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Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/FAX (416) [log in to unmask] http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~reed/reed-l.html => REED-L's home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 16:23:23 0400 From: terry wade <[log in to unmask]> To: Multiple recipients of list PERFORM <[log in to unmask]> Subject: change of 'zoo session/session1 Change of session, 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies Early Drama in Modern Performance Session 1 Thursday May 9, @10a.m., Room 300 Regretably, James Stokes, our third speaker in the session, is unable to attend the Congress this year. In his place, however, Alexandra Johnston (who steps graciously into the fray) previews some of her latest findings from early 16th c. churchwardens' accounts from St. Laurence, Reading. The session's slate now reads >From Page to Stage:How Decisions are Made Kim Yates, University of Toronto Responding to Garrett Epp's paper ""Director Go to Hell: PLS and the Historical Reconstruction of Medieval Drama" Kim Yates surveys the practice of staging medieval plays during the 20thc and examines practical and theoretical issues faced by a director in staging early drama. Norfolk Records of PreProduction Work: A Contextual Look at a King's Lynn Christmas Play James Cummings, University of Leeds In his exploration of King's Lynn chamberlains' accounts, dramatic extracts published by the Malone Society, and other Lynn records, James Cummings shifts focus away from the 'play' to the 'players', to witness the importance of a production to the citizens of King's Lynn and discover what can be sain about those people involved in a production of a mid-15thc Christmas play. Reading the records: the case of St. Laurence, Reading Alexandra Johnston, University of Toronto Working from transcriptions of early 16thc churchwardens' accounts from St. Laurence, Reading, listing expenses for an Adam and Eve play, and another about Cain, Sandy Johnston guides us through an exercise in how to read the records, detailing ways to tease out what happened, from the records. Terry Wade, organizer (and compiler)