| 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 |
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| 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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |