THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 The CDC cannot guarantee that this Itinerary will not change, although we will do everything possible to minimize any changes. 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration Main Lobby Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel and in the Harbor Club on the second floor. 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 1 Closed 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 2 Theatre and Theology Harbor West B Presiding: Les Essif (University of Tennessee) 1. Hagens, Jan L. (Yale University) “Theater and Religion: A Neglected Relation.” 2. Shaw, Marc Edward. (Hartwick College) “Don’t Mess With a Missionary Man: Mormons in Contemporary American Drama. 3. Ramis, A. Gabriela. (Olympic College) “Reception and Metatheater in The Great Creator: The Effect of Baring the Device.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 3 Theatre and/as Politics: Olmost, Valdez, and Triana Harbor West C Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College Park) 1. Cotsell, Michael. (University of Delaware) “Hunting Dogs: The Vision of Matthew Paul Olmos’s The Nature of Captivity.” 2. Flores, Adam. (Baylor Theatre) “Reevaluating El Teatro Campesino’s Dream for Zoot Suit’s Prominence, Place, and Plausibility on The Great White Way.” 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 4 Adaptation Theories Harbor East D Presiding: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University) 1. Gilbert, Richard. (Loyola University Chicago) “A Practice-Based View of Theatrical Adaptation: What is Adapted? Adapted to What?” 2. Norris, Marcos. (Loyola University Chicago) “‘What has Christ got to do with it?’: Adaptation Theory, Søren Kierkegaard, and Waiting for God(ot).” 3. Pellegrini, David. (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Meta-Adaptation & Performance.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 5 Staging Bodies in Post WWI Theatre Harbor East E Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (College of Blauvelt) 1. Schwartz, Michael. (Indiana State University of Pennsylvania) “‘What a Lot of God Damn Fools it Takes to Make a War!’: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the American Soldier in Stallings and Anderson’s What Price Glory?” 2. Considine, Kerri A. (University of Tennessee) “Romanticism’s Machine Children: Modern Machine Bodies and the Romantic Cult of the Child.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 6 Nazi Influences on German and French Theatre Harbor West A Presiding: Ian Andrew MacDonald (Dickinson College) 1. Muller, David G. (Independent Scholar) “Louis Jouvet’s Après-Guerre Tartuffe (1950): Apotheosis or Purification?” 2. Sharifian, Hesam and Sarah M. Henneböhl. (Tufts University and The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) “Werner Egk’s Peer Gynt: Anti-Semitism in Komponist des Wiederaufbaus’s Work.” 3. Jakoby, Vera. (McDaniel College) “Hitler’s Parsifal: Reenactment of Wagner Opera’s in the Third Reich.” 4 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 7 Classical Greek Theatre Harbor West B Presiding: Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University) 1. Falkner, Thomas. (McDaniel College) “Tragedy, Democracy, and the Athenian Jury: The Case of Socrates.” 2. Long, Jacqueline. (Loyola University Chicago) “Gender, Democracy, and the Justice of Athena’s Vote to Acquit Orestes.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 8 Early Modern Theatre: T. D., Jonson, and Shakespeare Harbor East C Presiding: Jan L. Hagens (Yale University) 1. Kimball, Claire. (Scholar-at-large) “Staging Dismemberment in The Bloody Banquet.” 2. Wedow, Lindsey. (Loyola University Chicago) “But Now the Evil Out-Carries the Devil: Ben Johnson, King James I, and the Politics of Witchcraft in The Devil is an Ass.” 3. Méndez, Emilio. (National Autonomous University of Mexico) “‘What, then, do you see?: the Dramaturgy of Love in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and Calderón de la Barca’s To Give Everything and Not Give Anything.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 9 Samuel Beckett Harbor West D Presiding: Graley Herren (Xavier University) 1. Hatch, David A. (University of South Carolina) “The Artistic Milieu of TCD and Antecedents of Godot.” 2. Kordich, Jason. (Mt. San Antonio College) “An Artist’s Last Stand: Krapp and his Revisionist Memory.” 3. Nail, Christopher. (University of Texas at El Paso) “Blasphemous Existentialism: Finding Meaning in Beckett” 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch Break 5 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Session 10 Plenary Session Harbor Club If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On Christopher Innes (York University) Brigitte Bogar (York University) Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (College of Blauvelt) Examining both the philosophical and dramaturgical use of songs in his plays demonstrates the sheer musicality of Shakespeare’s work. Indeed, songs can be shown as central to Shakespeare’s drama; most notably the way he uses harmony and discord to represent politics and, related to the Music of Spheres, humanity itself. It is the musical nature of Shakespeare’s plays that has made them one of the major sources for operas through the centuries: in fact, more operas have been based on his plays than any other particular source. Shakespeare has also been borrowed for musicals on the modern stage; and it can be seen how the modern musical adaptations of his plays have restored Shakespeare’s popular appeal, rescuing him from the elitist view of the 18th and 19th centuries. 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 11 Shaw I Harbor West A Sponsored by The Shaw Society Presiding: Tony Stafford (University of Texas at El Paso) 1. Cockin, Katharine. (University of Hull, England) “Performing Passion and Patronage: Reading the Critical Exchanges of Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw.” 2. Lyons, Al. (Indiana University) “Widowers’ Houses: George Bernard Shaw’s Philanthropic Drama.” 3. Dolgin, Ellen. (Dominican College) “Beyond the Bravura: Shaw’s Historical Figures in Repose.” 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 12 Highly Theoretical Theatre: Strindberg, Pirandello, Albee and Kushner Harbor West B Presiding: Graley Herren (Xavier University) 1. Burkart, Jessie. (Brooklyn College). “Dream as Reality: Schopenhauer’s Influence on Strindberg’s Late Works.” 6 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 2. Adam, Jessica. (Brooklyn College) “Schopenhauer in Angels in America: Sublimity Approaches the Body.” 3. Roberts, Daniel. (Northwest Missouri State University) “We Are What We Say: The Nature of Reality and the Self in the Works of Pirandello and Albee.” 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 13 Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Ruhl Harbor West C Presiding: Nathaniel Nesmith (Middlebury College) 1. Foults, Coralyn. (University of Tennessee) “The Use and Reuse of History: Exploring History and Political Icons in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The America Play and Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play.” 2. Hammond, Yvonne. (West Virginia University) “A Nod to Paper Cutout: Filling in Absence in Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play.” 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 14 Theatre in Education Harbor East D Presiding: Les Essif (University of Tennessee) 1. MacDonald, Ian Andrew (Dickinson College) “Theatre as Public Service: Applying Theatre in Education.” 2. Kaback, Doug, Sheri Strahl, and Shad Willingham. (California State University, Northridge) “Persephone & Me: Utilizing Touring Theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques, and Greek Mythology to Address Gender Violence and Sexual Assault with Secondary School Students.” 3. du Preez, Petrus. (Stellenbosch University) “The question of the play: Experiencing the past through high school drama and the effect of the alternative archive.” 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 15 From Opera to the Modern Musical: Goethe to Next to Normal Harbor East E Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College Park) 1. Ferran, Peter W. (Rochester Institute of Technology) “Goethe’s Musical Egmont.” 2. Little, Julie. (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Frailty, thy name is woman: A depiction of female madness in Next to Normal.” 7 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 2:30 – 3:45 p.m. Session 16 Staged Reading Harbor Club The Mathematics of Being Human Authors: Michele Osherow and Manil Suri Director: Michael Curry Cast: Dramaturg: Janna Segal (Mary Baldwin College) 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 17 Shaw II Harbor West A Sponsored by The Shaw Society Presiding: Tony Stafford (University of Texas at El Paso) 1. Stafford, Tony J. (University of Texas at El Paso) “Shaw’s The Philanderer: Home is Where the Hearth Is.” 2. Zorn, Christa. (Indiana University Southeast) “Shaw’s Staging of Capitalism: When ‘Money is Made in the Light.’” 3. Giner, Oscar. (Arizona State University) “The Dramatic Heroes of George Bernard Shaw and the Spanish Golden Age.” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 18 Adaptation Across Form: Miller, Shakespeare Harbor West B and The Arabian Nights from Page to Stage to Film Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (College of Blauvelt) 1. Berryman, Ruby. (Independent Scholar) “Distilling Genocide Into Drama: Adapting Holocaust and Slave Narratives to the Stage.” 