Staging the Pacific Province 2:
A Conference on British Columbia Theatre

11-13 October 2001

All Sessions in Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC Campus

Day One (Thursday, October 11)

9:00-9:30	Registration

9:30-9:45	Welcoming Remarks—UBC Dean of Arts Alan Tully

9:45-11:00	Special Presentation: Vancouver Theatre in the Sixties
Anthony Holland and John Juliani

11:15-12:15	Session One: Early B.C. Theatre
1)	Lisa Coulthard (Univ. of Toronto), “’Living Indians’:
Colonial Exhibition, First Nations Performance and Franz Boas
in British Columbia”
2)	Patrick B. O’Neill (Mount Saint Vincent), “Carroll Aikins before the Home Theatre”

12:15-1:30	Lunch Break

1:30-3:00	Session Two: Constructing the Audience
1)	Monica Prendergast (Univ. of Victoria), “Audience Education at the Belfry: Youth Outreach through Dramatic Process”
2)	Marlis Schweitzer (Univ. of Toronto), “Life is a Cabaret: Kaleidoscope, CAPP, and the Stiletto Controversy”
3)	Malcolm Page (Simon Fraser), “Rise and Fall or Rise and Rise: The (Mis)Fortunes of Vancouver’s Alternative Theatre Companies”

3:15-4:45	Panel: B.C. Theatre (in) Education
Patrick McDonald, Norman Young and Jane Heyman
		
5:30-5:35	Welcoming Remarks—UBC President Martha Piper

5:35-7:00	Publisher's Reception: Playwrights Canada Press and Talonbooks
Playwrights’ Cabaret: Aaron Bushkowsky, Marie Clements,
Lorena Gale, Kevin Kerr and more tba
	
Free Evening
Day Two (Friday, October 12)

9:30-10:30	Special Presentation and Reading
John Gray

10:45-12:15	Session Three: Staging B.C. Histories
1)	George Belliveau (U of PEI), “Remembering Our Past: Investigating B.C. History through the Works of Sharon Pollock and Joan MacLeod”
2)	Ginny Ratsoy (Univ. College of the Cariboo), “Crime and Place
in Betty Lambert’s Under the Skin and Marie Clements’
The Unnatural and Accidental Women”
3)	Don Rubin (York), “B.C. Theatre, 1970-71:
An Historical Snapshot”

12:15-1:30	Lunch Break

1:30-2:30	Special Presentation
Donna Spencer, “Pacific Rim Theatre at the Firehall”

2:45-3:45	Session Four: Portrait of a Playwright: Morris Panych
1)	Albert-Reiner Glaap (Heinrich Heine Univ., Düsseldorf),
“The Philosophy, Chemistry and Universality of Morris Panych’s Dramatic Work: A European Outsider Looking In”
2)	Reid Gilbert (Capilano College), “The Panych and Gorling Team: Wordless Creations of ‘Sheer Theatricality’”

4:00-5:00	Special Presentation
Jennifer Brewin and Estelle Shook, “Caravan Farm Theatre”

5:00-7:30	Dinner Break

8:00		Performance
Joan MacLeod’s The Shape of a Girl at Vancouver East Cultural Centre

Day Three (Saturday, October 13)

9:30-10:30	Special Presentation and Reading
Dennis Foon, “Provoking the Jailkeepers”

10:45-12:15	Session Five: Vancouver Stages the World
1)	Marshall Soules (Malaspina College), “Protocols of Improvisation: Sam Shepard in Vancouver”
2)	Peter Dickinson (UBC), “Restaging Québec in Vancouver:
The Cultural Work of Théâtre la Seizième, Pink Ink, and
Ruby Slippers”
3)	Gabriele Helms (Simon Fraser), “’Here We Are’:
Guillermo Verdecchia’s Fronteras Americanas in Vancouver”

12:15-1:30	Lunch Break

1:30-2:30	Special Presentation
Colin Thomas, “’Sewer-rat! Curate! Cretin! Crritic!’:
Why Artists and Critics Fail to Understand One Another”

2:45-4:00	Special Presentation: Portrait of a Playwright: Joan MacLeod
1)	Jerry Wasserman (UBC), “Joan MacLeod and the Geography
of the Imagination”
2)	Joan MacLeod, “On The Shape of a Girl and What’s Next”

4:15-5:00	Performance and Talk-Back
Rosalind Kerr (Univ. of Alberta) and Lisa Lowe,
“Mildred A. Horn: Sex Hygienist”

5:00-6:00	Capstone Panel: The Conference and Beyond

7:00-10:00	Conference Banquet and Performance (First Nations Longhouse, UBC)
Margo Kane and Company