Paper Panels
Ghost in the Machine: the author as revenant
Chair: Joel Anderson
Presenters:
Nelson Barre - Writing to Death: Posthumous Authorship in Michael Hollinger’s Ghost-Writer - Abstract
Anne Hogan - The Perils of Perpetuity: Whose Balanchine is it, anyway? – Abstract
Kelly Jones - Authorizing Ghosts: theatrical representations of authorship in three contemporary ghost plays – Abstract
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 09:30 – 11:00
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK
(Re)Writing the Rules: participatory writing
Chair: Nick Wood
Presenters:
Simon Bowes, Alex Eisenberg and John Pinder - Kings of England: In Eldersfield: Notes on performance and the writing of history - Abstract
Gareth White - Procedural authorship and audience participation – Abstract
Naz Yeni - Yasar Kemal’s Koroglu. The Blindman’s Son: A semiotic analysis of the meaning-making process in postmodern theatre – Abstract
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 16:15 – 17:45
REHEARSAL ROOM 7, WEST BLOCK
The Return of the Auteur!
Chair: Simon Shepherd
Presenters:
Jem Kelly - Collaborative Auteurship: issues of creative direction and anomalous singularities in postmodern, networked performance – Abstract
James Reynolds - Robert Lepage and Authorial Process – Abstract
Nick Wood - Short Walks, Ontroerend Goed, and Auteur Theory – Abstract
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 14:15 – 15:45
NEW STUDIO, EMBASSY EXTENSION
Putting words in their mouths: verbatim and authenticity
Chair: Amanda Stuart Fisher
Presenters:
Maria Jose Contreras Lorenzini - Dramaturgies of the real In Chile: the problem of authorship – Abstract
Steve Gilroy - Let’s get real about ‘verbatim’ – Abstract
Roberto Sánchez-Camus – Triangulated City Beirut: Co-Authorship in Applied Live Art – Abstract
Thursday 14 July, 16:15 – 17:45
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK
Writing Ensembles
Chair: Lynne Kendrick
Presenters:
Duska Radosavijevic - Text and Performance in the Ensemble Way of Working – Abstract
Mark Smith - Frantic Fingerprints: Authoring (in) Devised Physical Theatre – Abstract
Jesse Weaver - The Playwright as Interpreter: Ireland’s Corn Exchange Theatre Company – Abstract
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 14:15 – 15:45
REHEARSAL ROOM 7, WEST BLOCK
Architecture, location and the authoring of performance
Chair: Jessica Bowles
Presenters:
Rachel Hann - ‘Architectural Gifts’: Location and Memory in Site-Responsive Performance Practice – Abstract
Juliet Rufford - Architecture and The Plague – Abstract
Cathy Turner - The Playwright as ‘Master Builder’ – Abstract
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 14:15-15:45
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK
New Voices: place, space and community
Chair: Gareth White
Presenters:
Katie Beswick - The Representation of Council Estates. Authentic Authors: Voices and the Ethics of Representation – Abstract
Tim Jeeves - One Good Turn? An experiment in collective authorship, community and the redirection of knowledge – Abstract
Mark Swetz - Performance innovation when engaging a neglected part of our communities - Mark Swetz
THURSDAY 14 JULY, 09:30 -11:00
REHEARSAL ROOM 7, WEST BLOCK
Authorship and the Playwright
Chair: Steve Farrier
Presenters:
Vicky Angelaki - ‘The writer works his way back into the play’: The Theatre of Martin Crimp or How the Author Inhabits the Text – Abstract
Sarah Jane Dickenson – Memory, intent and the auteur – Abstract
Donard MacKenzie – The Role of Personal Identity in the Process of Playwriting – Abstract
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 09:30 – 11:00
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK
Bodily inscriptions: new vocabularies of embodiment
Chair: Experience Bryon
Presenters:
Maria Kapsali - Inscribing the Body/Writing the Text: The Use of Yoga Postures in Performance – Abstract
Funmi Adewole Kruczkowska - Choreographic approaches and dance vocabularies in theatrical African dance – Abstract
Nando Messias - Sissy Inscriptions: Body, Space and New Forms of Writing - Abstract
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 09:30 – 11:00
REHEARSAL ROOM 7, WEST BLOCK
Writing Sites: authoring place
Chair: Sally Mackey
Presenters:
Jane George - A Stroll down the Valley with Roland Barthes and Reckless Sleepers – Abstract
Elizabeth Wride - Measuring Shelf Life: Is the author past its sell-by date in site specific and interactive theatre? – Abstract
Tim Moss - The singular author as a collaborative writer - Abstract
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 09:30 – 11:00
NEW STUDIO, EMBASSY EXTENSION
Scripting the scenographic text
Chair: Jessica Bowles
Presenters:
Donatella Barbieri - A provocation: Making Performance out of Costume – Costume as pre-existent to and prefiguring of performance – Abstract
David Shearing - The scenographer as co-author of experience. VOID/ROOM Case Study – Abstract
Michael Spencer - Exploding Contexts – Abstract
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 14:45 – 16:15
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK
Dis-located territories: writing in postdramatic contexts
Chair: Geoff Colman
Presenters:
Cassandra Duell - ‘Authorial playfulness’ and the rise of the Eurocentric director in contemporary Australian theatre practice – Abstract
Jesse Schwenk – The problem of the idea of the author in live performance or Why writing is not a useful metaphor for authorship in live performance - Abstract
Luis Manuel Campos - Rhizomatic Enterprises at Authoring Performance – Abstract
FRIDAY 15 JULY, 14:45 – 16:15
REHEARSAL ROOM 7, WEST BLOCK
