Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Galick, Alexander Stephen
Author's Email Address	agalick@gmail.com
URN	etd-04152011-172158
Title	Torture and Fear as Tools for Maintaining Power in THE GERMOPHOBE: A Thesis on Creating a One-Man Show From the Author-Actor Himself
Degree	Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
Department	Theatre
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Battles, Joanna Committee Member Erickson, Nick Committee Member Judy, George Committee Member
Keywords	tyrannical dictator one man performance convert prose to verse prose into verse abuse of power anthropomorphized household objects Triptocles and entropy script contemporary iambic pentameter creative process Slavoj Zizek germaphobe anthropomorphise verse fantasy George Judy traverse the fantasy You are nothing like the milk before you sonnets on stage reality verses fantasy recorded performance recorded improvisation
Date of Defense	2011-04-13
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The project was to create a 20-45 minute one-man show and stage it. This thesis describes the process of creation and documents the project’s multiple permutations from the search for a topic and setting parameters, to research, initial improvisation experiments, to a growing and reorganizing text, to the conversion into verse to the final script, the performance, and planned future development. The resulting show is about a man whose irrational fear of germs has ballooned out into an irrational fear of the outside world, fear of being infected, and affected by foreign things and ideas. This fear drives him to maintain strict control over his imagined world populated by household items whom he interacts with as if they were living, breathing, speaking human beings. He resorts to torture in order to extract information from unruly subjects, but this time he makes a mistake (in torturing a tin can), and tortures the wrong subject to death. This begins a rift, between him and his trusted advisor (a bottle of hand sanitizer called Phil) that threatens to destroy his entire fantasy world. The full title is The Germophobe Or The fantastical journey of Edward G. Braithwaight III As leader of human kind’s last hope for victory over The subversive tactics of botulism (and their microscopic allies) to overturn the world order and deny us all the rights of Life, liberty and the pursuit of cheese
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