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THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA?: A PERFORMANCE AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY

Midence Diaz, Luis Fernando
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1179850855

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2007, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
The Goat or, who is Sylvia? is a character-driven story about an architect whose life crumbles when he falls in love with a goat. The actual focus of the piece lies on where the boundaries of “love” within an allegedly “liberal” society are, and how incommunicable such inclinations are. The play also features many language games and grammatical arguments in the middle of catastrophes and existential disputes between the characters. As director of the play my production concept integrates two particular fields of my interest and knowledge: theatre and television production. The idea is to bring Albee’s absurdist story one step further by combining the live theatre experience with the live television element. Besides a dramaturgical analysis of Albee’s play, this thesis further investigates the influence of the classic Greek tradition of tragedy as well as a possible link between Albee’s tragic comedy and Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, while also incorporating Bertolt Brecht’s theories on Epic Theatre into the analysis and actual performance.
Roger Bechtel (Advisor)
47 p.
Theater
Albee; GOAT; Stevie; Brecht; SYLVIA; audience; tragedy

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  • Midence Diaz, L. F. (2007). THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA?: A PERFORMANCE AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1179850855

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Midence Diaz, Luis. THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA?: A PERFORMANCE AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY. 2007. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1179850855.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Midence Diaz, Luis. "THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA?: A PERFORMANCE AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1179850855

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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