Essays about: "social theatre"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 52 essays containing the words social theatre.
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21. Exploring Theatre as a Medium for Change: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Measure for Measure in the Post #MeToo Era
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : This paper identifies the discursive practices and power mechanisms in passages of Measure for Measure where certain characters are ruled by the belief of superiority of one over all others. It examines how gender norms are constituted, reproduced, and challenged by drawing on Judith Butler’s theories on gender as a performative act to explore how meaning is reproduced dialogically. READ MORE
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22. Masculinity and Dance : Male Dancers, Gender and Society in Stockholm, Sweden
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis examines the conditions for professional and aspiring professional male theatre dancers across two separate field sites in Stockholm, Sweden. By analysing these conditions I aim to discuss how hegemonic masculine social norms inform and affect the lives of these male dancers and the consequences of those norms for the wider male population. READ MORE
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23. Rediscovering Beatrice and Bianca: A Study of Oscar Wilde’s Tragedies The Duchess of Padua (1883) and A Florentine Tragedy (1894)
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Towards the end of the 19th century Oscar Wilde wrote the four society plays that would become his most famous dramatical works: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The plays combined characteristic Wildean witticisms with cunning social criticism of Victorian society, using stereotypical characters such as the dandy, the fallen woman and the “ideal” woman to mock the double moral and strict social expectations of Victorian society. READ MORE
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24. Talking through the body. Creating of common world and changing the community through a theatrical performance, a case study.
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis aims to present a practical example of how art can become an instrument capable of investigating, showing and facing a social problem. For doing so, art can overcome communication issues; secondly, it can create a “common world” of shared values that leads to changes in society. READ MORE
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25. Engaging Teenagers in Online Ethnographic Participatory Design
University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för innovation, design och teknikAbstract : The aim of this master’s thesis is to explore the implications of using online ethnographic participatory design in studying communication with teenagers in the context of Carbon Dioxide Theatre, a climate action research project. By developing multiple methods, tools and activities, the implications are understood throughout the teenagers’ engagement in collaborating and co-creating using online media. READ MORE
