Dear Colleagues,

 

A quick reminder about next Saturday’s annual Pirandello conference and performances.

 

Best,

 

Daragh

 

Annual Conference and AGM

 

SELVES AS OTHERS: IDENTITY IN
PIRANDELLO

 

 

The Society for Pirandello Studies

in collaboration with UCL Italian Department (SELCS)

Saturday 10 November 2012

AGM and Annual Conference will be held in the

Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, LONDON WC1H 0AH

 

 

Programme

 

09.30 a.m.             Annual General Meeting

                             Bloomsbury Theatre, Rehearsal Room, 1^st Floor

 

10.00 a.m.              Registration and Coffee

 

10.15 a.m.              John C. Barnes (University College Dublin)

                             President’s Opening Remarks

 

10.20 a.m.              Ann Caesar (University of Warwick)

‘Self and Other, Imitation and Originality: Pirandello's Appropriation of Goldoni’

 

10.50 a.m.              Gabriella Caponi-Doherty (University College Cork)

‘Tuda: Servant of Two Masters’

 

11.05 a.m.              Enza De Francisci (University College London)

‘The Female Voice: From Quando si è capito il giuoco to Il giuoco delle parti’

 

11.20 a.m.              Discussion

 

11.30 a.m.              PERFORMANCE I

                             John Champagne (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)

‘The Unknown Woman as Man: Gender Identity and Come tu mi vuoi’

 

11.50 a.m.             Coffee

 

12.05 p.m.             Bart Van den Bossche (University of Leuven)

‘Pirandello and the Short Story: Genres and Writers in Search of an Identity’

 

12.20 p.m.              Mattia Marino (University of Bangor)

‘From Ghosts to Devils: Six Stage Selves Made of Frost with Brass’

 

12.35 p.m.              Discussion

                  

1.00 p.m.               Lunch

 

2.30 p.m.               Keynote Lecture

                             Claudio Vicentini (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples)

‘Pirandello and Identity: The Condition of the Person and the History of the Character’

 

3.30 p.m.               WoH Productions: PERFORMANCES 2 and 3

                             Starring Marco Gambino, directed by Manuela Ruggiero

Scenes from Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Il berretto a sonagli

 

3.50 p.m.               Coffee Break

 

4.00 p.m.               Phantoms and the Effects of an Interrupted Dream,

by Enzo Lauretta and Terry d'Alfonso, based on the magical and surreal works of Luigi Pirandello (Excerpts)

Starring Marco Gambino and directed by Terry d’Alfonso

 

4.30 p.m.               CLOSE

 

 

Registration Form

 

If you wish to attend this event, please indicate by completing the following details and returning them to the address below.

 

 

Title:

Name:

Address:

 

Cost:            Members                Non-Members                   Concessions 

                   £17 stg                   £20 stg                             £10 stg

 

Students: Free Entry

 

Cheques should be made payable to Society for Pirandello Studies.

Please return this form with your remittance to:

 

Dr Daragh O’Connell

Department of Italian,

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,

University College Cork,

Cork,

Ireland

 

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Dr Daragh O’Connell

Department of Italian,

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,

University College Cork,

IRELAND

 

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