Browsing Drama (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Acoustic interculturalism : the performativity of sound and hermeneutic of listening in / to intercultural performance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2010)Studies of intercultural performance have been very much concerned with the politics of cultural practice, the authority of cultural traditions, the location of culture(s) in the interstices of exchange, and the theorising ... -
Affective Encounters: A Study of Immersive Performance and Digital Culture
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This thesis presents a study of immersive performance and digital culture. As a whole, the thesis considers the aesthetic experience offered by a certain strand of contemporary immersive theatre which I have identified and ... -
Badness. Good, isn't it? A bit of badness : Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of 'Deviance' and the Irish theatrical tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2004)This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. ... -
Beyond the trilogy : the urban repertoire of the Abbey Theatre (1904-1951)
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Choreographing Ireland : resistive bodies and socially engaged dance theatre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2011)This thesis provides a socio-pohtical and cuhural study of socially engaged dance theatre in the Republic of Ireland. It interrogates how the work of certain choreographers challenges the habitual primacy of the textual ... -
Complexity, post-coloniality, transculturality : the birth of Wole Soyinka's Yoruba tragedy in Nigeria and its intercultural presentation in Britain
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2013)In 1986, Wole Soyinka made history when he became the first African ever to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka is a Yoruba man from western Nigeria and he began to write seriously and professionally in 1959 less ... -
The development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenon
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)Comedians learn how and who to be on stage. Writing and performing stand-up comedy entails complex social and professional challenges. Facing these challenges, stand-up comedians adapt personae. Via a critical analysis of ... -
Dream Country : the Ireland text in French cinema, 1937 to 1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)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 ... -
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 of the socio-political : Irish women playwrights from 2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2017)This thesis looks at intersections between women, theatre and Irish society since the turn of the millennium. There is a history of internalized misogyny throughout Irish theatre and, in part, the impetus for the study has ... -
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. ...
