Interview: Rab Fulton, author and storyteller [Expanded version]

Source: Interview: Rab Fulton, author and storyteller [Expanded version]

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IASIL CFP PANEL ON LOCAL THEATRE

In early November Dawn Duncan at IASIL posted this im reposting here

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PANEL ON LOCAL THEATRE

In their mission statement the two newly appointed directors of the Abbey Theatre have expressed a willingness to turn the National Theatre into a theatre of the whole nation, bringing the Abbey’s work to the local level. As 2016 is the point of change when their tenure will officially begin, it would seem an opportune moment to open the debate on how regional ventures have allowed the development of Irish theatre, a fact too often overlooked by the scholarly focus on the Abbey.

The panel will investigate the work of local theatre companies that have been locally and nationally influential but that do not usually perform in the capital. For instance, Druid took on McDonagh at an early stage in his career and certainly shaped his early work as well as bringing him to public attention; Tinderbox have been actively engaged in developing new writers and in staging their work. Other companies of interest may be (but not restricted to) Corcadorca, Blue Raincoat, Red Kettle, Big Telly, or Prime Cut. The panel will explore the work these companies have produced, and how that work has impacted on the theatrical landscape locally, nationally, or internationally.

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2016.

Please send your abstracts (no longer than 300 words) and a brief biography (50 words including affiliation) to the panel’s convenors: Dr. Anne Etienne (a.etienne@ucc.ie) and Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (l.fitzpatrick@ulster.ac.uk)

Individual papers should be no more than 20 minutes in duration

CFP 2 :The 1916 Rising in Irish Theatre/ The 1916 Rising as Irish Theatre Deadline: January 31st 2016

20-21 May 2016

NUI Galway

Keynote speakers: Paige Reynolds and James Moran

Towards the end of his life, WB Yeats famously asked whether “that play of mine sen[t] out certain men the English shot” – whether, that is, Kathleen ni Houlihan so inspired the participants in the Easter 1916 Rising as to have cost them their lives. While that question may have arisen from Yeats’s desire to assert his importance to the realization of Irish independence, there is no doubt that theatre played a significant role in the lives of the Rising’s leaders, many of whom wrote and produced plays. Recent publications such as Fearghal McGarry’s Abbey Rebels and Adrian Frazier’s Hollywood Irish have also shown how Abbey actors were centrally involved in the Rising.

1916 also had a significant impact on subsequent Irish theatre. The events were dramatised vividly (and critically) by Sean O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars in 1926, and many dramas followed that sought to explore the Rising and its legacies. In more recent years, the impact of Performance Studies on Irish scholarship has allowed for an opening up of new questions about the Rising, which could be seen not just as a military insurrection but also as a staged event that was grounded in notions of martyrdom as public performance – an idea also recently explored by Roy Foster, who writes that, even before the Abbey, there was a ‘tradition of radical Irish nationalism which was inherently theatrical, focused on ritual display and public performance” (in Vivid Faces, 77-8).

In summary, there is much about the Rising that can be seen as theatrical, and much about the theatre in Ireland that has been influenced by the Rising.

This conference aims to explore the relationships between Irish theatre and the Rising, seeking to answer questions such as the following:

• How did playwriting and theatre practice figure in the evolution of the ideals of the Rising’s leaders and participants?
• To what extent is it valid to consider the Rising as a form of performance?
• How did the Abbey Theatre and other Irish theatres influence the Rising?
• How did playwrights and theatre producers respond to the Rising during the revolutionary period?
• How has The Plough and the Stars shaped the theatrical representation of the Rising?
• How did the Irish theatre respond to the legacies of the Rising during key anniversaries such as 1966 and 1991?

The keynote speakers are Paige Reynolds, author of Modernism, Drama and the Audience for Irish Spectacle and James Moran, author of Staging the Rising: 1916 as Theatre.

The organisers are now calling for papers on these and related topics. Papers should be 20 minutes in duration (approx. 2,500 words); panel proposals are also welcome.

Please send 300 word proposals with a short biographical note to Patrick.Lonergan@nuigalway.ie before 31 January 2016

Interview with Maria Tivnan – Director of Pleasure Ground – Smock Alley

Source: Interview with Maria Tivnan – Director of Pleasure Ground – Smock Alley

CFP 1:1916: CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

1916, CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

1st Call for Papers

25-27 MAY 2016, HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Keynote Speakers to include: Dr. Denis Condon (Maynooth University) and Professor Charles Barr (Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia)

1916 marked the establishment of Ireland’s first indigenous film company, The Film Company of Ireland, whose co-founder James Mark Sullivan was arrested after the Rising and charged with complicity. As part of NUI Galway’s programme of events to commemorate the 1916 Rising, the Huston School of Film & Digital Media invites contributions on the theme of ‘1916, Cinema and Revolution’. Events in that year and subsequently have featured in a range of cinematic and televisual productions while there is also a significant international dimension to the relationship between revolutionary history and cinema. Therefore, we invite considerations on aspects of the representation of the Rising, as well as other revolutionary moments in Irish and world history. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

– Filming the Rising;

– The representation of revolution in film and television

– Postcolonial cinema and revolution;

– the Cuban revolution in film

– Representing the Russian Revolution

– Cinema and Vietnam

 

The conference will include screenings of Irish and international films relevant to the conference theme.

Abstracts: If you would like to propose a paper (not exceeding 20 minutes), please submit your title and an abstract of 250 words accompanied by a short biographical sketch to sean.crosson@nuigalway.ie

Deadline for submission of proposals and abstracts: 11th December 2015.

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