Thursday 27 June

 

10.00-11.00 Registration, tea and coffee

 

11.00-12.30 Welcome and Panel 1:Stage Effects, Illusion and Enchantment  

Chair: Jim Davis

 

 Christina Vollmert 

 ‘The enchanted magic carpet’: Stage Curtains in late-Nineteenth-Century German Theatre

 

 Hayley Bradley

 The Scrutinising Eye and ‘how the trick was done’

 

 Kate Astbury

 Stage Magic and the French Gothic

 

12.30-1.30 Lunch

 

1.30-3.00 Panel 2: The Performing Self, the Streets and Popular Cultural Stereotypes in Early-Nineteenth- Century London

 Chair: Kate Newey

 

 David Vincent 

 Paul Pry between the Stage and the Streets

 

 Mary Shannon 

 The Multiple Lives of Billy Waters: Street Performing and Popular  Culture

 

 Brian Maidment 

 Dusty Bob Dances off the Stage into the Victorian Popular Imagination

 

3.00-3.30 Tea and coffee break

 

3.30-5.00  Panel 3: Paper Stages: Peep Shows, Posters, and Toy Theatres

 Chair: Kate Holmes

 

 Shijia Yu 

 More than Just Looking: The Active Consumption of Theatrical Spectacles in the Nineteenth- Century English Paper Peepshow

 

 Michael Diamond 

 The Maniac's Den and Other Scenes of Excitement: Bringing Late Melodrama to Life through a Study of its Posters

 

 Louis James

 Imaging Social Conflict on the Early Victorian stage: the case of Jerrold's Black-Ey'd Susan (1829)

 

 

 

5.00-5.15 Tea and coffee break

 

5.15-6.15 Panel 4: Transformations in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Scenography

 Chair: Patricia Smyth

 

 Christopher Baugh 

 The Bigger Picture: Loutherbourg and Audience Transport

 

 Raphaël Bortolotti 

 Nineteenth-Century Italian Stage Painting

 

6.30 Reception

 

Friday 28 June

 

 

8.15-9.00  Tea and coffee

 

9.00-11.00  Panel 5: Theatre andthe Art World

 Chair: Patricia Smyth

 

 Caroline Radcliffe

 ‘Nearer and nearer, and fairer and fairish she came, in the glow of the morning light’; Aramadale and the Pre-Raphaelite Influence

 

 Tessa Kilgarriff 

 Elite Institutions, Popular Tactics: Exhibiting Daniel Maclise’s Portrait of Macready as Werner

 

 Veronica Isaac

 From the ‘Temple of Artemis’ to the ‘Temple of Art’ – Aestheticism and The Cup(1881)

 

 Diane Piccitto 

 Illuminated Theatre: Sight and Spectacle in Blake’s The Ghost of Abel

 

11.00 - 11.30 Tea and coffee break

 

11.30 - 1.00 Panel 6: Staging National Identities 

 Chair: Peter Yeandle

 Hannah Scott 

 Angleterre Spectaculaire! England as Spectacle at the Belle Epoque Music-Hall

 

 Barbara Bessac

 The Representation of French Interiors on the Victorian British Stage: Visual and Material Reinterpretations and Decorative Transfers across the Channel

 Penelope Cole

 Scott’s Scotland on Stage: Visual Images of Scotland on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage

 

1.00-2.00  Lunch

 

2.00-4.00 Panel 7: Afterlives, Anxieties and Expectations: Spectacle and Imagination

 Chair: Jim Davis

 

 Sharon Weltman 

 Sweeney Todds: A Theatrical Bogeyman's Satirical Afterlife in Visual  Culture

 

 Carol Hogan-Downey

 ‘The Danger of Such a Picture’: Meta-sensation and the Shaughraun  Wake

 

 Renata Kobetts Miller 

 Imagined Spectacles and the Independent Theatre Society

 

 Michael Meeuwis

 The Bells: Visualising a Pre-Freudian Unconscious

 

4.00-4.30 Tea and coffee break

 

4.30-6.00 Panel 8: Deconstructing Pantomime and Fairy Tale

 Chair: Hayley Bradley

 

Jennifer Schacker

 Dressing the Part: Fairy Tales, Costuming, and Fancy Dress

 

Janice Norwood 

 Scale, Motion and Modernity: Deconstructing the Late-Victorian Pantomime

 

 Kitty Gurnos-Davies 

 ‘commonplace gossip’: Visualising Women's Labour in Spectacular Theatre of the Long Nineteenth Century

 

7.30  Optional dinner at Arden

 

 

Saturday 29 June

 

 

9.00-9.30 Tea and coffee

 

9.30-11.00 Panel 9: Panoramas and Tableaux Vivants

 Chair: Janice Norwood

 

 John Plunkett 

 Panoramas, Scene Painters and Provinces: A Regional Case Study

 

  Karen Harker 

 Sights and Sounds of London: the Panorama on the Nineteenth-Century  Shakespearean Stage

 

 Catherine Hindson 

 Industrial Tableaux: Early Twentieth-Century Advertising, Performance and Embodiment at Cadbury’s Bournville Site

 

11.00-11.30 Tea and coffee break

 

11.30-12.30 Panel 10: The Spectacle of Antiquity

 Chair: Sharon Weltman

 

 Laura Monros-Gaspar 

 Putting on the Red Light: Ariadne from Dannecker to La Milo

 

 Alessandra Grossi 

 Staging Victorian Burlesques: Antiquarianism, Satire and Spectacle in Planché’s classical extravaganzas

 

12.30-1.30 Lunch

 

1.30-3.00 Panel 11: Imperialism and Cultural Identity

 Chair: Joanna Hofer-Robinson

 

 Peter Yeandle 

 Staging Cetshwayo: the Multiple Performances of the Zulu King.

 

 Nick Havergal 

 Cross-Media Performance and Cross-Community Adaptation in C. W. Poole’s No 1 Myriorama Tour, 1899-c.1904

 

 Eilis Smyth 

 Rebranding Spectacle as Drama in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: America’s National Entertainment at the 1887 Golden Jubilee

 

3.00-3.30 Tea and coffee break

 

3.30-4.30 Panel 12: Representing Women

 Chair: Kate Newey

 

 Simon Grennan 

Visualising, Performing and Producing a ‘Woman of Business’: Marie Duval’s Media Enterprise in 1870s and 1880s London

 

 Viv Gardner 

 ‘At the Peephole”: Photo Bits, Photo Realism and the Chorus Girl