Drama
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:
Artificial, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_grad_samuel.pdf
Overview
"Artificial is a feature length comedy that negotiates the dangers and fears many feel surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence in art and entertainment. The film follows a recently divorced TV writer, a tech CEO, an artificial general intelligence, and a large cast of other writers, workers, and revolutionaries as they navigate the influx of automation in the workplace. Set in the very near future, this satirical sci-fi takes aim at the self-righteousness of artists, the vanity of...
Dates:
2023
Emerson College, 1926-1991
Series
Identifier: MSS 015-1
Scope and Contents
This first series titled Emerson College contains items pertaining to the 32 years that Stein taught students in the Drama Department and encompass the years 1948-1991. Many photographs and negatives of Emerson theatrical stage productions and makeup classes taught by Stein as well as classroom materials such as syllabi, outlines, and worksheets are included this series. Other materials consists of several theater programs from productions put on by Emerson College and Emerson newspaper and...
Dates:
1926-1991
Fortress Besieged?, 2020
Item
Identifier: te_2020spring_wang_qianru.pdf
Overview
"This project is a devised theatre play structured in the tradition of documentary theatre—a form of theatre based on real-life materials. The play is inspired by a Chinese novel, 'Fortress Besieged' (1947) written by Qian Zhongshu, in which the protagonist, a bumbling young man, pursues a number of dalliances with women without understanding the essence of marriage, and finally loses the meaning of his life. This project, 'Fortress Besieged?,' shifts the perspective to that of women and...
Dates:
2020
Itchy, 2019
Item
Identifier: vm_2019spring_zhou_yimo.pdf
Overview
"'Itchy's' strength mainly thanks to the well-written script. After several revisions, the script transit from one-dimensional drama into a mixture of comedy and anti-drama. The dynamic among characters is intriguing and creative. For example, the front desk lady tells a unforgettable story about her husband and how she was trying to slowly kill him, reflects the relationship dynamic between Yuki and Richard. She speaks in a point of view where women (or older married women) taking charge in...
Dates:
2019
Jack Stein Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 015
Scope and Contents
The Jack Stein Collection contains a wide variety of materials ranging from photographs of television studios and movie sets to items of makeup developed by Stein's brand. Spanning nearly a century, the collection covers many aspects of Stein's career at Emerson College including photos and programs of stage productions and materials from the classes he instructed in the Drama Department. Stein worked in various studios around New England and the Boston area and the collection contains...
Dates:
1926-1992
Johanna Van Gogh, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_griffith_patrick.pdf
Overview
"JOHANNA VAN GOGH is a TV Pilot inspired by the true story of the woman who saved Vincent van Gogh's legacy – the story behind the story of the two brothers. Primarily set in Paris in 1891, following the tragic death of Theo only six-months after Vincent, this historical drama follows his grief-stricken widow Johanna and one-year-old son; the sole heirs to hundreds of Vincent's paintings. Designed for streaming platforms as a limited series, JOHANNA VAN GOGH attempts to reveal the events...
Dates:
2023
La Bodega, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_garcia_koby.pdf
Overview
"La Bodega is a feature length screenplay that tells the story of the Brisas family, a Cuban American multigenerational family who own a bodega in a predominately Hispanic town just outside of New York City that is in the midst of gentrification. A teenager Martin, his mother Ana, and his grandfather El Viejo have differing opinions on the future of the family and their bodega as they each navigate their own lives. This family drama also serves as a coming of age story for the characters and...
Dates:
2023
Last Dream in Town, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_castillon_alejandro.pdf
Overview
"Last Dream In Town is a feature-length screenplay about the role that art plays in the lives of people in rural United States and society at large. This independent drama follows a young grieving bartender who has abandoned her passions, supporting herself financially after the sudden death of her best friend. Eccentrics abound in her small Texas town, and soon she becomes immersed in the lives of radical, anti-technology artists seeking to change the world. Egos clash, music is made, and...
Dates:
2023
Modern Mafia and New Game+, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_kruskal_adina.pdf
Overview
"MODERN MAFIA is a half-hour single-camera television comedy pilot which follows an innocent programmer who must prove his loyalty to a very un-conventional Mafia in order for them to spare his life after witnessing a hit. NEW GAME+ is an hour-long television drama pilot which follows a die-hard gamer sucked inside his favorite video game who must use in-depth knowledge of the game's world and mechanics, as well as alliances with with non-player characters, to seek the game's creator and...
Dates:
2023
Multitudes, 2023
Item
Identifier: pf_2023spring_barclay_hannah.pdf
Overview
"June, an artist living in New York City, vetures [sic] to Austin, Texas, with her musician boyfriend and her best friend as a part of her boyfriend's national tour. The more time the group spends in Texas, the more June's psyche and relationships begin to unravel. June has the uncanny feeling she's been to this city before and when people begin calling her by a different name, she knows there's something her friends are not relling [sic] her. With the help of a local austinite, Priya, June...
Dates:
2023
Pearl Wallace Chappell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 022
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the teaching and writing career of Pearl Wallace Chappell and the history of the Dallas Academy of Speech and Drama. Included in the collection is biographical information about Pearl Wallace Chappell and historical information about the Dallas Academy of Speech and Drama. There are published poems and plays by Pearl Wallace Chappell and an audio recording of her giving a poetry reading shortly before her death. Also included are alumni directories and yearbooks,...
Dates:
1914 - 1969; 2012
Professional Entertainment, 1930-1992
Series
Identifier: MSS 015-2
Scope and Contents
Professional Entertainment contains items from the professional career of Stein as a makeup artist and political image maker between the years of 1934-1992. The series contains photographs and snapshots from a variety of television shows from the mid-twentieth century, film stills, theater programs from productions around New England, and a complete schedule for the broadcast of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. An edited copy of the script of "An Evening's Journey to Conway,...
Dates:
1930-1992
Red Sauce, 2023
Item
Identifier: sf_2023spring_giardina_lynsey.pdf
Overview
"Red Sauce is a feature length film designed for a theatrical and film festival release that focuses on childhood trauma. Set in a shotgun house in New Orleans, Lisa comes home for Thanksgiving to find not much has changed. Except for the fact that she is ready to confront her past trauma by wrecking her present life. Over the course of a single day, we follow the Campino family as the traumas of their past are unearthed during a Sicilian Thanksgiving day feast in Red Sauce." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023