Lighting Fire Under the Stereotype: The Art of Portraying Women in Drama
Description
Female social stereotypes paralyze female actors when approaching roles in theatre. This thesis discusses some of the social stereotypes I have encountered in theatre and how I have chosen to orient myself through those stereotypes. Combined with a 45 minute performance, I took iconic female roles that embody stereotypes such as, the girl-next-door, the mother, the ugly girl, the naïve virgin, and the tomboy, and tried to approach them through the given circumstances and not the stereotypes. The result ended in a powerful, vulnerable presentation that ignited the human truths under each stereotype. In order to create insightful, empowering female characters, actors must look at the given circumstances for the subtextual truths.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2014-05
Agent
- Author (aut): Sawyer, Sarah Elyse
- Thesis director: Yatso, Toby
- Committee member: Eckard, Bonnie
- Committee member: Moe, Elaine "E. E."
- Contributor (ctb): Barrett, The Honors College
- Contributor (ctb): School of Music
- Contributor (ctb): School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies