5ht Annual Philadelphia Research Symposium

[villanova university]

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*5th Annual Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium*

*Villanova Theater Department*

*Villanova University*

*800 E. Lancaster Ave*

*Villanova, PA 19085
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*Conference Theme:*

*The work of Anna Deavere Smith,*

*Critical Cultural Performance, Performance Ethnography and Autoethnography*

*Monday, March 14, 2011*


This year's PTRS will include panels exploring research in: Performing
Diversity, Performance Ethnography, Emerging Scholars and The Work of Anna
Deveare Smith. In addition solo performances, ethnographic performances, and
autoethnographic performances will be performed throughout the day. *The
Symposium is free to attend* and the panels will be presented in Bartley
1011. Please direct any questions to PTRS2001 at gmail.com. Below you will find
the Schedule of Sessions:


*5th Annual Philadelphia Theater Research Symposium*

*Schedule of Sessions*



*Performing Diversity*

10:00a.m.-11:15a.m.
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*The Bridge Between Documentary Theatre & Drama Therapy: Our Asian American
Theatre Experiment*

Aileen B. Cho**

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*Multivocality and Reflexivity: Dismantling the Hegemonic through
Documentary Theatre*

Annika C. Speer

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*Fringe Festivals and Cultural Subjectivity: Experimental Performance as
Urban Tourist Attraction*

Bill Whitney**

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*Break*

11:15a.m.-11:30a.m.



*Performance Ethnography***

11:30a.m.-1:00p.m.

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*Performance/Intercession and The Drama Therapeutic Process*

Maria Hodermarska

Sara McMullian

Dave Mowers

David Perrin

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*Lunch*

1:00p.m.-1:30p.m.



*Performance*

1:30p.m.-2:00p.m.

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*Festus the 3-Legged Wonder Dog*

Domenick Scudera



*Emerging Scholars*

2:00p.m.-3:15p.m.

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*Driving In Today’s World: Sex, Feminism, and the Resistance to the
Oppression of Women in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive*

*Heather Lucas*



*Creating an Aesthetic: The Using Camp to Decipher Bat Boy: The Musical*

*Cassandra Lovering*

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*Gotta Slam*

*Alex Frangoulis*

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*Gentle Power and Powerful Weakness: Locating the Phallus in Mark O’Rowe’s*

*Terminus*

*Valerie Eichelberger*



*Break*

3:15p.m.-3:30p.m.



*Performance*

3:30p.m.-4:30p.m.



*You Arrive*

Bonnie Harnden



*Anna Deveare Smith*

4:30p.m.-5:45p.m.



*'Nobody Else Can Do George': Anna Deavere Smith, George C. Wolfe, and the
Potential of Collaboration*

*Cory Elizabeth Nelson*



*E Pluribus Unum: A Study in Multi-Character Solo Performance in the
Documentary Drama*

*Jacob Hellman*

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*Looking At and Looking Through: The Prismatic Body of Anna Deveare Smith*

*Kellen Hoxworth*
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