Theaimofmyessayistofindoutifpoliticaltheatreinsomewayaffectstheopinionsandvaluesofhighschoolstudents.IthereforeconductedapublicsurveyatHagateaterninGöteborgduringAutumn2014,aimedatthepoliticalperformance??mensendå??,performedbytheTeaterKurageensemble.Thesurveywasconducedinthreesteps;thefirstandsecondstepsbyobservingthestudents?reactionsbothduringandaftertheperformance,andthenduringapoliticalseminarwithyoungpoliticians.Thethirdandfinalstepinvolvedaquestionnairewithquestionsconcerningpoliticsandtheatrewhichthestudentscompleted.Ihaveappliedanintersectionalperspectiveasapointofdeparture/startingpointandthusinvestigatedthedifferencesbetweenthestudents'answersdependingontheirgender,ageandresidentialarea.Iwantedtofindouttoinwhichwaytheywereaffectedbythesefactors.Theresultsofmyinvestigationprovedthatoldhabitsandstructuresregardinggenderandsocialclassesstillpersistsasanorm.Inanycase,myresultshaveshownthatthestudentswere,ingeneral,affectedbytheperformanceatHagateatern..

The essay is an analysis of the theatrical and dramatic aspects to a playtext. Based on the production and manuscript Rhubarb by Maria Blom.With the essay I intend to answer the following questions: What happens to the manuscript Rhubarb during the transformation from being a dramatic text to becoming a theatrical text? What are the similarities and differences between reading a manuscript and watching the performance of a play?The essay is based on literature, two interviews with Maria Blom and the manuscript to Rhubarb by Maria Blom. Besides two versions of the script I also had the opportunity to watch videotaped material from the original production. And I compared the original cast of Rhubarb with twoamateurproductions of the play..

This research looks into the modern revival of opera based on the study of two recent productions of Giuseppe Verdi?s Don Carlo; the first is the 2010 production at the Gothenburg Opera in Gothenburg, Sweden and the second is the 2013 production at Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Austria. The goal is to discover what aspects a contemporary audience can relate to and identify with and why opera is still relevant today. This has been done partly through a semiotic analysis of the visual image (e.g. set, costume and lightning) and partly through a hermeneutical analysis of the themes in Don Carlo.

La Busta/Konvolutten/The envelope was written in 2006 by the Italian playwright, director and actor Spiro Scimone. It is a contemporary political farce with clear roots and inspiration from Commedia dell´arte. As the main structure for this essay, comparisons have been made between a modern Danish production of Konvolutten by the director Simon K. Boberg and the form and structure of Commedia dell´arte. The importance and use of the political context in both Commedia dell´arte and Konvolutten are explored.The sociopolitical conditions under which Husets Teater (The House´s Theatre) works is analyzed.

What is it that makes an audience love a character? Through comparative analysis and anevolutionary perspective, I have examined the relationship between the viewer ? the human ?and three popular characters: Shakespeare?s Bottom and Puck from A Midsummer Night?sDream and Dag-Otto Flink, the most popular character from Vallarnas friluftsteater inFalkenberg, Sweden. In what way do they attract us? Why do they attract us? The aim of thecomparative analysis between the characters was to reveal enough similarities for defining allthree as the same character type: the fool. One of the most important similarities for theevolutionary discussion was that especially Dag-Otto and Bottom are consistently themselves.Furthermore, the Darwinian perspective, especially with theories of Daniel Nettle, indicatesthat there are several factors that come into play for successive fiction.

This essay analyzes the production process in connection with the original play Utopia 2012, which premiered at Backa Theatre, Gothenburg, Sweden on 27 October 2012.The aim of the essay is to seek a deeper understanding of this particular production process. No universal process plan was employed when creating Utopia 2012. Therefore, taking into account artistic, technical and administrative aspects of the work, a chronological process map has also been constructed in connection with this essay, in order to clarify each step of the theatrical working process.The theoretical approach is hermeneutic, and the material is based on interviews with key individuals with different professions and functions within the working process in order to gain multifaceted perspectives and results. The interviews took place at Backa Theatre with the exception of those held by telephone with the project?s two producers, both of whom by that time no longer worked at Backa Theatre.The findings of the essay mostly indicate that, with the significant exception of director Mattias Andersson?s artistic vision, no fixed process map nor explicitly articulated common goals were employed in this particular theatre production.

Mitt syfte med examensarbetet var att undersöka och diskutera hur elever i en årskurs 7 ?gör genus? då de fårläsa och diskutera den skönlitterära texten ?DU! Hitta rytmen? av Daniel Möller (2004) där huvudkaraktärenskön aldrig avslöjas. Dels var jag intresserad av att ta reda på hur eleverna enskilt i samband med läsningenkonstruerade huvudpersonens genus, dels ville jag klarlägga vilka argument eleverna använde i ettlitteratursamtal för att förklara hur de skapade genus under läsningen av texten. Undersökningen är kvalitativ ochmitt empiriska material bestod av de deltagande elevernas loggboksanteckningar och mina anteckningar frånlitteratursamtalen. Resultatet av undersökningen visade att elevernas argument för att konstruera huvudpersonensgenus kunde härledas till sju kategorier.

Mitt syfte med examensarbetet var att undersöka och diskutera hur elever i en årskurs 7 ?gör genus? då de fårläsa och diskutera den skönlitterära texten ?DU! Hitta rytmen? av Daniel Möller (2004) där huvudkaraktärenskön aldrig avslöjas. Dels var jag intresserad av att ta reda på hur eleverna enskilt i samband med läsningenkonstruerade huvudpersonens genus, dels ville jag klarlägga vilka argument eleverna använde i ettlitteratursamtal för att förklara hur de skapade genus under läsningen av texten. Undersökningen är kvalitativ ochmitt empiriska material bestod av de deltagande elevernas loggboksanteckningar och mina anteckningar frånlitteratursamtalen. Resultatet av undersökningen visade att elevernas argument för att konstruera huvudpersonensgenus kunde härledas till sju kategorier.

Att använda sig av devising som arbetsmetod för att i repetitionsprocessen arbeta fram en färdig föreställning blir allt vanligare på Göteborgs scener, på institutionsteatrar såväl som i fria teatergrupper. Att devising idag används i långt större utsträckning i Sverige än vad som tidigare varit fallet, väcker frågor om metodens relevans i samtiden. Syftet med denna uppsats är att granska kopplingen mellan användningen av devising och postmodernismen. Detta utforskas med hjälp av intervjuer med flertalet Göteborgsverksamma teaterarbetare samt tidigare forskning kring begreppen devising och postmodernism. I uppsatsen undersöks devisingproduktioners utgångspunkter, arbetsstrukturer- och hierarkier, arbetsmetoder och arbetet med karaktärer i analysen.