21 research outputs found
Storegga Slide
No full textGlasgow-based author of short stories and psychological thrillers, Louise has developed a poetic statement about our shared origins and culture, accompanied by a series of words translated between Scots and European mainland languages which demonstrate that though our dialects are different we can still be understood.
Emlyn Firth will use a typographic approach to illustrate Louise’s work, playing with themes of language and communication
Emlyn Williams, author and actor
No full textEmlyn Williams turned himself into a striking likeness of Charles Dickens here for an appearance before the Fort Worth Lecture Foundation in Ed Landreth Auditorium at Texas Christian University. Williams, an author and actor, has given about 500 readings from Dickens during an American tour.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/24768/thumbnail.jp
Night Must Fall
No full textAbout the Playwright
For more than thirty years British and American theatre and motion picture audiences have seen Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor, who is also a playwright and a director. Beginning as an actor in a small part in a London stage production in 1927, Williams the next year had his first play produced, and five years later made his first screen appearance. By 1935 he was acting and directing his own plays and since then has often functioned simultaneously in these three capacities, both on the stage and on the screen. Of his twenty some plays, Night Must Fall and The Corn is Green, the latter an autobiographical account of the author\u27s early years in a Welsh mining community, are the best known to American audiences.
In May 1935, with the warm reception given to his play Night Must Fall and his performance in it, Williams\u27 reputation as both actor and playwright was firmly established. The creation of Danny, the psychopathic bellhop, had its origin in a chance attendance by Williams at the appeal trial of a murderer whose nonchalance was notorious. The play ran for a year in London and then went to New York in September 1936 where critics acclaimed the play and the actor.
Perhaps the most enthusiastic praise of Williams as an actor came from Walter Kerr, New York drama critic. Referring to Emlyn Williams\u27 solo performance of the works of Charles Dickens, Mr. Kerr said: Williams is an actor of striking range and great virtuosity as well, and the result is a combination of personal charm and adroit theatrical mimicry which rivets audience attention to him for two solid hours and which, miraculously, becomes increasingly compelling as it goes along.
-Current Biographyhttps://griffinshare.fontbonne.edu/theatre-programs/1021/thumbnail.jp
Waken into falling light: A guide to the artworks Maryhill health & care centre
No full textLeaflet giving information on the artists that are on show in the Maryhill health centre. The commissioned artists were Keiko Mukaide and Ronnie Watt, Tim Taylor, Siobhan Healy, Donny O’Rourke (poet) and Emlyn Firth (poetry graphics)
A production and production book of Emlyn Williams' Night Must Fall.
No full textThe following work is a method of approach to Emlyn Williams' play Night Must Fall. This thesis concerns the preparation, the actual work, and the final evaluation of the work and preparation that was undertaken to produce this play on the stage of Theatre I in Baylor Theater at Baylor University.
