Theatre Research in Canada, vol 34.1

[Marlis Schweitzer]

Greetings again,

Please forgive two typos in my previous message. Ginny Ratsoy's name is 
misspelled and the company she discusses in her article is Theatrefront, 
not Waterfront. My apologies for not catching these sooner, Ginny.

Best,
Marlis

On 13-05-06 5:23 PM, Marlis Schweitzer wrote:
>
> /Theatre Research in Canada// /Recherches théâtrales au Canada/
>
> announces the publication of Vol. 34. No. 1:
>
> *"Canadian Performances/Global Redefintions/**Théâtre Canadien et 
> Redéfinitions Planétaires**"*
>
> *Guest-edited by Reid Gilbert and Marc Maufort.*
>
> The issue presents articles by Yana Meerzon, Ginny Ratsoy, Judith 
> Halebsky, Diana Manole, and Alex Lazaridis Ferguson that "explore some 
> of the ways in which Canadian performances are being reconfigured in 
> our age of globalization" (Introduction).
>
> Meerzon examines the transposition of Lebanese-Quebecois playwright 
> Wajdi Mouawad's /Incendies/ into film, exploring notions of postmemory 
> and the exilic experience.
>
> Ratsory analyses a specific experiment in global collaboration between 
> Toronto's Waterfront and Cape Town's Baxter Theatres---/Ubuntu (The 
> Cape Town Project/)---considering generational conflict in two 
> differing cultures as viewed through a collaborative 
> performance-experiment.
>
> Halebsky discusses the translation of Japanese /Noh/ style for 
> Canadian audiences in the staging of Daphne Marlatt's /The Gull/, 
> proposing a "constellation translation," and examining questions of 
> non-hierarchal forms of cultural exchange.
>
> Manole re-examines Judith Thompson's /Sled/, considering the contested 
> politics of Canadian multiculturalism within a wider global sense of 
> exile as "a shared identity marker" (79).
>
> Lazaridis Ferguson applies and questions Csikszentmihalyi, Dewey, 
> Fischer-Lichte and, especially, Bourdieu's theory of symbolic capital 
> to describe exchanges among performing arts festivals in Canada and 
> Europe, "demonstrating how cultural systems both enhance and hamper 
> cross-cultural exchange" (Introduction).
>
> The issue reviews work by Julie Salverson, Erin Hurley, Judith 
> Rudakoff, Normand Chaurette and Hervé Guay.
>
> In 2011, Reid Gilbert held the International Chair at L'Université 
> Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels University) where Marc Maufort is 
> Professor of English-language Literature and Drama, and this issue 
> arises from that collaboration.The editors aimed to "foreground the 
> ways in which Canadian artists [. . .] negotiate the cross-cultural 
> advantages and homogenizing pitfalls of [. . .] globalization," 
> "understood as a phenomenon closely linked with [. . .] recent phases 
> of capitalism" (Introduction).
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Marlis Schweitzer, General Editor
>
> -- 
> Marlis Schweitzer
> Associate Professor
> Department of Theatre
> York University
> 4700 Keele St.
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> 416-736-2100 x 66274

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/candrama/attachments/20130506/0f39faf6/attachment.html>