Armstrong, EricVinitski Mooney, Daniella Leah2023-08-042023-08-042023-08-04https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41348The 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.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.TheaterPerforming artsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2023-08-04IntermedialityIntermedial designDisability justiceArchival-ledDance-theatreContemplative practiceMultimediaPerformance artInstallationPoetryMemoryDementiaAutoethnographyAutoethnographic documentary filmSomaticsBrechtFilm NoirFeminismDevisingSolo performanceMetatheatreContemplative dramaturgyTrauma-informed practicePhysical dramaturgyImmersive theatre