Preliminary Program

Thursday October 23rd
Time
Event
Location
4-8:00pm
Registration Art gallery, 1st floor Beveridge Arts Centre (BAC)
5:30-7:30pm Reception for conference presenters and session chairs Tempest
8-9:30pm

Round Table:
Directing in Newfoundland

Moderator: Gordon Jones (Memorial U)


Participants:
1. Danielle Irvine, AD, First Light Productions
2. Jill Keilly, AD, Artistic Fraud
3. Denyse Lynde, Memorial U

BAC 132
Friday October 24th
8-9am
Registration/Information
Art gallery
8:30-10am

Panel One
Chair
: Dr. Anna Migliarisi (Acadia)

1. Sarah Ferguson, UBC
Embedded Social Structures: Ignorance is not Bliss; it is Dangerous

2.Larry Zappia, U of Toronto
The Creative Freedoms of the 'Wild East'

3. Michael Devine, Acadia
A Canadian Director In Romania:Issues of Interculturality and Systemic Differentiation

BAC 132
10-10:30am Break
10:30-12pm

Panel Two
Chair
: Denyse Lynde, Memorial U

1. Dr. Annelis Kuhlmann, U of Aarhus, Denmark
The Mute Tradition--A Silent Heritage

2. Dr. Pamela Monaco, U of Maryland
Who Owns the (Textual) Body?


3. Dr. Domenico Pietropaolo, U of Toronto
Authorship, Directing and the Dramaturgy of Translation in the Commedia dell'Arte Tradition
 

BAC 132
12-1:30pm Lunch
12-1pm Registration/Information
Art Gallery
1:30-3pm

Panel Three
Chair
: Dr. John Astington, Director,  Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, U of Toronto

1. Dr. A.D. Francis, U of Windsor
Codes and Clues

2. Dr. Wenwei Du, Vassar College
Shakespeare in Chinese Xiqu Forms--Focusing on Two Beijing Opera Productions of "King Lear"

3. Dr. John Lingard, U of Cape Breton
Travesty or Interpretation: Some Thoughts on Shakespeare and Ibsen Productions by Ingmar Bergman, Svein Sturla Hungnes, and Robert Lepage

BAC 132
3-3:15pm Break
3:15-4:45pm Panel Four
Chair
: Guillaume Bernardi (Toronto/Paris)

1. Dr. Bruce Barton, U of Toronto
Writer: Director. Text: Realization.

2.
Dr. Jure Gantar, Dalhousie U
A Poor-Man's Directional Concept: An Analysis of Transposition as a Staging Strategy

3. Dr. Greg Doran, St. Mary's U
Interpretation and Meaning: Textual Theory and the Director
BAC 132
4:45pm Dinner break
6pm

PERFORMANCES
Nurse!--Lisa Hayes (U of Buffalo)

Lower Denton Hall
8:30pm Abraham--Paolo Puppa (U of Venice)
Lower Denton Hall
9:00pm Nurse!--Lisa Hayes (U of Buffalo)
Lower Denton Hall
Saturday October 25th
8-9am Registration/Information
Art Gallery
8:30-10am

Panel Five
Chair
: Dr. Gerhard Hauck (U of Waterloo)

1. Jay Malarcher, West Virginia U
What Good is a Dramaturg?

2. Laure de Verdalle, Ecole Normale, Paris
The German Dramatist, an intermediary between the play and the director.

3. Paul Stoesser, U of Toronto
Authorship and the Implications of Design in Roy Mitchell's Art of Directing

BAC 132
10-10:15am Break
10:15-11:45pm

Panel Six
Chair
: Dr. John Lingard (U of Cape Breton)

1. Dr. Edward Little, Concordia
Directorial Approaches to Cultural Diversity in a Community Based Project

2. Dr. Glen Nichols, U of Moncton
Let's Play Together: A Collaborative Approach to Theatre Translation

3. Dr. Gerhard Hauck, U of Waterloo
Digital Directions: (Re-)defining the Role of the Director in Multi-Point Videoconferenced Collaborative Theatre

BAC 132
11:45-1:15pm Lunch
12-1pm Registration/Information
Art Gallery
1:15-2:30pm Panel Seven
Chair
: Dr. Gerald Parker (U of Western Ontario, Prof. Emeritus)

1. Dr. Guillaume Bernardi, Toronto/Paris
The Other Way Round: From Performance to Text

2. Henry MacCarthy, Ohio University

The Angry Mob: Performance Traditions and the (Mis) Appropriation of Authorship in Opera

3. Janine Manatis, Toronto/LA
Ensemble, the Method and All That Jazz
BAC 132
2:3--2:45pm Break
2:45-5:15pm Practitioner Forum
Moderator: Ronald Bryden

Participants:
Duncan MacIntosh, Jim Warren, Alisa Palmer, Denyse Karn, Janine Manatis, Annie Levy, and Jim Morrow
BAC 132
5:15-5:45pm Epilogue-- Dr. Don B. Wilmeth, Brown U
BAC 132
5:45pm Closing Remarks-- Dr. Anna Migliarisi, Acadia
BAC 132
7pm Gathering
Blomidon Inn
8pm BANQUET

Main dining room,
Blomidon Inn

 

Sunday, October 26th
9:30am-12pm

Brunch meeting at the Blomidon Inn:
Inaugural Assocation of Atlantic Theatre Educators (AATE)