Browsing Drama (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Finding Visual Music in its Twentieth Century History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2020)Visual fine art and music are typically considered to be separate disciplines and separate art forms. This, however, is not the case for visual music. Visual music straddles both visual art and music. Visual music has ... -
The Fourth Wave fights back: Deconstructing the Performativity of rape culture through contemporary Irish theatre, performance and society
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This dissertation seeks to examine and deconstruct contemporary rape culture. It explores, and builds on, the three preceding waves of the feminist movement, and contextualises established theories of hegemonic masculinity. ... -
From avant-garde to negentropy : an aesthetic deployment of Bernard Stiegler's genealogy of the sensible
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2016)This thesis mobilises Bernard Stiegler’s call for a genealogy of the sensible in order to elucidate a peculiar phenomenon in art, which is the increase in the autonomy and efficacy of technology in the making and production ... -
Historically revealing : a cultural analysis of four recovered plays by Irish women, 1900-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)This thesis concerns the retrieval and analysis of four plays written in two distinct collaborative configurations by early twentieth-century Irish women, Geraldine Cummins (1890-1968), Susanne Day (1876-1964) and Hester ... -
"Impossible Speech" - Monologue Drama in Ireland from 1964 - 2016: Form and Per(form)ativity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to critique a body of monologue drama by Irish playwrights during the period 1964 to 2016. Building on the recent work of Irish and international scholars on monologue drama and performance, it ... -
An Intercultural Theory of the Comic Spirit: Insider/Outsider Dynamics and Representation in Theatre and Performance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This dissertation commences with an enquiry into the origins of comedy in Greek fertility rituals and nature, drawing upon theories of play, ritual, and community to explicate case studies that have been decidedly sourced ... -
Issues of gender in the texts of Ulster theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)This thesis is neither a history nor an exact socio/political documentary of Ulster Theatre. However, within textual readings, both discourses are employed to examine issues of gender within a context of more familiar ... -
Landscapes, voices and corporealities of excess in the theatre of Marina Carr
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)This Ph. D. thesis concerns the plays of contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr from 1989-1998. In the first section of this introduction I will contextualise the background, career and plays of Marina Carr within the ... -
Let her speak too : Shakespeare's shrews and the modern stage
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)This thesis takes as its starting point those of Shakespeare's female characters who are upbraided by other characters for speaking inappropriately, or too much, who are, in effect 'shrew' figures. The plays concerned span ... -
Mamulengo Puppet Theatre in the socio-culture context of twentieth-century Brazil
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2006)Mamulengo is a popular form of puppet theatre in Pernambuco, a state located in the Northeast region of Brazil. It seems to have originated about two centuries ago, and even today, it remains a significant form of entertainment ... -
Misrecognition, planning and cultural capitalism : independent theatremaking in Ireland, 1990-2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)This dissertation presents a critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of the fields and practices of cultural production through an examination of the case study of independent theatremaking in Ireland between 1990 and 2007. ... -
On going on : the ethic of impossibility in the performance of Samuel Beckett's prose
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2009)This dissertation presents a history of performances of the prose of Samuel Beckett and illuminates a theory of prose performance through readings of his work. Unifying a phenomenological reading of prose performance with ... -
Performativities of intimacy in the age of biopolitics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2012)The aim of this thesis is to propose a dialogue between Giorgio Agamben’s philosophy and the field of 'performance studies'. My theory of the performativity of intimacy needs to be read as a conceptual attempt to address ... -
Performing other Irelands : 'race', politics and contemporary Irish theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)At a time of unprecedented economic upheaval and extraordinarily rapid social transformation, this thesis considers the representation of ‘race’ on the contemporary Irish stage during the Celtic Tiger years. The productions ... -
Performing Religion and Spirituality: The Postsecular Turn in Contemporary British and Irish Theatre
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2022)This thesis argues that there has been a postsecular turn on the contemporary stage, focussing in particular on woman-centred theatre in Britain and Ireland in the past three decades. It deals with the representation ... -
Performing videogames : understanding digital play, agency, and engagement through live performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)This thesis Is a contribution to the fields of digital cultural studies, game studies, and studies of theatre and performance, I will consider the aesthetic, structural and technological exchanges, interactions, and ... -
Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001)If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera ... -
Post-Cold War Experimental Theatre of China: Staging Globalisation and Its Resistance
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2017)This thesis is a study of Chinese experimental theatre from the year 1990 to the year 2014, to examine the involvement of Chinese theatre in the process of globalisation – the increasingly intensified relationship between ... -
Present laughter : humour at the site of impact in theatre performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2000)This dissertation examines the implications for the humorous transaction at its immediate site of impact within mimetic theatre performance, as given to the bodied subjects involved. The thesis establishes its theoretical ... -
Private parts, public bodies : cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth Lecompte
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)In this thesis I ask what cross-dressing can tell us about the formation of identity in performance. I argue that the use of cross-dressing in the work of Deborah Warner and Elizabeth LeCompte can be used to challenge and ...