2. Nanney, Nancy. (West Virginia University at Parkersburg) “Arabian Nights Retold: King Shahriyar’s Transformative Role in a Never-Ending Tale.” 3. Ruud, Amanda K. (University of Southern California) “Silent Soliloquies: Mediating Theatrical Affect in Early Shakespeare Film.” 8 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 19 19th Century Theatrical Representations of Ethnicity and Race Harbor West C Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville) 1. Huang, Yizhou. (Tufts University) “The Stories Told and the Stories Untold: Images of Chinese Women in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre.” 2. Kochman, Deborah. (Florida State University) “About [Red] Face: A Comparative Analysis the Osceola-Renegade Tradition at Florida State University and John Augustus Stone’s Metamora, or the Last Wampanoags.” 3. Williams-Witherspoon, Kimmika L.H. (Temple University) “Adapting Our Own: Ira Aldridge and The Black Doctor: PanAfricanism in Early Dramatic Discourse.” 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. Session 20 Teaching Tips and Trade Secrets Harbor Club Presiding: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University) and Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University) Panelists: Join this informal panel of experienced teachers who will be sharing classroom techniques that explore and illuminate the performative nature of dramatic literature. This lively discussion promises to spill over into the hotel lobby so participants can enjoy “Crabby Hour” together. 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 5:30 and 7:15 Dinner Break Shuttles Depart Pier 5 for Vagabond Players Theatre We encourage you to take our walking tour of the Inner Harbor and Fells Point to the Vagabond Players Theatre for tonight’s production. The walk is just 0.7 miles and will take only about 14 minutes. Along the way, stop to enjoy a coffee, a meal, or a pre-show drink. See pages 90-91 of this Program for full directions. For those who would prefer not to walk, two Stevenson shuttles will depart from the Pier 5 hotel, the first at 5:30 and the second at 7:15. Additionally, the Pier 5 has shuttles that run to the Admiral Fell Inn throughout the day (see the lobby schedule); the theatre is a block North (away from the water) from the Admiral Fell Inn, next to Pitango Gelato. 9 THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2015 8:00 p.m. Curtain Time for Performance at Vagabond Players Rabbit Hole Written by David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Eric C. Stein This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama presents an intensely moving examination of grief, laced with wit, compassion and searing honesty. A Stevenson shuttle will return to the Pier 5 Hotel after the performance. For those who wish to take a cab back to the Pier 5 (approximately $6) after dining or enjoying nightlife in Fells Point, see pages 92-97 of this Program for restaurant suggestions. You will find cab service phone numbers and walking directions on page 90-91. Note that we recommend walking only in groups; we do not recommend walking alone. 10 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration Lobby Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel and in the Harbor Club on the second floor. 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 21 Middle Eastern Political Theatre Harbor West A Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville) 1. Sarbarani, Fatameh Madani. (Arizona State University) “Eastern vs. Western Historiography.” 2. Shalha, Ziad Abu. (Tiabah University) “Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Postcolonial Middle Eastern Drama: A Comparative Study Between Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mamdouh Adwan’s Hamlet Wakes Up Late.” 3. Nicholas, Laura. (Baylor University) “Freeing the Syrian Refugee’s Natural Voice: A Look at the Reinforcement of Nationalism through Memory-Based Production.” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 22 A Different Story Altogether: Lochhead, Wertenbaker, Whitty, and LaChiusa Rewrite Ibsen, Euripides, and Oklahoma! Harbor West B Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University) 1. Zinman, Toby. (University of the Arts, Philadelphia) “Reimagining Hedda.” 2. Craig, Lydia. (Loyola University Chicago) “Politic Silence: Female Choruses in Lochhead’s Medea and Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale.” 3. Gibbes, Allison. (Florida State University) “Challenging the Canon: Using Michael John’s LaChiusa’s Giant to Deconstruct the Mythos of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 23 Staging Gender and the Family Harbor West C Presiding: William C. Boles (Rollins College) 1. Byrne, Elena E. (Southern Connecticut State University) “Henry Higgins: Androgynous Parent or Mother in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.” 2. Andes, Anna. (Susquehanna University) “Capitalizing on Daughters: The Awkward Gender Politics of Edith and Honour Thy Father.” 11 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 24 Tennessee Williams Harbor East D Presiding: Jeffrey Loomis (Northwest Missouri State University) 1. Garganourakis, John. (Mercy College) “The Grotesque Body in the Late Plays of Tennessee Williams.” 2. Yost, Connie A. (Millersville University) “Conflicting Identities: Invisible Males in Suddenly Last Summer and The House of Bernarda Alba.” 3. Rafieisakhaci, Soudabeh. (The University of Georgia) “Yalda, a Laura in Iran: A Study on the movie adaptation of The Glass Menagerie.” 