School of Creative Arts: Recent submissions

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    • The globalisation of Robert Lepage : Québécois cultural politics and contemporary theatre practice 

      Fricker, Karen Paula (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2005)
      This thesis is an analysis of four productions by the quebecois theatre artist Robert Lepage, and of their reception. 1 chose these productions because they broadly cover the span of Lepage's career to date (1980s: Vinci ...

    • Landscapes, voices and corporealities of excess in the theatre of Marina Carr 

      Sihra, Melissa (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2003)
      This Ph. D. thesis concerns the plays of contemporary Irish dramatist Marina Carr from 1989-1998. In the first section of this introduction I will contextualise the background, career and plays of Marina Carr within the ...

    • Badness. Good, isn't it? A bit of badness : Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of 'Deviance' and the Irish theatrical tradition 

      Cregan, David (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2004)
      This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. ...

    • Commentary on the Portfolio of Compositions 

      CZERNIAK, ELIS (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)
      This thesis, comprised of a portfolio of compositions accompanied by media examples and commentary, traces the evolution of the author?s compositional approach in the search for a manner to present unstable sound that ...

    • The Northern revival and the Ulster literary theatre 

      Phelan, Mark (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2008)

    • Commentary on the portfolio of compositions 

      van Tonder, Cobi (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2016)
      The portfolio contains seven compositions with varying instrumentation, ranging from string quartet to computer processed voice ensemble to purely electronic forces. Fata Morgana is the largest work in the portfolio and ...

    • Commentary on the portfolio of compositions 

      Kirby, Jenn (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2016)
      The portfolio contains fourteen compositions with varying instrumentation, ranging from string quartet to laptop orchestra. Of the fourteen compositions, seven are acoustic, six are electroacoustic and one piece is for ...

    • The development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenon 

      NAESSENS, EDWARD DAVID (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)
      Comedians learn how and who to be on stage. Writing and performing stand-up comedy entails complex social and professional challenges. Facing these challenges, stand-up comedians adapt personae. Via a critical analysis of ...

    • Music in Liquid Forms: A Framework for the Creation of Reactive Music Recordings 

      HENNIGAN, KEITH (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)
      This thesis aims to research and propose a possible framework or model for the creation and dissemination of liquid music recordings, defining this term in relation to others such as reactive, generative and so on. Results ...

    • The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins: A Cultural Context 

      Conway, Tess (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2018)
      The Histories of Charles Burney and John Hawkins are examined with reference to the observation by Carl Dahlhaus (1983) and Warren Dwight Allen (1939/62) that written history reflects the culture of the age in which it is ...

    • "Impossible Speech" - Monologue Drama in Ireland from 1964 - 2016: Form and Per(form)ativity 

      BARRETT, TIM (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2018)
      The aim of this thesis is to critique a body of monologue drama by Irish playwrights during the period 1964 to 2016. Building on the recent work of Irish and international scholars on monologue drama and performance, it ...

    • From avant-garde to negentropy : an aesthetic deployment of Bernard Stiegler's genealogy of the sensible 

      O'Dwyer, Néill (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2016)
      This thesis mobilises Bernard Stiegler’s call for a genealogy of the sensible in order to elucidate a peculiar phenomenon in art, which is the increase in the autonomy and efficacy of technology in the making and production ...

    • Post-Cold War Experimental Theatre of China: Staging Globalisation and Its Resistance 

      WEI, ZHEYU (Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2017)
      This thesis is a study of Chinese experimental theatre from the year 1990 to the year 2014, to examine the involvement of Chinese theatre in the process of globalisation – the increasingly intensified relationship between ...

    • Profane love, the heartening story and sublation : the dialectical image in film 

      O'Kelly, Conor (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)
      This thesis develops an understanding of the application of Walter Benjamin’s dialectical image. Benjamin’s theory of the dialectical image is examined through the comparison of avant-garde and realist film productions and ...

    • Community filmaking in Ireland 

      Leahy, Eileen (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2014)
      This thesis explores the state of the field of knowledge and looks at the limitations of current research. It identifies what the term community means and examines its importance for cinema. It defines community film and ...

    • The drama of Oscar Wilde : contesting Victorian gender dynamics 

      Kerr, Aideen (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2014)
      This thesis will analyse Oscar Wilde’s dramatic characters and propose that he challenged the typical Victorian gender roles on the stage, and re-imagined more modern modes of masculinity and femininity in his plays. In ...

    • Dylan in cinema 

      Hodgers, Jonathan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)
      [Exerpt from the final paragraph of the summary, page vi] In broad terms, the thesis shows Dylan as highly attuned to the language and construction of film as a means of structuring songs and composing lyrics. Also ...

    • Female performances and representation in the Hollywood musical, 1929 - 1940 

      Barrett, Ciara (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Film, 2015)
      This thesis explores the evolution of female performance paradigms and representation in Hollywood musicals from 1929 to 1940. In particular, it considers how the paradigmatic representation of femininity within the musical ...

    • Debussy's forms of deception : toward a theory of implication, attraction, and tension in the Préludes 

      Shanahan, Daniel Thomas (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)
      This thesis examines the role of process in Debussy’s music through analyses of melodic implication, rhythmic projection, and harmonic attraction in the Preludes. It traces the evolution of analytical methodologies that ...

    • Compositional technique in Henry Purcell's consort music 

      Schab, Alon (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2011)
      The research question: Most of the empirical evidence regarding Purcell's compositional process has not survived. The present study will seek to extract, using internal evidence in the music itself, information regarding ...