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Peter Harris
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Thu Oct 19 12:20:00 EDT 1995
WHY THEATRE: CHOICES FOR THE NEW CENTURY
Monday October 30
9 pm Waterfront Wasteland, Medea Material, Landscape with Argonauts
by Heiner Muller; dir. by Stephan Suschke. On CBC Radio (740 AM)
Tuesday October 31
12-6 pm Registration in East Hall, University College
3-5 pm Welcoming Reception. University College Union
7:00 Gala Opening Performance of Hedda Gabler by
the Berliner Schaubuhne
MacMillan Theatre, Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music
10 pm Reception for all Gala Ticket Holders.
Falconer Hall, University of Toronto
Wednesday November 1
8:30-12:30 Late Registration, Hart House Theatre Lobby
9:00-10:45 ACADEMIC PLENARY SESSION, HART HOUSE THEATRE
9:00 Opening Address: Pia Kleber, Conference Organizer
9:10 - 10:45 Plenary: Chair: D.A. Blostein
Dennis Kennedy: Theatre in Crisis
Marvin A. Carlston: International Theatre Today:
Problems and Perspective
John Rouse: Academic Divisions: Practice, Theory, Wissenschaft
10:45 - 11 Break
11:00-12:30: ACADEMIC SESSIONS A and B
Session A: East Hall, University College. Chair: J. Feral
Christopher Innes: Modernism-Postmodernism-and After?
Jean-Marie Vianney Kayishema: Peut-il exister
un theatre national?
Rosette C. Lamont: Towards an International Theatre:
The Language of Gesture
Session B: West Hall, University College. Chair: D.W.J. Vincent
Michel Bataillon: Dans la Tourmente: Notes eparses sur
la crise des etres et des mondes
dans les recits dramatiques de Roger Planchon, 1962 - 1995
Joachim Fiebach: Exploring Different Theatre Paradigms:
the Schaubuhne in Berlin after the 1960's
Christa Hasche: Peter Stein's Peer Gynt (1972) and
Andrea Breth's Hedda Gabler
Paolo Puppa: The Metatheatre: An Italian Suggestion for
the Stage
12:30 Playreading #1. Robert Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Centre
2:00 Panel: Eminent Playwrights: Choices for the Next Century.
Hart House Theatre
4:00 Masterclass #1: JoAnne Akalaitis (USA). Hart House Theatre
5:30 Reception. Dining Hall, UC Union
8:00 Thomson Highway reads from his latest play Rose.
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
11:00 Midnight Cabaret at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
12 Alexander Street
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1995
8:30 - 10:15 ACADEMIC SESSIONS C,D,E
Session C: Chair: P. Harris. East Hall, UC
Volker Gransow: A Culturization of Politics? Germany Today
Jurgen Hofmann: Teichoschopy Without the Wall
Ute Scharfenberg: Thoughts and Questions Regarding the
Continuation of Artistic Work at the Berliner Ensemble
After the Political Changes in Germany
Siegfriod Wilzopolski : The Volksbuhne under Frank Castorf
Session D: Chair: A. Wilson. West Hall, UC
Andrew Erdman: Vaudeville and the Rise of
American Neo-Colonialism
Loren Kruger: What Theatre? Which Audience? Whose South Africa?
Marcia Blumberg: Contemporary Theatres of Intervention
in South Africa
Gilbert David : Le Theatre quebecois est-il post-moderne?
Session E: Chair: R. Plant. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, UC Union
Craig Walker: Individualism and Communalism in Theatre
at the Second Millenium
Johannes Birringer: Theatre and Location: Theatre of Nowhere
Shannon Steen : Theatre and Location: There's No Place
Like Home
David B. Feiner: Community-based Theatre and the Definition
of Culture
10:45-12:30 SESSIONS F,G,H
Session F: Chair: D Pietropaolo. East Hall, UC
Rachel Falconer: Theatre on the Balustrade's Velvet Revolution
Julia Listengarten: Theatre in the Cultural Systems
of Russia and America
Frank Hoff : Their Worlds and Ours: Moving in Unison
Vera Stegmann: Ferrucio Busoni
Session G: Chair: G. Hauck. West Hall, UC
Baz Kershaw: Performance and Democratic Representation
in the Processes of Globalisation
Rachel Taylor: Performance in Crisis and the Economy
of Community: Legitimating Theatre? Susan Sontag's
Staging of Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo
Annie Smith: Community and the Theatre Exchange: Subverting
the Consumer System: the Audience as Participants
Eleonore Kalisch: The Conflict of Ethnocultural and
Cosmopolitan Codes in Modern Theatre
Session H: Chair: E. Binnie. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, UC Union
Anja Isabel Klock: Towards a Theatre in Life
Ian Watson: Theatre as Social Science: A Comparative Study
of Eugenio Barba's Barter performances and the Los Angeles Riots
Annemarie Bean: Epic in Communitas: The Kentucky Cycle,
Angels in America, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Kim Abunuwara: Influences on Theater:
Countering the Dangerous Anti-Subject Rhetoric of Cruelty
10:45 Masterclass #2: Andrea Breth (Germany). Chekhov's The Seagull
with actors from the Berlin Schaubuhne. Hart House Theatre
12:30 Playreading #2. Robert Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Centre
2:00 Heiner Muller in Conversation. Hart House Theatre
3:00-4:15 Panel: The Irresistible Rise of the Female Director
and Designer. Hart House Theatre
4:30-5:30 Panel: Dramaturg, Literary Manager, Critic. Hart House Theatre
6 :00 Reception at Queen's Park, hosted by the Honourable Henry N.R. Jackman,
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario
8:00 Opening of The Little Years, John Mighton. Dir. by Herbert Olschok.
