PROGRAMME
2005 ACTR Conference / Colloque de l'ACTR 2005
May 28 - 31, University of Western Ontario, London du 28 au 31 mai



Samedi le 28 mai / Saturday May 28:


 

Time/ L=heure

 

Delaware GC5
Main Dining Room

 

Delaware GW1  Main Lounge

 

Delaware GC6  or other

 

830-900

 

 

 

 

 

coffee

 

900-1030

 

Plenary presentation/Discours plénier: Dean Gilmour Chair/Prés. Bruce Barton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

coffee

 

 

 

Theatre, Performance & Performativity / Théâtre performance, le Ajouable et l=injouable@ Chair/Prés. David Fancy

 

 

 

 

 

1045-1115

 

Pil Hansen: Optical filtration of performative principles: from Guillermo Verdecchia's words through the corporeality of Sara Gebran

 

 

 

 

 

1115-1145

 

Rob Appleford: Meat Dreams: The ‘Windigo Complex’ of Trauma/Desire in Moses’ Brébeuf’s Ghost and Ruffo’s A Windigo Tale

 

 

 

 

 

1145-1215

 

Gregory Reid: Terry Eagleton=s Sweet Violence and the Architectuality of Dramas by Bolt, Dubé and Albee

 

 

 

 

 

1215-1245

 

Allan Pero: "But you have friends": Performance and the Zone between Two Deaths in the Plays of Sarah Kane

 

 

 

 

 

1245-1400

 

 

 

TRIC Editorial Board

 

CHP & Scirocca lunch &  launch

 

 

 

Canadian Playwrights/Dramaturges canadiens Chair/Prés. Sherrill Grace

 

Feminist Theatre/Théâtre féministe

Chair/Prés. Claire Borody

 

 

 

1400-1430

 

David Ferry: Blackfeet to Main Street: The evolution of Community in James Reaney=s Donnelly Trilogy

 

 Sarah Ferguson: Feminist Canadian Women Directors(=) Take on Tradition

 

 

 

1430-1500

 

Robin Whittaker: Nuclear Families and Burning Re-Visions: TimeSpace Rehistoricizations in Marie Clements= Burning Vision

 

Lia Marie Talia: Does One Good Marriage mean you have to be a Liar?

 

 

 

1500-1530

 

Jerry Wasserman: Merrill Denison: Towards a Revaluation

 

Corinne Rusch-Drutz: (Re)Presenting Mothering: The Unhappy Marriage of Motherhood and Theatre Practice

 

 

 

1530-1600

 

Kym Bird: Bad Habits: Sister Mary Agnes, jingoism, and the question of Literary Citizenship in A Patriot=s Daughter and other plays

 

Kim Solga: Spaces Within and Spaces Between: Ground Plans for an Architecture of Feminist Performance

 

 

 

1615-1745

 

Workshop #1: Andrew Houston: Deep-Mapping the Conference Routine: A Workshop of Site-Specific Performance Practices for the Conference Goer

 

 

 

 

 

 

1930-2100

 

 

 

 

 

The Grand  cabaret
Talbot Theatre

 

 
Dimanche le 29 mai / Sunday May 29:

 

Time/ L=heure

 

348 Talbot College

 

348a Talbot College

 

348b
 or other

 

830-900

 

 

 

 

 

coffee

 

 

 

Shakespeare Chair/Prés. Leanore Lieblein

 

Reconsidering the mosaic/Repenser la mosaïque Chair/Prés. Glen Nichols

 

 

 

900-930

 

Ric Knowles: Shakespearean Performativity, English History, and the First Tetralogy in Performance

 

Muriel Gold: Experiment in two tongues at the Saidye Bronfman Centre Theatre

 

 

 

930-1000

 

Robert Ormsby: Adapting Shakespeare to Canada in the Culture of Global Celebrity

 

Jennifer Heywood-Jackson: Les deux solitudes revisités: The Self as the >Other= in Larry Tremblay=s Chicoutimi

 

 

 

1000-1030

 

Anna Racette: Shakespeare in the Body: An Exploration of the Pedagogical Mandate of the Stratford Festival

 

Judith Rudakoff: AWho am I and Where is Here?@ : Qaggiq Theatre in Iqaluit and the Preservation of Voice through Performance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

coffee

 

 

 

Responses to Shakespeare/En réplique à Shakespeare Chair/Prés. Jessica Gardiner

 

Citizenship-Gay Theatre/Citoyenneté et théâtre gai Chair/Prés. Bruce Barton

 

