Theatre and Performance Histories

VENUE: Oculus, 1.06

Wednesday, 27th August, 13.00-15.00

Chair: Trina Banerjee

Helen Brooks and Jayne Thompson Historiography in Practice.

Kate Dorney Can we minimise marginalisation in historiography?

Claire Cochrane Historiographic Empathy and Lived Experience: Remembering the Past with Joy.

Laura Milburn Anniversaries: Historicizable Events or a Problematic Phenomena?

Robert Shaughnessy Disappearing act: the mysterious case of C. Rivers Gadsby.

Thursday, 28th August, 09.00-10.30

Chair: Robert Shaughnessy

Paul Roberts The rise of the theatre technician as expert.

Jane Milling Pleasing & Teasing, or How to be Popular?

Katrina Dunn Mega-Event Celebrations and Large Theatre in Vancouver’s Downtown.

Catherine Hindson Celebration and Identity: Performing Industrial and Civic Life at Rowntree’s, York.

Thursday, 28th August, 15.30-17.00

Chair: Helen Brooks

Haimanti Mukhoti Neither Here Nor There: Locating Theatre Histories in Small Towns of Bengal.

Jonathan Gunson Fresh Air and Fun.

Jhansilin Sasi The Celebratory Crucible: Therukoothu, Ritual, and the Performance of History in Tamil Theatre.

Jim Kelly The Pilgrim Players 1907-1912 -celebrating their achievement over time.

Friday, 29th August, 13.00-15.00

Chair: Simon Dodi

Christina Banalopoulou Celebratory Ethnic-Cleansing: The Dramaturgies of the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange.

Yee Cheng Koh Celebrations and Loss: Malayan Nationalism in the Making of Singapore Theatre..

Trina Nileena Banerjee Storytelling as Political History: The Celebration of Community and Resistance in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Theatre.

Kate Newey Doing Transnational Theatre History: Ambivalent Celebration.