1890 e 1911 no centro de São Paulo, quando se consolidou a tipologia teatral na cidade. A partir de 1890, verifica-se um considerável aumento das casas de espetáculo e a introdução de novos espaços. O período em estudo abarca desde os primeiros teatros particulares, construídos sob a égide do regime republicano, até a inauguração do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, em 1911, quando se encerra um complexo processo de mais de dez anos entre a concepção e a construção desse teatromonumento. A partir de fontes primárias (documentos contidos na coleção e na série de Obras Particulares e na coleção de Papeis Avulsos do acervo do Arquivo Histórico de São Paulo, periódicos e legislação do período, iconografia e cartografia históricas de variados acervos) e à luz das fontes secundárias, levantamos onze projetos de teatros, que nos permitiram construir um repertório para situar e compreender especificidades do espaço teatral paulistano, tais como tipologia, características arquitetônicas, elementos compositivos e técnicas construtivas. O conjunto de projetos encontrados - construídos ou não construídos - foi organizado a partir de três categorias: um local, um autor e um objeto, o que nos proporcionou uma leitura sobre diversos aspectos da história de São Paulo - seu processo de construção, seu crescimento e suas transformações, constituindo um rico acervo para o estudo de suas questões urbanas, econômicas, políticas, culturais e sociais. / This work is the result of our historical and architectural research about theatre projects created between 1890 and 1911 in the city center, same period when the theatre typology consolidated in São Paulo. Since 1890, we verified a substantial increasing of the number of playhouses and the introduction of some new spaces. The period we have been studying has as marks the construction of the first private theatres built under the aegis of the republican regime and the opening of Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, in 1911, when a complex process of more than ten years between the conception and the construction of this monument-theatre got finished. Based on primary sources (documents from the Arquivo Histórico de São Paulo\'s collections and series of Private Works and Detached Papers, periodicals and laws, historical iconography and cartography from several collections) and on secondary sources, we brought up eleven theatre projects, which have allowed us to construct a repertory to situate and understand the specificities of São Paulo\'s theatrical space: typology, architectural features, compositional elements and construction techniques. The set of theatre projects founded - either built or not - was organized in three categories: location, authorship and object, which provided us a reading of various aspects of São Paulo\'s history: its construction process, growing and transformations, forming a rich collection for the study of urban, economic, political, cultural and social issues.

Preoperative safety procedure is a departmental safety goal laid down by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. The providers of health care directly controlled by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic are obliged to putpreoperative safety procedure and its documentation into practice, other health care organizations are recommended this implementation. However, the Ministry does not specify the formof this procedure nor its process in the operating room, there is no uniform documentation prescribed and last but not least, it is not clearly laid down which person of the operational team is responsible for the correct implementation of this procedure. The goal of the research is to map the preoperative safety procedure in the operating theatres in selected hospitals, to compare the process of the preoperative safety procedures in the operating theatres among the addressed hospitals, to describe the competencies of perioperative nurses during the preoperative safety procedures in the operating theatres in the selected hospitals and to find out the attitude of the perioperative nurses to the preoperative safety procedure. In the selected hospitals the safety procedure is introduced and implemented in different ways. The preoperative safety procedure in the operating theatres is introduced as an administrative act, but not as a practical tool to improve patient safety. The competences of perioperative nurses in preoperative safety procedures are not clearly specified in all of the respondent hospitals. The perioperative nurses adopt entirely positive approach to that, in most cases they believe it is important for ensuring the safety of the patient.

