Authoring Theatre

Silvija Jesrovic

ta-editor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:32:54 +0000

Silvija Jesrovic is associate professor in the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy at the University of Warwick and a playwright. She is the author of Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (University of Toronto Press, 2006). Recently, she co-edited, with Yana Meerzon, the monograph Performance, Exile, ‘America’ (Palgrave Mcmillan 2009). Her articles appeared in numerous journals including Research in Drama Education, Substance, Modern Drama, New Theatre Quarterly, Canadian Theatre Review, Balagan, and others. Currently, she has been completing her book Performance, Space, Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile (forthcoming in 2012). Silvija’s latest play Not My Story opened in Toronto in 2004.

Dan Rebellato

ta-editor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:18:35 +0000

Dan Rebellato is professor of contemporary theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the theatre, philosophy and creative writing degree programmes. He has published Theatre & Globalization, 1956 and All That, Contemporary European Theatre Directors, and numerous articles on contemporary theatre, playwriting, theatre and philosophy. He is also a playwright and his plays and performance texts for stage and radio include Chekhov in Hell, Static, My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye, Mile End, Beachy Head, Cavalry, Outright Terror Bold and Brilliant, and Theatremorphosis.

Simon Shepherd

ta-editor — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:20:48 +0000

Simon Shepherd is Deputy Principal (academic) at Central School of Speech & Drama and Director of Programmes, with responsibility for all learning and teaching, research, outreach and technical support. Previously he was Professor of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London, and before that Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham. His current research project is concerned with the craft of directing (for a Reader for Palgrave) and his interest in bodies and theatre is now being extended into an exploration of the relationship between (staged) body and national identity. His most recent publications include: 2010 associate editor with Simon Donger, and ORLAN, ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 ‘The Matter of ORLAN’ in ORLAN: A Hybrid Body of Artworks London: Routledge; 2010 with Mick Wallis, Studying Plays (third edition) London: Bloomsbury

Lynne Kendrick

ta-editor — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:48:02 +0000

Lynne Kendrick is a lecturer in drama at Central School of Speech & Drama (CSSD) and teaches on BA DATE and MA Theatre Studies (Performance in the City). She is also a founder and director of Camden People’s Theatre, a north London venue that produces contemporary theatre and has a history of exploring emergent applied theatre practices including verbatim theatre, intergenerational, intercultural and interdisciplinary practices. Lynne was a fellow of CSSD’s Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre exploring emergent graduate training and production opportunities and she managed the School’s graduate company residency scheme ‘Central Companies’. Lynne recently published in TDPT on actor training and she is co-editor, with Dr. David Roesner of Theatre Noise: the sound of performance due for publication in 2011.

Experience Bryon

ta-editor — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:48:55 +0000

Experience Bryon is a graduate of NYC High School of Performing Arts and Monash University, Australia, and has had a ten year professional career in performance as a singer, dancer and actor in opera, film, TV, theatre, and musical theatre. She started teaching at Central in 2006 as a lecturer in performance and directing and now leads the MA Performance Practices and Research. Prior to this, Experience was Director of Performing Arts at KBCC, City University of New York and has taught at the Australian Academy of Music and Auckland University. She was Artistic Director of the Front Room in Australia and has directed and choreographed for opera throughout Australia, New Zealand and the US. She is a practicing, classical singer, choreographer and director and served in recent years as Artistic Director of Experience Vocal Dance Company. She has published numerous articles in the the areas of voice, movement and acting and her upcoming book, Integrative Performance: Practice and Theory for the Interdisciplinary Performer, will be published next year by Routledge.

Conference welcome

ta-editor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:01:35 +0000

Tony Fisher, conference co-curator.

Thursday 14 July, 11:15 – 11:30
New Studio, Embassy Extension

Roberto Sánchez-Camus

ta-editor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:55:23 +0000

Roberto Sánchez-Camus is from Chile/USA. His work focuses on participation, community, urbanism, politics through a variety of time-based media. He has developed assemblages of creative individuals in Coalition of Creative Artists in 2000, Blank Collective in 2003 and currently Lotos Collective of London (founded in 2006). Through Lotos he directs and devises site-responsive projects in the UK and abroad while maintaining a solo live artist practice along side this. Past creative residencies include Hoxton Hall Rebirth, London 2011; Rifrazioni Festival, Italy 2010; Zoukak Cultural Centre Beirut, Lebanon 2009; Youth Visions, Ghana, West Africa 2008; O’Theatrone, Naples, Italy 2007. He was awarded a BFA in Visual Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York and an MA Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Roberto is currently awaiting to defend his doctorate dissertation in Applied Live Art completed under the supervision of Fiona Templeton at Brunel University.
www.camusliveart.net

Stephen Farrier

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:30:16 +0000

Stephen Farrier is a senior lecturer and course leader in drama, applied theatre and education at Central School of Speech & Drama. He studied Humanities (Drama) at Leicester University and Modern Drama Studies at the University of North London and received his PhD in 2002 with a thesis focussing on theorising a queer reading praxis. Stephen began his career working in the community at Camden People’s Theatre as a project director, whilst teaching on a sessional basis at a number of colleges and universities. His academic work focuses on the politics of theatre and performance and its relation to representation and identity. The production work he does with students is based around issues of identity, theatrical form and representation. Research and practice work are centered around post war/contemporary theatre and focus on gender, gender and theatre, queer theory, and the postdramatic. Stephen has written and presented to conferences on sexuality and television soap opera, gender variance, queer, Sarah Kane and the new brutalists, studio performance and praxis, as well as queer takes on the formation of acting. His current work explores form and its relation to the political.

