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<p class="Default"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Upsurges of the Real part 2
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Seminar Leader: Jenn Stephenson
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">As David Shields notes in his manifesto
<i>Reality Hunger</i>, “every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art” (3). In the last decade or so, artists in varying disciplines have responded
to this perennial challenge of presenting reality by including larger and larger chunks of actual “real” stuff into their works. Theatre, however, constitutes a special case, because any staging of “real” elements is complicated by the core operation of the
theatrical frame, which is to take a real thing (an actor) and turn it into a fictional thing (Hamlet). This essential fictionalizing property of theatre presents significant challenges to the representation and perception of real objects as “real.”
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">This seminar aims to parse out the complex and sometimes ambiguous relationships of “reality” and fiction in what we might term reality-based or “documentary” theatre. From the analysis of
the ontological status of these elements, it will be possible to connect various strategies for representing the “real” to the invariably overt politically or socially-activist intentions of these documentary works. The main objective of this seminar is to
draw connections among the strategies employed by diverse genres (site-specific, verbatim, documentary, autobiography) with the idea of beginning to collectively develop a poetics of reality-based performance.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The seminar welcomes proposals both from returning participants of last year’s seminar on the same topic and also from new potential members. Selected members of the seminar will be asked to
submit a short paper (15-20 pages) by 10 May. Once the papers are collected, each member will be asked to respond to two other seminar papers. Responses will be due 20 May. At the conference, the seminar will meet for 3 hours. The overall goal of the meeting
is to assist each other in moving scholarship forward with the specific goal of encouraging the publication of the work produced.
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Abstracts (250 words) should be submitted to Jenn Stephenson jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca by January 15, 2013.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">All accepted presenters and participants are required to join CATR. For more information on CATR and to join or renew your membership please visit http://www.catr-acrt.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Jenn Stephenson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Associate Professor, Drama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Queen's University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Phone. (613)533-6000 x78597<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Email.
<a href="mailto:jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca"><span style="color:blue">jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Web.
<a href="http://www.queensu.ca/drama/jstephenson"><span style="color:blue">www.queensu.ca/drama/jstephenson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Twitter: @queensjenn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Blog: www.realtheatre.wordpress.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D">"There is no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography" --Paul Valéry
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