Health Awareness Drama by the Mavumbo Youth Group, Mongu Western Zambia, the Trickle Out Project

Video from fieldwork research in Zambia

"Variations on Psycho Killer" - Musical Score. Commissioned by Pauline Kim Harris. A virtuosic set of variations on the famous Talking Heads song for solo violin. General information State: Unpublished Organisations: School of Creative Arts, Sonic Arts, UOA35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts Authors: Lyon, E. Keywords: (Talking Heads, Violin Music) Publication date: 2012

Musical Score. Commissioned by Pauline Kim Harris. A virtuosic set of variations on the famous Talking Heads song for solo violin.

"The End" for piano and computer. Performed by Shiau-uen Ding. Composer's Voice Concert Series: 15 Minutes of Fame. Jan Hus Church, NYC. General information State: Published Organisations: School of Creative Arts, Sonic Arts, UOA35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts Authors: Lyon, E.

Performed by Shiau-uen Ding. Composer's Voice Concert Series: 15 Minutes of Fame. Jan Hus Church, NYC.

“If I Were Nick”: Men’s Responses to an Interactive Video Drama Series to Support Smoking Cessation

Background: Men continue to smoke in greater numbers than women; however, few interventions have been developed and tested to support men’s cessation. Men also tend to rely on quitting strategies associated with stereotypical manliness, such as willpower, stoicism and independence, but may lack the self‐efficacy skills required to sustain a quit. In this article we describe the development of and reception to an interactive video drama (IVD) series, composed of 7 brief scenarios, to support and strengthen men’s smoking cessation efforts. The value of IVD in health promotion is predicated on the evidence that viewers engage with the material when they are presented characters with whom they can personally identify. The video dramatizes the challenges unfolding in the life of the main character, Nick, on the first day of his quit and models the skills necessary to embark upon a sustainable quit. 
Objective: The objective was to describe men’s responses to the If I were Nick IVD series as part of a pilot study of QuitNow MenTM, an innovative smoking cessation website designed for men. Specific objectives were to explore the resonance of the main character of the IVD series with end‐users, and men’s perceptions of the effectiveness of the IVD series for supporting their quit self‐management. 
Methods: Seven brief IVD scenarios were developed, filmed with a professional actor and uploaded to a new online smoking cessation website, QuitNow MenTM.  A sample of 117 men who smoked were recruited into the study and provided baseline data prior to access to the QuitNow MenTM website for a 6 month period. During this time, 47 men chose to view the IVDs. Their responses to questions about the IVDs were collected in 3‐month and 6‐month online follow‐up surveys and analyzed using descriptive statistics. 
Findings: The majority of participants indicated they related to the main character, Nick. Participants who “strongly agreed” they could relate to Nick perceived significantly higher levels of support from the IVDs than the “neutral” and “disagree” groups (P <.001, d =2.0, P <.001 d =3.1). The “agree” and “neutral” groups were significantly higher on rated support from the videos than the “disagree” (P <.001 d =2.2, P =.01 d = 1.5). Participants’ perception of the main character was independent of participant age, education attainment or previous quit attempts. 
Conclusions: The findings suggest that IVD interventions may be an important addition to men’s smoking cessation programs. Given that the use of IVD scenarios in health promotion is in its infancy, the positive outcomes from this pilot study signal the potential for IVD and warrant ongoing evaluation in smoking cessation and, more generally, men’s health promotion.  

Percursos do mito de Helena: da literatura grega ao drama de Hélia Correia, O rancor

O mito de Helena de Tróia, alicerçado em referências dispersas em vários testemunhos clássicos, continuou a exercer um poderoso fascínio criativo ao longo dos tempos. Em O Rancor, Hélia Correia retextualiza o mito da rainha de Esparta, baseando-se nas múltiplas imagens que dela a tradição clássica veiculou, mas apresentando-a a uma luz profundamente humana. Neste trabalho, partindo dos elementos constantes do retrato de Helena de Tróia nos diferentes autores clássicos, analisa-se o modo como o percurso da personagem é revisitado no drama de Hélia Correia.

O burlesco e o satírico na obra de Marcial e Juvenal

A presente dissertação assenta na análise comparativa da obra de Marcial e Juvenal e tem como principais objectivos evidenciar a natureza burlesca e satírica que lhes assiste, assim como a (a)temporalidade e o alcance pedagógico-didáctico que as suas palavras comportam. Neste sentido, a análise tomou como matéria a abordagem que ambos fazem de temáticas comuns, no âmbito da representação da sociedade imperial do século I d.C. O trabalho divide-se em duas partes: I. Contexto e Condicionalismos; II. A vida quotidiana em Roma. A primeira subdividida em dois capítulos: 1. O espírito burlesco e o espírito satírico; 2. Apologia pro opere suo, e a segunda em quatro: 3. Modus vivendi Romani: prazeres e distracções em Roma; 4. (A)masculinidade Romana; 5. A condição feminina e o seu lugar em Roma; 6. Clientelismo e patronato sob o olhar de Marcial e Juvenal. Depois de uma contextualização dos termos burlesco e satírico, fundamentalmente alicerçada no primitivo espírito romano, procedeu-se à abordagem dos condicionalismos culturais, sócio-políticos e bibliográficos que melhor contribuem para a compreensão das principais diferenças/semelhanças entre a natureza, as intenções, as estratégias discursivas e a projecção das obras em causa. Na segunda parte, a análise comparativa da representação que os autores fazem da vida quotidiana em Roma focou essencialmente quatro aspectos, abordados em capítulos distintos, conforme supra-enunciado: no primeiro, a visão global que os autores projectam de Roma, através da representação dos principais divertimentos e distracções que ocupam e agradam aos Romanos; no segundo, a moralidade/falsidade que assiste aos comportamentos masculinos; no terceiro, a invectiva à mulher e ao lugar que esta ocupa nas relações sociais, afectivas e sexuais; no quarto, a instituição patronatoclientelismo e os valores sociais e morais que a revestem. A partir desta análise atestam-se as afinidades e o alcance de um fim semelhante nas obras de Marcial e Juvenal, não obstante a natureza e as diferenças estruturais que lhes assistem. Desta dissertação constam também uma Introdução e uma Conclusão, uma Bibliografia, bem como um Índice geral e um Index auctorum et locorum latinorum.

A Morgadinha de Valflor: a esperança de um sonho. Para uma leitura comparativa do drama de Pinheiro Chagas

Dissertação mest., Literatura, Universidade do Algarve, 2006

Um drama da crítica: Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater e Matthew Arnold, lidos por Fernando Pessoa

Tese de doutoramento, Estudos da Literatura e da Cultura (Teoria da Literatura), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2014

Somewhere near reality: artistic portrayal of violence in post WWII British realistic drama

ABSTRACT - I will explore and present the portrayal of violence in some British plays that were staged between 1951 and 1965, in order to discuss the role, impact and aim of its representation. Thus, I will consider John Whiting’s Saint’s Day (1951), Ann Jelicoe’s The Sport of my Mad Mother (1956), Arnold Wesker (Chicken Soup with Barley (1958), Harold Pinter’s Birthday Party (1958), David Rudkin’s Afore Night Come (1962) and Edward Bond’s Saved (1965). My aim is to discuss the way how theatre in the post WWII changed the traditional ways of representing violence. On one hand, violence and reality became more and more familiar and domestic, permitting a representation of multiple and non-agonic violence; and, on the other hand, the violence that was depicted often changed the way one perceived reality itself, being part of a socially engaged artistic attitude.