Le colloque international British Theatre in the 21st Century est organisé par l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Royal Holloway - University of London et l’Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, les 13, 14 et 15 octobre prochains en Sorbonne et à l’École Normale Supérieure. Invités d'honneur : Tim Crouch, David Greig et Katie Mitchell.
Organisateurs: Elisabeth Angel-Perez, Liliane Campos, Aloysia Rousseau et Dan Rebellato
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British Theatre in the 21st Century: New Texts, New Stages, New Identities, New Worlds
Conference organised by Paris-Sorbonne University (VALE EA 4085), Royal Holloway (University of London) and Sorbonne-Nouvelle University (Prismes EA 4398). Hosted by Paris-Sorbonne University and the École Normale Supérieure, 13-15 October 2016.
Registration: http://colloque.paris-sorbonne.fr/
Conference Programme :
Thursday, October 13:
Morning session - Salle des Actes, Sorbonne (54 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris)
08.30: Registration
09.00: Conference opening
Panel 1: Theatrical Politics
09.10: Martin Middeke (Augsburg)
Singularities Compearing: Contemporary British Theatre and/as an Inoperative Community
09.30: Vicky Angelaki (Reading)
Theatres of Crisis: New Writing and Innovation in 21st Century Britain
09.50 Discussion
10.10 Coffee Break
Panel 2: National Theatres
10.30: Mike Pearson (Aberystwyth)
On Site with National Theatre Wales
10.50: Trish Reid (Kingston)
National Theatre of Scotland
11.10 Discussion
11.30: Keynote speaker: David Greig
The Constructed Space
12.30: Lunch break
Thursday, October 13:
Afternoon session - Salle des Actes, Sorbonne (54 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris)
Panel 3: Scotland’s Theatre
14.00: Donna Soto-Morettini (Edinburgh)
Dunsinane and The James Plays: New Histories and the “Age Old Question”
14.20: David Overend (Royal Holloway)
Rantin and Raving: Kieran Hurley’s Aesthetic Communities
14.40: Discussion
Panel 4: Politics and the Public
15.00: Marilena Zaroulia and Louise Owen (Winchester and Birbeck)
Dramaturgies of Assembly: Contemporary British Theatre and Collective Politics
15.30: Marissia Fragkou (Canterbury)
Precarity and the Politics of Dispossession in Contemporary British Theatre
15.50: Discussion
16.10: Coffee Break
Panel 5: New Voices
16.30: Nicholas Holden (Lincoln)
‘There are Times when Naturalism just isn’t Enough’: Breaking open the Kitchen Sink in the Theatre of Alistair McDowall
16.50: Sarah-Jane Dickenson (Hull)
Political and Social Identity in the Plays of James Graham
17.10: Clara Escoda Agusti (Barcelona)
‘Her Heart Knows my Heart for a Brief Moment’: Mediated Affect and Utopian Impulse in Many Moons (2011) by Alice Birch
17.30: Discussion
18.00: End of day
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Friday, October 14
Morning session - Salle Jean Jaurès, ENS (29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris)
Panel 6: Tim Crouch
09.00: Déborah Prudhon (Paris-Sorbonne)
Children's Games in Tim Crouch's Plays: Towards a “More Theatre”
09.20: Clare Wallace (Prague)
Back to Basics – The Dematerialised Theatre of Tim Crouch and Andy Smith
09.40: Discussion
10.00: Keynote speaker: Tim Crouch
The Informed Hunch
11.00: Coffee Break
Panel 7: The Theatre and Its Audiences
11.30 Helen Freshwater (Newcastle)
Stepping up, Singing along, Speaking out: Twenty-first Century British Musical Theatre and its Audiences
11.50 Kirsty Sedgman (Bristol)
National Theatre, Local Audiences
12.10 Mark Smith (York)
Large-Scale Community Involvement in Regional British Theatre: Politics, Economics, Aesthetics
12.30: Discussion
13.00: Lunch break
Friday, October 14
Afternoon session - Salle Jean Jaurès, ENS (29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris)
Panel 8: Katie Mitchell
14.30: Adam Ledger (Birmingham)
‘Freedom within Form’: Katie Mitchell in Rehearsal
14.50: Tom Cornford (London)
Dramaturgies of Procedure: Katie Mitchell and the System
15.10: Discussion
15.30: Keynote speaker: Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell in Conversation
16.30: Coffee Break
Panel 9: Churchill & Tragedy
16.50: Mark Robson (Dundee)
Appeared Again: Churchill and the Time of the Tragic
17.10: Jen Harvie (Queen Mary)
Caryl Churchill, Attending to Ageing
17.30: Discussion
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Saturday, October 15
Morning session - Amphithéâtre Guizot, Sorbonne (17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris)
Panel 10: British theatre & diversity
09.30: Damien Giraud (Grenoble)
Minor Voices in British Drama: a Political Reading of debbie tucker green’s random and Alecky Blythe’s Little Revolution
09.50: Jerri Daboo (Exeter)
The Arts Britain Still Ignores?
10.10: Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway)
Somewhere to Call Home? Immigration and Asylum in 21st Century Black British Women’s Playwriting
10.30: Discussion
11.00: Coffee break
Panel 11: Performance
11.20: Ramona Moss and Anna Street (Free University Berlin and Paris-Sorbonne)
Sounding the Stage – Towards an Aural Aesthetics in 21st Century British Theatre
11.50: Séverine Ruset (Grenoble)
“Political how?” Forced Entertainment and the Impossible
12.10: Seda Ilter (Birkbeck)
Alternative Texts: Exploring the Ontology of Text in Mediatised Theatre, Blast Theory’s Karen
12.30: Discussion
13.00: Lunch break
Saturday, October 15
Afternoon session, Amphithéâtre Guizot, Sorbonne (17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris)
Panel 12: Beyond Now
14.00: Chris Megson (Royal Holloway)
‘All that’s Needed, in the End, is Belief’: Contemporary British Theatre and the Provocation of Belief
14.20: Ben Fowler (Sussex)
Staging Aeschylus Now: British Adaptations of The Oresteia in the 21st Century
14.40: Clare Finburgh (Kent)
A Turning Point in Theatre History: War as Spectacle on the Twenty-First-Century UK Stage
15.00: Discussion
15.30: Coffee Break
Panel 13: New writing
15.50: Liz Tomlin (Birmingham)
From Text to New Writing: Interrogating the ‘New’ in England’s New Writing Narrative
16.10: Catherine Love (Royal Holloway)
A New Kind of New Writing? Shifts in New Play Development in Britain
16.30: Discussion
16.50: End of day
Parallèlement au colloque, La Compagnie Bela Justic présentera Un chêne de Tim Crouch, dans une traduction et une mise en scène de Jean-Marc Lantéri, en coproduction avec le Centre National du théâtre, du 11 octobre au 5 novembre à la Maison d’Europe et d’Orient, 3 passage Hennel, 75012, PARIS. Métro : Gare de Lyon. Du mardi au samedi à 20h30.
Réservations : 01-40-24-00-55 - www.sildav.org tarifs 15/10/5 euros. (Spectacle complet le 12 et 13 octobre)