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Cracking Open Peanuts: Exploring Jewish Identity and the Theatre of the Holocaust in Donald Margulies's Found a Peanut

Horowitz, Joshua R
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7322-131X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438529955

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
This thesis explores Donald Margulies’s play, Found a Peanut, and takes steps to dramaturgically link it to Robert Skloot’s Theatre of the Holocaust, through both research and a staged production of the play. The paper examines Jewish Identity in modern American in theatre, specifically in the works of Donald Margulies, and unravels how Jewish playwrights insert trauma into their work. Combining together the theoretical analysis of Robert Skloot’s works, the dramaturgical research of Margulies, and the process of staging Found a Peanut at Miami University, this project is an example of how to both mount and direct a modern Jewish American play that lies in the Theatre of the Holocaust.
Lewis Magruder (Advisor)
Paul Bryant-Jackson, Dr. (Committee Member)
Mary Jane Berman, Dr. (Committee Member)
112 p.
Judaic Studies; Performing Arts; Religion; Theater; Theater Studies
Found a Peanut; Donald Margulies; Jewish Identity; Theatre of the Holocaust; Trauma Acknowledgement; Holocaust; Jewish; Theatre; Jewish American Theatre; Jewish American Playwrights

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  • Horowitz, J. R. (2015). Cracking Open Peanuts: Exploring Jewish Identity and the Theatre of the Holocaust in Donald Margulies's Found a Peanut [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438529955

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Horowitz, Joshua. Cracking Open Peanuts: Exploring Jewish Identity and the Theatre of the Holocaust in Donald Margulies's Found a Peanut. 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438529955.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Horowitz, Joshua. "Cracking Open Peanuts: Exploring Jewish Identity and the Theatre of the Holocaust in Donald Margulies's Found a Peanut." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1438529955

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