FRIDAY 24 MAY - Le vendredi 24 mai
1500-1800: Meeting of the Executive/Réunion du Bureau de la direction (Serenity Room)

2000+: Pre-Conference Theatre:  Crave by Sarah Kane at the Studio Theatre, Glen Morris Street(a one-hour Drama Centre production of the British play, followed by pub talk).
            Théâtre précédent le congrès : Crave, par Sarah Kane, au Studio Theatre, rue Glen Morris (une production du Drama Centre d’une heure de la pièce britannique, suivie d’une causerie).

0830-0900: Morning Coffee / Pause-café
0900: Welcome/Discours d’accueil

0915-1100: Plenary Session/Séance plénière:
Canadian Performance/Practice: Portraits of the Artist: Plays by Canadian Women
Performance/pratique canadienne : Portrait de l’artiste : Pièces de théâtre par des femmes canadiennes
Présidente/Moderator: Cynthia Zimmerman
 Sherrill Grace Artemisia’s Sisters: Sally Clark and the Artist’s Life
 Anne Nothof Stifled Creativity in Sharon Pollock’s Angel’s Trumpet
 Louise Forsythe Pol Pelletier’s Joie
 Moira Day Portrait of the Artist in Old Age: Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s The Lodge
 Joy Coghill On the Creation of Song of This Place

1100-1115 Refreshments / Rafraîchissements

1115-1245 Plenary Session/Séance plénière:
Witness to Oppression: Junctures of Memory: Theatrical Responses to State Violence
Témoin de l’oppression : Les frontières de la mémoire : Les réponses du théâtre à la violence étatique
Présidente/Moderator: Julie Salverson

 Ruth Howard Placemats and What’s the Difference Between an ‘Artist’ and a ‘Cultural Animator’
 Wolfgang Vachon Working with Victims in South Africa & Canada
 Rosemary Jolly Pedagogy, Politics and Aesthetics in theatre for women in South Africa
 Julie Salverson Dramaturgy and The Haunting of Sophie Scholl

1245-1430 Buffet Luncheon and Book Launch sponsored by TALONBOOKS (RGT Lobby)
Buffet-déjeuner et lancement de livres commandité par TALONBOOKS (le hall du RGT)

1430-1600 Plenary Session/Séance plénière
Canadian Theatre in Theory and Practice:
Le théâtre canadien en théorie et en pratique
Gregory J. Reid Canadian Theatre in Theory and Practice
Autres participants à déterminer / Participants: TBA
Président/Moderator: Bruce Barton

1600-1800 ACTR/ARTC Founders Reception: A party celebrating the origins & first twenty-six years of the Association’s work, with special guests (RGT)
Réception des fondateur.e.s ACTR/ARTC Une réception qui célèbre les fondateur.e.s et les premier vingt-six ans de travail de l’Association; avec les invité.e.s vedettes  (RGT)

2000+ Theatre options include:
Crave by Sarah Kane at the Studio Theatre, Glen Morris Street (a Drama Centre production of the British play)
Revealed By Fire by Lata Pada, at the Mississauga Arts Centre (the subject of Judith Rudakoff’s paper Sunday morning)

Les choix de pièces de théâtre sont :
Crave, par Sarah Kane, au Studio Theatre, rue Glen Morris (une production du Drama Centre de la pièce britannique)
Revealed By Fire, par Lata Pada, au Mississauga Arts Centre ( le sujet de la communication de Judith Rudakoff qui sera présentée dimanche matin)

915-1045 Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes

#1 Canadian Performance/Practice: Inventing Canada
Performance/pratique canadienne: Réinventer le Canada (Salle de répétition / Reh Rm)
 Jerry Wasserman The Englishman’s Boys and Girls: Canadian Theatre and American Power (1873, 1923, 1953)
 Patrick Leroux Nous, tu: Moi.  Un aperçu du personnage dans les espaces historiques et biographique des dramaturgies canadiennes de lange anglaise et française
 Patrick O’Neill Clay M. Greene’s performance of ‘Louis Riel’ (1885)

#2 Opening the ‘Box’:  Multimedia Dramaturgy (RGT)
Ouvrir la « boîte » : Dramaturgie multimédia (RGT)
 Bruce Barton Playing with the Enemy: Performance and Reception in Contemporary Canadian Theatre
 Judith Rudakoff The Role of the Dramaturge in Lata Pada’s Revealed By Fire
 Susan Aaron Canadian Performance & Digital Technology

1045-1100 Refreshments / Rafraîchissements

 1100-1230 Plenary Session/Séance plénière
avec/with the Association of Canadian and Quebec Literatures/Assoc. des littératures canadiennes et québécoises (ACQL/ALCQ):
Translation in Canadian Theatre/La traduction au théâtre canadien: a roundtable with/une table ronde avec Glen Nichols, Louise Ladouceur, Jane Koustas, Sonya Malaborza, et/and Bernard Lavoie (RGT)

