12.00 – 13.30 – Registration Foyer, Engineering Building
13.30 – 15.00 – Panel (1) – 3 parallel sessions
Panel 1.1 – Dublin’s Gate Theatre – Chair: Helen Burke
Room: ENG-2001
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Ruud van den Beuken |
Radboud University Nijmegen |
‘Conscious in All Its Activities of Doing a Service to the Nation’?: Avant-garde Patriotism and (Inter)nationalist Identities at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1934 |
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Des Lally |
NUIG |
The Influences of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russe on the Creative Spirit of Micheál MacLiammóir. |
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David Clare |
NUIG |
Jewish Playwrights on The Gate Stage, 1994-2012 |
Panel 1.2 – Canonical Figures – Chair: Brian Singleton
Room: ENG-2003
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Christopher Collins |
TCD |
SYNGE AND SCHOPENHAUER: PERFORMING PHILOSOPHY |
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Kristin Jones |
NUIG |
‘Stock Still Staring Out’: Memory and Movement in Beckett’s Not I and A Piece of MonologuE |
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Lionel Pilkington |
NUIG |
Acting and acting up in Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars |
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Radvan Markus |
Charles University Prague |
Performing History on Stage: The Interpretation of the 1798 Rebellion in Stewart Parker’s Northern Star |
Panel 1.3 – Contemporary Irish Theatre Practices – Chair: Eamonn Jordan
Room: Eng-3035
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Christopher McCormack |
TCD |
WillFredd Theatre as a model for how performances can be the product of a dialogue between artist and community |
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Noelia Ruiz |
UCD |
Pan Pan Theatre Aesthetics |
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Bernadette Cronin |
UCC |
‘Try again. Fail again. Fail better’: ‘Playing with Play’ at the National Sculpture Factory and beyond |
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Mairéad Ní Chualáin |
NUIG |
The Foundation of a Performance: An Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe |
15.00 – 15.30 – Coffee/Tea
15.30 – 17.00 – Panel (2) – 2 parallel sessions
Panel 2.1 – Politics, Nation and Race – Chair: Charlotte McIvor
Room: ENG-2001
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Emma Creedon |
UCD |
The Performance of Surrealism in Sam Shepard and Joseph Chaikin’s Tongues |
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Chante Mouton Kinyon |
NUIG |
The Subaltern Speaks: Politics and Voice in August Wilson’s and Brian Friel’s Cycle Plays |
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Michael Jaros |
Salem State |
Revising the Rising: Memorial Counter- Performance in D’Arcy and Arden’s The Non-Stop Connolly Show. |
Panel 2.2. Laughter, Agency and Performance – Chair: Nicholas Johnson
Room: ENG-2003
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Ian Walsh |
UCD |
Dublin Dames: From Biddy Mulligan to Mrs. Brown |
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Eric Weitz |
TCD |
Formatting Homo ridens: Political agency and City of Clowns |
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Susanne Colleary |
UCD |
Maeve Higgins Does Not Scare Men: Gendered Identities as Performative Narratives: An Analysis of Irish Stand Up Comic Maeve Higgins. |
17.00 – 17.30 – Coffee
17.30 – 17.45 – Official conference opening and launch of Abbey Theatre/ NUI Galway Digitisation Project
Room: ENG-G018
17.45-19.00 – Keynote Presentation – Rebecca Schneider – Chair: Lionel Pilkington
Room: ENG-G018
Saturday 27/10/2012
9.30 – 11.15 – Panel (3) – 3 parallel sessions
Panel 3.1– Regional Theatre – Chair: Eric Weitz
Room: ENG-2001
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Rhona Trench |
IT Sligo |
Financing the Theatre: Blue Raincoat, Tight Purses and Short Shoe Strings |
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Shelley Troupe |
NUIM |
Druid/Murphy Then, DruidMurphy Now: Tom Murphy’s Famine (1968) |
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Fiona Brennan |
UCC |
A History of Cork’s Theatrical Tradition: A Project Overview. |
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Kate McCarthy
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Waterford IT
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Performing the Archive: Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford
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Una Healey
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Richard Hayes |
Panel 3.2 – Performing Trauma – Chair: Lisa Fitzpatrick
Room: ENG-2003
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Brian Singleton |
TCD |
Landscapes of Memory: Laundry as lieu de mémoire |
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Miriam Haughton |
UCD |
Laundries or Labour Camps? Staging Ireland’s ‘Rule of Silence” |
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Emilie Pine |
UCD |
Performing Memories of Abuse Trauma |
Panel 3.3 Women in/and Performance in Irish Theatre – Chair: Siobhan O’Gorman
Room: Eng-3035