Theatre Passe Muraille
11:00 Midnight Cabaret. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1995
8:30 - 10:15: ACADEMIC SESSIONS J,K,L
SESSION J: Chair: C.W. Visser. East Hall, UC
Jure Gantar: Catching the Wind in a Net: The Shortcomings of
Existing Methods for the Analysis of Performance
Michael Sidnell: Performing Writing: Inscribing Theatre
David Graver: Theatricality as Scripted Body
Ralph J. Poole: Performing the Cultural Body
in Robert Wilson's Theater
SESSION K: Chair: P.J.G.O. Perrron. West Hall, UC
Jennifer Wise: Technology and the Emergence of Theatrical Form
Simon Shepherd: Beating Time: Performance, Body Rhythm
and Orgasm
Donald C. McManus: Playing the Fool to Cyber-Culture
Helen Fehervary: The Sensualism of Visible Experience:
Mannerist Painting and its Scenic Enactment in
Heiner Muller's Theatre
SESSION L: Chair: H.W. Seliger. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, UC Union
David Gowen: The Vital Role of the Dramaturg in
Contemporary Theatre Production
Nadine Sivak: Returning the Fish to Water:
Reconsidering the Place of the Critic
Sheila McNerney, Tony Vickery: The Economics of Us
William F. Condee: Whose Theatre? Postmodern Architecture
for the 21st Century
10:45-12:30: ACADEMIC SESSIONS M,N,O
SESSION M: Chair: R.B. Parker. East Hall, UC
Wolfgang Muhl-Benninghaus: Relationship between Theatre and
Media in Germany
Marc Silberman: The Actor's Medium: On Stage and in Film
Ian Carpenter: Lights, Audience, Action: Cinematic Theatre
Joanne Klein: Unity of Time in the Age of Performance Art
and the Cinema: Cultural Constructions of Time in
Postmodern European Dramaturgy
SESSION N: Chair: W.F. Blissett. West Hall, UC
Maarten van Dijk: Canon to the Right of Them,
Canon to the Left of Them: Contemporary
Performance Strategy and Shakespeare
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.: and who may, in the ambush of my name,
strike home
David Pellegrini: Postmodern Mediations of Shakespeare
Renate Voris: Portrait of the Playwright as Grave Digger:
Heiner Muller
William Sun: Post-Brechtian Theater in the Age of Media:
A Cross-Cultural View
SESSION O: Chair: L.A. Hutcheon. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, UC Union
Dan Pinchbeck: Aspects of the Cybertheatre: Wireless Bodies,
Performing Environments Symbiosis
Anthony Frost: Electronic Masquerade: Improvising the Self
in Cyberspace
Peter W. Ferran: Learning Theatre in the Digital Age
Lance Gharavi: Consorting with the Demon: The Death of
Theatre and Other Minor Matters
10:45-12:15 Masterclass #3: Jude Kelly (Britain).
Shakespeare's King Lear with Canadian actors.
Hart House Theatre
12:30 Playreading #3. Robert Gill Theatre, Koffler Student Centre
2-2:25 Julia Kristeva: Le Theatre du Livre (Mallarme).
Hart House Theatre
2:30-4:30 Masterclass #4: Robert Wilson (USA). Hart House Theatre
4:45 Panel: Why Theatre? A Canadian Response.
Hosted by York University. Hart House Theatre
6:00 Reception hosted by York University. Hart House
8:00 Motti Lerner's Else opens. By Theater tri-buhne, Stuttgart.
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
10:00 Discussion with cast of The Little Years at
Theatre Passe Muraille
11:00 Midnight Cabaret Buddies in Bad Times Theatre,
12 Alexander Street
Saturday November 4
8:30-10:15 ACADEMIC SESSIONS P.Q.R
SESSION P: Chair: K.M. Gass. East Hall, UC
Tibor Egevari: Les subventions: de l'abondance
a la dependance, en attendant la delivrance
Marlene Thorn Taber: Chaos Theory and the People Business
Christopher Herr: Selling Out and Other Artistic Necessities:
Writers in the Theatre of Marketplace
Gylian Raby: Looping the Loop: Making Knowledge and Performance
into One Culture
SESSION Q: Chair: J. Savona. West Hall, UC
Carol Martin: Work of Jane Comfort: Mediatized Images;
High and Low Art
Susanne Pralle: Cross Dressing Texts: Travesty and Transvestism
in Hebbel's Judith and Nestroy's Judith and Holofernes
Rosalind Kerr: (With)Holding the Knife:
Representing the Unrepresentable (Wo)man
Elke Heckner: Sexual Verfremdung: Feminist Theatre as
Brechtian Legacy
SESSION R. Chair: R. Runte. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, UC Union
A.M. Watanabe: La Reception du spectacle metatheatral:
le cas de La Repetition
Gerd Brauer: Theatre as Mode of Learning: A Renaissance of
Brecht's Theory of the Learning-Play?
Mariane Streisand: Theatre-Pedagogy and Intimacy
Catherine Black: La gestuelle theatrale: vehicule dans
l'apprentissage des langues
10:30 Panel: Cultural Policy. Hart House Theatre.
With Canadian and international politicians from municipal,
provincial and federal levels
12:30 Luncheon: Great Hall, Hart House.
Guest Speaker: Dr. Antje Vollmer, Vice-President of
the German Bundestag
2:15 Panel: Funding, Private and Public. Hart House Theatre
With distinguished representatives of Government and
the Business World
4:00 Franca Rame performs in Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind if I Do!
Hart House Theatre
6:00 Reception hosted by the French Ambassador
11:00 Midnight Cabaret. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St.
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