PROGRAMME

 1999 ACTR Conference / Congrès de l'ARTC 1999

 June 2-5, Bishop's University du 2 au 5 juin

Centennial Theatre Complex

Tuesday June 1 - mardi le 1 juin

ACTR Executive meeting / Réunion du Bureau exécutif de l'ARTC : Conference Room
 

Wed, June 2 -mercredi le 2 juin

 0900  President's Welcome / Accueil du présidentStudio Theatre

0915 - 1015  Plenary Session / Séance plénière:  Studio Theatre
 Richard Plant: "The Scopic Monkey Trial: Censorship and Canadian Theatre"

1015 -1030  Break - Pause

1030 - 1200  Two Concurrent Sessions - Deux séances concomitantes

 1. Plays and Playwrights - Textes et dramaturges: Rehearsal Rm
Prés./Chair: Bruce Barton
 Deborah A. Cottreau: "Connie Gault's Red Lips"
 Patricia Badir: "Majorie Lowery Christie Pickthall"
 Christine Boyko-Head: "Dramatic Disguises and Autobiographical Disguises"

2. Cultural Icons - Les Institutions culturelles:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Richard Plant
 J. Lopez: "The Banff Centre for the Arts"
 John A. Hawkins: "The 1950 Dominion Drama Festival in Calgary"
 Kate Cornell: "The Ballet Report of 1962:  A Forgotten Artifact of Canadian Dance Heritage"

1200 - 1330 Lunch - Déjeuner
Meeting of PCC - Réunion du CAP Conference Room

1330 - 1445  Adaptation and Publication East  - Les Adaptations et les publications de l'est:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Glen Nichols
 George Belliveau: "Glace Bay to Hollywood:  A Political and Romantic Journey"
 Bruce Barton: "Dramatists Coop of Nova Scotia"

1445 - 1500 Break - Pause

1500 - 1630  Panel 1  "Establishing our Boundaries:  English-Canadian Theatre Criticism" / Nos frontières: la critique du théâtre du Canada-anglais:  Studio Theatre
Anton Wagner, Chair.  Confirmed panelists include Patrick O'Neill, Don Rubin and Don Perkins.
 

Thurs, June  3 - jeudi le 3 juin

0900 - 1000 Concurrent Session and Workshop - Séance concomitante et atelier

1. Conference Themes - Thèmes du congrès:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Rosalind Kerr
 Janet Hill: "Space and Teaching Drama"
 Wes Pearce: "Self, Muse and Identity"

2. Workshop - Atelier: "Transforming Text into Spirit, Reflection and Inclusion":  Rehearsal Room
Kathy Gould Lundy & Glenys McQueen-Fuentes

1000 - 1015  Break -Pause

1015  - 1200 Panel 2:  "When Canadian Théâtre Goes North--Where and Whose North?" / "Le théâtre canadien au nord — Le nord d'où et de qui?":  Studio Theatre
Sherrill Grace Chair, with Lisa Chalykoff, Kathy Chung, Eve D'Aeth, and Louise Forsyth

1200 - 1400    Lunch - Déjeuner
Meetings of Editorial Boards (TRIC, etc) - Réunions des comités de rédaction (TRIC, etc) Conference Room

1400 - 1500  Session on First Nations - Les Premiers peuples au Canada:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Jerry Wasserman
 Claire Borody: "Sustaining the Margin:  Gender, Heritage and Play-writing First Nations Women"
 Robert Appleford: "History-Telling in Ben Cardinal's Generic Warrior and No-Name Indians"

1500 - 1515  Break - Pause

1515 - 1630  Panel 3: "Theatre in the University" / "Le Théâtre à l'université":  Studio Theatre
Stephen Johnson with Domenico Pietropaolo, and Deborah Cottreau, others tba

1700- 1900 Principal's Reception - Réception de la Principale  (Bishop's Quad)

2000-2200  Readings:  Translation and Identity - Lectures: La traduction et l'identité   (in conjunction with / avec ACCUTE)
 Studio Theatre
Dennis O'Connor:  on the actor in translation
 Marie Claire Blais and her translator, Nigel Spencer,  to read
David Fennario to read in French and English
 

Fri, June 4 - vendredi le 4 juin

0900- 1030 Concurrent Sessions - Séances concomitantes

1. Sites and Producers - Les Sites et les réalisateurs de théâtre:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Sherrill Grace
 Malcolm Page: "Place and the Vancouver Playhouse"
 Michael McKinnie: "Work and Play:  Recuperating the Site of Industrial Labour for Theatrical Labour in Toronto"
 Don Perkins: "Joe Schoctor:  The Amateur as Executive Producer"

2. History, Tradition and Mask - L'Histoire, la tradition et les masques: Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Gregory Reid
 Susan Knutson: "Listen to the Old Women:  A Popular Theatrical Tradition of Female Acadian Monologists"
 Kathleen Foreman & John Poulsen: "MasQuirx and the Traditions of Mask Performance"
Batia Boe Stolar: "The Portuguese Connection"

10:30 - 10:45  Break -Pause

1045 - 1200  Panel 4: The Internet and Canadian Theatre Research:  Studio Theatre
Edward Mullaly, with Glen Nichols and Stephen Johnson

1200-1400   Lunch - Déjeuner

1200-1400 PUC/UTP Joint Book Launch: Staging the North/Establishing Our Boundaries:  Art Gallery
NB. light fare and refreshments will be served

1400 - 1530  Concurrent sessions - Séances parallèles

1. Drama and Performance - Le théâtre et la performance:  Studio Theatre
Prés./Chair: Kathy Chung
 Rosalind Kerr: "Trevor Schmidt's Tales from the Hospital:  A Brechtian Interrogation of Albertan Biopolitical Practices"
 C. Zimmerman: "Dramatizing Anxiety"
 Julie Salverson: "The Seduction of the Tragic Response in Interpreting Boal: Theatre of the Oppressed as Levinasian Encounter with the Neighbour"

2. Performance Spaces and Places - Les espaces de performance: Rehearsal Room
Prés./Chair: Deborah Cottreau
 Ian Gaskell: "Scenography and Ceremony:  Tradition and Performance in a South Pacific Culture"
 Barbara Drennan: "Letting Go of Civility:  Vancouver Moving Theatre Plays Victoria, Taking Space in Place"

6:30  The Banquet / Banquet annuel : Bishop's Faculty Club
Jovette Marchessault will be honoured
 

Sat, June 5 - samedi le 5 juin

0900 - 1030  Le théâtre vu de l'extérieur, vu de l'intérieur...- Other Perspectives  (***Session française***):  Rehearsal Rm
Prés./Chair: Joël Beddows
 Isabelle Barth: "De l'identité et du patrimoine du théâtre au Canada vu par une Européenne"
 Servanne Woodward: "La Parenthèse de sang de Sony Labou Tansi:  Fonctions d'une piéce africaine francophone, jouèe à London, en Ontario"
 Francine Chaîné: "Une expérience d'art dramatique à l'école primaire dans le cadre d'une exposition d'oeuvres d'art du Musée du Québec"

1030 - 1130 Joint Session of SQET and ACTR/Séance  commune de la SQET et l'ARTC :  Les lieux du théâtre
Studio Theatre:  prés./chair:  Hélène Beauchamp with Yves Raymond and Christiane Gerson

1130 - 1300 AGM - AGA   Studio Theatre

1300 - 1400    Lunch - Déjeuner

Meeting of old executive and new - Réunion des bureaux exécutifs sortant et nouvellement élu
 Conference Room

1400- 1530 Réunion du CFF / Meeting of FFC:  Studio Theatre