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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Drama) by Type "Dissertation"
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Maguire, Melissa
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Festivals, including arts festivals, have a long history of acting as special slices of space and time to commemorate or celebrate cultural occasions (Getz, 2007, p. 11). Getz’ views events and festivals as ‘special places’ ...
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Vermeulen, Vasti
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
Angels in South Africa: Exploring Modern Progressive and Queer Realities in South Africa through Theatre is a thesis based on the development of the South African experimental play, Angels in South Africa. The play is a ...
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Maritz, Gerrit Ulrich
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
This dissertation positions Community Theatre as an agency for development and education based on the educational principles of Freire and Boal’s Theatre for Development. The dissertation argues that Appreciative Inquiry ...
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Papenfus, Zelné
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This article engages with audience perception of emotion in a physical theatre performance. Two primary, yet conflicting, scholarly discourses relating to how human beings perceive emotions in themselves and in others are ...
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Britz, Danielle
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Much of Afrikaans cinema before and after 1994 is characterized by a historically dominant heroic narrative. In response to this dominance, this study offers a postheroic framework for contemporary Afrikaans cinema to ...
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De Wet, Micia
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
This study aims to investigate and directorially apply Antonin Artaud's concept
of The Absolute in order to destabilise the victim/perpetrator binary between
the characters Beth and Jake in Sam Shepard's play text, A lie ...
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Papenfus, Zelné
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
Dance-based physical theatre as a sub-strand of Physical Theatre, is positioned as a continuum of dance. Dance-based physical theatre performers are encouraged to embrace their personal uniqueness and previous dance training, ...
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Kruger, Marlene
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This study engages with the domains of second language teaching and learning (L2TL), drama-based teaching and learning (DBTL) and embodied cognition in order to establish how the effective implementation of DBTL may ...
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Le Grange, Rene
(University of Pretoria, 2005-08-11)
The aim of this research project was to determine and describe the challenges and advantages presented to artists taking part in student theatre festivals as well as the challenges and advantages presented to the organisers ...
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Haskins, Nicola
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study attempts to document my emerging choreographic signature through a qualitative,
practice-based autoethnographic approach. It describes and examines three of my
choreographic works One-way (2010), As night falls ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Walt
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This study aims to identify my personal choreographic approach to physical theatre-making and then to experientially expand on it by engaging with Joanne Butterworth‘s five-tier Didactic-Democratic spectrum model for ...
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van Eeden, Marista
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-08)
This dissertation aims to explore how fantasy tropes and Afrikaans mythological narratives can be used to create a framework for a fantasy screenplay that critically engages with white Afrikaner identity. The investigation ...
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De Kock, Laurika
(University of Pretoria, 2023-01-30)
Since 2010, there has been a proliferation of women-centric television series and serials in the international television landscape due to substantial socio-political and -economic changes as well a changing television ...
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Scott, Georgina
(University of Pretoria, 2002)
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Haasbroek, Francois
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The research study focuses on configurations of filmic intertextuality in Christiaan Lugones’s feature films Johnny is nie dood nie (2017) and Kanarie (2018), and examines how they enable audiences of the films to reflect ...
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Matabane, Palesa Flory
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
“Forgive me reader. It has been two months since my last confession. Ere I err let me confess that this reasearch is to be understood as a confession and this abstract (also a confession) written after the fact. My confession: ...
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Holloway Mulder, Gina
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
The performer's conceptualisation and perception of herself is projected
through the acoustic voice and impacts upon vocal delivery in rehearsal and
performance. However, in the context of performer voice training in ...
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Janse van Rensburg, Dené
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
This study proposes that the television series Hannibal (Fuller 2013-2015), with its aesthetic and thematic emphasis on Christian motifs and imagery, is a contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Specifically, this study argues ...
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Bezuidenhout, Tamara Louise Kenny
(University of Pretoria, 2013-03-07)
This dissertation explores the ways in which Janice Honeyman’s 2007 Swashbuckling Adventure, Peter Pan, The Pantomime represents notions of nation and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. In order to accomplish this, ...
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Broodryk, Chris Willem
(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-21)
The cinematic experience is often an emotional or ‘felt’ experience. In the aftermath of the film, it is challenging to indicate precisely how I was guided to react emotionally to the film. This study presents an investigation ...