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Our Town: An Exploration by an Iranian Theater Director of an American Classic Play
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Abstract
This thesis details my creative process as I directed Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2024-2025 season. I describe my overall concept, initial text analysis, design ideas, highlights of staging specific moments, and highlights of working.
This includes a summary of my journey in theater from Iran to the US, and explains different aspects of my vision, work, and ideas as an Iranian director and how I could practically work on Our Town, a classic American play influenced by Eastern and unconventional theater. I tried to compare my directing experience in the US with what I previously experienced in Iran and briefly explain the differences.
Key words: Theater Directing, Iranian Theater, Our Town, Eastern Theater, American Classic
Type
Thesis (Open Access)
Date
2025-05
Publisher
Degree
License
Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
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AlibakhshiThesis2025.pdf
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