PROGRAMME
2004 ACTR Conference / Colloque de l'ACTR 2004
May 29 - June 1, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, du 29 au 1 juin

Saturday May 29
Time /      L'heure       
Black Hole Theatre Studio
8:30 - 9:00  
 coffee/café
9:00 - 9:20      
Opening Remarks/ Discours d'accueil:
Anne Nothof

9:20 - 10:30   
Plenary Speaker/ Discours plenier:
Michael Lawrenchuk

10:30 - 10:45   
coffee/café
  
10:45 - 11:45   
Native Canadian Theatre Practice/
Roundtable discussion: Micheal Lawrenchuk (chair/pres.)
 Columpa Bob - playwright/ theatre artist
Marie Clements - playwright/ director
Yves Siou Durant - playwright /director
Douglas Nepinak - playwright
Ian Ross - playwright

11:45 - 12:15   
Reading of New Play by Ian Ross
12:15 - 13:30   
NeWest Book launch and reading

Les textures lumineuses:
Panel Presentation/ Séance de communications:
Drama For Social Change
      
13:30 - 14:00      

Patrick Neilson (McGill University): Lighting design in Beckett's theatre
Shawn Huffman (UQAM): Ateliers de lumière: création et éclairages chez Didier-Georges Gabily
Pascal Robitaille (UQAM): La nuit tous les chats sont gris: la lumière et le 'devenir-animal' chez Bernard-Marie Koltes
Eric Pare (UQAM): Évanouissements luminieux: le théâtre de Sarah Kane

George Belliveau (UPEI): Drama as a way to promote social change
14:00 - 14:30       
Warren Linds (U of Regina): Enacting metaxis: Embodied knowing and Theatre of the Oppressed
14:30 - 15:00      
 J. A. Sokalski (McMaster U): Playing for the Birds: Sanctuary as the Site for the Confluence of Social Protest and Polite Society in the Early Twentieth Century
15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 15:45   
coffee/café

    Reconfiguration  
 Places and Playwrights
15:45 - 16:15        
Bruce Kirkley (UCFV): Refashioning The Overcoat David Eden (U of Toronto): The Winnipeg Years of James Reaney
16:15 - 16:45      
Robyn Read (U of Guelph): Witnessing the Deconstruction and reconstruction of Monsters: The Transmogrification of Judith Thompson's Capture Me Geraldo Ferreira de Lima (Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana Brazil): Oduvaldo Viana Filho and David Fennario: Two Marxist Playwrights
16:45 - 17:15       
Craig Walker (Queen's U): Modernist Literature on the Post-Modernist Stage Tanya D'Anger (Toronto): The cripple metaphor and the search for identity in the plays of Jean-Marc Dalpé
      
17:15 - 18:45   
Workshop #1
Tom Stroud (Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers): movement of text; text in movement

        
Sunday May 30

    Time / l'heure
Black Hole Theatre Studio
8:30 - 9:00 coffee/café

Indians/Natives/Canadians: Overlapping Identities and realities   
From landscape to mindscape
9:00 - 9:30       
Bruce Barton (U of Toronto): Native Drama, Native Performance: Time for New Questions Christopher Grignard (U of Alberta): The Canadian Hometown Gay Play Project: Michel Marc Bouchard's Lac St. Jean Via Le Chemin des Passes Dangereuses! Down Dangerous Passes Road
9:30 - 10:00       
Maureen Hawkins (U of Lethbridge): 'in Indian…, there is no gender': Masculinity, Domesticity, and Adulthood on Tomson Highway's Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing Christine Johns (U of Calgary): Collectively Experiencing the Land: Paul Thompson and the creation of a regional sense of place
10:00 - 10:30   
Jerry Wasserman (UBC): "God of the Whiteman! God of the Indian! God Al-fucking-mighty!": Native People, the Church, and the Residential School Legacy in Two Canadian Plays Ian McWilliams (U of Saskatchewan): Alone with Marconi: Saskatchewan Radio Drama and Isolationism
10:30 - 10:45       
       
 coffee/café

Workshop #2 Definition and Redefinition
10:45 - 11:15       

Shawna Dempsey: process, collaboration and conceptual inquiry
Lia Marie Talia (U of Ottawa): Constructing a New Nation during English Canadian Drama's Decisive Decade 1967 -1977: Beverley Simon's Crabdance and Aviva Ravel's Dispossessed

11:15 - 11:45       
Len Falkenstein (U of New Brunswick): The NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Festival: Growing Playwriting in and About New Brunswick
11:45 - 12:15  
Grahame Renyk (U of Guelph): "Okay, So if I Don't Really Like Judy or Barbara, Musicals Give me a Headache, and Heels Just Make My Feet Hurt, Can I Still Be Gay?": re-defining queer theatre as something that explores rather than expresses
12:15 - 13:30   
Playwrights Canada and Gordon Schillingford reception and book launch
13:30 - 15:00  

       
       
