0915-1015: Plenary Session / Séance plénière:
"The Failure of Theatre History" (Susan Bennett) TCA 111 Second Playing
Space
Respondent: Ric Knowles
1015-1030: Coffee Break / Pause café
1030-1200: Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes
1. Performances, Ltd.: Material Constrictions on Artistic Production
(FAB 2-51 Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Gregory Reid
Melanie
Stevenson "Fighting Words: Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) on
the Chautauqua Circuit"
Don
Perkins "Net/Working with George Ryga"
John
A. Hawkins "Setting the Record Straight: Workshop 14, the MAC
Theatre Society, and Theatre Calgary"
2. "All the World's a Stage": The Demands and Impl-ications of Transnational
and Transdisciplinary Performance (TCA 111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Jim DeFelice
Joyce
Miller and David Brundage "Globalization in Dance and Theatre:
Mutare and the Polish Dance Theatre of Gdansk"
John
Gamble "Performing Across Cultures and Disciplines"
10:30 - 12:00 : TRIC/RTC Editorial Board Meeting / Réunion des comités de rédaction TRIC/RTC: FAB 2-43
1200-1300: Lunch Break / Déjeuner
PCC Meeting / Réunion du CAP: FAB 2-43
1300-1415: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. Offstage Semantics: Questions of Authority . . . and Peter Pan!
(FAB 2-51 Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Kim McCaw
William
Kerr "The Designer as ‘Visual Dramaturg'"
Wes
Pearce "Whose Play is it Anyway: Ownership, Copyright,
and Intellectual Property"
John
Poulsen "Directing Peter Pan: The Potential and the Pitfalls"
2. Play at Work: Theatre in ESL, Canadian Colleges, and the University
(TCA 111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: David Barnet
Cam
Culham "‘The Silent Language': Theatre as a Vehicle for Intercultural
Communication and Education"
Virginia
B. Cooke "Canadian Theatre in the Colleges"
Edward
Little "Avoiding the Missionary Position: Ethics and Efficacy and Interculturalism
in a New Undergraduate Theatre Programme"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1415-1430: Coffee Break / Pause café
1430-1630: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. RePossessing the Person: Staging the Postcolonial Subject (TCA 111
2nd Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Piet Defraeye
Reid
Gilbert "Escaping the ‘Savage Plot': Interpellation and Transgression
in George F. Walker's Suburban Motel"
Rosalind
Kerr "Reproducing Ideology in Betty Lambert's Jennie's Story"
David
Bateman "‘Performativity and Performance' in the Work of Three
Canadian Gay Male Writers"
2. Hidden Subjects, (Dis)covered Conventions (FAB 2-51 Corner
Stage)
Prés/Chair: Denyse Lynde
Judith
Fisher "Revisiting Masks and Faces; or, Why Use Makeup?"
Shelley
Scott "Courtroom Drama: Gender and Violence in Contemporary Theatre"
Ann
Wilson "The Ideology of Theatre as Redemption in Our Country's
Good"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1730-1900: Women's Caucus: Supper Meeting / Réunion du Com. des femmes: lors du souper (Rosalind Kerr) Location TBA
1100-1115: Coffee Break / Pause café
1115-1230: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. Addressing Performance: The Situation of Theatre in the Community
(TCA 111 Seond Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Alex Hawkins
Margaret
Van Dyke "Rosebud Theatre: A Success Story in the Theatrical
Backwater"
Kathryn
Osterberg "Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit: Performance Theatre for
Their Community"
Claire
Borody "‘Travellers of Speed': Eugenio Barba and the Primus Theatre
Phenomenon in Winnipeg"
2. Narrative Navigations: Questioning Identity Through Storytelling
Devices (FAB 2-51 Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Don Perkins
James
Dugan "Timothy Findley's Bold Experiment in Can You See Me Yet?"
George
Belliveau "Mixing Meta-theatre and Memory in Contemporary Canadian
Drama"
Robert
Appleford "Red Sons in the Sail Set: Hazards of Occupation in
Floyd Favel Starr's Lady of Silence and House of Sonya"
1145-1245: Réunion du CFF/FFC meeting : FAB 2-43
1230-1330: Lunch Break / Déjeuner
Workshop re: Journal Publication: intended for graduate
students and other interested participants(Susan Bennett, Ann Wilson, Moira
Day): TCA 111 Second Playing Space
All afternoon sessions dedicated to Sessions in French / Cette après-midi les séances se présenteront en français:
1245-1330: Un film en français / French Film FAB 2-51
1330-1445: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. "Des dramaturgies et des théâtres en mouvement" (TCA
111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Joël Beddows
Tibor
Egervari "Un art minoritaire pour une minorité culturelle?"
Dominque
Lafon "La théâtre de Michel Ouellette: mise en espaces
d'un exil"
Glen
Nichols "La dramaturgie d'Herménégilde Chiasson"
2. "L'Ouest, le vrai, ses compagnies, ses artistes" (FAB
2-51 Corner Stage )
Prés/Chair: Hélène Beauchamp
Louise
Forsyth "Les enjeux d'une pratique dramaturgique et théâtrale
francophone à Saskatoon"
France
Levasseur - Ouimet "Le théâtre français en Alberta:
un outil de développement culturel"
Hamida
Bendriss "Historique du théâtre de langue française
en Colombie-Britannique"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1445-1500: Coffee Break / Pause café
1500-1630: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. "Inventer un théâtre la situation socio- géographico-économico-culturelle
du théâtre franco-ontarien (TCA 111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Tibor Egervari
Catherine
Graham "Le Théàtre Français de Toronto sous la
Direction Artistique de Diana Leblanc (1991- 1996)"
Patrick
Leroux "Alliances, coproductions et échanges entre le Québec
et la francophonie canadienne"
Hélène
Beauchamp " Le lieu de la creation théâtrale/la création
d'un lieu théâtral- Les compagnies de création théâtrale
dans leur théâtre
Joël
Beddows "Quelle métropole pour le théâtre
franco-ontarien?."
