>From the Fo-Rame Forum -
You are cordially invited to attend the first
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
THE THEATRE OF DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME
to be held at the University of Cambridge
in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius, Trinity Street
from lunchtime Friday 28 April to evening Sunday 30 April 2000
The conference is open to theatre practitioners, historians, Italianists,
researchers, performers of all sorts, drama critics, theatrical
troublemakers and all concerned with theatre as a means of contestation and
liberation.
Part One: WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT OUR CONFERENCE
The year 2000 is particularly exciting for anyone interested in the work of
Dario Fo and Franca Rame. In the wake of the Nobel Prize awarded to Fo and
Rame in 1997, a number of researchers are about to publish books about
their 40 years of work in popular and radical theatre.
Our Conference will bring together many of these authors, to present
ongoing work and to lay the basis for future studies of the Fo-Rame oeuvre.
Our contributors are coming from far and wide - Europe, Australia and the
United States.
Up until now, most of the analytic writing about the theatre of Dario Fo
and Franca Rame has been broadly descriptive. We are hoping that our
Conference will break new ground in the sense of critical and historical
interpretation. We have asked all our contributors to be as provocative as
they dare, and to open new approaches for critical analysis. We have also
asked them to be entertaining rather than boring.
>> The weekend will feature seminar/discussions by Fo-Rame researchers,
with formal presentations of papers. These papers will subsequently be
published.
>> There will be video presentations and workshop sessions on theatre
technique (including Commedia dell'arte).
>> There will be a large programme of staged performance. We shall be
showcasing newly translated work by Fo and Rame. We shall be performing
early works not previously been available in English. And there will be
performances by professional companies of some of their of more most recent
theatre texts, including The Devil in Drag (1998) (Hills Road Company);
Obscene Fables (1982) (Yorick Internationalist Theatre Ensemble) and Johan
Padan (1991) (Volte Face Company).
For those who are able to be in Cambridge in the weeks prior to the
Conference there will be play readings and theatre workshops involving
students, directors and drama teachers.
We might add that the intention of our weekend is also to bring together
friends old and new and to have a very good time together.
Because of the size of our main venue, we may have to limit the number of
registrations for the Conference. If you are intending to join us, we
recommend that you make your booking early.
Part Two: OTHER BITS AND PIECES
Full details of the Conference will be posted on our Website at
http://www.geocities.com/forameforum
For general information about Dario Fo and Franca Rame, there is a Research
Site at:
http://www.geocities.com/dariofoarchive
Our addresses are as follows:
A] If you wish to register for the Conference, please e-mail us at
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B] If you have general inquiries, please contact
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C] If you wish to contact us by mail, please write to:
The Fo Rame Festival,
c/o Department of Italian
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
>> Our Conference is sponsored by the Italian Department of Cambridge
University, the Truman University of Missouri, USA, the Italian Institute
of London and the Judith E. Wilson Fund.
[Organising Committee: Ed Emery, Joe Farrell and Josie Rourke]
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