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The impacts of forum theatre in social work practice: A scoping review
David Puvaneyshwaran and others
The British Journal of Social Work, bcaf055, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaf055
Published: 23 March 2025
... the populations and applications of Forum Theatre in various social work contexts. Data analysis was conducted using Braun and Clarke’s (2006) six-phase thematic analysis framework, involving processes such as creating preliminary codes, identifying and naming themes, and presenting the findings...
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A new perspective on opera’s ‘critical decade’ in London
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Thomas McGeary
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Early Music
Early Music, caaf003, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caaf003
Published: 21 March 2025
... of the early operas, including Thomas Clayton’s Arsinoe (1705), Clayton and Joseph Addison’s Rosamond (1707) and the unproduced Semele by William Congreve and John Eccles. opera theatre music recitative aria Haymarket Theatre Thomas Clayton William Congreve John Eccles...
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Remaking Thucydides
Neville Morley
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, qbad020, https://doi.org/10.1093/bics/qbad020
Published: 20 February 2025
... Anne Carson Joseph Heller theatre Thucydides famously expressed the hope that his work would be a ‘possession for all time’ on the basis of its usefulness for those who want to understand present and future events. This idea has been understood in many different, and indeed contradictory, ways over...
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In a Nutshell, or transforming childness through music across media: Maurice Sendak’s Nutshell Library and all the Really Rosies
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Gretchen Papazian
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 17, Issue 3, December 2024, Pages 414–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apae023
Published: 22 October 2024
... Sendak music adaptation childness childly agency literacy children’s literature children’s television children’s theatre Well-known for both his interest in music and his innovations in children’s literature, 1 Maurice Sendak made a leap from page to screen in 1975 when...
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Ancient classical theatre from the digital humanities: a systematic review 2010–21
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Roxana Beatriz Martínez Nieto and Monika Dabrowska
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 39, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 936–953, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqae033
Published: 28 June 2024
... perspectives on ancient classical theatre. The undeniable progress in the field of computational analysis in the service of traditional textual interpretation is helping to study in greater depth and to interpret in greater detail the classical linguistic corpora that have come down to us through...
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New horizon in improving ageing with improvisational theatre
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Shoshi Keisari and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 53, Issue 5, May 2024, afae087, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae087
Published: 05 May 2024
... in older adults’ well-being. Collaboration among improv theatre facilitators, clinicians, and scientists enhances potential for wide-scale well-being improvement. Improv has been applied in multiple contexts, including education, healthcare and business settings [ 50 , 51 ]. As aforementioned...
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Women’s knowledge and musical form: adapting historical identities in Martin Guerre
Sally Barnden
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2024, Pages 115–124, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad035
Published: 27 November 2023
... distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This essay assesses the afterlives in film, theatre...
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Adaptation as Emancipation in Edward Albee’s Lolita
Martin Holtz
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 16, Issue 3, December 2023, Pages 330–348, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad022
Published: 26 July 2023
... to show empathy. In the interplay of Humbert, Lolita, and ACG, the play stages an emancipatory dialogue between artist and creation, using the presentational character of (epic) theatre to level diegetic hierarchies. Just as Lolita emancipates itself from Nabokov in the act of adaptation, so...
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‘Gregor, are you Unstable? Check your Bandwidth…’: Adapting Kafka for Zoom in Hijinx Theatre’s Metamorphosis
Benjamin Broadribb
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 16, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 150–165, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apad003
Published: 08 April 2023
..., and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract First performed live via Zoom in August 2020, Hijinx Theatre’s Metamorphosis was overtly tied to the cultural moment of the COVID-19 pandemic, offering a sense of shifting between perspectives on reality in its...
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Friar Lawrence’s Confessional: Shakespeare through the lens of a webcam
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Emma Paton
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 16, Issue 2, August 2023, Pages 251–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apac021
Published: 23 February 2023
...Emma Paton Email: [email protected] Friar Lawrence’s Confessional. By Nicholas Osmond. Dir. Nicholas Osmond. Creation Theatre. Zoom. 9 April, 2022 © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions...