Este trabalho é resultado de nossa investigação histórica e arquitetônica acerca dos projetos de teatros elaborados entre os anos de 1890 e 1911 no centro de São Paulo, quando se consolidou a tipologia teatral na cidade. A partir de 1890, verifica-se um considerável aumento das casas de espetáculo e a introdução de novos espaços. O período em estudo abarca desde os primeiros teatros particulares, construídos sob a égide do regime republicano, até a inauguração do Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, em 1911, quando se encerra um complexo processo de mais de dez anos entre a concepção e a construção desse teatromonumento. A partir de fontes primárias (documentos contidos na coleção e na série de Obras Particulares e na coleção de Papeis Avulsos do acervo do Arquivo Histórico de São Paulo, periódicos e legislação do período, iconografia e cartografia históricas de variados acervos) e à luz das fontes secundárias, levantamos onze projetos de teatros, que nos permitiram construir um repertório para situar e compreender especificidades do espaço teatral paulistano, tais como tipologia, características arquitetônicas, elementos compositivos e técnicas construtivas. O conjunto de projetos encontrados - construídos ou não construídos - foi organizado a partir de três categorias: um local, um autor e um objeto, o que nos proporcionou uma leitura sobre diversos aspectos da história de São Paulo - seu processo de construção, seu crescimento e suas transformações, constituindo um rico acervo para o estudo de suas questões urbanas, econômicas, políticas, culturais e sociais. / This work is the result of our historical and architectural research about theatre projects created between 1890 and 1911 in the city center, same period when the theatre typology consolidated in São Paulo. Since 1890, we verified a substantial increasing of the number of playhouses and the introduction of some new spaces. The period we have been studying has as marks the construction of the first private theatres built under the aegis of the republican regime and the opening of Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, in 1911, when a complex process of more than ten years between the conception and the construction of this monument-theatre got finished. Based on primary sources (documents from the Arquivo Histórico de São Paulo\'s collections and series of Private Works and Detached Papers, periodicals and laws, historical iconography and cartography from several collections) and on secondary sources, we brought up eleven theatre projects, which have allowed us to construct a repertory to situate and understand the specificities of São Paulo\'s theatrical space: typology, architectural features, compositional elements and construction techniques. The set of theatre projects founded - either built or not - was organized in three categories: location, authorship and object, which provided us a reading of various aspects of São Paulo\'s history: its construction process, growing and transformations, forming a rich collection for the study of urban, economic, political, cultural and social issues.

The thesis focuses on the staging of Soviet operettas in Czechoslovakia between 1946 and 1987. The import of the Soviet repertoire to Czechoslovak operetta theaters was linked to the cultural and political transformations at the outset of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The so-called Soviet socialist operetta would soon have been established as a model for new Czechoslovak operettas. As such, it became an important part of the repertoire which was influenced by the official polical system. The thesis surveys the progressing intensity of the import and the developing operetta genre in the Soviet Union. On the examples of Isaac Dunayevsky's operettas Free Wind and, more intensively, White Acacia, in comparison with the original versions of these operettas, it shows the tendencies of interpretation of Soviet operettas in Czechoslovakia, in the changing cultural and political context. The thesis also concerns the topic of critical perception in both cultural environments and, overall, it aspires to capture the examined topics in the widest possible contextual horizon.

