Conference
16-17 June 2005
National Portrait Gallery,
London
Registration form
Provisional Programme
| Thursday 16 June | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:30 | Welcome and Introductions |
| 10:45 | Steve Nicholson, University of Sheffield ‘Politics and Censorship’ |
| 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:45 | Gilli Bush-Bailey, Royal
Holloway, University of London ‘Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington’ |
| Jerry Nolan, Irish Literary
Society ‘The English/Irish Ring and its Victorian Popularity’ |
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| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 2:30 | Nicholas Kent, Artistic Director of the Tricycle Theatre, in discussion with Richard Cave |
| 3:00 | Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway,
University of London ‘An Irish Jig: Edris Stannus, Ninette de Valois and the English Royal Ballet’ |
| 3:30 | Tea |
| 3:45 | Peter
Kuch, University of New South Wales ‘Triumphs and Tours: The Whiteheaded Boy in London’ |
| 4:30 | Yvonne McDevitt, Judith E. Wilson
Drama Fellow: University of Cambridge ‘On Directing Exiles by James Joyce’ |
Friday 17 June |
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| 10:30 | Ben Levitas, Goldsmiths&;8217; College,
University of London ‘Politics and Censorship’ |
| 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:50 | Michael McAteer, Queen's
University, Belfast ‘“The Tortured Thing”: Alienation and Fetishism in the Early Drama of W.B. Yeats’ |
| Jonathan Statham, Royal
Holloway, University of London ‘Folds in Dispersion: Yeatsian Remnants in London’ |
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| 1:00 | Lunch |
| 2:30 | Cathy Leeney, University College
Dublin ‘Mary Manning's Youth's the Season-? in London: 1930s Not-So-Gay-Young-Things’ |
| Carmen Szabo, University College
Dublin ‘The Reception of Thomas Kilroy's Field Day Plays in the UK: Double Cross and The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre’ |
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| Enrica Cerquoni, University
College Dublin ‘The Transience of the Visual Image in Touring Theatre: Brien Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa’ |
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| 3:45 | Tea |
| 4:00 | Tim Miles, Royal Holloway, University
of London ‘Understanding Loyalty: The Reception in England of the work of Gary Mitchell’ |
| Wallace McDowell, University of
Warwick ‘The Plays of Gary Mitchell and Cultural Self-Representation’ |
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| 4:50 | Closing Remarks |
Associated Activities
Gallery Exhibition
A visit to the exhibition, Conquering England, curated for the National Portrait Gallery by Fintan Cullen and Roy Foster, will be arranged at the conclusion of the lecture programme on Friday 17 June.
Theatre
During the time of the conference, the Tricycle Theatre will be staging a production by Kathy Burke for the Oxford Stage Company of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow. A number of seats have been reserved for members of the conference for the performance on Thursday 16 June at 8.00 p.m. Please fill in the appropriate portion of the registration form if you wish to reserve a ticket. The cost of reserving a ticket (£15.00) will be additional to the conference fee. The theatre has an excellent Bistro and Bar for pre-performance refreshments/meals.
Registration
The full conference fee is £25.00 (concessions £15.00). The fee for a single day is £15.00 (concessions £10.00). The conference fee includes all lectures and refreshments (but not lunches). The registration form is available for download in pdf (for Adobe Reader) or rtf (for word processing applications).
For more information, contact Jonathan Statham, Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway, Egham Hill, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX.
Last updated: 15 May 2005
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