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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For Immediate
Release: January 8<sup>th</sup> 2010<o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The Graduate
Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto presents…<o:p></o:p></span>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><br>
<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">FOOT 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Festival
of Original Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">January
21-23, 2010</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><b style=""><i style=""><span
style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">PERFORMING
SPACE/SPACE IN PERFORMANCE<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Come
join the
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama in a cross-disciplinary colloquium
exploring
the concept and use of performance space from philosophical phenomenon
to
physical environment, examining its incarnations from gendered to
pedagogical, civic
to subversive. This three-day event merges engaging panel discussions
from a
diverse range of academic perspectives with nightly performances of new
works
by emerging playwrights</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.</span><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b style=""><i style=""><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Keynote
Speakers<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></u></i><br>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Patricia Flood</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> (University of Guelph)
will present <i style="">Reflections on Theatrical Design in English
Canada: the creation of space in English-Canadian text-based drama</i> <o:p></o:p></span><br>
<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thursday
January 21<sup>st</sup> at 1
p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Natalie
Rewa</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
(Queen’s University) will present <i style="">the Creation of
Scenographic Space:
contemporary debts to modernist experiments</i> <o:p></o:p></span><br>
<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Saturday
January 23<sup>rd</sup> at 2
p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><b
style=""><i style=""><u><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Performances
by Emerging Artists<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p>
<b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Remember
Lumumba</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">,
a new play by Charles Mulekwa and directed by Alexandra West, follows
the
assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first legally elected prime
minister of
the Congo. <span style=""> </span></span><b style=""><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Featuring:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> Soppo
Gomez Gnali,
Mark Heath, Jillian Larkin, Nicole Bischoff, Julia Gibran, John
Hastings, Tim
Ziegler, Dave Schokking, Laine Newman.<o:p></o:p></span>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thursday
January
21<sup>st</sup> at 8 p.m.</span></b><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></b><b
style=""><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Buy
My House</span></i></b><i style=""><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">, a staged
reading of a new work in progress by Natalie Frijia.<o:p></o:p></span></i>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Friday
January 22<sup>nd</sup> at 8 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></b>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
<b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Panel
discussions are
free and open to the public; performances are a donation of $5 or a
non-perishable food item for the University of Toronto Food and
Clothing Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">January 21-23<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Panels:<b style=""> </b>Thursday
through Saturday, , 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Performances: Thursday
&Friday at
8 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Robert Gill
Theatre, 214
College Street, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">(For information: Luella
Massey
416-978-7986)<b style=""><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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