Theatre Criticism in the Changing Digital World (debate)

[Yana Meerzon]

University of Ottawa
Department of Theatre
DEBATE

Theatre Criticism in the Changing Digital World
Today theatre criticism faces many challenges: in the era of open internet writing the practice of theatre criticism in Canada and worldwide is rapidly changing. It becomes more experimental, reflecting the style of journalistic blogosphere not mainstream criticism currently published in official newspapers and magazines. Who is a true benefactor of such criticism - is it general public,  theatre companies, individual artists, or writers/bloggers/critics themselves, who often use digital writing to express their personal opinion in public, often not in the forms of professional theatre criticism but as self-promotion?

(This debate will be in English.)

La critique théâtrale dans le monde bousculé par le numérique
Aujourd'hui, la critique théâtrale fait face à de nombreux défis : à une époque où l'Internet façonne l'écriture, la pratique de la critique théâtrale au Canada et dans le monde évolue rapidement. Devenant plus expérimentale, elle reflète davantage le style de la blogosphère que celui de la critique théâtrale professionnelle publiée dans les journaux et les magazines conventionnels. Qui soutient cette critique, en vérité? Est-ce le grand public, les compagnies théâtrales, les artistes individuels? Ou encore est-ce les rédacteurs/ blogueurs / critiques eux-mêmes, qui utilisent souvent la diffusion Web pour exprimer leurs opinions personnelles en public sans se conformer aux règles de la critique en bonne et due forme, mais plutôt comme forme d'auto-promotion?

(Ce débat se déroulera en anglais.)

TIME AND LOCATION / HEURE ET LIEU

November 20, 2015, 11:30am to 1p.m. ;
Department of Theatre
University of Ottawa
135 Seraphin-Marion St
Room 310


Le 20 novembre 2015, de 11h30 à 13h,
Département de théâtre
Université d'Ottawa
135 Séraphin Marion
local 310.

Participants:
*             Patrick Langston (The Ottawa Citizen)
*             Brianna McFarlane (New Ottawa Critics, an association of emerging theatre journalists)
*             Kate Fournier (Capital Critics Circle)

Moderator/ Modérateur: Dr. Joël Beddows
Organiser/ Organisatrice: Dr. Yana Meerzon







Yana Meerzon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa
135 Séraphin-Marion, Room 304B
Ottawa ON Canada, K1N 6N5
Telephone: 613 562-5800, ext. 2243
E-mail: ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca<mailto:ymeerzon at uOttawa.ca>
Webpage: http://arts.uottawa.ca/theatre/en/people/meerzon-yana

The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov (Edited by MARIE CHRISTINE AUTANT MATHIEU, Yana Meerzon): http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415710183/

History, Memory, Performance (Edited by David Dean, Yana Meerzon, Kathryn Prince): http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/history-memory-performance-david-dean/?K=9781137393883

Performing Exile, Performing Self. Drama, Theatre, Film (Yana Meerzon): http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/performing-exile--performing-self-yana-meerzon/?sf1=barcode&st1=9780230221536



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