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Session 25 Contemporary European Drama and Harbor East E Performance: Badiou, McPherson and Kjartansson Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama-Birmingham) 1. Phillips, Doug. (University of St. Thomas) “Thirteen Ways of Thinking about the Theatrical Event.” 2. Rosbrow, Jesse Edward. (Tufts University) “Layer upon Layer of Mischief: The Evolving Dramaturgy of Conor McPherson’s Early Monologue Plays.” 3. Butler, Thomas. (Eastern Kentucky University) “Ragnar Kiartansson’s Theatrical Repetitions.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 26 Staging Grief: Contemporary American Playwrights Lindsay-Abaire, Hudes, and Parks Harbor West A Presiding: Chelsea Dove (Vagabond Players Theater) 1. Muse, Amy. (University of St. Thomas) “Sympathetic Curiosities: Rabbit Hole’s demonstration of the power of intimate theatre.” 2. Smith, Susan Harris. (University of Pittsburgh) “Re-membering Place: Staging Grief.” 3. Williams, Jaye Austin. (University of California, Long Beach) “Alienated Flesh Excavating Dereliction and Inaudible Loss in SuzanLori Parks’ One-character Short Play, Pickling.” 12 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 27 Shakespeare Through the Lens of Race, Sex, and Class Harbor West B Presiding: David Pellegrini (Eastern Connecticut State University) 1. Boulton, Alex O. (Stevenson University) “Shakespeare’s Floating World.” 2. Chapman, Matthieu. (UC San Diego) “Aaron’s Incorporation and the Destruction of Civil Society in Titus Andronicus.” 3. Charlesbois, Elizabeth. (St. Mary’s College of Maryland) “With Rhyme and Reason: Hip Hop Hamlet in Prison.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 28 Acting Theories: From Plato to the Present Harbor West C Presiding: Les Essif (University of Tennessee) 1. Kaplan, Jeff. (University of Maryland, College Park) “The Poetry of Madness: Plato’s Ion and the Psychology of Acting.” 2. Pastorino, Gloria. (Farleigh Dickinson University) “The Physical Language of Satire: Jacques Lecoq’s Legacy in the Theatre of Dario Fo.” 3. Yoho, Rob. (Baylor University) “Group Mind and Human Consciousness: Improv as Mindfulness Practice.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 29 Gender in 17th Century Drama: Harbor East D Behn, the Salonniéres, and Beaumont and Fletcher Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College Park) 1. Raphaeli, Kara. (University of California, San Diego) “Troubling Gender in English Restoration Comedy.” 2. Kennedy, Theresa. (Baylor University) “Deliberating the Heroine in Seventeenth-Century French Women’s Theater.” 3. Park, Judy. (Loyola Marymount University) “Curious rules when every beast is free”: Tyranny, Animality, and Republican Possibilities in A King and No King” 13 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 30 Monstrous Beckett Harbor East E Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama-Birmingham) 1. Wetmore, Kevin J. (Loyola Marymount University) “Night of the Living Dead, or Endgame: Jan Kott, Peter Brook, Samuel Beckett and Zombies.” 2. Ardoin, Paul. (University of Texas at San Antonio) “‘Fashionable Despair’ and Literary Theater: Hansberry’s Monstrous Beckett.” 3. Herren, Graley. (Xavier University) “Beckett at the Bates Motel: Eh Joe and Psycho.” 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Session 31 CDC Board Meeting Chesapeake Room Board Members Only 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Session 32 Harbor Club Author Meets Critics Presiding Verna A. Foster (Loyola University Chicago) The Author Katherine Weiss (East Tennessee State University) The Book The Plays of Samuel Beckett (Critical Companions) (Metheun Drama) The Critics Doug Phillips (University of St. Thomas) William Hutchings (University of Alabama-Birmingham) 14 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 Awarding of The 2014 Anthony Ellis Prize for the Best Paper by a Graduate Student Presiding: Graley Herren Awarded to Giuseppe Sofo (University of Avignon; Università La Sapienza, Roma) for “Translating Tempests: A Reading of Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête in Translation” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 33 Wrestling with Albee: The Politics behind Harbor West A Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women Sponsored by The Edward Albee Society Presiding: Natka Bianchini 1. Huang, Chi-hua. (National Chengchi University) “Facing with the Mother Figure: A Comparative Study of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women and Hugh K. S. Lee’s Wedding Memories” 2. Malarcher, Jay. (West Virginia University) “The Metaphysics of Pronoun Confusion in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” 3. Stanley, William Chad. (Wilkes University) “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Bear?: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the Cuban Missile Crisis.” