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Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception (2009)
Thesis
Oughton, K. (2009). Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209362

This is the first holistic study of English cross-dressed performers. It will situate drag performers within their cultural context in order to establish how their concerns, motivations, employment, communities, friendships, self-perception and artis... Read More about Drag performance, identity, and cultural perception.

From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance (2008)
Thesis
Adams, K. (2008). From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4208944

Drawing on Debord and Baudrillard, this thesis takes its starting point the shift from text to image dominated representations of the world. It argues the parallel shifts in theatre practice and reception away from work which subordinates itself to t... Read More about From narrative to spectacle: An examination of contemporary theatre performance.

Beanstalk to macca tree : the development of the national pantomine by the little theatre movement of Jamaica, 1941-2003 (2006)
Thesis
Minott Egglestone, R. E. (2006). Beanstalk to macca tree : the development of the national pantomine by the little theatre movement of Jamaica, 1941-2003. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218675

Greta Bourke and Henry Fowler, co-founders of the Little Theatre Movement of Jamaica, initiated the L TM Pantomime tradition in 1941 to raise funds for an experimental theatre, which would both house contemporary trends from Europe and America and ca... Read More about Beanstalk to macca tree : the development of the national pantomine by the little theatre movement of Jamaica, 1941-2003.

Elements of myth in the modern theatre, with special reference to current theatre in Oman (2004)
Thesis
Al Lawati, A. K. A. J. (2004). Elements of myth in the modern theatre, with special reference to current theatre in Oman. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212360

This study focuses on the relationship between myth in its classical and modern definition and the theatre, and how the developing Omani theatre can Benefit from western and Arabian experiences in this field. The study shows how myths, around the wor... Read More about Elements of myth in the modern theatre, with special reference to current theatre in Oman.

The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism (2001)
Thesis
Chun, B. (2001). The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4211225

This thesis will examine theatrical changes which were taken place in Britain in the 1990s as an influence of Thatcherite capitalism. There are two bases in developing that subject. The first is that arts subsidy, namely, money, has been more respons... Read More about The British theatre economics and management in the 1990s as an effect of Thatcherite capitalism.

Iconoclasm in modern British drama (1989)
Thesis
Al-Kasim, F. M. (1989). Iconoclasm in modern British drama. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215299

Iconoclasm has proved to be a major feature in modern British drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the prese... Read More about Iconoclasm in modern British drama.