New Plays at U. of T.

[lisa fitzpatrick]

The Festival of Original Theatre
Graduate Centre for Study of  Drama, University of Toronto
March 22 - 26.

This year's Festival explores the theme of theatrical Space and Time
through academic papers, new film and drama. Two workshops are also
offered: "The Prodigal Actor" is taught by Gian Giacomo Colli, while
Deborah Tihanyi will lead a group through the processes of workshopping
a new playtext, using "Shmuel and the Aryan Love God", a
work-in-progress by Peter Weiss.

The programme (subject to changes) is given below. For more information,
or to make a booking,
call 978-7986.

2000 F.O.O.T. Schedule     All Events on 3d floor of 214 College St.
For information Call 978-7986

Wednesday March 22
3:30 pm: Keynote Address by Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove
5:00-7:00 pm:  Film Screening
Coconut/Cane&Cutlass and Childplay by Michelle Mohabeer.
These Shoes Weren’t Made for Walking, The Offering and Thick Lips Thin
Lips by Paul Lee
8:00 pm: Performance Group A
Woyzeck on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams written by Julie Salverson and
directed by Laurel Smith; New York: Bodies in Motion, Movement without
Rest written and directed by Grae Sibelman.  Homecoming written by Hope
McIntyre and directed by Deborah Tihanyi.

Thursday March 23
10:00am-12:00pm: Academic Panel I. Mediated by Prof. M.J. Sidnell
Maria Clara Gallery: “Argentine Postcards: Allegorizing Identity in
2043"
Way-Kan Li: “Globalization and Localization: The plays of George Bernard
Shaw in 20th Century China”
Rob Conkie: “A Cuban Tempest at the Globe: Textual Fidelity Castrated
and Intertextual Revolution”
Stephen Farrow: “You Don’t Know this Man: Narrative Perspective in
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s Parade”
12:30-2:30pm: Academic Panel II. Mediated by Prof. Joyce Wilkinson
Jenn Stephenson: “What Makes a Good Audience?: Theorising Educational
Dramaturgy”
Emanuel Oga: “Traditional and Modern Approaches to Theatre As a Means of
Education in Nigeria”
Natalie Harrower: “Brian Friel and Walter Benjamin’s Theories of
Language, Mimesis, Memory and History”
Allana Lindgren: “The Politics of Theory and Practice: Franziska Boas
and the Boas Dance Group”
8pm: Performance Group B
If You Asked Me written and directed by David Chayim Eden; The Margin
written by Sam Stedman and directed by Rebecca Burton; Poverty written
by Ron Cunningham and directed by Allyson Connell.

Friday March 24
12:00-2:00pm: Academic Panel III.  Mediated by Prof. Alan Ackerman
Dr. Mark Kristmanson: “Backworlds:Genealogies of the Unasnwered”
Leslie Barcza: “Opera-Dammerung (Twilight of the Genre)”
Yana Meerzon: “Hamlet of Our Generation”
Peter Darbyshire: “Narrating Desire: History, Memory and AIDS in the
Plays of Brad Fraser”
2:30-5pm: Academic Panel IV. Mediated by Prof. David Trott.
Zorana Kydd: “Savage Political Bites: The American Presidency and The
American Popular Film”
Jennifer Elrick: “Recodifying Performance Space in 20th Century Berlin”
Milija Gluhovik: “Witnessing Hiroshima-Nagasaki: Rhapsody in August and
The Seven Streams of the River Ota”
Rebecca Burton: “The Time and Space of the Company of Sirens”
8:00 pm: Performance Group A

Saturday March 25
2pm-4pm: Workshop- "The Prodigal Actor" given by Gian Giacomo Colli.
11:00 am-4:00pm: Workshop-“The dramaturg’s role in new play development”
given by Deborah Tihanyi.  Working on Peter Eliot Weiss’ new play
Schmuel and the Aryan Love God
5:00 pm-7:00pm: Film Screening
Latin Queens by Anton Wagner, Night Stream by Josephine Masarella and
Fluid by Maria Raponi
8:00pm: Performance Group B

 Sunday March 26
2:00pm: Performance Group B
7:30pm: Performance Group A