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 34 Staging Domestic Space in Contemporary Drama: Ruhl, The Raisin Cycle, and Pinter Harbor West B Presiding: William C. Boles (Rollins College) 1. Shanahan, Ann M. (Loyola University Chicago) “Women and Houses in Theatre and Drama.” 2. Thomas, LaRonika. (University of Maryland) “‘An Attractive Place to Live’: Thresholds, Landmarks, and Spatial Imaginaries on the American Stage.” 3. Higgins, Jeanmarie. (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) “Walls, Thresholds and Doorways in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language.” 15 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 35 Images as Performance, Performance as Image Harbor East C Presiding: David Pellegrini (Eastern Connecticut State University) 1. Grote, John. (Baylor University) “The Burning Monk’s Inspirational Flame: The Self-Immolation Performance of Thich Quang Duc and Audience Reaction in the United States and Vietnam.” 2. Snyder, Christine. (Brooklyn College) “Consuming Pauline: Confirming and Conforming to the Middle Class Woman Through Pauline Cushman’s 1864 Publicity Materials.” 3. Essif, Davenne. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Theatrical Emptiness in Giorgio de Chirico’s The Painter’s Family (1926).” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 36 Women of Color Counter the Hegemonic Stage: Spiderwoman, Carroll, and Childress Harbor East D Presiding: Laura T. Smith (Stevenson University) 1. Sundin, Bridget. (Indiana University) “Spiderwoman Theater: (Re)Claiming Authenticity through the Othered Body.” 2. Stollenwerk, Joe. (Indiana University) “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope: Reclaiming a Lost Musical.” 3. Ponnuswami, Meenakshi. (Bucknell University) “Alice Childress’s Wedding Band.” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 37 Ibsen Harbor East E Presiding: Jeffrey Loomis (Northwest Missouri State University) 1. Bailey, Matthew J. (Northwest Missouri State University) “Puppeteers and Meta-Puppeteers: The Autodeconstructive Nature of The Master Builder.” 2. Striplin, Alyssa. (Northwest Missouri State University) “Crossing Masculinity and Feminism to Build a Common Ground: A Comparison of Ibsen’s The Master Builder and Howe’s Pride’s Crossing.” 3. White, Eliot. (Millersville University) “The Family as a Fulcrum of Tragedy: Maternal Burden, Sins of the Father, and Shattered Illusions in Ibsen’s Ghosts and Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.” 16 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 38 Staged Reading Harbor Club The Quickening Author: Mark Scharf Director: Chelsea Dove Cast: Amanda K. Gatewood, Marianne Angelella, Eric C. Stein Dramaturg: Janna Segal (Mary Baldwin College) 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 39 Damaged Masculinities in the Drama of Shepard, Letts, Koutsoubeli, and Highway Harbor West A Presiding: Jeffrey Loomis (Northwest Missouri State University) 1. Covey, William B. (Slippery Rock University) “Fool for Love, Killer Joe, and the Fate of Women in Rural Noir Drama.” 2. Rapti, Vassiliki. (Harvard University) “Orpheus in the Bar by Chloe Koutsoubeli: A Radical Modern Greek Adaptation.” 3. Hawkins, Maureen S.G. (University of Lethbridge) “‘Symbolically Loaded’: The Functions of the Wall Hangings in Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.” 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 40 Dark and Twisted: British Playwrights Pinter, Jellicoe, Ravenhill, and Kane Harbor West B Presiding: Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago) 1. Cameron, Rebecca. (DePaul University) “Playing with Fire: Rape Games in Pinter and Jellicoe.” 2. Izmir, Sibel. (Atılım University) “Theatrical Strategies in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking.” 3. Ngezem, Eugene. (Clayton State University) “Consumerism in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and F***ing and Sarah Kane’s Blasted: (Mis)representation of Sexual Hurricane and the Collapse of Decency in Contemporary World.” 17 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 41 Stop that Show! Recovering Historiography in the Wake of Interrupted Performance Harbor West C Presiding: David Pellegrini (Eastern Connecticut State University) 1. Ginder, Brittany Proudfoot. (University of Maryland, College Park) “Black Magic: The Curse of Macbeth Meets Orson Welles.” 2. Hughes, Erica. (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Tannhäuser in Paris: Richard Wagner vs. French Tradition.” 3. Salsbury, Kate. (Point Park University) “Sparks of Controversy on Catfish Row.” 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 42 Chinese Theatre and Theatre for China Harbor East D Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville) 1. Lowe, William (Howard Community College) and ChingHsuan. (Ohio Wesleyan University) “Uncovering the Zaju Chinese Drama of the Yuan Dynasty.” 2. Hoenshell, Nicholas. (Baylor University) “Gao Xingjian’s Model Theatre: Postmodern Pastiche and Parody in The Other Shore.” 