Emerson thesis -- Theatre education
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Preserving blue, 2006
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Overview
Gathering Blue is a dramatic adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel by the same name, sharing the story of young artists striving to create a hopeful future in a world controlled by an oppressive authoritarian regime. This thesis explores the process of adapt
Dates:
2006
Producing from the heart by Ashley Alivia Bierschbach., 2015
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Identifier: te_2015spring_bierschbach_ashley.pdf
Overview
Reflection on the author's experience preparing to direct and produce a musical as a fundraising campaign for the YMCA of the North Shore Youth Theatre Company. --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Rainbows: : the formulation and presentation of a children's play for the entire family, 1983
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1983
Re-hear-sing Performative Traditions: Engaging With Cultural Practices in College Devised Theatre, 2020
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Identifier: te_2020spring_thiel_john.pdf
Overview
"This thesis documents the methodology, findings, and theoretical underpinnings of a qualitative research study that investigates how a small sample of Emerson College undergraduate and graduate students engaged with cultural traditions from their upbringings in the devised theatre project 'What Moves Us,' which I directed in the spring of 2020. Recognizing in devised theatre the potential for intervention in college-level theatre practices that can privilege hegemonic cultural values and...
Dates:
2020
Reading plays and discussing them : the PRBC and an audience development tactic for purposeful retention, 2018
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Identifier: te_2018spring_lindholm_aden.pdf
Overview
"Audience development, and the field of research surrounding it, is intended to explore options and tactics on how best the theatre can expand to consumers that have historically been hard to reach. As the theatre is experiencing lower rates of attendance nationwide, this effort is especially important for the prosperity of the art form moving forward. This project researched the effectiveness of ArtsEmerson’s audience development program, the Play Reading Book Club (PRBC), an initiative put...
Dates:
2018
Resisting and Perpetuating Dichotomies: Reflecting on a Drama-Based STEM Residency, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_galloway_sofia.pdf
Overview
"This thesis evaluates the successes and challenges associated with a drama-based arts integration residency with adolescent learners. As the world becomes more reliant on STEM literacy, research shows young people, especially girls and young people of color, feel excluded from STEM learning. This project employed drama-based pedagogies to engage young people in STEM learning. The residency was evaluated through qualitative and quantitative methods. The data revealed how students and the...
Dates:
2024
Romanticizing disaster : debunking romantic comedy tropes, 2016
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Identifier: te_2016fall_moore_melissa.pdf
Overview
Explores the negative stereotypes portrayed by many of the relationship tropes and romantic ideals in romantic comedy films. Includes an original play whose first act dramatizes these tropes, while the second act is a "horror film" version of the same text, anticipating further research on tropes associated with that genre. --Abstract.
Dates:
2016
Sapphic Dance Party: A Community Building Applied Theatre Project, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_cappello_camille.pdf
Overview
"This project was built to explore the possibilities of using movement to facilitate spaces that feel welcoming to sapphic identifying people. A devised dance piece, inspired by stories collected rom [sic] local queer people, was performed at a local dive bar to kick off a sapphic dance party. The hope was to use dance and movement to transform the bar into a lesbian bar for a night, in response to the pervasive lack of sapphic third spaces. The Sapphic Dance Party project was an attempt to...
Dates:
2024
Setting the stage for learning in a drama classroom, 2006
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Overview
This thesis project is an examination of teaching and learning in Emerson College's Summer Stage acting program for high school students. -- abstract.
Dates:
2006
Shakespeare with children, 1975
Item — Item 0113502572887: [Barcode: 0113502572887]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1975
Show Me, Don't Tell Me: A Look At Theatre Makers of Today and Tomorrow, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_winton_alicia.pdf
Overview
"I found my way to my thesis topic by starting with a subject that constantly occupies space in my thoughts: impact. I was born with something I call "detrimental empathy." It is a condition in which I have so much empathy for the people and things around me that it impacts my ability to interact with the world. For example, I cannot read or watch the news because if I hear or see something sad, I will cry and obsess over it for days. When I'm driving, I brake for animals in the street no...
Dates:
2022
Skeletal renderings of five major joints of the body in various positions with accompanying photographs and exercises : a visual aid for teaching dance, 1972
Item — Item 0113502578397: [Barcode: 0113502578397]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1972
Sometimes, We Wade into the Mud: Anti-Oppressive Practice in TVY Devising with Emerging Artists, 2024
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Identifier: te_2024spring_fletcher_kylie.pdf
Overview
"Theatre for the Very Young (TVY) is a growing artform under the larger umbrella of Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) that offers opportunities for emerging artists to engage in embodied theatremaking. This thesis delves into how TVY new work development processes offer alternative ways of approaching original theatrical experiences. Using reflective practitioner journals and participant surveys to assess how emerging artists engage in interdisciplinary TVY artmaking, this thesis highlights...
Dates:
2024
Stages, 1976
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Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1976
Step on a crack : an examination, 1979
Item — Item 0113502583595: [Barcode: 0113502583595]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1979
Still Growing: A Reminiscence Performance Project, 2023
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Identifier: te_2023summer_taaffe_allison.pdf
Overview
"As the United States population undergoes an unprecedented aging process, the field of creative aging serves as a powerful intervention to combat ageism while providing older adults with meaningful opportunities for personal growth and social connection. This paper delves into the successes and challenges of piloting a Reminiscence Performance project at a senior center. The primary objective was to underscore the generative potential and celebrate the lives of older adults within the...
Dates:
2023
Stopgap, 2011
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Overview
This dark comedy delves into the lives of six individuals living just on the outskirts of their white picket fence surroundings. Each of these characters is struggling to belong in the hetero-normative society they each call 'home.' A gay couple's fear of
Dates:
2011
Story Exchange Of and Around Sexual Assault: Building Connection to Educate, Heal, and Protect Community, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021spring_schwall_erin.pdf
Overview
"Incidents of sexual assault continue to occur at an alarming rate on college and university campuses across the country. While bystander intervention training is educating students to help prevent this crime from occurring, stories of survivors are still silenced in our classrooms, perpetuating the idea that they are alone in their trauma and need to handle it on their own. Using a theatre storytelling exercise, I developed a workshop to share personal stories of surviving sexual assault...
Dates:
2021
Struggles of Covid in Educational Theatre: Leaving Space for Social and Emotional Learning, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_doucette_thomas.pdf
Overview
"This thesis project explores reasons for implementing SEL practices into educational theatre. Productions offer opportunities for collaboration, creativity, celebration and learning. Research shows that learning cannot happen when students are in crisis mode. Schools have reopened in 2021-2022, but many educators will agree; learning isn't happening. This project focuses on a production at a school south of Boston that has been suffering with racial tensions, violence, and a fractured sense...
Dates:
2022
Summer Youtheatre program, 1975 : business manager's report, 1975
Item — Item 0113502578744: [Barcode: 0113502578744]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1975