The Society for Pirandello Studies

 

Annual Conference and AGM

 

I vecchi e i giovani One Hundred Years On: Pirandello and the Family

Saturday 9 November 2013

 

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, 1^st 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 Özpetek’s Magnifica presenza (2012)”

                Angelo Mangini (University of Exeter)

 

11.40 am              Discussion

 

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)

 

12.10 pm              “The Early Mafia and Verismo”    

                Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde)

 

13.00 pm              Lunch

 

2.30 pm                The Old and the Young and the Ineluctability of Chaos                

                Performed and devised by Joe Caruso, 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 Oneworld

                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, Benjamin Schaper, and Penelope Dudley. Produced by Ionian Productions, Sponsored by the Italian Sub-Faculty (University of Oxford)

 

4.00 pm                Discussion chaired by Enza De Francisci

                (Performance Convenor)

 

4.30 pm                Close

 

Generously sponsored by the Society for Italian Studies

and the UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society.

With special thanks to the Italian Cultural Institute 

and the Italian Bookshop

 

 

Dr Daragh O’Connell

Department of Italian,

School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures,

University College Cork,

IRELAND

 

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