Theatre Outside the Box Recent years have seen an increase in discourse concerning the interrelationship between "theatre" and "performance," with considerations ranging from how "theatre" and "performance" may coexist to debates over which practice is the future of the field. This symposium seeks to examine different facets of the relationship between "theatre" and "performance" by looking at how notions of "theatre" and "performance" inform one another, while still acknowledging that there are certain practices that may be conceived as distinctly "performative" or "theatrical," depending upon the social, political, and What are the implications of our increasingly performance-oriented society for theatre and vice-versa. |
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cultural contexts in which they occur.Papers may address such topics as: how the theories and methodologies of performance studies can inform and enrich theatre studies, generally and in particular instances; elements of the theatrical outside of traditional performance spaces, as, for example, in performed "events"; the role of theatrical convention in performing identities and/or ritualizing cultural values in unique times and in public or private places; audience reception and participation as a performative event; practices that represent, contest, and invert preconceived notions of both "theatre" and "performance"; "theatrical" sub-genres of "performance" (e.g. the performance monologue, performance theatre); "performance" responses to dramatic texts; the applicability of theories of performativity to theatrical practice. Please send abstracts with a cover letter by November 15, 2002. Abstracts should be 150 - 250 words long and must include the applicant's name, academic affiliation, address, telephone number and email address. Final papers should not exceed 9 pages or 2500 words. Papers will be limited to fifteen minutes maximum! Please send a copy of your abstract to each of the symposium co-chairs: - John R. Poole
- School of Theatre
- 212 Centennial West
- Campus Box 5700
- Illinois State
University
- Normal, IL 61790-5700
- Phone: (309) 438-8973
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- University of Calgary
- Department of Drama
- 2500 University Drive NW
- Calgary, Alberta
- Canada T2N 1N4
- Phone: (403) 220-6680
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