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Le « théâtre sur le théâtre », procédé par lequel le théâtre se prend explicitement pour objet, connaît en France, entre 1680 et 1762, une vogue inégalée : à l’exception de l’Opéra, il concerne plus du quart du répertoire comique créé sur les scènes publiques de Paris. Cette étude s’appuie sur plus de quatre cents pièces et se concentre sur une sélection de cent vingt-sept d’entre elles, jouées à la Comédie-Française : principalement des prologues dramatiques et des comédies en un acte, des « comédies de comédiens », des « comédies de spectateurs », des pièces allégoriques et des pièces d’actualité. Le théâtre autoréflexif, où s’exerce en action une conscience critique aux yeux du public, permet de retracer l’histoire d’un art, tel qu’il se donne à voir. Sur un plan pratique, il se fait le miroir des realia de la vie théâtrale en dévoilant les dynamismes de la conception d’un ! spectacle et de sa performance. Il aborde des enjeux qui touchent encore à la dramaturgie [conditions de représentation], à la poétique [apparition des genres nouveaux], à l’esthétique [fabrique de l’illusion] et à la vie institutionnelle des théâtres [querelles dramatiques]. Il interroge l’ancrage et la fonction du théâtre dans le monde en offrant un reflet prismatique de la société. L’étude présentée trace les contours de ce phénomène et de ses évolutions. Elle propose de repérer, en contexte, les enjeux idéologiques de ce répertoire, les effets qu’il provoque sur le spectateur, ainsi que les stratégies qu’il met en œuvre dans le fonctionnement du champ littéraire. / « Metatheatrical theatre » – theatre looking at itself and taking itself as its own object—flourished between 1680 and 1762, reaching unequalled proportions. More than a quarter of all the comic plays created in the Parisian public theatres of the time, apart from the Opera, consisted in metatheatre. Dealing with more than four hundred plays, this study focuses on a selection of one hundred and twenty-seven plays staged at the Comédie-Française—including mainly dramatic prologues, one-act comedies, comedians’ comedies, spectators’ comedies, allegorical plays and topical plays. Self-reflexive theatre allows us to retrace the history of an art which performed its critical consciousness before the spectator’s eyes. From a practical point of view, this repertoire mirrored the realia of theatrical life, by exhibiting the dynamics at work in the staging and acting of a play. From an aesthetic point of view, it raised central issues! related to the art of performance [the staging conditions], the institutional life of theatres [dramatic quarrels], poetics [the emergence of new genres] and aesthetics [the construction of theatrical illusion]. On an ideological level, they offered a prismatic reflection of society, thus developing a concrete questioning on the social inscription and function of theatre. The present study aims at mapping the modalities and evolution of this phenomenon. It seeks to bring out the ideological stakes of this repertoire, the effects it produced on the audience, as well as the strategies of its positioning in the literary field.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal. / The role of the Canada Council and the Canadian Regional Theatre System in promoting and fostering English-Canadian playwrights and Canadian drama has been a source of considerable controversy but little sustained study since the middle 1960s. This dissertation examines that role through the crucial years from the creation of the Canada Council in 1957 until 1975 when the Council began to lose any real independence as an agency of cultural policy. It begins by examining the state of Canadian theatre in the postwar years prior to the creation of the Council and adumbrates the cultural/political forces that led to that creation: particularly rising Canadian nationalism and the power of the Canadian cultural elite. The confluence of these two forces in the form of the Massey/Levésque Commission sets the stage for the establishment of the Canada Council and, I will argue, also sets in place the basic philosophy of the Council towards theatre repertoire and the place of the English-Canadian playwright within the regional system. Chapter Three details the founding of the Council and its development of policies and practices that were intended to promote Canadian drama within the newly developing Canadian theatre system and then speculates on their likelihood of success. Chapter Four examines the realities of theatre economics in order to asses the impact of Canada Council (monetary) practices in the creation of the regional system and its use of Canadian plays. Chapter Five examines in detail the activities of the Council from its inception until 1969 and shows the very real gap between enunciated policies and actual practices in the development of the regional system particularly as it. affects the use of indigenous artistic material. I will contend that the result of Canada Council approaches and practices (intentional or not) in scholarship and funding, and particularly in the area of direct commissions, was the neglect of the Canadian dramatist in favour of a repertoire of foreign material. Furthermore, the focus of the Canada Council on two conflicting goals, the growth of regional theatres and a conservative fiscal policy aimed at reducing or controlling deficits, exacerbated this neglect. The consequences of this neglect are dealt with in Chapter Six with a discussion of the reaction of cultural nationalists, increasingly dissatisfied with Council practices, that led to the creation and promotion of the alternative theatre