PROGRAMME

 2000 ACTR Conference / Congrès de l'ARTC 2000

 May 24-27, University of Alberta du 24 au 27 mai


Mise-à-jour le 26 avril 2000 / Update April 26, 2000

Tues. May 24 - mardi le 23 mai

1430- ? : Réunion de l'exécutive / Meeting of executive (FAB 2-43)

Wed. May 24 - mercredi le 24 mai

0900: President's Welcome / Accueil du président  TCA 111 Second Playing Space
0910: Drama Department Welcome: Chair Jan Selman

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


Thurs. May 25 - Jeudi le 25 mai:

0900-1100:  Panel Session:  "The Political Aesthetics of Trickster and Clown" (Julie Salverson) TCA 111 Second Playing Space   (Prés/Chair: Ted Little)
        Julie Salverson [title TBA]
        Don Bouzek [title TBA]
        Chris Cavanaugh [title 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.


Fri. May 26 - Vendredi le 26 mai:

0900-1030: Concurrent Sessions / Séances concomitantes

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)


Sat. May 27 / Samedi le 27 mai:

0900-1200:  Joint Panel Session with ACCUTE:  "Sharon Pollock: Plays, Performances, Perspectives"   TCA 111 Second Playing Space
        Sherrill Grace  "Sharon Pollock's Portrait of the Artist"
        Cynthia Zimmerman  "Sharon Pollock:  Transfiguring the Maternal"
        Kathy Chung  "Mourning and Inheritance in Sharon Pollock's Fair Liberty's Call"
        James DeFelice  "Directing Sharon Pollock:  Staging the Personal and the Political"
        Anne Nothof  "Staging the Intersections of Time in Docand Moving Pictures"
plus Readings from Sharon Pollock's plays

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

Bulletin / Newslet 24.1