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Dear Sir/Madam,
We invite you to attend an Inaugural Lecture to celebrate George Rodosthenous becoming Professor in Theatre Directing in March 2022, at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds.
The event will take place on 7th June 2023, at 4:00 p.m. in Stage One, stage@leeds, University of Leeds.
His inaugural lecture titled Adaptation as Directorial Process: Contemporary Approaches to the Greek Classics and Musical Theatre will be followed by a drinks reception. It is free but please register at https://stage.leeds.ac.uk/events/professor-george-rodosthenous-inaugural-lecture/
George Rodosthenous is Professor of Theatre Directing and Deputy Head of School at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds. His research interests are theatre directing, contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy theatre as voyeurism, the body in performance, refining improvisational techniques and compositional practices for performance, devising pieces with live musical soundscapes as interdisciplinary process and British musical theatre.
He has edited the books Theatre as Voyeurism: The Pleasures of Watching (Palgrave), Contemporary Approaches to Greek Tragedy: Auteurship and Directorial Visions (Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury), The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from Snow White to Frozen (Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury), Twenty-First Century Musicals: From Stage to Screen (Routledge) and co-edited Greek Tragedy and the Digital (Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury).
In this inaugural lecture, Professor Rodosthenous will outline his 26-year academic journey which oscillates between Adaptation and Composed Theatre, focusing on musicalisation, composition and improvisation. He will explore this journey through his practice-based work which travelled to the State Theatre of Cyprus (TH.O.C.), the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, Pafos 2017 European Capital of Culture, the Maison de l’Unesco in Paris and toured from Canada to Germany. Professor Rodosthenous will explore his directorial practice in relation to verbatim material and how his studies in music composition have shaped the way he teaches and directs. Finally, he will investigate how the transformative mise-en-scène can provide a playfulness and creative freedom within a structure during the creative process.
If you would like to hear more about these future inaugural lectures or other events in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries please join our mailing list here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=PERFORMANCEANDCULTURALINDUSTRIES&A=1
For previous inaugural lecture records, please check: https://stage.leeds.ac.uk/category/digital-performance/
We look forward to seeing you at this special event.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Pitches,
Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries
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