Call for Papers

[Susan Kattwinkel]

Call for Papers

Elizabethan Performances in North American Spaces

The SETC Theatre Symposium
March 28-30, 2003
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, Virginia

The 2003 SETC Theatre Symposium will be held at Mary Baldwin College,
with the cooperation of Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, which has
recently opened their reproduction of the Blackfriar's Theatre.  The
conference will take advantage of this theatrically and historically
valuable site to address the ways that North Americans have presented
Elizabethan texts (which, broadly interpreted, includes Jacobean
plays as well) throughout history and the spaces in which they have
chosen to present them.

Topics explored may include:

        *  frontier presentations of Elizabethan/Jacobean drama
        *  20th century reconstructions of Elizabethan spaces
        *  adaptations of Elizabethan/Jacobean texts to North
American theatrical styles
        *  parodies of such texts
        *  the ways in which texts were changed to accommodate these spaces
        *  tensions between the culture of Elizabethan/Jacobean texts
and North American performance styles and spaces
        *  evaluations of the adaptability of North American theatres
to Elizabethan
plays.
        *  the development of Shakespeare Festivals in North America
        *  issues related to the production of such texts and those
practitioners who have developed distinct styles of producing such
texts

Send paper abstracts by January 15, 2003 to:
                        Susan Kattwinkel
                        Editor, Theatre Symposium
                        Department of Theatre
                        College of Charleston
                        66 George St.
                        Charleston, SC 29424
                        kattwinkels at cofc.edu
                        843-953-8218

Selected papers from the symposium will be published in Theatre
Symposium, the annual journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference
published by the University of Alabama Press.
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Dr. Susan Kattwinkel
Department of Theatre
College of Charleston
66 George St.
Charleston, SC 29424
phone - (843) 953-8218
email - kattwinkels at cofc.edu
web - http://www.cofc.edu/~kattwins/SKhome.htm
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