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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Conference: Renaissance Drama in Action Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:48:09 -0500 From: Jeremy Lopez <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal for the study of renaissance drama in performance, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is pleased to announce the RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION conference, to be held November 8-12, 2006 on the University of Toronto campus. RENAISSANCE DRAMA IN ACTION will give scholars interested in performance an opportunity to grapple with the practical realities of moving from the page to the stage. Conference participants will sign up for a rehearsal-and-performance workshop. Each workshop will focus on a single scene from a play, one which exemplifies particular problems, challenges, and/or rewards involved in staging renaissance drama. Workshop leaders will communicate with workshop participants well in advance of the conference to outline a plan for pre-conference research, and in-conference rehearsal and presentation. Each workshop presentation will be followed by seminar-style discussion. No acting experience is expected or required. Please do not send abstracts: there will be no presentations of scholarly papers outside of the workshops and keynote speeches. Following is a list of the featured workshops: 1. Death and Metatheatricality OR 1a. Text, Gesture and Comedy in Early Modern Drama Roberta Barker, Dalhousie University 2. Rehearsing with Roles Michael Basile, New Jersey City University 3. Original Stage Practices for the Contemporary Theatre Jacquelyn Bessel, Mary Baldwin College/American Shakespeare Center 4. Othello 3.3. 257-326 Michael J. Collins, Georgetown University 5. Staging Amateur Student Shakespeare with Straightforward Stanislavsky Hillary Fogerty, Mercyhurst College 6. Every Man Out 2.2.166-397 Tara Hayes, Wayne State University 7. “Be Your Tears Wet?”: Performing Tears On Stage Yu Jin Ko, Wellesley College 8. Animating the Text: Performing Corpses and their Spirits in Early English Drama Karen Sawyer Marsalek, St. Olaf College 9. A King and No King 3.1: Rehearsing Confusion Paul Menzer, University of North Texas 10. Exploring Measure for Measure 2.3: Mandated Acts and Open Choices Edward L. Rocklin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 11. “Subject to Change” The Knight of the Burning Pestle 4.1 and 4.2 P. A. Skantze, U. of Glasgow and Rome, Italy Paul Prescott, Warwick University Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire 12. Editing in Action Sarah Werner, Folger Shakespeare Library The conference will also feature keynote presentations by Ralph Alan Cohen (Mary Baldwin College and the American Shakespeare Center), Helen Ostovich (McMaster University), and Paul Yachnin (McGill University). It will conclude with a fully staged theatrical production of Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour. The registration deadline is APRIL 30, 2006. For workshop descriptions, to sign up for a workshop, and for further information about registration fees, hotel, etc. please send email to Jeremy Lopez at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. -- Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/reed-l.html> http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/ => REED's home page http://www.reed.utoronto.ca/stage.html => our Web guide http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page