1230-1400 Buffet Luncheon & ACTR/ACQL Reception (RGT Lobby) & TRIC/RTC Editorial Board Meeting (Serenity Rm)
Buffet-déjeuner et réception de l’ARTC/ALCQ (le hall du RGT) et réunion du comité de rédaction du RTC/TRIC dans la Serenity Room

1400-1530 Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes

#1 Witness to Oppression: Politics and the Portrayal of Domestic Life (RGT)
Témoin de l’oppression :Les relations familiales (RGT)
 Marlene Moser Private/Public Tensions in Perfect Pie & Habitat
 James Papoutsis Reading Betty Lambert’s Under the Skin

#2 Opening the ‘Box’: Capital and the Consumer in Paratheatrical Performance
Ouvrir la « boîte » : Le capitalisme et le consommateur au sein de la performance parathéâtrale
(Salle de répétition / Reh Rm)
 Scott Duchesne The Joy of Kirk: Reading William Shatner at SFX 2001
 Marlis Schweitzer Skirting the Boundaries: Lucille’s Fashion Show/War Drama on the Vaudeville Circuit
 Natalie Alvarez ‘Are You an Actor?’: Big Fat Inc. and the Secret Agents of Capitalism

#3 Canadian Performance/Practice: Genre Shifts
Performance/pratique canadienne : Changements de genre (Serenity Room)
 David Eden Falling out of Fashion: Attitudes towards the work of James Reaney
 Dario Del Degan ‘Heads in Jars’: The Decapitation Metaphor as a Gateway into Possible Worlds for the Here and Now
 Alan Scheer Did Larry’s Party Sing? Adapting Canadian Fiction to the Musical Theatre Stage

1530-1545 Refreshments / Rafraîchissements

1545-1715 Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes

#1 Witness to Oppression: Theatre after Censorship
Témoin de l’oppression : Le théâtre après la censure (RGT)
 Erik Weissengruber Between East and West: Defining Europe’s Boundaries in Pentecost and Mad Forest
 Tibor Egervari Comparaison des pratiques théâtrales d’Europe centrale et de l’Amérique Nord
 Geraldo Ferreira de Lima ‘To Strike or Not to Strike’: That’s the Question in Gianfrancesco Guarnieri’s They Don’t Wear Black & David Fennario’s On the Job

#2 Opening the ‘Box’: Environmental Stagings
Ouvrir la « boîte » : Mises en scène et environnement (Salle de répétition / Reh Rm)
 Derek Mohamed The Burning Man Festival as Performance
 Kathleen Foreman Theatrical Frontiers: Eco Theatre and Parks Canada
 Kirsty Johnston Citing/Siting the Asylum: Tripping Through Time and Environmental Theatre at Toronto’s Workman Theatre Project

#3 Canadian Performance/Practice: Pioneering Canadian Dance
Performance/pratique canadienne : Danse canadienne originale (Serenity Room)
The Contributions of/Les contributions d’Evelyn Geary, Gladys Forrester, Lilian Jarvis
Presentation by/ Conférencières: Mary Jane Warner, Jennifer Bolt and Lee Tovey

1900+ Playwrights Union of Canada/ Theatrebooks Reading and Reception (at Theatrebooks): Participants TBA
Playwrights Union of Canada/Lecture pubique et réception à Theatrebooks. Participants à déterminer

0900-1030 Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes

#1 Witness to Oppression: Race, Ethnicity & the Outsider
Témoin de l’oppression : Les races, les apparences ethniques et l’étranger (Salle de répétition / Reh Rm)
 David Fancy Crossing the Threshold: Koltes, Essence and ‘Blackness’
 Jacqeline Petropoulos Remapping the Boundaries of Representation: Critical Responses to Jessica
 Michael Devine The Enemy is Us: Shifting Definitions of the Outsider in Newfoundland Drama

#2 Opening the ‘Box’: Body Theory (RGT)
Ouvrir la « boîte » : Théorie du corps (RGT)
 Andrew Houston The Unmarked Measure–Measuring Performance on the Transdisciplinary (Playing) Field
 Clarissa Hurley ‘New Bodyism’ and the Actor’s Body in Commedia dell’arte
 Krista Charbonneau Pushing the Limits of Puppetry and Politics in Ronnie Burkett’s Memory Dress Trilogy

#3 Canadian Performance/Practice: Patronage, Promotion, and the Development of Canadian Theatre and Dance
Le parrainage, la promotion et le développement du théâtre et de la danse au Canada  (Serenity Room)
 Alex Hawkins The Role of the Patron/Lobbyist in the development of Canadian Theatre
 Amy Bowering Setting the Stage for Professionalization: The Canadian Ballet Festivals 1948-54
 Tony Vickery There’s No Accounting for Livent: The Collapse of a Corporation