Alison Forsyth

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:18:10 +0000

Alison Forsyth is a lecturer in theatre studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Gadamer, History and the Classics (2002) and co-editor of Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (2009). Amongst other projects, she is currently writing a book titled Arthur Miller's Holocaust Plays: The Trauma of Articulation

Oladipo Agboluaje

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:15:24 +0000

Oladipo Agboluaje is a writer, whose plays include: Early Morning (Futuretense/Oval House) Mother Courage and her Children (adaptation, Eclipse Theatre, national tour) The Estate (Tiata Fahodzi), God is a DJ, Knock Against My Heart (Theatre Centre), For One Night Only (PBAB), British-ish (New Wolsey Youth Theatre), Captain Britain (New Wolsey/Talawa)The Christ of Coldharbour Lane (Soho Theatre), The Hounding of David Oluwale (adaptation, Eclipse Theatre, national tour), Iya-Ile – The First Wife (Tiata Fahodzi, Soho Theatre), The Garbage King (adaptation, Unicorn Theatre).

Ian Palmer

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:12:14 +0000

Ian Palmer is currently visiting professor of military psychiatry at King’s College, Institute of Psychiatry, London. He spent 25 years in the British army, half as regimental medical officer mainly to infantry regiments (including 4 years as the SAS doctor). He was the first psychiatrist to British UN Forces in Bosnia 1993/4 and Rwanda 1994 and was also the first (only) tri-service professor of military psychiatry 1996-2003. For 4 years he worked as the head of the UK Medical Assessment Programme (MAP) providing mental health assessments for UK veterans (consultations without limit of time). During this time he saw 350 cases (which amounts to about 1000 hours of face to face consultations). He is an adviser to Veterans’ Aid, the pre-eminent charity for homeless veterans in UK and has also been a service user with post-traumatic mental illness.

Amanda Stuart Fisher

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:57:31 +0000

Amanda Stuart Fisher is a senior lecturer at Central School of Speech & Drama. Prior to coming to Central in 1999, Amanda taught drama and dance at a secondary school in Haringey, before moving into the field of theatre education in 1996 when she worked as Education Coordinator at the Royal Court Theatre. She subsequently worked freelance as an applied theatre specialist on a number of projects, including playwriting in schools at Hoxton Hall (funded by Carlton) and Seven Sacraments by Neil Bartlett (Artangel/Gloria Theatre Company, 1998). In 1997-1998 she also worked as a drama workshop leader at a mental health centre in East London. Amanda‘s areas of research and practcie include: playwriting, verbatim theatre and theatre of testimony. Her applied theatre work is both practical and theoretical, focusing currently on the use of stories derived from lived experience and the ethics of practice

Nando Messias

ta-editor — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:08:42 +0000

Nando Messias has recently gained his doctorate’s degree at the Central School of Speech & Drama. The main focus of his research has been the intersections between the social and the performance elements of the sissy body, abuse and space. He is originally from Brazil, where he graduated in Dramatic Arts in 2000. Nando also holds an MA in Performance from the Central School of Speech & Drama, where he has worked as a visiting lecturer. Since moving to Britain, he has worked extensively in the East London cabaret scene. He is a founder member of the Eat Your Heart Out Collective and has been working as a performer and as a movement director for the Theo Adams Company, with whom he has performed in Tokyo, at the ICA in London and in Austria. In 2009, Nando appeared alongside Vaginal Davis in Bruce La Bruce’s theatrical production of The Bad Breast in Berlin.

Broderick Chow

ta-editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:45:47 +0000

Broderick Chow is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Performing Arts Development, University of East London with interests in popular performance in relation to political change and mobilisation, and performance as ideological critique. His recently completed practice-as-research PhD thesis, ‘How to do things with jokes: relocating the political dimension of performance comedy’ is the first PhD to be awarded by the Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London. His practice includes solo performance, public intervention, installation and stand-up comedy, with five years on the UK comedy circuit. Current research projects include investigating comic and satirical influences in the rhetoric of American politicians, parkour in relation to the physical architecture of global finance, and the economy of labour and work in musical theatre.

Eve Katsouraki

ta-editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:48:34 +0000

Eve Katsouraki is a senior lecturer in theatre studies at the University of East London. Her main research interests concern the intersections between theories of aesthetics, political philosophy, and most particularly Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau, with performance theory. Her doctorate research at the University of Edinburgh and current publications explore issues of early modernist theory in performance in relation to politics and philosophy. Her practice is interdisciplinary and includes writing and directing postdramatic theatre, filmmaking and multimedia performance, with a particular emphasis on performance installation art and interactive practices. She is currently working towards a monograph on the aesthetics and politics of early modernist performance.
Other research projects include investigating the notion of the sublime in contemporary performance theory, radical performance and theories of subjectivity, the politics of subversion and experimental performance, and the manifesto as acts of radical performance.

