FALL 2006 progRams
U.S. theatre series
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FALL 2006 progRams U.S. theatre series |
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The Presence Project Join us for an evening exploring multi-media theatree with Nick Kaye and Marianne Weems. “Performing Presence: From the Live to the Simulated” is a major, four-year interdisciplinary collaborative research project that combines expertise from performance and drama theory and practice, anthropological archaeology, and computer science to investigate means by which "presence" is achieved in live and mediated performance and simulated environments. In his presentation and in dialogue with Marianne Weems, Nick Kaye will explore how this ongoing interdisciplinary exchange, research, and collaboration between academic researchers and performance practitioners may deepen an understanding of the performance of presence. Performing Presence takes place in three locations: the University of Exeter, Stanford University, and University College London. The project's Principal Investigators are Professor Nick Kaye (Exeter), Dr. Gabriella Giannachi (Exeter), Professor Michael Shanks (Stanford), and Professor Mel Slater (UCL). The project is in receipt of major funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, and is supported by its participating institutions. Marianne Weems is artistic director of The Builders Association, a New Yorkbased performance and media company that exploits the richness of contemporary technologies to extend the boundaries of theater. (www.thebuilders association.org). Nick Kaye is Chair in Performance Studies, University of Exeter, UK, and was previously Chair in Drama at the University of Manchester. 6:30 p.m., Monday, October 23, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free. |
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An Evening with Jerry Zaks Director Jerry Zaks will discuss his work in the theatre in a dialogue with theatre critic Ed Wilson. Jerry Zaks has directed the New York productions of The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall, La Cage Aux Folles, Little Shop Of Horrors, A Bad Friend, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, The Front Page, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and many others. He also directed the Old Vic’s production of The Philadelphia Story in London and the award-winning film Marvin's Room, starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. This fall he will direct Losing Louis at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway for the Manhattan Theatre Club. Jerry Zaks served as Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater from 1986-1990 and is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He has received four Tony awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, an Obie, and an NAACP Image Award nomination for his national tour of The Tap Dance Kid. He has also directed episodes for the long running hit comedies Everybody Loves Raymond and Frasier. A graduate of Dartmouth with an MFA from Smith, he received the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater in 1994 and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. Since 1990 he has been proudly affiliated with Jujamcyn Theaters. Ed Wilson conducted 90 half-hour television interviews with well-known theatre artists which appeared on CUNY-TV in New York, and 200 PBS stations nation-wide. For 22 years Ed was the theatre critic of the Wall Street Journal. He has served several times on the Tony Nominating Committee and the Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, most recently in the spring of 2003. He has taught at Vanderbilt, Yale, Hunter College, and The Graduate Center of CUNY. Most recently he was founding Executive Director of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the City University Graduate Center. He is the author or co-author of three of the most widely used college theatre textbooks in the U.S. and in recent years he has returned to playwriting. His latest work, Great Expectations, was given a full production, with a New York Equity cast, at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia, in the spring of 2006. 6:30 p.m., Monday, November 6, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free. |
Languages at play in the theatre - the tropic of x Reading + Dialogue with Caridad Svich and Marvin Carlson The evening will explore the political, social, and historical implications of staged language. Reading of excerpts from Caridad Svich’s The Tropic of X will be followed by a dialogue between Marvin Carlson and Caridad Svich examining how language has been employed in the theatre. The use of multiple languages in contemporary theatre is in part a reflection of a globalized culture, but it also calls attention to how the mixing of language has always been an important part of the functioning of theatre. Reading directed by Daniel Banks. Caridad Svich, a Cuban-American playwright, is the founder of theatre alliance NoPe-NoPassport. Svich is also the recipient of a Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Bunting fellowship, a TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist Grant, and has been twice short-listed for the PEN USA-West Award in Drama. Her play with songs, Thrush, premieres at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin this season, and her U.S. adapatation of the contemporary Serbian drama Huddersfield, by Ugljesa Sajtinac, premiered in Chicago this summer as a TUTA production at Victory Gardens Theatre. She is resident playwright of New Dramatists, serves on the editorial board of Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge/UK), and is a contributing editor of TheatreForum. Svich holds an MFA from UCSD. She has been selected for inclusion in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. www.caridadsvich.com. Marvin A. Carlson received a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre from Cornell University. He is the Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, The City University of New York. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory, and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. His latest book Speaking in Tongues–Languages at Play in the Theatre explores the political, social, and historical implications of staged language. 6:30 p.m., Monday, December 4, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free. |
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