Search for dissertations about: "theatre acting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words theatre acting.

  2. 1. Action Reconsidered. Cognitive Aspects of the Relation between Script and Scenic Action

    Author : Erik Rynell; Lunds universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Theatre; cognition; embodied cognition; acting; avantgarde theatre; new theatre;

    Abstract : Contemporary cognitive science challenges the idea about the human brain as a kind of computor. Instead the importance of the body for our way to understand and interact with the world has come into focus. READ MORE

  4. 2. Composing The Performance : An Exploration Of Musical Composition As A Dramaturgical Strategy In Contemporary Intermedial Theatre

    Author : Kent Olofsson; Henrik Frisk; Erik Rynell; Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musical composition; Dramaturgy; Composed theatre; Intermedial theatre; New music theatre; Interdisciplinary performing arts; Contemporary theatre; Sonic scenography; Collaborative artistic work; New dramaturgy; Musical composition; Dramaturgy; Composed Theatre; Intermedial theatre; New music theatre; Interdisciplinary performing art; Contemporary theatre; Sonic scenography; Collaborative artistic work; New dramaturgy;

    Abstract : This thesis explores musical composition in the context of contemporary theatre. It suggests methods where compositional thinking – broadly understood – can be used as a dramaturgical device in the creation of theatre performances. READ MORE

  5. 3. Rehearsing Emotions : The Process of Creating a Role for the Stage

    Author : Stina Bergman Blix; Göran Ahrne; Patrik Aspers; Helena Flam; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; role theory; stage actors; theatre; emotion work; emotional labour; shame; deep acting; surface acting; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : This thesis takes as its starting point the dramaturgical metaphor of the world as a stage, which is used in sociological role theories. These theories often presume what stage acting is about in order to use it as a simile for every day acting. READ MORE

  6. 4. Singing, Acting, and Interacting in Early Modern English Drama

    Author : Elisabeth Lutteman; Stuart Robertson; Julie Sanders; Robert Appelbaum; Simon Smith; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early modern drama; Renaissance drama; Shakespeare; Fletcher; Middleton; Jonson; Dekker; Marston; theatre and music; Shakespeare and music; stage songs; theatre songs; self-presentation; disguise; rhetoric; performance; historical phenomenology; song studies; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : The study examines ways in which singing figures as a strategy of action and interaction in early modern English drama. Inquiring into the dramatic role of song in plays performed on London’s public stages between c. 1590 and c. READ MORE

  7. 5. Resistance Through Acting : Ambivalent Practices of the No Border Musical

    Author : Emma Söderman; Socialhögskolan; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; deportability; commoning; community theatre; activism; irregular migration;

    Abstract : In a context of deportability and bordering practices, this thesis asks questions regarding possibilities and limitations of resistance through community theatre. It sets out from a participatory ethnographic exploration of the working process and performance of the No Border Musical. READ MORE