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Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures
Minghella Building,
University of Reading
9th-11th April 2015
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SCHEDULE
Thursday 9th April
10.00 -11.00 Registration & coffee
11.00 – 11.30 Welcome and opening address
11.30 – 13.30 Panel 1: Performance and the Archive
David Houston Jones (University of Exeter), Performing the Archive in Samuel Beckett
Sinead Mooney (De Montfort University), ‘Centre and Circumference’: Traces of Provincial Godots in the Theatrical Archive, 1955-1970
Racquel Merino (University of the Basque Country), Beckett and Spanish stage censorship (1955-1976)
Kene Igweonu (Canterbury Christ Church University), Talawa’s Waiting for Godot
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch (served each day in the foyer of the Minghella Building)
14.30 – 16.30 Panel 2: The Performing Body
Hannah Simpson (Boston University), “Is there anything you ever write for an actor that isn’t physically painful?”: The Actor’s Physical Suffering in the Beckettian Production.
Andrew Head (University of Hull), Beckett’s Implied Actor: Debts, Legacies and a Contemporary Performance Culture.
Niamh Bowe (University of Reading), Ethics in Contemporary Performance: Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby at the Royal Court Theatre, 2014.
Andrew Lennon (University of Birmingham), Beckett and Darkness: The drive to and the flight from …
16.30-17.00 Coffee
17.00 – 18.00 Keynote 1: Phillip Zarrilli, Embodied consciousness in the actor’s practice: reflections from “inside” Beckett’s texts in performance
18.00 – 19.30 Wine reception and launch of the exhibition ‘Waiting for Godot: 60 years on’ and the Staging Beckett database
Friday 10th April
8.30 – 9.00 Registration & coffee
9.00 – 11.00 Panel 3: Sonic Legacies & Radiophonic Echoes
Pim Verhulst (University of Antwerp), Beckett’s ‘Adaphatroce’: Rethinking Theatre through Radio
Paul Stewart (University of Nicosia), Adapting Lessness: Lessons from Radio and Stage
Lisa Fitzgerald (NUI Galway), Radio Waves: Pan Pan, the BBC and Performing the Radiophonic Body
Catherine Laws (University of York), The Legacy of Beckett in Music Theatre
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.45 Panel 4: Word and Gesture
Jack Belloli (University of Cambridge), Beckett, Forced Entertainment and the Grace of Audience Gesture
Burç İdem Dinçel (Trinity College Dublin), ‘”The motion alone is not enough”: Hearing Beckett’s Footfalls in Suzuki’s Grammar of the Feet’
David Tucker (University of Chester), ‘Smile Off’: Beckett’s Stage Directions and Performance History
12.45-1.30 Lunch
Exhibition open 12 – 2pm
1.30 – 14.30 Keynote 2: Derval Tubridy, Practice, Performance and the Figural Body
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 16.45 Panel 5: Irish Theatre and Performance Cultures
David Clare (NUI, Galway), The Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global
Siobhan O’Gorman (Trinity College, Dublin), Beckett out of Focus: Happy Days and Waiting for Godot at Dublin’s Focus Theatre
Rodney Sharkey (Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar), “The Dark Back Streets:” Beckett in the City
16.45 – 17.00 Coffee
17.00. – 18.00 Keynote 3: S. E. Gontarski, Samuel Beckett in Performance: The Questions We Ask
18.00 – 19.00 Wine reception and launch of Jim Knowlson’s Festschrift
20.00 Conference dinner at Loch Fyne, The Maltings Bear Wharf, Fobney St, Reading. See separate registration via the Online Store. If attending the dinner, you must book in advance.
Saturday 11th April
9.00-9.30 Registration and coffee
9.30-11.00 Panel 6: Staging Beckett in International Theatre Cultures
Anita Rákóczy (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences & Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary), Earth That Shakes. Earth That Covers. Godot and Happy Days, 2014: Two Beckett Premières in Katona József Theatre, Budapest
Luzmaria Sanchez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana / Lerma (Mexico), Beckett in Mexico
Stefano Rosignoli (University of London), Oh les beaux jours: Venice Premiere and Reception in Italy
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15- 1.15: Panel 7: Adaptation, Performance & Intermediality
Sozita Goudouna (Royal Holloway, University of London), Beckett’s Intermedial Breath: Defying The Boundaries Between Staging and Displaying
Nicholas Johnson (Trinity College, Dublin), “The Neatness of Identifications”: Transgressing Beckett’s Genres in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 2000-2015
James Little (Trinity College, Dublin), The Politics of Performance at 14 Henrietta Street: Beckett and Anú Productions
Roman Fohr (University of Amiens), Life Flashing in a Work of Art
1.15 – 2.00 Lunch
Exhibition open 12 – 2pm
2.00 – 3.00 Keynote 4: Ronald Pickup in conversation
3.00 – 3.30 Coffee
3.30 – 17.30 Samuel Beckett Laboratory Workshop: Samuel Beckett and Experimental Cultures: a performance workshop on The Unnamable & Not I
Co-facilitators: Jonathan Heron & Nicholas Johnson
Please note that places for the workshop are limited and available on a first registered basis only
3.30 – 17.30 Making Performance Histories: Staging Beckett & Beyond
This is an interactive session utilizing the ‘Waiting for Godot at 60’ exhibition materials in order to critically reflect on how such archival materials help to generate performance histories. The session will provide an opportunity to engage with issues which are important within Beckett Studies and in theatre and performance studies more generally such as the processes of documenting performance, the ways in which we remember (and forget) performance, the elements of performance that the archive fails to record, the problematics of generating narrative from archival remnants, and the relationship between the archive and the institution.
17.30 – 18.30 Closing remarks and repair to Park House on the University of Reading campus.