 AGM
15:00 - 15:15  coffee/café

Queering the Praire Stage:
Panel Presentation/ Séance de commincations:
The place of gender/gender and place
15:15 - 15:45   



Doug Arrell (Uof Winnipeg): Remembering Harry Rintoul Rebecca Burton (U of Toronto): The 1990's and Beyond: Feminist Theatre Activity in British Columbia
15:45 - 16:15        
Shawna Dempsey: Imitating Life: Cultural Activism by Mimicing the Mainstream Alan Filewod (U of Guelph): Hors de Combat: Agitprop, Masculinism and the Gendered Theatre Estate
16:15 - 16:45 Wes Pierce (U of Regina): Loud and Queer: Gay Theatre in Regina   
17:00 - 19:00   
Presidents Reception/Réception des présidents
 
19:30 - 21:00       

Franco-Canadian Playwrights: Reading: Lise Gaboury-Diallo (chair/pres)
Jean-Pierre Dubé
Laurier Gareau
Marc Prescott

 
Monday May 31

    Time / l'heure
Black Hole Theatre Studio
8:30 - 9:00     
coffee/café


(A)Dressing Space   
Embedding Identity in Context and Content
9:00 - 9:30       
Andrew Houston (U of Waterloo): Theatre as Heterotopia: The Colony of Creation in Site-Specific Performance Jars Balan (U of Alberta): Canadian Content on the Ukranian Canadian Stage: New World Themes in Plays Written by Immigrant Authors in the Interwar Era
9:30 - 10:00       
Laura Levine (U of California Berkeley): Environmental Affinities: Naturalism and the Feminine Body Cordula Quint (St. Thomas U): Of Violation and Belonging: Identities and Places in Contemporary Theatre
10:00 - 10:30      
Ted McGee (U of Waterloo): Juliet's Dresses: The Stratford Festival, Politics and 'True Beauty'
Kathy Chung (U of Toronto): Sites of Mourning: Place, National Identity and Mourning in Jason Sherman's An Acre of Time and Sharon Pollock's Fair Liberty's Call
10:30 - 10:45   
coffee/café

The Construction of Identity

10:45 - 11:15   
Judith Mendelsohn (U of Calgary): M. NourbeSe Philip's Coups and Calypsos: Dramatizing the Effects of Colonization in Trinidad and Tobago

11:15 - 11:45   
Marlene Moser (Brock U): Construction of Identity in Afrika Solo and Harlem Duet
11:45 - 12:15   
Anne Nothof (Athabasca U): Performing History Backwards: Love and Death in the Crowsnest Pass
12:15 - 13:30       
       
Nelson Book Display TRIC Editorial Board

Discovering the "Other" Theatre/ Decouvrir l"Autre Dramaturgie:
Panel Presentation/ Séance de communications
Fiction or Faction
13:30 - 14:00  
 Louise Forsyth (Saskatchewan): Has Quebec Feminist Theatre Been Theatrical?
Louis Patrick Leroux (Sorbonne Nouvelle): Les stratégies biographiques et autobiographiques chez David Fennario
Glen Nichols (U of Moncton): Laval Goupil and the Roots of Modern Acadian Theatre
Roger Parent (Alberta): The School of Physical Theatre ou Comment adapter le méthode Lecoq au theatre canadien-anglais
 Moira Day (U of Sask.): "The Minister's Daughter": The Sterling Family in England and Ontario
14:00 - 14:30      
 Jessica Gardiner (U of Toronto): "The Swamp of Death": Representing Reginald Birchall, the trial of a performance
14:30 - 15:00 
Cynthia Zimmerman (York U): 'Faction' and Betty Lambert's Under the Skin
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 - 15:45    
coffee/café

Social Positionings and Urban Space: A Challenge for Theatre Pedagogy:
Panel Presentation/ Séance de communications:   
Workshop #3
15:45 - 17:15       
Kathleen Gallagher (OISE)
Philip Lortie (OISE)
Domique Riviere (OISE)
Judith Rudakoff: The Four Elements: New Methods for a Subversive Dramaturgy

 Banquet



Tuesday June 1
    Time / l'heure
Black Hole Theatre Studio
9:00 - 9:30   
coffee/café
9:30 - 10:30   
Plenary Speaker: Leslee Silverman (Manitoba Theatre for Young People)
10:30 - 10:45      
coffee/café

Theory into Practice/Practice into Theory
10:45 - 11:15    
Cam Culham (U of Victoria): Musical Theatre for Language and Culture Learning: Two case studies
11:15 - 11:45   
David Ferry (U of Victoria): Reaney Days in the Summer Kitchen: The confluence of ideas, identities and the place of Winnipeg that influenced James Reaney's theories on education and theatre
11:45 - 12:15   
Patrick Finn and Marilyn Potts (St. Mary's College Calgary): The Space Between: Shakespeare's The Tempest and the Anatomy of Performance
12:15 - 12:45   
Jo Jo Rideout (Bishops U): Powys Thomas: Canada's Seminal Theatre Educator
13:15 - 14:45 Old/ New Exec

    


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