{"id":388,"date":"2018-06-23T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T10:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/staging-beckett\/?page_id=388"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:35:44","slug":"beckett-week-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/staging-beckett\/events-conferences\/beckett-week-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minghella Building, University of Reading, 10 \u2013 11 April 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The project\u2019s third and final conference,Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures, builton conversations beginning from the first two events which addressed national and international performance histories and productions at the cultural \u2018margins\u2019 respectively. This conference addressedhow we can locate productions of Beckett\u2019s theatre or the staging of any Beckett text within the wider landscape of contemporary theatre and performance in different cultural contexts. Over 80 delegates attended from Belgium, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, Turkey, the United States, as well as from the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Lectures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phillip Zarrilli, \u2018Embodied consciousness in the actor\u2019s practice: reflections from \u201cinside\u201d Beckett\u2019s texts in performance\u2019, 10 April 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Derval Tubridy, \u2018Practice, Performance and the Figural Body\u2019, 10 April 2015<\/li>\n<li>S. E. Gontarski, \u2018Samuel Beckett in Performance: The Questions We Ask\u2019, 11 April 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Practitioner Talk:<\/strong> \u2018Staging Beckett Now\u2019, 11 April 2015. Ronald Pickup \u2013 Actor in Play (Royal Court Theatre, 1976), Ghost Trio and \u2026but the clouds\u2026 (BBC, 1977) and Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/staging-beckett\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/pdfs\/Staging_Beckett_and_Contemporary_Theatre_and_Performance_Cultures.pdf\">Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures Programme (PDF \u2013 165 KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference CFP: Modernist Archives in Context: Periodicals and Performance.<br \/>\n22-24 November 2018<br \/>\nThe Beckett and Performance day aims to explore Beckett&#8217;s lasting influence as a playwright and director, with close reference to Billie Whitelaw and Jocelyn Herbert&#8217;s papers in the University of Reading archives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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