3. Hunter, Mead K. (University of Portland) “Lessons from the Mouse: Shifting Narratologies on Planet Disney.” 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 43 Contemporary Comedy in Theory and Practice: Sedaris, Leguizamo, Gray, Durang, McDonagh, and Callaghan Harbor East E Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama-Birmingham) 1. Chirico, Miriam. (Eastern Connecticut State University) “Performed Authenticity: Narrating the Self in Comedic Monologues.” 2. Combs, Robert. (George Washington University) “The Joys and Sorrows of Not-Getting-It: Christopher Durang, Martin McDonagh, and the Dangerous Comedy of Defamiliarization.” 3. Goff, Jennifer. (Wayne State University/Frostburg University) “Not-So-Benign Violation: The Dangerous Comedy of Sheila Callaghan.” 18 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 44 Staged Reading Harbor Club Dyskolos Version by: Katherine B. Free (Loyola Marymount University) Director: Kevin J. Wetmore (Loyola Marymount University) Cast: Ron Marasco (Loyola Marymount University), others TBD Dramaturg: Janna Segal (Mary Baldwin College) 8:00 p.m. Harbor East A, B & C 2015 Keynote Event: David Lindsay-Abaire Welcome: President Kevin Manning (Stevenson University) A Conversation with David Lindsay-Abaire Presiding: Kelly Younger (Loyola Marymount University) Join your colleagues from the Comparative Drama Conference for a conversation with David Lindsay-Abaire, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. Lindsay-Abaire’s play Rabbit Hole received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and five Tony nominations. His most recent play Good People was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations. Lindsay-Abaire also wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical, which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned him the Ed Kleban Award as America's most promising musical theatre lyricist. His other plays include Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A Devil Inside. In addition to his work in theatre, Lindsay-Abaire’s screen credits include his film adaptation of Rabbit Hole (starring Nicole Kidman - Oscar Nomination), Oz the Great and Powerful, Inkheart, Robots, and MGM's upcoming Poltergeist reboot. Come prepared for a lively conversation on contemporary theatre followed by a Q & A with the audience. 19 FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015 9:30 p.m. Reception Harbor Club All conference participants are invited to join us for a reception with David Lindsay-Abaire hosted by the Comparative Drama Conference Board and sponsored by Stevenson University. Please join us for hors d’oeuvres, a cash bar, and a magnificent view of the Inner Harbor from the Pier 5 Hotel’s Harbor Club. Shuttles to the Admiral Fell Inn will close at 10:45. Information on taxi services can be found on page 93 of this Program. 20 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Conference Registration Lobby Conference packets for pre-registered participants are available at the Conference Registration Table in the Lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel, as is registration for those who have not pre-registered. Events take place in the conference rooms off the lobby of the Pier 5 Hotel and in the Harbor Club on the second floor. 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 45 The Function of Realistic Conventions in Wilder and Young Jean Lee Harbor West A Presiding: Brittany Proudfoot Ginder (University of Maryland, College Park) 1. Piede, Samantha. (Millersville University) “Not Verisimilitude, But Reality: Theatre and Film’s Impact on Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.” 2. Vorlicky, Robert. (New York University) “Radical Dramaturgy: The Case of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 46 Rewriting and Adapting Across Time, Culture, and Genre: Homer, Euripides, and Wijaya Meet Strattis, Walcott and Wisconsin Harbor West B Presiding: Ian Andrew MacDonald (Dickinson College) 1. Sofo, Giuseppe. (Université d’Avignon) “Theatre, Rewriting and Translation: Analysing the translations of Derek Walcott’s The Odyssey: a Stage Version.” 2. Sachdev, Rachana. (Susquehanna University) “Exoticization, Postcolonialism and Globalization: The Case of Puta Wijaya’s Geez!” 3. Scharffenberger, Elizabeth. (Columbia University) “The Comic Refashioning of Tragedy in Strattis’ Phoenician Women.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 47 Dramas of the American Progressive Era Harbor West C Presiding: Ellen Dolgin (College of Blauvelt) 1. O’Malley, Lurana Donnels. (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) “Spirits in Black and White: Ethiopia, Columbia, and the Witch of Endor.” 2. Westgate, J. Chris. (California State University) “‘Dissolution by Stages—and then—the Worst’: The Specter of Syphilis in The Dawn of a To-morrow.” 21 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 3. Holtcamp, Victor. (Tulane University) “Remembering ‘The Rod’: The Goldenrod Showboat in St. Louis.