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Dear all, please find details of the upcoming Pirandello Annual Conference at the Bloomsbury Theatre on Saturday 9th November.
With best wishes,
Enza
Dr Enza De Francisci
Teaching Assistant
Department of Italian
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
University College London
Gower Street
WC1E 6BT
I vecchi e i giovani One Hundred Years On: Pirandello and the Family
The Society for Pirandello Studies
in collaboration with UCL Italian Department (SELCS)
Saturday 9 November 2013
AGM and Annual Conference will be held in the
Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH
PLEASE NOTE THAT PERFORMANCES START AT 2.30, AND THAT NO CHARGE WILL BE MADE FOR ADMISSION AT OR AFTER THAT TIME
Programme
09.30 am Annual General Meeting
Bloomsbury Theatre, Rehearsal Room, 1st Floor
10.00 am Registration and Coffee
10.15 am John C. Barnes (University College Dublin)
President's Opening Remarks
10.20 am "Unhappy Pirandellian Families: Each in Its Own Way?"
Ursula Fanning (University College Dublin)
10.40 am "Keeping it in the Family: Primitive Bonds in Pirandello and D'Annunzio"
Gabriella Caponi-Doherty (University College Cork)
11.00 am "Silvia's Silent Voice in Tutto per bene"
Enza De Francisci (University College London)
11.20 am "Happy Families? Pirandellian Echoes in Two Recent Italian Films: Gabriele Salvatores's Happy Family (2010) and Ferzan ?zpetek's Magnifica presenza (2012)"
Angelo Mangini (University of Exeter)
11.40 am Discussion chaired by John C. Barnes
11.50 am Tea/coffee
12.00 noon The Thirst of Lamp Pyres: A Ghost and Demon Monologue: Summoning Across Kinship Borders
Written and performed by Matthew Mild (Bangor University)
12.15 pm "The Early Mafia and Verismo"
Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde)
13.05 pm Lunch
2.30 pm The Old and the Young and the Ineluctability of Chaos
Directed by Becka McFadden
Performed by Lara Parmiani, Becka McFadden and Marco Zingaro
(LegalAliens ITC)
2.50 pm The School of Sons
Adapted and directed by Roberto Cavosi
Translated by Enza De Francisci, Marco Gambino and Marina Warner
Performed by Marco Gambino
3.00 pm Tea/coffee
3.20 pm The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
In a new adaptation by Francesca Manfrin
Directed by Dimitri Devdariani
Performed by Phil Gerrard, Terry Jermyn and Nadia Ostacchini
(Tricolore Theatre Company)
3.40 pm The Mountain Giants
Adapted and directed by Julia Hartley
Performed by Julia Hartley, Sam Young, Rhiannon Kelly and Moritz Borrmann
(University of Oxford)
4.00 pm Discussion chaired by Enza De Francisci
4.30 pm Close
Registration Form
If you wish to attend this event, please indicate by completing the following details and returning them to the address below. Please note that lunch and refreshments are not included in the fee.
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Members ?17 stg
Non-Members ?20 stg
Concessions ?10 stg
Students with valid ID: 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
You can also register by e-mail and pay on the day. All communications to: [log in to unmask]
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