 

 

1045-1115

 

James McKinnon: Djanet Sears  Dramaturgy of Appropriation in Harlem Duet

 

Peter Dickinson: Tim Miller=s Body Politics: Solo Performance Practice and Sexual Citizenship in America, 1984-2004

 

 

 

1115-1145

 

Leanore Lieblein: The Ghost of Ophelia and the Aesthetics of Absence

 

Catherine Graham & Jennifer Taylor: Creating The Environment For Social Change

 

 

 

1145-1215

 

Mark McCutcheon: Shakespearean Adaptation and Cultural Capital in Toronto's Party Scene

 

J. Paul Halferty: Queer and Now: the  Queer Signifier at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

 

 

 

1215-1330

 

 

 

 

 

PCP launch/lunch
Delaware Dining RM  1

 

1330-1500

 

Roundtable/Table ronde:

Stratford Connection/ Les liens avec Stratford

Chair/Prés. Cynthia Zimmerman

Peter Hinton, Nicolas Billon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roundtable/Table ronde: Directing The Donnellys:  A Discussion / Mettre en scène les Donnelly: une discussion

 

Chair/Prés.David Eden

Participants:  Terry Tweed, Kelly McIntosh, Andrey Tarasiuk, Len Falkenstein

 

Borders & Boundaries/Bornes et frontières Chair/Prés.Anna Migliarisi

 

 

 

1515-1545

 

Karen Lazar: Who=s / whose professional: the actor in English Canada

 

 

 

1545-1615

 

Paula Sperdakos: From Upper Canada to Broadway: Elizabeth Jane Phillips, Grande Dame of American Stock Theatre

 

 

 

1615-1645

 

Marlene Moser & Gyllian Raby: The Age of Terror and a New McCarthyism: Arthur Miller's profile of citizenship in The Crucible

 

 

 

1730-1900

 

 

 

 

President=s Reception/ Réception du président

 

1930-2100

 

 

 

Somerville House: The Great Hall:
Brick Books & ACCUTE: Reaney Book launch & reading with Workshop by David Ferry: The “Listener’s Workshop”: Reaney Play-Making / Atelier autour de l’oeuvre de Reaney

 

 

 
Lundi le 30 mai / Monday May 30:


 

Time/ L=heure

 

348 Talbot College

 

348a Talbot College

 

348b

or other

 

900-1000

 

 

 

Room UC 224:  Monique Mojica: Joint event with ACQL & CACLALS: Stories from the body: Blood Memory & Organic Texts.

Session conjoint avec l=ALQC et ACELLC

 

 

 

 

 

Staging Citizenship/Mettre en scène la citoyenneté Chair/Prés. Anne Nothof

 

Franco-Ontario Panel & playwright reading: joint presentations with ACQL

 

 coffee

 

1015-1045

 

Jenn Stephenson: Aspiring Divinities: Writing Subjectivity and the Paradoxes of Fictional Citizenship

 

Le Théâtre de Michel Ouellette

The theatre of Michel Ouellette: Chair/Prés. Louise Ladouceur.    10:30 am -12:00 pm

 

Johanne Melançon et Lucie Hotte: *De French Town au Testament du couturier de Michel Ouellette: la critique franco-ontarienne face à la critique québécoise+

Stephanie Nutting: *Le théâtre et sa doublure: Michel Ouellette et l'envers du théâtre franco-ontarien+

Patrick Leroux: *Intertextualité, relectures et adaptations dans l'œuvre dramatique de Michel Ouellette+

 

 

 

1045-1115

 

Izabela Skorzynska: The Byelorussian rock-opera "Narodny Albom": Theatrical citizenship for contemporary Byelorussians

 

 

 

1115-1145

 

Milija Gluhovic: Learning Europe: European identity and citizenship for the new millennium

 

 

 

1145-1215

 

Geraldo Ferreira de Lima : Black theatre in Brazil and Canada: from stereotype to authenticity

 

 

 

1215-1245

 

John Poulsen & Abdulrasheed Yaro Lecky: How the tortoise Shattered his Shell: Story Theatre

 

Reading & Discussion / lecture et discussion avec Michel Ouellette

Chair/Prés. Patrick Leroux   12:00-12:45 pm

 

 

 

1245-1400

 

 

 

Francophone/phile Caucus

 

Lunch Break

 

 

 

Crossing Generations-Crossing Cultures/ Traverser les générations et les cultures Chair/Prés. Susan Knutson

