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 ...

This thesis is an exploration of the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937-1977. Less than one hundred feature films have been made by Irish film-makers in Ireland in cinema’s first century but more than two thousand fiction ...

This thesis consists of an analysis of ethnicity and modes of theatrical reality in three plays by French dramatist Bernard-Marie Koltes, made possible by a convergence of critical strategies from postcolonialism, phenomenology ...

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 ...

This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ...

This thesis uses the dramatic model of the Irish Catholic family as a microcosm through which to examine the ways in which cultural and political ideologies have shaped a particular value-determined narrative of Irish ...

The theoretical methodology employed in the research and writing of this thesis is primarily postcolonial. Though comparatively nuanced, poststructuralism is also employed. The emphasis in the latter is on the Foucaldian ...

This dissertation examines the body in Butoh performance. The transgressive and sacred potential present within Hijikata Tatsumi’s dance is considered within a post-structuralist conceptual framework. The cultural and ...

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 ...