Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief on Stage

Authors

Amari RoyalFollow

Abstract

Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief in Healthy Ways seeks the answer the question of how performers act out grief on stage without jeopardizing their own mental health. This is done through the exploration of grief as an illness with research from Konstantin Stanislavski, and eventually two recitals performed based on the Five Stages of Grief. The acting recital contains scenes from The Fellowship, Everybody, Anatomy of a Suicide with musical numbers from Dear Evan Hansen, Ride the Cyclone, Heathers: The Musical, and Next to Normal.

Advisor

Noriega, Jimmy

Second Advisor

Mowrey, Peter

Department

Music; Theatre and Dance

Recommended Citation

Royal, Amari, "Grief Live!: How Performers Can Analyze, Interpret, and Perform Grief on Stage" (2023). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 10765.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/10765

Publication Date

2023

Degree Granted

Bachelor of Arts

Document Type

Senior Independent Study Thesis