1030-1045 Refreshments / Rafraîchissements

1045-1230 Plenary Session/Séance plénière
avec/with the Canadian Gay and Lesbian Studies Association/Soc. can. des études lesbiennes et gaies
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Queer Thinking About Theatre
Allant de l’avant, regardant le passé : Réflexion gaie sur le théâtre (RGT)
 Doug Arrell Homosexual Panic in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
 Ian Mozdzen ‘They Play the Sodomites’: The Staging of Sodomy in Elizabethan England
 Sky Gilbert Circumscribing the Profundity of our Desire: Oscar Wilde’s Confession
 Wes D Pearce A Place for Us?: Gay Men in Contemporary Theatre

1230-1400 Buffet Luncheon and ACTR/CGLSA (RGT Lobby)
Buffet-déjeuner et réception de l’ARTC/SCELG (le hall du RGT)

1400-1545 Concurrent Sessions/Séances concomitantes

#1 Politics, Theory and the Playwright
Les opinions, la théorie et le dramaturge  (Salle de répétition /  Reh Rm)
 Maria-Clara Galery Valle-Inclan and Brecht: Towards a Gestic Reading of Bohemian Lights and Mr Punch the Cuckold
 Milija Gluhovic The Ethics of Cultural Recall in the Present: Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes
 Miriam Glushakoff Dangerous Theatre: Greselda Gambaro’s Information for Foreigners
 Sean Carney The Boundary: The Intersection of Tragedy & the Postmodern in the Recent Plays of Edward Bond

#2 Performing Women / Inventing Women
Interpréter la femme/Réinventer la femme  (Serenity Room)
 Jennifer Roberts-Smith Generic Miracles: Hrotswitha’s Theatrical Poetics
 Yana Meerzon Anton Chekhov’s ‘Hundred Pounds of Love’ in Russian Modern and Postmodern Drama
 Marcia Blumberg Donning Masks, Crossing Boundaries: The Performance of ‘Emotional Autobiography’ in I, Claudia
 Valerie Senyk The Terror of Performing Beckett’s Not I

#3 Realist Plays/ Anti-Realist Techniques (RGT)
Pièces réalistes/approches anti-réalistes (RGT)
 Silvija Jestrovic Uncle Vanya after Theatre of the Absurd: the Soulpepper Production
 Kate Jamin Re-Membering the Farm Show
 Claire Borody The Construction of Realistic Theatre Using Non-realistic Training/Dramaturgy
 Leslie Barcza Debussy as Symbolist in Pelléas et Mélisande

1600-1730 ACTR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
                   ASSEMBLÉ GÉNÉRALE ANNUELLE ARTC (RGT)

1730-1900 CSSH/University of Toronto President’s Reception, Great Hall, Hart House

1900PM+ ANNUAL BANQUET AND AWARDS:
BANQUET ANNUEL ET PRIX
Gallery Grill, Hart House [steps away from the Great Hall/à quelques pas du Great Hall]
Membre honoraire/Honorary Member: Paul Thompson

TEACHING AND THE ACADEMY
L’ENSEIGNEMENT ET L’INSTITUTION
NOTE: Sessions will be held in the Robert Gill Theatre
NOTA : Les sessions auront lieu au Robert Gill Theatre

0900-0930 Morning Coffee / Pause-café

0930-1115 Theatre as/in Education
Le théâtre en tant que moyen d’éducation et au sein de celle-ci
Cam Culham The Use of Theatre to Teach ESL
Glenys McQueen-Fuentes & Kathleen Gould Lundy The Story: Dissolving Boundaries Through Narrative
 Monica Prendergast ‘Imaginative Complicity’: Audience Education in Professional Theatre–The Belfrey Theatre
 Corinne Rusch-Drutz Good Female Parts: Analyzing the Culture of Institutionalized Theatre Scholarship

1115-1130 Refreshments / Rafraîchissements

1130-1300 ‘Multiple Intelligences’ and Pedagogic Theory:  Teaching Academic Theatre: Introductory Paper by George Belliveau, followed by round table responses by Marlene Moser, Bruce Barton, Marc Ceolin, John Poulsen, and open discussion with the audience.
Théories pédagogiques et « intelligences multiples » : l’enseignement du théâtre à l’université: Première communication faite par George Belliveau, suivie d’une table ronde réunissant Marlene Moser, Bruce Barton, Marc Ceolin, John Poulsen, et d’une discussion libre avec le public.
Président/Moderator: Stephen Johnson

1300 Conference ends/ Fin du colloque

1300+ Old/New Executive Meeting /Réunion dela direction sortante et nouvellement élue (Serenity Room)

Newsletter / Bulletin 26.1