Dramaturgy For Digital Natives Blum, Justin A
Theatre research in Canada,
03/2018, Letnik:
39, Številka:
1
Journal Article
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Many of the discussions with my fellow contributors to this Forum aptly identify ways in which liberal arts education in general, and theatre and drama curricula within the liberal arts in ...particular, are already providing university undergraduates with skills they will need for successful lives and careers in the twenty-first century. I’m more than happy to embrace the idea that our programs and departments should be better recognized by administrators and the public for the things we already do well. I would nevertheless advocate at least one important curricular reform that might be made to many of our programs in drama and theatre studies: dramaturgy, in the many places where it is not already the case, should be made part of the core of any university education in theatre and drama. Making this practice as integral to our curricula as courses in acting, directing, or design will not only help to prepare our students for the professional careers in the theatre that a small number of them will have, but will also provide invaluable skills for navigating a culture in which information technologies have left us all on the precipice of fundamental shifts in how we work, live, and come together to create political communities.
The killings I conspired to instigate were theatrically enacted fictions presented to the public on three consecutive evenings (30 October-1 November) as part of a cabaret of performances sponsored ...by the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (hereafter Drama Centre) at the University of Toronto.1 Billed as the "Hallowe'en Vaudevilles," the program distributed to audience members described the mixed bill as an opportunity for PhD students writing dissertations on nineteenth-century theatrical topics "to explore their own academic research in performance practice." A number of North American publications, including the special issue you are now reading, have explored new directions in university research and pedagogy that fully invest in the generation and transmission of knowledge through kinesthetic performance by combining academic and historical rigor with a genuine engagement with performance practice. While "stage managers" might have performed some directorial functions, often at the behest of star performers and actor-managers, most actors relied upon their intimate familiarity with the dramatic types they were accustomed to playing as the starting place for creating a performance. Since only two workshops and the four-week process of rehearsal that we had to work with would hardly enable our actors to internalize the process of playing, say, a juvenile male lead or heavy villain, I set myself up as an aesthetic coach and visual consultant, while at the same time working hard not to lapse into either the vocabulary or practices of contemporary theatre directing. In what must be regarded as an oversight, neither I nor any of the other project originators involved in the show thought to attempt to formally survey the audience, although after three consecutive sellouts in a venue arranged with cabaret seating for around a hundred people there were ample opportunities for informal discussions and post-show meetings in which members of the company were free to voice their own reactions and those shared with them by friends and family members.
Ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) are the most abundant cellular RNAs, and their synthesis from rDNA repeats by RNA polymerase I accounts for the bulk of all transcription. Despite substantial variation in rRNA ...transcription rates across cell types, little is known about cell-type-specific factors that bind rDNA and regulate rRNA transcription to meet tissue-specific needs. Using hematopoiesis as a model system, we mapped about 2,200 ChIP-seq datasets for 250 transcription factors (TFs) and chromatin proteins to human and mouse rDNA and identified robust binding of multiple TF families to canonical TF motifs on rDNA. Using a 47S-FISH-Flow assay developed for nascent rRNA quantification, we demonstrated that targeted degradation of C/EBP alpha (CEBPA), a critical hematopoietic TF with conserved rDNA binding, caused rapid reduction in rRNA transcription due to reduced RNA Pol I occupancy. Our work identifies numerous potential rRNA regulators and provides a template for dissection of TF roles in rRNA transcription.
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•Multiple cell-type-specific TFs bind canonical motifs on rDNA•The hematopoietic TF CEBPA binds to active rDNA alleles at a conserved site•CEBPA promotes RNA Pol I occupancy and rRNA transcription in myeloid progenitors•We present “47S-FISH-Flow,” a sensitive assay to quantify nascent rRNA
Antony et al. mapped existing ChIP-seq datasets to human and mouse rDNA and identified binding profiles of cell-type-specific transcription factors (TFs). The myeloid TF CEBPA bound rDNA at a conserved motif, and its degradation reduced rDNA occupancy of the RNA Pol I-RRN3 complex and nascent 47S rRNA transcription.
Despite his ambitions to be considered among the greatest actors in the world, Richard Mansfield only appeared as a starring performer outside of North America in one tour. Drawing on Pascale ...Casanova's notion of the “world republic of literature”, this paper analyses his London residency of 1888–89 and its financial and critical failure, characterising these as evidence of a transatlantic cultural system by which late-Victorian acting was accorded aesthetic value based on the judgment of professional critics in metropolitan centres like London. Mansfield's choices of repertoire are seen as part of his conscious desire to emulate, and compete with, Henry Irving, then the English world's most prominent actor. Ultimately, failure in London made Mansfield, a British citizen by birth, choose to embrace an identity as a distinctly American actor-manager.
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