Theatre and drama education and populism : the ensemble ‘family’ as a space for dialogic empathy and civic care

This article, understanding populism as an essentially undemocratic ideology, argues that the pro‐social theatre education approach of ensemble pedagogy can offer a model of educational practice which counters these anti‐democratic rhetorics by creating a shared space for the enactment of empathetic discourse. Via an ethnography of the UK Shakespeare Schools Foundation festival project, the notion of the theatre education ensemble ‘family’ as a model of civic caring is offered as an alternative, feminist ‘care perspective’ on civic and political rhetorics, in contrast to the patriarchal ‘justice perspectives’ which facilitate the reductive anti‐democratic rhetorics of populism. Thus, this article concludes that ensemble approaches to theatre education, viewed through this feminist pedagogy lens, hold rich potential for developing learners’ capacity to resist populism and act in socially hopeful ways

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A study of antenna-to-antenna coupling prediction with fuzzy inference systems

The focus of this thesis is the study of the Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) to assist predicting the Antenna-to-Antenna coupled (AAC) electromagnetic interference (EMI) between two communication systems that are on the same frequency band on a platform such as an aircraft. --Abstract, page iii

Theater and the imagination

Director/designer Julie Taymor talks about her boundary-shattering theater work -- such as turning The Lion King into an astonishing live musical. The key? Always respect, and rely on, the audience\u27s imagination. Working in musicals, Shakespeare, film and opera, Julie Taymor is a wildly imaginative and provocative director and designer. She is perhaps best known for having translated the film The Lion King to Broadway, a still-running show for which she also designed costumes, masks and puppets, wrote music and lyrics -- and won two Tony Awards. (She is the first woman to win a Tony for directing a musical.) She\u27s also received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, as well as two Obies, an Emmy and an Oscar. Her recent stage work has focused on opera, with a production of Mozart\u27s The Magic Flute in New York in 2005, and Grendel, which she co-wrote, in Los Angeles and New York in 2006. Meanwhile, she has developed a fascinating career in the movies. Her most recent film is 2007\u27s Across the Universe, a romp through the music of the Beatles. Add this to 1999\u27s Titus, a visually remarkable adaptation of Shakespeare\u27s Titus Andronicus, and the glorious Frida, a 2002 film about Frida Kahlo. Taymor is now working on a Broadway musical in collaboration with Bono based on Marvel Studios\u27 Spider-Man