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Playwriting theory has, from its beginning, been concerned with the search for the essential nature of dramatic writing. Early playwriting treatises (poetics) defined the essential aspects of drama as being the plot (creation of sequences of fictional events), the moral characte…

The concept and classification of “white trash” have historically presented disturbances to putative considerations of what it means to be white. White trash as a classification disturbs traditional conventions that have held whiteness as an unblemished, prescriptive identity. S…

What is genius and who is granted permission to wield it? /genius uses the intersection of three world-famous musical minds—Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn—to interrogate the meaning of genius, the gendered history of the word, and the fetishizing of “great intellects”. The play be…

Was Georgia O’Keeffe a nature mystic? The Flowers and Bones of Georgia O’Keeffe examines mystical philosophies prevalent during O’Keeffe’s development as an artist and their influence on her. The influence of mysticism is sought through the examination of selected flower and bon…