4th Wall Dramaturgy
Where student dramaturgs invite you to explore the world of a play, to go behind the scenes, and to learn more.
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Dance Dramaturgy Collaborations
Dramaturgs in BYU Theatre often collaborate with artists and choreographers in BYU Dance. Learn more about those projects below.
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Recent Articles
See the most recent articles written by dramaturgs for the BYU Theatre Season
Nurturing Seeds and Ourselves
Ever since the beginning of the rehearsal process, director Kris Peterson really wanted the cast to get their hands in the dirt. Like the events of the musical, the earth has a power to connect us to each other, and she recognized that. One way that Charlotte and I thought to do this was to provide a small number of seeds to each cast member and invite them to grow their own plants over the summer. This was also a way to encourage the cast members to stay mentally connected to the show even when they were physically distant from the rehearsal space.
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Our Own Secret Garden
The power of healing and growth is a topic not unknown to students at BYU. Educators and learners alike were asked to stretch their capacity to hold both powers in one hand as they were transplanted from their on-campus home in the Harris Fine Arts Center, to the new West Campus building, formerly known as the old Provo High School. The college of fine arts and communication, which includes Theatre, Media, film, Art, and Design departments, had to establish new communities, while major construction projects prevented them from being as close to the rest of campus as they might like to be.
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Waiting to Develop Wait Until Dark
The BYU Department of Theatre & Media Arts provides students with opportunities to gain hands-on experience in technical theatre by assigning them as lead designers for main stage productions. Wait Until Dark is a unique and thrilling experience to create the design for ultra realism on stage.
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I-Spy Scavenger Hunt
Wait Until Dark is full of action and heightened reality. In our dramaturgy guide within the show program, we asked audience members to locate a select few handheld props and set pieces. These items that are utilized to help Susy, the main character who is blind, overcome her tormentors.
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Behind the Scenes of Adapting Swan Lake
With a show as universal as Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Ballet, one would think that there wouldn’t be many unknowns to staging a production. However, director Ashley Parov had a vision to make this classic ballet more accessible to ballerinas of all ages. Instead of producing a typical 3-hour-long ballet, Ashley imagined an hour-long family-friendly piece. How then, do you fill in the gaps of the story?
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FOURTH WALL Noun: 1. The space that separates a performer or performance from an audience. 2. The conceptual barrier between any fictional work and its viewers or readers.
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