movement which produced the first concrete steps in the development of an indigenous drama. Since the alternative theatre movement, in its advocacy and encouragement of Canadian playwrights, occupied the role that the Canada Council was intended to fill, Chapter Six compares the funding patterns that helped set it in place (specifically the Local Initiatives Programs and Opportunities for Youth) with the funding patterns of the Council. I will suggest that these two programs (although not designed for that purpose) were much more successful than the policies and practices of the Canada Council in promoting English-Canadian plays, and specify the reasons why this was so. The dissertation concludes with some speculation on future possibilities in the study of Canadian plays based on their origin within an 'alternative' theatre structure rather than within the mainstream regional system and sums up how the development of the Canadian regional system was, in many ways, accomplished at the expense of the Canadian dramatist. / Le rôle du Conseil des Arts du Canada et du Réseau canadien du théâtre régional de promouvoir et d'encourager les dramaturges canadiens-anglais et le théâtre canadien a été une source de controverse considérable mais pas une source d'études depuis le milieu des années 1960. Cette dissertation examine ce rôle à travers les années cruciales à partir de la création du Conseil des Arts du Canada en 1957 jusqu'en 1975 lorsque le Conseil commence à perdre toute véritable indépendance en tant qu'agence de politique culturelle. Je débute en examinant l'état du théâtre canadien dans les années d'après-guerre avant la création du Conseil et je discute des forces culturelles/politiques qui ont conduit à cette création : surtout le nationalisme canadien montant et le pouvoir de l'élite culturelle canadienne. La confluence de ces deux forces sous la forme de la Commission Massey/Lévesque met en scène l'établissement du Conseil des Arts du Canada et met aussi en place la philosophie de base du Conseil envers le répertoire théâtral et la place du dramaturge canadien à l'intérieur du réseau régional. Le troisième chapitre raconte en détail la fondation du Conseil et le développement de ses politiques et pratiques prévues pour promouvoir le théâtre canadien à l'intérieur du nouveau T- réseau de théâtre canadien et ensuite s'interroge sur leur chance de réussite. Le quatrième chapitre examine les réalités financières du théâtre afin d’évaluer l'impact des pratiques (monétaires) du Conseil des Arts du Canada dans la création du 'réseau régional et son usage des pièces de théâtre canadiennes. Le cinquième chapitre examine en détail les activités du Conseil à partir de sa création jusqu'en 1969 et démontre l'écart réel entre les politiques énoncées et les pratiques réelles dans le développement du réseau régional, particulièrement lorsque cet écart touche l'utilisation de matériau artistique indigène. Je vais soutenir que le résultat des approches et des pratiques (intentionnelles ou non) du Conseil des Arts du Canada en bourse et en financement, et plus particulièrement dans le domaine des commissions directes, se traduit en une négligence du dramaturge canadien en faveur d'un répertoire étranger. De plus, l'intérêt du Conseil des Arts du Canada pour deux objectifs conflictuels, la croissance des théâtres régionaux et la politique fiscale conservatrice visant à réduire ou à contrôler les déficits, aggrave cette négligence. Les conséquences de cette négligence sont étudiées dans le sixième chapitre avec une discussion de la réaction des nationalistes culturels, de plus en plus insatisfaits avec les pratiques du Conseil, qui a conduit à la création et la promotion d'un mouvement de théâtre alternatif qui fit les premiers pas concrets vers le développement d'un théâtre indigène canadien. Puisque le mouvement de théâtre alternatif, dans son soutien et son encouragement des dramaturges canadiens-anglais, a occupé le rôle que le Conseil devait remplir, le sixième chapitre compare le modèle de financement qui a aidé à son établissement (plus spécifiquement l'établissement des Programmes d'initiatives locales (Local Initiatives Programs) et Opportunités pour les jeunes (Opportunities for Youth)) aux modèles de financement du Conseil. De plus, je vais suggérer que ces deux programmes (même s'ils ne sont pas créés dans ce but) ont eu beaucoup plus de succès que les politiques et les pratiques du Conseil des Arts du Canada dans la promotion des pièces de théâtre canadiennes et je vais spécifier les raisons de ce succès. Je conclu la dissertation avec une hypothèse sur les possibilités futures dans l'étude des pièces de théâtre canadiennes basée sur leur origine à travers une structure théâtrale 'alternative plutôt qu'à travers un système régional de la culture prédominante et je résume comment le développement du Réseau régional canadien a été, de plusieurs façons, accompli au détriment du dramaturge canadien.