Included in this thesis is a brief biography of the playwright, critics' views of the playwright's work, a production history of the play, critics' comments about the productions of the play, the author's directorial approach to the thesis production, a character analysis of the characters in the play, the author's technical approach to the production, the prompt book used during the rehearsals, and the author's condensed journal of the tryouts and rehearsals of the play. A ground plan of the set, a construction drawing, a property plot, a rendering of the set, and outlet plan of Theatre I, a lighting schedule, a light plot, a light cue sheet, costume descriptions, costume plates, and a sound cue sheet are also included in this thesis along with publicity articles, the poster, the program, the lobby display, the review, and the photographs of the thesis production
Influence of coherence time drift on the secret key rate
No full textQuantum communication provides a plethora of new possibilities compared to the realm of classical communication. Since the channels used are noisy, losses are unavoidable, and quantum repeaters are needed to transmit a signal over longer distances to overcome these exponential losses. To increase the performance of these repeaters, cutoff times can be introduced. These cutoffs limit the amount of time a qubit can be stored in the quantum memory. Based on previous work done by Avis et al., this work analyzes how a variation in the initial coherence time, called a drift in coherence time, affects the optimal cutoff, the optimal secret key rate, and the loss in secret key rate. The main conclusions are that the greater the coherence time, the less the need for accurate cutoff times. This is due to losses in the secret key rate being inherently smaller at larger coherence times. Furthermore, the loss in secret key rate can be approximated using the derivations found in this thesis. Suggestions for further work are introduced; implementing these is beyond the scope of this thesis.Applied Physic
Prison nurseries and community-based alternatives, problematic foster care laws, and parenting programs for incarcerated fathers
No full textTitle from PDF title page (viewed on March 24, 2016).Included in appendix: excerpts from Report to the Oregon Advocacy Commissions on Gender Diversity as it relates to adults in custody in Oregon by Gary Sims.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English.Covers OCLC #945552578, OCLC #91916608
A socio-literary model for the socio-political interpretation of the seven prophetic messages in the Apocalypse of St. John : an exercise in theology done from the periphery
No full textBibliography: p. 171-181.This study is done from the periphery and designs a socio-literary model for the socio-political interpretation of the seven prophetic messages in the Apocalypse of St. John. The main function of the model is to highlight the author of Revelation's socio-political position in relation to the groups in society and the church, as well as John's socio-political aims. The secondary functions are to accentuate the groups involved within Revelation's context, their social characteristics, as well as their socio-political position in relation to one another and John's position towards them. The model attempts to show how John involves religion in the political arena as a means to influence his readers' construction of social reality. It further aims to contribute in our search into the socio-historical context and social function of Revelation. The design of the model is an endeavor to participate in the methodological debate regarding future research on Revelation. The model designed is the product of a synthesis of various socio-literary models. This study's contribution to the synthesis model is four fold. Firstly, the synthesis model is made applicable to the Apocalypse of John. Secondly, it adds to the synthesis model a primary rhetorical dimension and argues that Revelation is a piece of primary rhetoric. In primary rhetoric the rhetoric determines the literary techniques and constructions employed by the author of a text. On the basis of the work done by Collins (1979:104), this model attempts to specify the literary function of Revelation in more detail than was done before. Thirdly, this model builds on the work of Carney (1975:xvii,309)) and Elliott (1986:18f), and emphasizes the advantages of using the broadest possible socio-historical background. Fourthly, it strives to provide a scientific paradigm for studying the text from the perspective of the oppressed
India Street Part 2: Building Blocks
No full textA two week workshop based in Ahmedabad, India for designers from Scotland and India taking part in India Street: A project looking at contemporary links between the Turkey red industry in Dumbartonshire in the 19th C and craft practice in India today.
This poster is from a workshop delivered at The National Institute for Fashion and Technology in Gandhinagar discussing the project with Fashion undergraduate students
Methodological Framework to Assess the Significance of External Thermal Insulation Composite System (ETICS) on-site Activities
No full textAbstractEuropean climate strategy foresees measures to increase energy efficiency, competitiveness and the energy security of Europe by decreasing energy consumption. As buildings are responsible for 40% of the total energy consumption in the European Union, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive sets energy consumption reduction targets for the member states. The rapidly increasing market for energy efficient buildings favours External Thermal Insulation Composite System (ETICS) usage in Europe. From the consumers’ perspective the use of this façade system provides high thermal resistance and can be applied externally relatively fast with simple work methods.The façade system and each component of it need to meet specific technical performance criteria. The on-site construction process has the ability to modify technical performances with minor actions like mixing time, kneading water, insulation fixation, weather conditions, material moisture level and curing time. Minor deviations during construction can cause a variety of adverse consequences which lead to deterioration and reduced energy efficiency. The current paper proposes a methodology to rank the on-site degradation factors and provide a risk priority number. Based on the technical requirements set for building products, the significance of the collected degradation factors can be ranked by experts and the results ranked using a modified form of Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA). The methodology provides a significance assessment tool to identify degradation factors in the construction phase
