theatre

2018 Conference of the French Shakespeare Society

Paris, Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 January 2018

Call for papers

The Société Française Shakespeare is dedicating its annual conference to “Shakespeare Unbound”. The topic addresses Shakespeare’s propensity to negotiate with dominant ideologies, his ability to break and renew formal and cultural rules and his long-lasting influence in creating innovative dramatic and poetic forms, new words and thoughts, “And all that faith creates or love desires, / Terrible, strange, sublime and beauteous shapes” (Shelley), Prometheus-like.

Dear colleagues,

A reminder that applications for the 2017 Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research are due on March 1, 2017. Please see additional information below.

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2nd and Final CFP Deadline: 5 March 2017

Keynote Speakers

• Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)
• Stanley E. Gontarski (Florida State University)
• Maebh Long (University of Waikato)

Guest Writers

• Arthur Riordan (Improbable Frequency, Slattery’s Sago Saga, The Train)
• Alan Titley (The Dirty Dust, In My Own Words: Flann O'Brien Speaks)
• Joanna Walsh (Vertigo, Hotel, Grow a Pair)

Performances

In comes I, says Robbin to Bobbin. There were three Straw Bears and the little one said, rough music! Will the Phantom of the Opera feature in the Scottish play? This cold night will turn us all to fools and morris dancers: hocus pocus, and Faustus must be damned. There were three caskets, and only one contained the liar’s whetstone. Oh yes, there is a doctor to be found at the Hawk’s Well. Out, little spear, if herein thou be! What’s the time, Widow Twankey, at the Common Riding of the Valkyries? A knot, a knot! Waly waly wallflower in the eye of the sun, up and down and around the town. There were three oranges, my true love to see, but ’tis the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet. Surely he is a Puritan, for he has cast out Jack in the Green.

Deadline Extended!!

CALL FOR PAPERS

Symposium

Stages in Transition: South Asia and the Diaspora

Hunter College

City University of New York

April 29, 2017

Theater of South Asia and the diaspora is a rich topic for exploration, particularly in our current political climate, in which questions of cultural identity, citizenship, personal and cultural expression, movement between cultures and geographic borders are all at the forefront of public discourse globally. How do place and space, our understanding of home and belonging come to inflect the theater that we make?