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Item American national identity, the “other,” and the Little Theatre Movement.(2017-04-03) Denman, Merritt, 1991-; Beard, DeAnna M. Toten (DeAnna Michelle), 1969-The Little Theatre Movement began in the early twentieth century as an effort to create theatre which was inventive, well-made, and uniquely American at a time when American theatre had yet to be established. While the movement was beneficial to the trajectory of American theatre, its attempt at forging national identity led little theatre practitioners to define themselves using exclusivist ideology. They came to define Americans as an “in” group of upper-middle class white people versus an “out” group composed of everyone else. Using original research this project will explore the rhetoric and practices of the Little Theatre Movement with relation to “outsiders” by examining two genres which were popular in little theatres across America: Orientalist and Folk plays. This analysis will demonstrate that the movement, while beneficial in establishing the American Theatre, was guilty of reinforcing exclusivist notions in the process.Item A Storied Present(2013-05-24) Denman, Merritt, 1991-; Jortner, Maura; University Scholars.; Baylor University.; Honors College.This project sets out to explore the form and function of storytelling as it applies to the sociological, emotional, and spiritual aspects of human life. The first portion of the project is a preface to the project itself while the bulk of the project is a play. The preface explores the works that inspired the play, namely Jane Austen’s Emma and Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play along with others, and the ways in which they engage the subject of story. The play itself follows a young woman whose tendency to confuse the conventions of story and plot with reality causes her to come in conflict with some of the decisions that she must make.