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<P><STRONG>2006 Festival of Original Theatre: Performing
Adaptations</STRONG></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><STRONG>Graduate
Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN><STRONG>February 15-19,
2006<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P>We invite papers, artistic presentations, or hybrid paper-presentations that
examine themes surrounding Adaptation in Performance for the 2006
<STRONG>Festival of Original Theatre: Performing Adaptations</STRONG>. This
conference and performance festival sets out to investigate the adaptation of
theatrical texts/scenarios/documents into literature, visual art, performance
art, dance, radio plays, film, multimedia, etc.—or, conversely, the theatrical
text as an adaptation of mediums such as poetry, ballads, biblical accounts,
historical events, diaries, religious rites, novels, opera, ballet, etc.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Topics
may include but are not limited to: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">--the
re-visioning of canonical works in a post-modern context (counter-texts as<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>adaptations, i.e. Djanet Sears,
Peter Greenaway, etc.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">--applying
post colonial, feminist and queer theory to stagings of existing performance
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>texts (i.e. Tony Kushner,
etc.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">--operatic
adaptations (i.e. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Gozzi, Buchner, Shakespeare, Atwood,
etc.)</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><BR>--musical
adaptations (i.e. John Gay, Brecht, etc.)<BR>--physical adaptations such as
ballet, modern dance, movement based theatre, musicals, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>performance
art <BR>--novelistic adaptations <BR>--technologically based
adaptations(i.e. play to radio, play to film, etc.)<BR>--spatial adaptations
(i.e. site-specific theatre)<BR
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">The
Performing Adaptations conference and festival provides a forum for scholars and
artists to engage in discussions through papers, performances, panels, and
debates. We encourage submissions from graduate students.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><STRONG>If
you are interested in proposing a paper or presentation, please send a 250 word
abstract by </STRONG><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><STRONG>October 1,
2005</STRONG>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></I>Submissions may be sent by email: <A
href="mailto:adaptation_performance@yahoo.ca">adaptation_performance@yahoo.ca</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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mail:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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Festival of Original Theatre: Performing Adaptations<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Graduate
Centre for Study of Drama<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">University
of Toronto<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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