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Caitriona Mary Reilly |
Queens |
The Conflict of Postfeminist Sexualities: Queer Performance in Contemporary Irish Theatre. |
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Maria Kurdi |
Pecs |
Gender Relations, Confusion and Myth in Celtic Tiger Drama: Stella Feehily’s Duck and O Go My Man |
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Kasia Lech |
UCD |
Escaping into a rhyme: Stefanie Preissner and the rhythmical level of her performances |
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Ciara O’Dowd |
NUIG |
Ria Mooney: From the Aran Islands to Jamaica—via The Abbey Theatre |
11.15 – 11.45 – Coffee
11.45 – 12.45 – Panel (4) – Working Groups (open to all)
Panel 4.1 Comedy and Performance
Eric Weitz (convenor)
Room: ENG-2001
Panel 4.2 Gender and Performance
Lisa Fitzpatrick (convenor)
Room: ENG-2003
Panel 4.3 – Performance Philosophy
Nicholas Johnson and Gabriella Calchi-Novatin (convenors)
Room: Eng-3035
Panel 4.4 – Theatre Historiography
Lionel Pilkington and Mark Phelan
Room: ENG-G018
12.45 – 13.45 – lunch/AGM (lunch available for purchase) AGM in Room: ENG-G018
13.45 – 14.30 – Book Launch: Thomas Conway, The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays
Featuring: Thomas Conway, Grace Dyas and Neil Watkins
Room: ENG-G018
14.30 – 16.15– Panel (5) – 3 parallel panels
Panel 5. 1: Gender, Interculturalism and Irish Theatre Practice – Chair: Miriam Haughton
Room: ENG-2001
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Lisa Held |
SUNY at Stonybrook |
The North’s Awake: Reid and the Rise of Interculturalism |
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Charlotte McIvor |
NUI Galway |
“Offstage Bodies, Onstage Silences: Alice Coghlan’s Sylvia’s Quest and Female (Im)migrants on the Contemporary Irish Stage” |
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Cormac O’Brien |
UCD |
Unblessed Amongst Women: Performing Patriarchy Without Men in Contemporary Irish Theatre. |
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Eamonn Jordan |
UCD |
The Phantom Menace of History: Performances of Race in Martin |
Panel 5.2 – Contemporary Irish Drama – Chair: Paul Murphy
Room: ENG-2003
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Ondrej Pilny |
Charles University Prague |
The Grotesque in Contemporary Irish Drama |
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Nelson Barre |
NUIG |
Crafting a New Catholicism: Restructuring Ritual in The New Electric Ballroom |
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John Countryman |
Berry College/ NUIG |
“Troublesome Knowledge and the Failure of Hope in Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom” |
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Megan Minogue |
Queens |
‘He’s at the Crucial Age’: The Performance of Masculinity in Gary Mitchell’s Drama”. |
Panel 5.3 – Performances in Practice – Chair: Shelley Troupe
Room: Eng-3035
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Helen Burke |
Florida State University |
Laying open “the hearts of Actors”: Politics and Performance |
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JH Yuh |
TCD |
Irish Theatre Riots as Performance |
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Melissa Sihra |
TCD |
‘The Role of the Performer in Plays by Marina Carr’. |
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Haley Bueno |
UCD |
Sparks of life: A site- specific work experience |
16.15 – Coffee
16.30 – 17.45 Presentation of New Scholars’ Prize and Keynote Presentation by Mark Phelan.
Chair: Patrick Lonergan
Room: ENG-G018
Sunday 28/10/2012
10.00 – Coffee Available from the Wall Café, Kingfisher Club
10.30 – 12.00 – Panel (6)
Panel 6.1 – The Politics of Celtic Tiger Theatre – Chair: Melissa SIhra
Room ENG-2001
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Patrick Lonergan |
NUI Galway |
Banking on Ireland: The Abbey’s John Gabriel Borkman |
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Paul Murphy |
Queens |
“O’Casey, class and performance” |
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Domino Torres |
University of Southern California |
“Cosmopolitanism, Cityscapes and Identity in Contemporary Irish Drama” |
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Finian O’ Gorman |
UCD |
Prisoners of Performance: The legacy of colonialism in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce. |
Panel 6.2: New Approaches to Theatre Making – Chair: Lionel Pilkington
Room: ENG-2003
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Emma Meehan |
TCD |
Moving to Writing: Documenting Somatic-Based Performance Practice |
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Marie Kelly |
UCC |
‘Casting Consciousness: Frames of mind in the casting of contemporary Irish theatre’ |
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Dan Bergin |
TCD |
Corn Exchange’s 2011 performance Man Of Valour |
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Mary Moynihan |
DIT |
The Living Theatre of Smashing Times Theatre Company and the Role of Theatre in Promoting Non- Violent Revolution |
12.00 – 13.00 – Roundtable: Perform – Or Else! – Performance and Neo-Liberalism
Helen Burke, Lionel Pilkington, Rebecca Schneider Chair: Charlotte McIvor
Room: ENG-2003