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 48 Lorraine Hansberry Harbor East D Presiding: Baron Kelly (University of Louisville) 1. Bernd, Lisa. (Cleveland State University) “Lorraine Hansberry and Amira Baraka: The Mimesis of Militancy in the Civil Rights Movement.” 2. Burch, William. (Rutgers University) “Bad Theatricality: Lorraine Hansberry’s Apocalyptic Anxiety.” 3. Grams, Timothy. (Northern Michigan University) “The Causes and Effects of Nihilism in Black America.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 49 Shakespeare in Historical Context Harbor East E Presiding: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount Univeristy) 1. Cooledge, Dean R. (University of Maryland Eastern Shore) “The Original ‘Company Man’: Shylock as a Metaphor for the Corporation in Early Modern England.” 2. Dotson, Jessica. (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Shakespeare’s Supernova.” 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Session 50 Eugene O’Neill Society Business Meeting Harbor Club Presiding: Jeff Kennedy, President (Arizona State University) This meeting is open to all interested parties. 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 51 Adapting Historical Conventions to a Contemporary Context, or ‘How to Do Things with a Greek Chorus and Moliere’ Harbor West A Presiding: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University) 1. Kafetzi, Eleni. (University of Sorbonne) “Ancient chorus in modern interpretations: Modern choruses in contemporary interdisciplinary performances.” 2. Taylor, Scott D. (Western Washington University) “Moliére Meets Paris Hilton at the Circus: Expanding the Theatrical Text and Bridging the Gap between 17th Century Paris and 21st Century Hollywood.” 22 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 52 Indian Theatre Harbor West B Presiding: Muhammad Azam Khan (Independent Scholar) 1. Rudisill, Kristen. (Bowling Green State University) “Terrorists at Home: Tamil Brahmans As Indian Patriots.” 2. Guha-Majumbur, Rupendra. (University of Delhi) “Opposing Patriarchal Hegemony: Radical Heroines in the Plays of Sophocles and Rabindranath Tagore.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 53 Tennessee Williams Goes to the Movies Harbor West C Presiding: William Hutchings (University of Alabama-Birmingham) 1. Loomis, Jeffrey B. (Northwest Missouri State University) “Archives of an Ironic Film Fan?: The ‘Tony’ Drafts of The Glass Menagerie.” 2. Feldman, Alex. (MacEwan University) “Tropic Temptations, Exotic Epiphanies: Reading the Hispanic in the Plays and Films of Tennessee Williams.” 3. Foster, Verna A. (Loyola University Chicago) “White Woods and Blue Jasmine: Woody Allen Rewrites A Streetcar Named Desire.” 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 54 The Drama of Business/The Business of Drama Harbor East D Presiding: William C. Boles (Rollins College) 1. Johnson, Martha. (University of Minnesota) “‘Bring Your Own Translator’: Communication and Changing Business Paradigms in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross and David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish.” 2. Papa, Lee. (College of Staten Island) “Theatre vs. Business: Plays of the Contemporary Workers’ Theatre.” 3. Boles, William C. (Rollins College) “Money at Play: Theatricalizing the Great Recession in Contemporary British Theatre.” 23 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Session 55 Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy: Drama, Play and Performance Harbor East E Presiding: Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University) 1. Potts, Kathleen. (The City College of New York) “Dramaturgical Alternatives to Naturalism in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog.” 2. Sheaffer, Adam. (University of Maryland, College Park) “‘delightful and tragic’: Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Sarah Ruhl’s Dead Man’s Cell Phone.” 3. Young, Patrick James. (University of Maryland, College Park) “The Politics of Sandcastles: Rhetorics of play and The Birth of Tragedy.” 10:30 – 11:45a.m. Session 56 Arthur Miller’s Life and Work – A Centennial Discussion of the Works of Arthur Miller Harbor Club Sponsored by The Arthur Miller Society Presiding: David Palmer (Massachusetts Maritime Academy) Panelists: Susan C.W. Abbotson (Rhode Island College), Claire Gleitman (Ithaca College), Michele Cobb (L. A. Theatre Works), Stephen A. Marino (St. Francis College), Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut). In celebration of the centennial this year of Arthur Miller’s birth, participants in this roundtable will discuss why Miller’s plays continue to be produced so widely, not just in America but indeed throughout the world. Which of Miller’s themes are specifically American; which are grounded in universal issues of the human condition? What can we learn from looking at Miller’s plays about how people engage with literature and why people care about fictional characters? How do plays become canonical, as many of Miller’s plays have in American and other cultures? The session begins with brief statements from each of the five panelists followed by discussion among the panelists and an open discussion with the audience. 