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The Pearl

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dc.contributor.advisorArmstrong, Eric
dc.contributor.authorVinitski Mooney, Daniella Leah
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-04T15:14:08Z
dc.date.available2023-08-04T15:14:08Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-04
dc.date.updated2023-08-04T15:14:08Z
dc.degree.disciplineTheatre
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThe Pearl is a multidisciplinary solo performance, integrating film noir and sci-fi B film aesthetic within the conventions of meta-theatre. The driving story is autoethnographic narrative and speaks to both the mourning process and the reconstitution of self post-trauma. In 2015, Vinitski Mooney discovered a briefcase containing substantial medical and legal records pointing towards severe medical malpractice experienced by her late father on the part of his presiding physicians. This live and filmed performance is a reclamation of her father’s narrative and her dramatized existential response. As auteur, Vinitski Mooney embarks on a heightened research-creation methodology, melding the contemplative with the dramaturgical towards a final project integrating original performance, direction, dramaturgy, and writing, as well as intermedial design. To this end, dramaturgical focus included archive-led research and the friction between the live and filmed event. More specifically, Vinitski Mooney is concerned with the function of staged memory from a narrative, spatial, and kinetic lens, and how repetition and the surreal dramaturgically inform a play about mourning, loss, and dementia. The Pearl is a play about devastation and redemption, and seeks to be as equally haunting as it is provocative.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41348
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectTheater
dc.subjectPerforming arts
dc.subject.keywordsIntermediality
dc.subject.keywordsIntermedial design
dc.subject.keywordsDisability justice
dc.subject.keywordsArchival-led
dc.subject.keywordsDance-theatre
dc.subject.keywordsContemplative practice
dc.subject.keywordsMultimedia
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance art
dc.subject.keywordsInstallation
dc.subject.keywordsPoetry
dc.subject.keywordsMemory
dc.subject.keywordsDementia
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnographic documentary film
dc.subject.keywordsSomatics
dc.subject.keywordsBrecht
dc.subject.keywordsFilm Noir
dc.subject.keywordsFeminism
dc.subject.keywordsDevising
dc.subject.keywordsSolo performance
dc.subject.keywordsMetatheatre
dc.subject.keywordsContemplative dramaturgy
dc.subject.keywordsTrauma-informed practice
dc.subject.keywordsPhysical dramaturgy
dc.subject.keywordsImmersive theatre
dc.titleThe Pearl
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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