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Thursday 4 October

10:00 Registration

10:30-11:30 Keynote (1): Anne Bogart (in association with Irish Theatre Institute)

11:45-1:15 Session 1 LANDMARK IRISH PLAYS, PLAYWRIGHTS, AND PRACTITIONERS
Chair: Christina Hunt Mahony

• Emilie Pine (UCD), “Hugh Leonard at the Dublin Theatre Festival”
• Cathy Leeney (UCD), “Patrick Mason and the Dublin Theatre Festival”
• Anthony Roche (UCD), “The Dublin Theatre Festival, 1964”

1:15-2:30 Lunch  

2.30 – 4.00 : Session 2 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
Chair: Chris Morash

• Lionel Pilkington (NUI Galway), “The Dublin Theatre Festival and the State”
• Alexandra Poulain (Sorbonne), “Tom Murphy’s The Sanctuary Lamp, 1975/2001”
• Shaun Richards (Staffordshire), “’Subjects of the Citizenship Machine’: The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche and Gentle Island”

4.00 – 4.30 : Tea

4.30 – 6.00 : Keynote: Thomas Kilroy: “The Early Years of the Dublin Theatre Festival: A Personal Recollection”. Chair: Nicholas Grene.

Friday 5 October

10.00- 11.30 Session 3: PERFORMANCE CONTEXTS
Chair: Karen Fricker. Royal Holloway, University of London

• Lisa Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster) “Nostalgia and Contemporary Irish Society at the Dublin Theatre Festival”

• Carmen Szabo (University College Dublin) “Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Dublin Theatre Festival”
• Sara Keating (Independent scholar) “Irish Language Drama at the Dublin Theatre Festival”

11.30 – 12.00: Coffee

12.00– 1.30: PANEL 4: THE IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ON IRISH COMPANIES

• Ros Dixon , (NUI Galway), “Russian Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival”
• John Harrington, (Rensselaer) “The Beckett Festival – national and international”
• Peter Kuch (University of Otago). “Company B and Irish-Australia Festival Links”

1.30– 2.30 : Lunch

2.30 – 4.00: Keynote 3: Fintan O’Toole
Chair: Anna McMullan

4.00 – 4.30: Tea

4.30 – 6.00 : Panel Discussion: “The Future of Festivals”(chair: Dr Karen Fricker, Royal Holloway, University of London)

Conference Organising Committee: Karen Fricker, Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Anna McMullan, Christopher Morash.