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Trans*versal Afterlives of Comedy: The Queer Arab Plays of Raphaël Amahl Khouri
Alberto Fernández-Carbajal
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 391–405, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac052
Published: 20 October 2022
... Where I Go and She He Me, two plays by Raphaël Amahl Khouri, a contemporary queer and trans playwright of Arab and German heritage. After charting the histories of comedy and Arab theatre, it examines the dialogue of the two plays with Greco-Roman, Arab and German avant-garde theatre...
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Comedy, Misrule and the Irish Revival
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Seán Hewitt
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 361–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac041
Published: 10 October 2022
... for comparison, demonstrating how various forms of comedy were received by Dublin audiences during the Revival, and illustrating the ways in which comedy produced, and unsettled, political myths in the context of the nascent Irish theatre. Attending to plays by J. M. Synge and Lady Gregory, alongside...
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Analysing behavioural outcome effectiveness in a musical theatre-based HIV/AIDS intervention among South African farm workers
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Gavin Robert Walker
Health Promotion International, Volume 37, Issue 5, October 2022, daac146, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac146
Published: 06 October 2022
... In 2005, an applied theatre community outreach programme was launched to address low levels of HIV/AIDS awareness among farm workers in the Cape Winelands of South Africa. In cooperation with HIV testing organizations, the Lucky, the Hero mini-musical promoted regular HIV testing, condom...
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Meta-Theatrical Comedy: Pirandello’s Existential Humour and the Italian Avant-Garde
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Michael Subialka
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 374–390, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac050
Published: 30 September 2022
...Michael Subialka Edward Gordon Craig Luigi Pirandello Futurism modernist theatre teatro grottesco ambivalence compassion decentring Modernism’s aesthetic reflection on crisis destabilizes traditional forms, and as many critics have noted this includes traditional notions...
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Francesco Ballerini’s opera licence for Vienna
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Szymon Paczkowski
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Early Music
Early Music, Volume 50, Issue 2, May 2022, Pages 199–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/caac040
Published: 28 September 2022
...Szymon Paczkowski There is much to indicate that Ballerini’s licence was granted in the first half of 1710. Joseph I had envisaged that the city authorities would finance and build a new building for the Italian opera theatre according to a design to be provided by the court, and further...
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Translocating Humour to Seventeenth-Century England: The Comic Afterlife of Spanish Drama
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Jorge Braga Riera
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 329–344, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac036
Published: 29 August 2022
... plays proves that the latter follow the original storyline and the plot circumstances that had been designed to make the spectator laugh. Furthermore, theatre employs non-verbal comic mechanisms that are not always made explicit in the text. This is easily observable in Spanish Golden Age playwrights...
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After Molière (1673–1689)
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Jan Clarke
Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 58, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 297–311, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac037
Published: 29 August 2022
... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Molière was, above all, a man of the theatre: an actor and administrator as well his company’s...
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Iris Murdoch and the Immoralities of Adaptation
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Graham Wolfe
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Adaptation
Adaptation, Volume 15, Issue 3, December 2022, Pages 439–455, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apac011
Published: 23 July 2022
... be. At least, Murdoch’s adaptations may reveal a willingness to dispense with lofty moral premises when she suspects a pound can be made. 3 Abstract Author of twenty-six novels between 1954 and 1995, Iris Murdoch ventured sporadically into theatre, completing two plays and adapting four of her...
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‘Theatre, Revolution and Love’: Moral–aesthetic education in Asja Lācis' proletarian children's theatre
Katja Frimberger
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2022, Pages 329–341, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.12663
Published: 15 June 2022
...' children's theatre can be indeed said to provide a high-quality (poly-technical/artistic) education for the children, their performances are not the final aim and culmination of the theatre's collective-creative activities. They ‘come about incidentally, as an oversight, almost as a children's prank...
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Theatre and professional training: The Trame method
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Tiziana Tesauro
The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 52, Issue 8, December 2022, Pages 5009–5026, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcac099
Published: 03 June 2022
... is a method capable of developing self-awareness, reflexivity and interpretative ability of one’s professional plot and one’s role identity. It was born in a unique way from the meeting of the writer with Francesco Campanile, director and theatre trainer. It was in fact the fortuitous encounter...
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