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“Maybe I’ll see you on the stage”: Spontaneous Audience Action in the Performance of the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

Seager Cecchini, Ashley
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281283461

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2010, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
In this thesis I examine how the audience may perceive time and their relationship to it in the performance of history. In history plays there is the potential for the audience to perceive the past and the present simultaneously. Within that perception audience members are then potentially motivated toward action within the performance. I analyze artistic techniques such as dual roles, narrators, setting and staging practices that Native Hawaiian playwright Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl uses in January 1893 (1993) and Ola Nā Iwi (1994). I approach my discussion of these artistic techniques with Marvin Carlson‘s concept of ghosting, Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins‘ post-colonial theories about storytellers and space, and Freddie Rokem‘s work on creative energy and the performance of history.
Andrew Gibb, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Elizabeth Reitz-Mullenix, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, PhD (Committee Member)
80 p.
American History; Fine Arts; History; Literature; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Native Americans; Native Studies; Theater
Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl; theatre; Hawaii; audience; pageant; January 1893; Ola Na Iwi; performing history;

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  • Seager Cecchini, A. (2010). “Maybe I’ll see you on the stage”: Spontaneous Audience Action in the Performance of the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281283461

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Seager Cecchini, Ashley. “Maybe I’ll see you on the stage”: Spontaneous Audience Action in the Performance of the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281283461.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Seager Cecchini, Ashley. "“Maybe I’ll see you on the stage”: Spontaneous Audience Action in the Performance of the Plays of Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1281283461

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