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“Putting Fear and Prejudice on Trial”: New Narratives for Queer Documentary Theatre in Dustin Lance Black’s 8
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This thesis explores contemporary documentary theatre within the context of queer studies. While there are many plays that fall into the category of queer documentary theatre including The Laramie Project, Another American, and Execution of Justice, this research examines Dustin Lance Black’s new...
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2020-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: The compulsory tattooed number on Holocaust survivors’ from Auschwitz acts as an embodied public record of the attempted extermination of Eastern European Jews during the Second World War. As Holocaust survivors are aging and dying these material archives are disappearing,...
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A Rhizomatic Analysis of Stage Management in Modern Alberta Theatre Practice: Keeping the Breath Alive
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This is a study of the role of technology in the stage management profession, with a specific focus on professional and social practices, in Alberta theatres. Through the interviews I conducted with five professional stage managers in the summer and fall of 2018, I investigate how stage managers...
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Fall 2018
This is a study of the role of the dramaturg in intercultural dramaturgy relationships, with a specific focus on dramaturgs practicing, or with experience practicing, in the multicultural city of Toronto. Through analysis of interviews I conducted with six dramaturgs in the summer of 2017, I...
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2019-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: In August 2018, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. McDonald was unceremoniously hoisted from Victoria, BC's city hall steps, wrapped in foam and trucked away to a storage facility. City council was responding to concerns from Indigenous community members...
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2020-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: This IDG project probes how contemporary Italian theatre responds to the Mediterranean migration crisis and its political exploitation, challenges the simplistic, populist binary of us/other, and enables migrants to enter the public sphere as worthy interlocutors and...
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Fall 2016
Canadian theatre has always been an exercise in inter-cultural negotiation, yet in the past few decades, the official multicultural legislation has provided opportunities for more artists belonging to ethnic minorities to consciously diversify our country’s theatre practice. Montreal based...
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2017-01-01
Couture, Selena, Dick, Alexander
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebue's Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatized English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but...
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Fall 2017
This interdisciplinary and intersectional thesis addresses the cult of Artemis Orthia at Sparta and particularly the 6th century BCE grotesque terracotta masks recovered there by the British School of Athens in the early 20th century. Using both material culture and literary data as primary...
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Fall 2016
The following is an analysis of Emmanuelle Marie’s 2003 play CUT as it intersects the theories of Hélène Cixous’ “écriture féminine" primarily expressed through her essays “The Laugh of the Medusa” and “Sorties.” This paper will additionally present an overview to feminine writing along with a...