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Dear All,
Please see below the final programme of this year's Society for Pirandello Studies annual general conference in Oxford on 15th October on violence and aggression.
This year we will feature two performances and a cut episode from the Taviani brothers’ film Tu ridi (1998), containing a scene about the Roman premiere of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore.
Free for students, and free entry for all after 3pm.
With best wishes,
Alberica Bazzoni
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VIOLENCE AND AGGRESSION IN PIRANDELLO
Saturday 15 October 2016
Christ Church, University of Oxford, Blue Boar Theatre and Exhibition Space
9 a.m. The Society for Pirandello Studies AGM
10 a.m. John C. Barnes (UCD): Opening Remarks
10.15 a.m. Round-table discussion: Violence and Aggression in Modern Theatre
Ursula Fanning (UCD), Bart Van den Bossche (Leuven), Katharine Mitchell (Strathclyde), and Simon Image (Producer)
Chair: Enza De Francisci (UCL)
11 a.m. Coffee break
11.30 a.m. Michael Subialka (California): Suicide as Compassion – Pirandello’s Pessimism in an Age of Violence
Response: Valeria Taddei
Luciano Parisi (Exeter): ‘Alla zappa’: A Re-Reading
Response: Alberica Bazzoni
1. p.m. Lunch break
2 p.m. Matthew Reza (Oxford): Violence against Reason and the Body in Luigi Pirandello’s Fantastic Fiction
Response: Julia Hartley
Matthew Mild (SAS, University of London): The Neurogame of Memory Reinvestment
Transgressing Gender-Ethnic Aggression in Game and Mustang
Response: Roberto Bonci
3.30 p.m. Coffee break
3.45 p.m. Performance of Il giuoco delle parti. Co-directed by, and with, Valeria Taddei, Giulia Sara Corsino and Davide Martino
Performance of L’uomo dal fiore in bocca. Directed by Manuel Bau, with Laurie Brook Summers and Steven Mortimer
Discussion with directors and actors
5 p.m. Screening of ‘La prima di Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore’. Cut episode from the Taviani brothers’ film Tu ridi (1998), containing a scene about the Roman premiere of Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore’ Introduced by Guido Bonsaver (Oxford)
6pm Wine recepetion
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