This paper proposes a component-based software architecture (Theatre) hosted by Java, which enables modelling and discrete-event simulation of complex and dynamically reconfigurable systems, possibly on top of a distributed computing context. At the “programming in-the-small” level, Theatre rests on light-weight reactive components (actors or agents) which interact to one another by asynchronou...

We are investigating face, hand and body expressions to be applied to avatars of a virtual environment to improve their communication capabilities and enrich and facilitate their perception by users of the environment. We report on our work based on obtaining inspiration from the world of theatre. In this perspective Commedia dell’Arte and Noh theatre have been the focus of our attention. We ex...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perception of operation theatre educational environment using surgical theatre educational environmental measure. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi, from August 2015 to February 2016, and comprised surgical and allied trainees. The reliability of the surgical theatre educational environmental measure questionnaire ...

ENGL 302 Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Instr. R. Elliott. 10:00 MWF. After an opening glance at the Anglo-Irish comic tradition, this course will focus on plays written during and since the Irish Renaissance that flowered about 1900. We will discuss works by the major Abbey Theatre playwrights – W. B. Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Augusta Gregory, and Sean O’Casey – and link their writing...

Roberto Gerhard was a pioneer of electronic music in England creating over twenty substantial concert, theatre and radio works from as early as 1954. However, for various political, cultural and personal reasons Gerhard’s electronic music has not been published or widely disseminated. Gerhard’s electronic music is one of the richest repositories for understanding the development of the composer...

Roberto Gerhard was a pioneer of electronic music in England creating over twenty substantial concert, theatre and radio works from as early as 1954. However, for various political, cultural and personal reasons Gerhard’s electronic music has not been published or widely disseminated. Gerhard’s electronic music is one of the richest repositories for understanding the development of the composer...

This paper discusses the role and significance of a body in Performance Art. Considering that Art reflects social, cultural and sometimes political realities, we identify types of messages that an artwork using advanced technological might transmit to us, spectators or artists. This paper focusses on the Cyborg Theatre, whereby the technology is its inherent element without which the performanc...

twentieth century french theatre has strongly been affected by world wars i and ii, obviously resulting in a change of existing dramatic principles. samuel beckett well known innovator in the field of the avant-garde, probed the theatre with a naked form and far from conventional regulations and dramatic arrangements. beckett's theatre is known as the beginning of the new method in writing...

In Nigeria, the threat posed by climate change is leading policymakers and media to frame as a security that warrants support for adaptive actions. We draw upon securitization theory examine how narratives affect adaptation. Using primary secondary data, we find although arguments are easily identified in policies action plans implications of adaptation policy practice harder discern. not urgen...