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Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre

Brandenburg, Rachel Lynn
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3611-5462
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556854180665756

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2019, Master of Arts, Miami University, Theatre.
Rituals have been used throughout history as a way to process change and emotion. In the modern day, people are beginning to turn away from organized religion and to take on more personalized rituals and spirituality. As such, identifying as a witch is a growing phenomenon that serves to empower many personally, politically, and spiritually. This creative thesis takes an autobiographical approach to explore how ritual and the identity of the witch can be used as tools of empowerment, tracing the artist’s own journey from Catholicism to a more fluid spiritual life. On February 22nd, 2019, Ceremonials: A Ritual Play opened as part of Miami University’s Independent Artist Series. The play was devised with a student ensemble over a period of five months and stands as the culmination of a series of performance projects that sought to combine ritual and theatre. This portfolio spans the breadth of that practice-based research and includes examples from performance experiments and the devising process, as well as reflections on how ritual and devised theatre can help to empower the individual and the artist.
Saffron Henke, MFA (Advisor)
Julia Guichard, MFA (Committee Member)
Christiana Molldrem Harkulich, PhD (Committee Member)
154 p.
Theater
theatre; performance; devised theatre; witch; witchcraft; ritual; religion; spirituality; feminism; collective creation; devising; devised performance; witch trials; ritual theatre; feminist spirituality; ritual performance; theater

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  • Brandenburg, R. L. (2019). Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556854180665756

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brandenburg, Rachel. Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre. 2019. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556854180665756.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brandenburg, Rachel. "Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1556854180665756

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2019, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Ceremonials: A Reclamation of the Witch Through Devised Ritual Theatre by Rachel Lynn Brandenburg is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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