2 day conference on Performance Text at the Drama Centre, U of T (fwd)

[Kathy Chung]

Hello all,

I'm sorry I can't make it (I had committed myself to a "TooLoose
Lowrytrek" in Vancouver) but thought you might like to know... 

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THE PERFORMANCE TEXT CONFERENCE

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
April 11, 12, 1997
Robert Gill Theatre
214 College Street
University of Toronto

Friday April 11

1:20pm - 1:30pm Opening Remarks
                        Domenico Pietropaolo

1:30pm - 3:30pm Session I
                        Chair: Shelley Scott

Christopher Innes, York University
  "In the Beginning was the Word: Text and Performance Groups"

Ann Wilson, University of Guelph        
  "The Naturalizing of the Body in Actor Training: The Case of David
   Mamet' s ‘Oleann

Alan D. Filewod, University of Guelph
   "Simulations of Nationhood: Spectacles of €Postcoloniality"

3:30pm - 3:45pm Break

3:45pm - 5:30pm Session II
                        Chair: Colette Stoeber

Nancy Copeland, University of Toronto
  "Mimicry and Hegemony: Feminist Performance Theory and Aphra Benn"

Damiano Pietropaolo, CBC Radio Drama
  "Narrative and Perfomance in Radio Drama"

Stephen Johnson, McMaster University
  "Text and Translation in the Historical Reconstruction of Popular Dance:
   The Witness to Juba in 1848"

5:30pm - 6:30pm Reception


SATURDAY APRIL€ 12

10:00am - 12:00pm       Session III
                        Chair: Joseph Sokalski

Michael J. Sidnell, University of Toronto
  "Authorizations of Performativity: Whose Performance of What and for
   Whom"

Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto
  "Czech Performance Theory"

Frank Hoff, University of Toronto
  "‘Jikkan', Another Way of Seeing: PerformanceEthnography in Japan"

12:00pm - 12:15pm       Break

12:15pm - 1:45pm        Session IV
                        Chair: Kenneth Tallman

Denis Salter, McGill University
   "Outside Shakespeare/Inside Quebec: Paula de Vasconcello's Metonymic
     Mise en Scène for ‘The Making of Macbeth"

Natalie Rewa, Queen's University
  "Running Time: Scenography and Temporality in Performance"

1:45pm - 2:45pm Lunch   Break

2:45pm - 4:45pm Session V 
                        Chair: Jane Freeman

Ric Knowles, University of Guelph
  "Towards a Materialist Performance Analysis"

John Astington, University of Toronto  
  "The Play and the Presentment: Texts and Performances in England before
   1642"

Domenico Pietropaolo, University of Toronto
  "Scenario and performance in Commedia dell'Arte"

5:00pm - 5:15pm Break

5:15pm - 6:15pm Session VI
                        Chair: Anna Migliarisi

David Trott, University of Toronto
  "‘Histoire et Recueil des Lazzis': A Case ofEarly Performance Analysis"

Richard Plant, University of Toronto and Queen's University 
  "Censuring the Performance Text"

6:15pm  Closing Remarks
                Domenico Pietropaolo

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