Registration is Now Open: FOOT 2016 Festival of Original Theatre, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

[Rebecca Biason]

FOOT 2016 Registration Open

We are pleased to announce that registration has officially opened. FOOT 2016 is a free conference, but registration is required to attend. Scholars, practitioners, and the general public are all welcome. We look forward to welcoming you to the University of Toronto in February! Register now. Visit http://2016foot.wordpress.com/registration

FOOT 2016: Staging Realities takes place February 4-7, 2016 at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto with featured key note speaker Dr. Marvin Carlson.

Staging Realities. FOOT 2016 will engage in discussions of performance and how it is conceived of on stage, in everyday life, and within the digital world. Prompted by the recent resurgence of documentary, verbatim, site-specific, and other forms of theatre that make use of aspects of the real in their frame or content, as well as the increased cultural capital assigned to the “upsurges of the real” in performance, this year’s conference aims to explore the liminal space between reality and artifice: a space that troubles the easy division of fiction and fact, and is increasingly utilized by today’s most provocative theatre.

The theme of FOOT 2016, Staging Reality, speaks to the blending of reality and artifice: a blurring that has been receiving a great deal of academic attention in recent years, both in Canada and abroad. This blurring breaks down distinctions between the roles of audience, critic, artist, activist, and academic, as the opinions of “real people” are increasingly sought out by theatre makers, and artists increasingly turn their focus to the “real world” effect of their work.
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