INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 2006
Women's Writing For Performance: process and practice
Friday April 28 - Sunday April 30 2006
Lancaster University
This three-day symposium represents the culmination of the AHRC funded research project: Women's Writing for Performance. Over the last three years this project has initiated a networked series of workshops and events led by contemporary artists and performance practitioners.
The aim has been to investigate how women ‘write' themselves into the performance frame, through text and other ‘vocabularies', such as body, space, technology. The two main research questions have been:
- What strategies are employed by women in their writing processes?
- What are the implications of these strategies for the contestation of gender representation in performance practice?
Themes
• Cultural Heritage
• The Monstrous Feminine
• The Body: health, reproduction and technologies
• Place/Location
• Autobiography
• Subversive Laughter
PROGRAMME
Please click on the links below for further information about the papers, presentations and events.
Friday 28th April
Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris
An Introduction to the Women's Writing for Performance Project
To download film footage of Gerry and Elaine's presentation:
Marisa Carnesky
Lena Simiç
Angels and soldiers: My Transnational Performance Practice Tactics
Janelle Reinelt
Helen Iball
Rachel Zerihan
Revealing the Obscene: Sarah Kane and Catharsis
Kay Hepplewhite, Fiona MacPherson, Catrina McHugh
Lynette Goddard
debbie tucker green's ‘in-yer face' black womanist playwriting
Friday Evening
Celebration for the launch of
Feminist Futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory
by Geraldine Harris and Elaine Aston
Click here to see footage of the entertainment from SuAndi and Lois Weaver
Sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan
Saturday 29th April
Lenora Champagne
Notes on Autobiography and Performance
Marianne Sharp
SuAndi
Dee Heddon
Rooted yet Moving: An Extroverted Site-Specific Practice
Kazuko Hohki
Catherine McNamara
When a Girl becomes a Man: Female-to-Male Narratives in Performance
Rosie Lugosi
‘The Girl You Never Loved But Always Looked For.'
Sue-Ellen Case
Enabling Performance: The Workshop Process of Split Britches
Saturday Evening
Split Britches - Dress Suits For Hire
On the evening of Saturday April 29th, Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver performed Dress Suits For Hire at the Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster University
Click here for the Nuffield Theatre website
Sunday 30th April
Response to Dress Suits for Hire
Chaired by Carole Woddis with responses from
Anna Furse
Jozefina Komporaly
Rewriting the Maternal the Body: Intertextuality, Reproduction, Technology
Kira O'Reilly
Artists' Panel
with
Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Marisa Carnesky, Kira O'Reilly, Rosie Lugosi, Anna Furse, Kazuko Hohki