Essays about: "feminist theatre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words feminist theatre.

1. 1. Performing Mother and Daughter : A Postdramatic Performance Analysis of Three Contemporary Theatre Productions

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Elin Sandberg Hensch; [2023]
   Keywords : motherhood; postdramatic theatre; Hans-Thies Lehmann; performance analysis; mother-daughter relationship; contemporary theatre; Teater Galeasen; Kulturhuset Stadsteatern; Maxim Gorki Theater;

   Abstract : This master’s thesis is concerned with the portrayal of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships on stage. By conducting performance analyses of three separate contemporary performances, all focused on mother-daughter relationships, the thesis investigates the creation of mother and daughter on stage. READ MORE

3. 2. AI as Gatekeepers to the Job Market : A Critical Reading of; Performance, Bias, and Coded Gaze in Recruitment Chatbots

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Karin Victorin; [2021]
   Keywords : data feminism; digital discrimination; AI recruitment; chatbots; facial recognition; AFEA; hiring tools; feminist technoscience studies; intersectionality; coded gaze; hiring bots; social robots; performance; AI technology ethics; theatre and AI; Augusto Boal; posthumanism; Donna Haraway; Karen Barad;

   Abstract : The topic of this thesis is AI recruitment chatbots, digital discrimination, and data feminism (D´Ignazio and F.Klein 2020), where I aim to critically analyze issues of bias in these types of human-machine interaction technologies. READ MORE

4. 3. TO PERFORM, OR NOT TO PERFORM? A queer reading of feminist theatre performances in Istanbul

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Marina Farima; [2020-11-30]
   Keywords : feminist politics; feminist theatre; Istanbul; performativity; queer reading;

   Abstract : Feminist theatre, I opine, is a tremendously valuable tool that could help individuals to gaze politically at their own lives. This thesis is compiled by an exploratory research into the theatrical stage of Istanbul aiming to analyse three plays with a queer lens as means to uncover the feminist politics that transforms the normative norms of both the theatre and the society. READ MORE

5. 4. 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 Genus

   Author : Gaudi Delgado Falcón; [2020]
   Keywords : Theatre; Social Change; Social Movements; Phenomenology; Gender; Intersectionality; Feminist Theory; Power; Worlding;

   Abstract : 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

6. 5. 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 institutionen

   Author : Minon Weber; [2020]
   Keywords : Oscar Wilde; Victorian Literature; Drama; Theatre; 19th Century Literature; Renaissance Drama; Theatre; Elizabethan Drama; Jacobean Drama; A Florentine Tragedy; The Duchess of Padua; Wilde; Wilde Studies; Transgression; Feminist Criticism; Historicist Criticism; Genetic Criticism;

   Abstract : 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