Vicky Angelaki

ta-editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:40:54 +0000

Vicky Angelaki is lecturer in English and drama at Birmingham City University. Her research focuses on contemporary British theatre, aesthetics and politics and phenomenology. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas and has presented papers in many international conferences. Her book The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange will be published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Simon Bayly

ta-editor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:05:12 +0000

Simon Bayly is a principal lecturer in drama, theatre and performance at Roehampton University and artistic director of the London-based performance collective PUR. His first book, A Pathognomy of Performance, published by Palgrave in March 2011, weaves together a series of conversations between the work of major philosophers and an eclectic range of phenomena, from the celebrity on stage to the theatricality of the laugh, grimace and sneeze, exploring how ‘the passion for the real’ that continues to grip contemporary thought finds itself expressed in everyday acts of failure, accident and collapse. He is currently developing projects exploring the aesthetics of organization in grass-roots social movements.

Plenary and close of conference

ta-editor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:19:49 +0000

Friday 15 July, 16:30 – 17:30
new studio, embassy extension

In Conversation

ta-editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:39:44 +0000

Geoff Colman with playwrights Alecky Blythe, Dennis Kelly and Neil Grutchfield

THURSDAY 14 JULY, 18:00 – 19:00
NEW STUDIO, EMBASSY EXTENSION

Performance/Lecture

ta-editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:22:11 +0000

Open Offer for Elbow Room – A Silent Lecture
by Antje Hildebrandt

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THURSDAY 14 JULY, 13:30 – 14:15
CLEAN REHEARSAL ROOM, WEST BLOCK

Presentation

ta-editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:11:27 +0000

The natural limits of humans and things: how Station House Opera works
by Julian Maynard Smith with respondent Robin Nelson

For thirty years Station House Opera under the direction of Julian Maynard Smith has been making work in a wide variety of media. Throughout there has been a common approach, based on testing the boundaries where human intentions come up against natural restrictions. How have these been manifest in an output that has consistently experimented with the ways to make performance?

THURSDAY 14 JULY, 13:30 – 14:15
REHEARSAL ROOM 6, WEST BLOCK

Book Launch and Wine Reception

ta-editor — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:50:56 +0000

Robin Nelson: Stephen Poliakoff on Stage and Screen (Methuen, 2011)

Robin will be here to talk about his new book over a glass of wine …….

Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television. Moving from playwright to television and film director, he has been hailed as “TV’s foremost writer” (The Independent) and as “one of our most poetic and best TV dramatists” (Daily Telegraph). In the USA, his TV “films” have received industry acclaim, The Lost Prince winning three Emmy Awards and Gideon’s Daughter two Golden Globes. However, Stephen Poliakoff has not fully received the critical attention his substantial achievement deserves.
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THURSDAY 14 JULY, 19:00 – 20:00
THE ATRIUM

Julian Maynard Smith

ta-editor — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:41:13 +0000

Julian Maynard Smith has produced solo and group performance work since 1978. In 1980 he founded Station House Opera and is its artistic director. Since then the company has produced 35 productions at major venues world-wide. Commissions include marking the centenary of the Brooklyn Bridge (1983), the Bicentenary of the French Revolution (1989) and the Allied bombing of Dresden (1996). In 2004 the company began a series of telematic productions linking performance sites around the world.
Recent productions include Dominoes (2009), a CREATE Olympic commission linking the five boroughs of the 2012 Games, and Mind Out (2009), on tour in Britain and Europe.
He was Kettle’s Yard Fellow at Cambridge University in 1993 and has taught in art, architecture and theatre schools in Holland and Britain. He currently holds an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Dramaturgy of Telematic Theatre at Central School of Speech & Drama, London.
www.stationhouseopera.com

Foot Washing for the Sole

ta-editor — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:57:34 +0000

Adrian Howells invites you to take the weight off both your feet and mind as he washes and dries your feet, anoints them in frankincense and sweet almond oils and massages them.

Partially inspired by his recognition of how the three major religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism tend to betray their spiritual values, Foot Washing for the Sole is an intensely personal and moving interaction, which forces us to address our own spirituality, culture and faith. Breaking down the barriers between performer and audience, Adrian tenderly and lovingly washes, oils and finally massages the participant’s feet in a one-to-one encounter that is at once beautiful, comforting, thought-provoking and filled with humility. Through a gesture that resonates with particular significance across all societies, he helps – via our two main points of contact – to quite literally reconnect us with the world.

Timetable. To book a place contact Gail Hunt on 020 7449 1571

THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, VARIOUS TIMES
VIEWING & SEMINAR ROOM, EMBASSY EXTENSION

Plenary

ta-editor — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:42:03 +0000