Lloyd Richards in rehearsal

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dc.contributor.advisorSanders, Leslie
dc.contributor.advisorMurray, David
dc.contributor.advisorFord-Smith, Honor
dc.creatorDixon, Everett C.
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-03T16:51:54Z
dc.date.available2016-08-03T16:51:54Z
dc.date.copyright2013-09
dc.degree.disciplineTheatre
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstract"This dissertation analyzes the rehearsal process of Caribbean-Canadian-American director Lloyd Richards (1919-2006), drawing on fifty original interviews conducted with Richards' artistic colleagues from all periods of his directing career, as well as on archival materials such as video-recordings, print and recorded interviews, performance reviews and unpublished letters and workshop notes. In order to frame this analysis, the dissertation will use Russian directing concepts of character, event and action to show how African American theatre traditions can be reformulated as directing strategies, thus suggesting the existence of a particularly African American directing methodology. The main analytical tool of the dissertation will be Stanislavsky's concept of ""super-super-objective,"" translated here as ""larger thematic action,"" understood as an aesthetic ideal formulated as a call to action. The ultimate goal of the dissertation will be to come to an approximate formulation of Richards' ""larger thematic action."" Some of the artists interviewed are: Michael Schultz, Douglas Turner Ward, Woodie King, Jr., Dwight Andrews, Stephen Henderson, Thomas Richards, Scott Richards, James Earl Jones, Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance, Michele Shay, Ella Joyce, and others."
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/31713
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dc.subject.keywordstheatre
dc.subject.keywordsaction
dc.subject.keywordsblack aesthetics
dc.subject.keywordsblack theatre movement
dc.subject.keywordsrehearsal process
dc.subject.keywordssuper-objective
dc.titleLloyd Richards in rehearsal
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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