 

Canada & the War/Le Canada et la guerre Chair/Prés. Bruce Kirkley

 

 

 

1400-1430

 

Patrick Finn & Marilyn Potts: Performing Citizenship: Upstaging Instrumentality in the Academy

 

Nancy Copeland: Dreaming the Great War: Stephen Massicotte=s Mary=s Wedding

 

 

 

1430-1500

 

Claire Borody: The dramaturgy of magic: The creation of children=s theatre using literature and process-centred construction methods

 

Patrick O'Neill: The RCAF entertainments in world war II

 

 

 

1500-1530

 

Kim Renders: Searching for a Voice

 

Sherrill Grace: Answering Fair Liberty's Call: Canada's Theatre of War

 

 

 

1530-1700

 

AGM/AGA

 

 

 

 

 

1700-1815

 

Workshop-Philip Lortie & Kathleen Gallagher: 'I'm just not going to play a gay role': Homophobia and Silence in the Drama Classroom

 

 

 

 

 

EVE.

 

 

 

 

 

BANQUET
Medway Hall

 


 
Mardi le 31 mai / Tuesday May 31:

 

Time/ L=heure

 

348 Talbot College

 

348a Talbot College

 

348b

 

 830-900

 

 

 

 

 

coffee

 

 

 

 

Comparative Production/Productions comparées Chair/Prés. Greg Reid

 

 

 

900-930

 

Paul Corey: Canadian Theatre and the Tragic Experience of Evil

 

John A Hawkins: Who Was Afraid?:  The Avant- Garde in Calgary's Pre- Professional Theatre

 

 

 

930-1000

 

Barbara Pell: George Ryga=s AHail Mary@ and Tomson Highway=s Nanabush: Two Paradigms of Religion and Theatre in Canada

 

Scott Duchesne: AIncredible Capitalists@ and the Great Canadian Patriot: Robin Mathews, Selkirk and the construction of the Great Canadian Theatre Company

 

1000-1030

 

Janet  Tulloch &Tanit Mendes: Set Design as  Cosmic Metaphor: Drawing the line between Drama and Religious  Spectacle

 

Natalie Papoutsis: Identifying with Oedipus: The Audience=s Collaboration in the Re-Construction of Ancient Tragic Figures on Radio

 

1030-1100

 

Anton Wagner: The Powers of Darkness-The Powers of Light: Evil, the Divine, Love and Reincarnation in Patricia Joudry's Dramas

 

Bruce Barton: The Awesome and Amazing Authoring Experiments of Zuppa Circus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 coffee

 

1115-1155

 

Carmen Medina, Gus Weltsek, George Belliveau - Reflective practices in drama teacher preparation

 

 

 

 

 

1155-1215

 Mariette Theberge: La problématique de la formation à l=enseignement au secondaire en art dramatique/théâtre dans un contexte linguistique minoritaire

 

 

 

 

 

1215-1330

 

 

 

 

 

lunch break

 

 

 

Education Panel /Séances sur le théâtre et l=éducation #2: Chair/Prés: George Belliveau

 

Space & Subjectivity/Espaces et subjectivité: Chairs/Prés. Andrew Houston & Laura Levin

 

 

 

1330-1400

 

Diane Conrad: Drama, Role Theory and AAt-risk@ Youth: Implications for Teacher Education

 

Andrew Templeton: Radix Theatre

 

 

 

1400-1430

 

Francine Chaîné :Le conte comme révélateur d=apprentissage en art dramatique

 

Kathleen Irwin: Arrivals and Departures: The Bus Project/Community

Interactivity

 

 

 

1430-1500

 

Kathleen Gallagher: Drama and the Production of Knowledge: Respectful Forgeries and Faithful Betrayals

 

Chris Eaket: Psychogeography and Cybercartography: Project [murmur]

and the Performativity of Space

 

 

 

 

 

Education Panel/Séances sur le théâtre et l=éducation #3: Chair/Prés: George Belliveau & Francine Chaîné

 

 

 

 

 

1500-1530

 

Linda Lang: What School Teachers can teach Theatre Artists: A Top Ten List

 

 

 

 

 

1530-1600

 

Debra McLauchlan: When context battles concept: Preaching transaction in a transmissive teaching environment.

 

 

 

 

 

1600-1630

 

Belarie Zatzman: Remarks on the panel papers

 

 

 

 

 

1700-1900

 

 

 

Old/New Exec. meeting

 

 

 

 

Bulletin / Newsletter 29.1