Theatre and Performance Conference
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
19th & 20th June 2015
Provisional programme
Friday 19th June 2015
8.30 – 9.30am
Conference Registration
9.30 - 10.45am
Plenary Lecture by Lisa Merrill
10.45 - 11.00am
Refreshment Break
11.00-1.00
Space and Performance
Beyond Time and Place
Ashley Barnes, Sheffield Hallam
University, “Aliens in Space”
Yukihide Endo, Hamamatsu University
School of Medicine, “Implications of the
Travelling Players“
Krissi Musiol, University of Central
Lancashire, “The Dance Collector:
An investigation into local
communities to gather stories and
experiences related to dance”
Olly Crick, Edge Hill University ,”Commedia
dell’Arte: Finding a Place”
Vian Curtis, University of Cumbria,
“Art Centres, Fire Stations and Car
Parks”
Janice Wardle, University of Central
Lancashire, ‘Fit in its place and time’?
(LLL.1.1.98) – a comparison of
performances of the Royal Shakespeare
Company’s Love’s Labour’s Lost (2014-15)
in the theatre and, as a RSC Live broadcast,
in cinemas.”
Ildiko Solti, “The new playhouse at
Prescot: Theatre architecture as
research instrument in Globe-type
reconstructions”
1.00 - 2.00pm
Lunch
Friday 19th June continued
2.00 - 3.30pm
Staging the Body
“Live Arts”
Representations
Emily Clark, CUNY
Graduate Center,
“Barney With the
Long Blonde Hair:
Television
Personalities, ParaSocial Relationships,
and ‘Friends’ on
Broadway”
Catherine Shaw,
University of central
Lancashire,
“Programming Live Art
and Contemporary
Performance in the
Public Realm”
Lucy Tyler, University of
Gloucestershire, “Imagining
Playwrights: The
Representation of the
Playwright in Contemporary
Playwriting Literature”
Jennafer Small,
University of Central
Lancashire, “Beyond
The Veil: An
Exploration of African
American Female
Stage Performance In
Early Twentieth
Century Theatre”
Marc Silberschatz,
University of
Sunderland, “Looking
for Occurrence and
Making it Occur:
Attempting to Resolve
the Tension of
Identification-Oriented
Performance Practice”
Page Laws, Norfolk State
University, “Martin across the
Media: Peccadilloes and
Achievements in Katori Hall’s
The Mountaintop and Ava
DuVernay’s Selma”
Chloe Hynes,
University of Chester,
“Hair, Make-Up &
Heels: An
Investigation into
Playing Woman
Through the Broken
Telephone”
Meic Watkins,
University of
Huddersfield,
“Scenography and the
Director – Facilitator or
Smotherer? - A case
study from a regional
rep theatre”
Michael Carklin, University of
South Wales, “The Science
'Bioplay': Bringing the lives of
scientists to the stage”
Beyond the Body:
Puppets and MakeBelieve (early
morning/late PM)
Mike Pacey, University
of Central Lancashire,
“Living Dolls: A radical
estrangement or
uncanny interactions in
a world of automata”
Anna Wheeler, Radius
Drama Society, “The
Paradox of
Performance:
Imagination and finding
the Real in the Unreal”
Movement Methods in
Performance Training
3.30 - 3.45pm
Refreshment Break
3.45 - 4.45pm
Performance and
Reception
Russell Anderson,
Oxford Brookes
University, “Testing
the Limits of
Audience CoAuthorship”
Eric Hetzler,
University of
Huddersfield, “The
Alba Method for
Emotion in Actor
Training“
Jean McDaniel Lickson, Florida
State University “Much Ado
About Yoga”
Adriana la Selva University of
Ghent and Marek Turosik,
Academy of Performing Arts,
Prague, “Contemporary
paradigms on actor training
methodologies: articulated
knowledge at The Bridge of
Winds’ group”
Garret Scally,
University of Manchester,
“Performing Languages: the
use of group devised theatre
in additional language
acquisition”
Friday 19th June continued
4.45 - 6.00pm
Plenary by E. Patrick Johnson
6.30 - 8.30pm
Reception
8.30pm
onwards
Free Evening
Saturday 20th June 2015
8.30 – 9.00am
Conference Registration
9.00 - 10.30am
Gender and Sexuality
Dance/Movement
Isel Rodriguez, University of Puerto
Rico, “Queer Among the Godly”
Christine Mazumdar, University of
Toronto, “The Athlete as Artist:
Navigating Performativity in Aesthetic
Sport”
Holly Rain, University of Central
Lancashire, Married Flirts on the
American Stage; Clara Bloodgood
and ‘Becky in Clyde Fitch’s The Truth
Winojith Sanjeewa York St John
University, “Buddhism and performing
artist: Sinhala Dance, Music and Ritual”
Yoshie Endo, “A Creole Reading of
Mishima Yukio’s Lady Aoi (Aoi no
ue)”
10.30 – 10.45
Refreshment Break
10.45 - 12.15pm
“Modernisms”
Performance and Trauma
Region and National
Theatre
Raphael Hoermann,
University of Central
Lancashire, “C.L.R
James’ Toussaint
Louverture (1934) and
Langston Hughes’ The
Emperor of Haiti (1936):
Dramatizing
Revolutionary
Leadership in the Black
Atlantic”
Jason Price, University
of Sussex, “The Popular
and the Avant-Garde:
Performance,
Incorporation and
Resistance”
Lisa Adams-Davey and
Julie Owens, Edge Hill
University, “Dramatising
Complex Trauma: An
exploration of the
collaborative psychocreative process between
Director and Company“
Ben Macpherson,
University of Portsmouth,
“Old Men and Sinking
Ships: Mapping
Britishness as myth,
metaphor and memory in
The Last Ship (2014)”
Anja Drautzburg, St
Hilda's College, University
of Oxford
, “‘Can I
borrow your brain?’ –
Exploring spectator
involvement and ethical
challenges in Duncan
Macmillan’s Every
Brilliant Thing”
Alex Donovan, University
of Birmingham, “Alan
Bleasdale’s Boys from the
Blackstuff (1980-2) and
Frank Clarke`s Letter to
Brezhnev (1985): A very
‘Liverpudlian’ agitprop
Theatre?“
Saturday 20th June continued
10.45 - 12.15pm
Session
continued
“Modernisms”
continued
Will Nelson, University
of Cumbria, “ The Cave
Collapses: 1913 and
London’s
‘Continentalist’
Cabaret"
12.15 – 1.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm-2.45pm
Plenary Lecture by Christopher Bigsby
2.45 – 3.00pm
Refreshment Break
3.00-4.30pm
Performance Research in Practice
Models of/for Theatre and
Performance
Henry Powell, Kingston University,
“What a failure!? A practice based
research enquiry that explores the
concept and aesthetics of failure as it
appears within my own devised work”
Ysabel Clare, Goldsmiths University,
“Stanislavsky’s System: towards an
attentional practice?”
Rebecca Emery, University of Derby,
“Spectatorship & Scenography”
David Coggins, Bury College, “‘A Sense
of Falling’ – (Mis?)Adventures in
Collaboration: An Analysis of Process”
Declan Patrick, Liverpool Hope
University, “Growing Desire”
Fraser Stevens, University of
Amsterdam “Cultural Camouflage:
creating identities in WWII espionage”
4.30pm
Conference Ends