Registration is still possible for the following conference:
TRANSLATION, ADAPTATION AND PERFORMANCE: SPANISH GOLDEN AGE THEATRE AND
MARIVAUX ON THE POST-1945 STAGE
Friday 10 and Saturday 11 March 2006
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies and the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama (GSMD)
Organized by Dr Elinor Shaffer, Dr Margaret Andrews and Professor Robin
Howells in conjunction with Professor Barry Ife and the GSMD
As part of its Core Programme on Performance in 2005-06, the IGRS is
running a two-day international Conference on European theatre on the
post-1945 stage. The Conference brings together two streams, a French
one focused on the work of Marivaux, and a Spanish one, focused on the
dramatic work of the Spanish 'Golden Age' writers. Incorporating an
evening of performances by students at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, this Conference will also combine academic papers with
round-table discussions by theatre practitioners and translators.
The Conference is concerned particularly with Marivaux and 'Golden Age'
authors Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, and especially Cervantes, whose
dramatic output is little known compared to his fiction. Most of these
writers have had a considerable presence on the post-war London stage,
generated new translations and adaptations, and renewed traditional
elements such as commedia dell'arte in unexpected ways. In its first
season, the National Theatre under Peter Hall included a performance of
Marivaux's La Dispute by the French Théâtre national populaire, and more
than one production of L'Île des Esclaves (Island of Slaves) and La
fausse Suivante (The False Servant) have been given. There have been
successful 'Golden Age' Spanish seasons, one at The Gate and another at
Stratford and London, as well as performances of plays such as
Calderón's La Vida es sueño (Life is a Dream). Cervantes' Pedro de
Urdemalas (Pedro, the Great Pretender) was a strikingly novel feature
of the 2004 RSC 'Golden Age' season at the Playhouse and opens a new
chapter of reception.
The first day of the Conference will open with a paper by Professor
Francoise Rubellin, who will speak on Marivaux and the French stage
since 1945. On the Spanish side, the keynote speaker is Professor David
Johnston of Queens University Belfast, who has had his
critically-acclaimed received translations of Spanish Golden Age texts
performed internationally. The day will concentrate on general issues,
with papers on these dramatists in the context of their own times, and
how their work has been adapted and performed since. On the Friday
evening, all participants are invited to the GSMD students' comparative
presentation of passages and scenes from a number of the plays.
The second day of the Conference will open with a paper by Robin
Howells on the GSMD performances, with further papers, workshops and
round-tables on, more broadly, the reception and adaptation of the
traditions in the English-speaking theatre.
PUBLICATION is envisaged in the IGRS Journal of Romance Studies, in a
possible special issue on 'European Theatre on the English Stage' of
Comparative Literary Studies (Edinburgh University Press), the Journal
of the British Comparative Literature Association, and a projected
publication on Cervantes on the Stage.
The Conference organisers and the Institute are grateful for the
support of the School of Advanced Study and the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama for this conference.
For further programme and registration details, please visit the
website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conf_adaptation1.htm.
Or contact Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies <[log in to unmask]>;
Phone: +44 (0)20 7862 8677
Conference fees per day:
£ 25 (standard) £10 (students or IGRS members)
£5 per day (students in IGRS member departments)
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