Dear colleagues,
Please find below a reminder of the final event in the
Leverhulme-sponsored series of talks on theatre and adaptation. The
last talk is a collaboration between Queen Mary and the University of
Kent's European Theatre Research Network.
The event is free and all are very warmly welcome.
Queen Mary, University of London, and the European Theatre Research
Network, University of Kent
In collaboration with the Barbican Centre, London
Present
The Leverhulme Olympic Talks on Theatre and Adaptation
Grzegorz Jarzyna in conversation with Paul Allain (Free pre-show talk)
Thursday 1 November, 5-7pm (Show starts at 7.45pm)
Barbican Centre, Pit Theatre
Booking is essential. Please phone the Barbican Box Office on 0844 243 0753
Paul Allain discusses radical reinterpretations of classic drama,
opera, novels, and contemporary plays by the Polish director Grzegorz
Jarzyna. Jarzyna is General and Artistic Director of TR Warszawa and
is known for his stage adaptations which cut across various genres and
media. He has directed productions based on a wide range of sources,
from the plays of Shakespeare, to the novels of Mann and Dostoyevsky
and the films of Pasolini. His adaptation of Nosferatu will be at the
Barbican from 31 October to 3
November<https://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=13336>.
Grzegorz Jarzyna is General and Artistic Director of TR
Warszawa<http://www.trwarszawa.pl/en>, Warsaw?s most prestigious
theatre. He has directed over twenty theatre and opera productions,
which have been staged, among others, at the Schaubühne in Berlin, the
Burgtheater in Vienna, the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam and the Barbican
in London. Jarzyna has staged and radically reinterpreted classic
drama (Tropical
Craze<http://trwarszawa.pl/en/wydarzenia/the-tropical-madness>
according to Witkiewicz, and Magnetism of the
Heart<http://trwarszawa.pl/en/wydarzenia/magnetism-of-the-heart> based
on Aleksander Fredro's Maiden Vows), he has adapted novels (Mann's
Doctor Faustus, and Dostoyevsky's The Idiot), directed contemporary
plays (Brad Fraser's Unidentified Human Remains, Sarah Kane's 4.48
Psychosis<http://trwarszawa.pl/en/wydarzenia/448-psychosis>, and
Dorota Mas?owska?s No Matter How Hard We
Tried<http://trwarszawa.pl/en/wydarzenia/miedzy-nami-dobrze-jest>) and
operas (Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Prokofiev?s Gambler after the
novel by Dostoyevsky). His recent adaptations include 2007: Macbeth
after Shakespeare; T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T, based on the film Theorem by Pier
Paolo Pasolini; Giovanni based on Mozart's Don Giovanni and Moliere's
Don Juan, a production melding dramatic theatre and opera.
Paul
Allain<http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/profiles/main/allain.html> is
Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Kent,
Canterbury, and specialises in performance theory, Eastern theatre
forms, and Eastern European theatre. In collaboration with the
Gardzienice Theatre Association he published Gardzienice: Polish
Theatre in Transition (1997). He is co-editor of the Cambridge
Companion to Chekhov (2000), author of The Art of Stillness: The
Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki (2000), and co-writer, with Jen
Harvie, of the Companion to Theatre and Performance (2006). He has
since published several edited collections on Grotowski as part of the
British Grotowski project. Most recently he has hosted Professor
Richard Schechner at Kent for a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, and
has just published the DVD/booklet Andrei Droznin's Physical Actor
Training(2011).
For directions, information and booking, click
here<https://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=13336>.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Margherita
Dr Margherita Laera
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Drama and Theatre
School of Arts, University of Kent
Jarman Building, Canterbury CT2 7UG
+44 (0)1227 82 3411
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Research
Profile<http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/profiles/drama/laera.html>
Member, European Theatre Research
Network<http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/research/ETRN/index.html>
Convenor,
<http://www.drama.qmul.ac.uk/news/leverhulmetalks/79296.html> The
Leverhulme Talks on Theatre &
Adaptation<http://www.drama.qmul.ac.uk/news/leverhulmetalks/>
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