(Fwd) The Performance Text

[Marlene Moser]

I tried to send this before, but I don't think it took...

For those interested and in the neighbourhood, here's the programme
of an upcoming conference at the Drama Centre.  There's no
registration fee.

Marlene Moser

The Performance Text
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 `Oleanna'

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: Performance
Ethnography in Japan

12:00pm - 12:15pm       Break

12:15pm - 1:45pm        Session IV
                        Chair: T.B.A.

Denis Salter, McGill University
                Outside Shakespeare/Inside Quebec: Paula de
Vasconcello's Metonymic Mise en Scene 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 of
Early Performance Analysis

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

6:15pm  Closing Remarks
                Domenico Pietropaolo