2. FAB 2-51 Corner Stage
Roger
Parent "La pédagogie dramatique de Jacques Lecoq: analyse
et hommage"
Breakout Room as necessary:FAB 2-43
1700-1900: U of A President's Reception/Réception
du président de l'Université
in Butterdome near the Book Fair area / au Butterdome près
du Salon des livres
1900-???: Free Evening / Soirée libre
Performances/Activities available for ACTR/ARTC participants on Thursday
evening:
2000-2130: Performance Event (to be confirmed):
2000: Participants may attend A View From the Bridge at Studio Theatre (Timms Centre). Tickets available at Timms Centre Box Office. Limited Availability.
1. Body Over Mind: Performative Inquiries, Inquisitive Performances
(FAB 2-51 Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Deborah Cottreau
Warren
Linds and Kadi Purru "Diasporic Conjunctures: Encuentros With/In-Between
Latin Canadian ‘Popular' Theatre"
Linda
Rubin "Igniting Intuitive Movement Theatre"
2. State of the Theatre, Theatre of the State: The Role of Drama in
Constructing Nationhood
(TCA 111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Richard Plant
Gregory
Reid "English Drama in Quebec: A Status Report"
Moira
Day "Bridging the Boundaries: French-English, English-French
Translation in Saskatoon in the 1990s"
Alan
Filewod "The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1030-1045: Coffee Break / Pause café
1045-1200: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. Identity Mapping: Mythology and Landscape on the Canadian Stage (TCA
111 2nd Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Patrick O'Neill
Robin
Whittaker "Othering the Canadian North: Identity Construction
and the Mythologies of Herman Voaden"
Kathleen
Irwin "Situating Shafer: Landscape and Wilderness in R. Murray
Shafer's Wolf Project"
Marc
Maufort "Dramatizing the North: Magic Realism in Judith Thompson's
Sled"
2. Loose Canons: Freaking Conventions in Contemporary Canadian Performance
(FAB 2-51 Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Alan Filewod
Scott
Duchesne "Dada Canada: Reading the Tom Green Show"
Jamie
Skidmore "Contortion – Its Twisted Evolution Within Cirque du
Soleil"
James
McKinnon "Viking Up Shakespeare: Travesty and Countercolonization
in Michael O'Brien's Mad Boy Chronicle"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1200-1400: Lunch Break
Book Launch and Reception / Lancement du livre et réception:
Lobby, Timms Centre
Lorena Gale, PUC; Eugene Stickland and Ron Chambers, Red Deer; David
Belke, Conni Massing and Brad Fraser, NeWest
1400-1530: Joint Panel Session with FSAC/ACEC: "Research
in Theatre and Film" : TB 45 (Édifice Tory Building)
Prés/Chair: Andre Loiselle
Natalie
Neill "Shagsbeard...Shakspur...Shasper: The Authorship Controversy
in Shakespeare in Love"
Bruce
Barton "There's More Than One Way To Build a House: Translating
MacIvor's Stage to Screen"
Brett
A. Enemark "Double Vision: Masculinity in Wedding In White"
Maurice
Yacowar "Auguries of Cubism in Les Enfants du Paradis and Othello"
1530-1545: Coffee Break / Pause café
15:45 - 17:00: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes
1. Stages, Scenes, and Arctic Drag Queens in 19th Century Canada (TCA
111 Second Playing Space)
Prés/Chair: Moira Day
Wojtek
Kozlinski "The Royal Arctic Theatre: Theatrical Entertainments
Performed Aboard Royal Navy Ships Wintering in the Arctic in the Years
1819 - 1875"
Patrick
B. O'Neill "Dressing the Stage: The Early Years."
Rebecca
Burton "The (Forgotten) Glories of Mrs. Morrison's Regime"
2. The Magic Hand – Questioning Public Funding of the Arts (FAB 2-51
Corner Stage)
Prés/Chair: Cynthia Zimmerman
Cordula
Quint "Who is the Dog and Who Wags its Tail? Colonialism
and the Political Economy of Transnational Capital"
Denyse
Lynde "Thanks for Dessert, But Could I Have a Sandwich?
Newfoundland's Special Project Funding"
Barbara
Drennan "Miss Piggy: How Performance Saved My Bacon; or,
Serious Play in Action"
Breakout Room as necessary: FAB 2-43
1830 onwards: Banquet At the Inn on 7th (downtown Edmonton: 100 Avenue and 107 Street) Via LRT to Corona Station (directions available at ACTR/ARTC Conference)
1200-1300 Lunch Break / Déjeuner
1300-1430 Annual General Meeting / Assemblé
générale annuelle : TCA 111
1430- 1530 Meeting of Old and New Executives
1515-1530 Meeting of Old and New Executives with HSSFC
/ Réunion des bureaux exécutifs sortant et nouvellement élu
avec FCSHS : TCA111