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Session 57 CDC Board Meeting Board Members Only 24 Chesapeake Room SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Session 58 Harbor Club Visions of Tragedy in American Theater Sponsored by The Arthur Miller Society Presiding David Palmer (Massachusetts Maritime Academy; Arthur Miller Society) J. Chris Westgate (California State University, Fullerton; Eugene O’Neill Society) Panelists: On Edward Albee: Natka Bianchini (Loyola University Maryland, Edward Albee Society) On Susan Glaspell: Sharon Friedman (New York University, Susan Glaspell Society) On David Mamet: Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut) On Arthur Miller: Stephen A. Marino (St. Francis College, Arthur Miller Society) On Eugene O’Neill: Jeffery Kennedy (Arizona State University, Eugene O’Neill Society) On Thornton Wilder: Jackson R. Bryer (University of Maryland, Thornton Wilder Society) On Tennessee Williams: Susan C. W. Abbotson (Rhode Island College) On August Wilson: Sandra G. Shannon (Howard University, August Wilson Society) Organized by the Arthur Miller Society, this round-table discussion among representatives from various American dramatist societies will examine the ways in which tragedy has been envisioned and depicted in American theater. Opening five-minute statements from the panelists will be followed by an open discussion with the audience. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Awarding of The Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award Presiding: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. The 2014 Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award Winner: Peter E. Pormann (University of Manchester) “Arabs and Aristophanes, Menander Among the Muslims: Greek Humour in the Medieval and Modern Middle East” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 21, no. 1 (2014): 1-29. This year the selection committee consisted of Chairperson Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University), Robert Davis (Graduate Center, CUNY), Karelisa Hartigan (Emerita University of Florida), Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University), Gonda Van Steen (University of Florida at Gainesville), and Amanda Wrigley (University of Westminster). The CDC Board would like to extend its gratitude to the committee for their service. The selection committee thanks those who nominated essays for this year’s award and strongly encourages nominations for next year’s award. Call for Nominations: The 2015 Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award 25 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 The Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award in 2015 will be given to the best comparative essay on any aspect and period of Greek drama or theatre that was published in English in any journal in any country between January 1 and December 31, 2015. The award was established in 2006 in memory of Philadelphia Constantinidis to encourage research and writing on Greek drama and theatre. This is an open rank competition for academics, independent scholars, and doctoral students. The award is administered by the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference. The Board solicits nominations and selfnominations for this award. The winner will be notified by the Director of the Comparative Drama Conference, and will be offered complimentary hotel accommodations and a registration fee waiver to attend the 40th Comparative Drama Conference. The winner will also receive a check of one thousand dollars ($1,000) during the awards ceremony at the conference. The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2015. Nominating letters and electronic copies of the essays (converted to Adobe PDF) should be emailed to [email protected] by December 31, 2015. Postal mail and faxes are not acceptable. The letter of nomination should include the name of the author of the published essay, the title of the essay, the year of publication, the name of the journal, the email address and postal address of the author, and a brief statement explaining why this essay was chosen for nomination. Recipients of the award are not eligible for nomination or self-nomination for a three-year period. 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 59 Critiquing Business from Everyman to Enron: Mamet, Prebble, and Pommerat Harbor West A Presiding: William C. Boles (Rollins College) 1. Pressley, Nelson. (Scholar-at-large) “Capital Meltdowns: November, Enron, and the Stage Rhetoric of Money.” 2. Essif, Les. (University of Tennessee) “From Vinaver to Pommerat: The De-idealization of Capital and ‘Work as Business’ in Contemporary French Theatre.” 3. Lowell, Mandy. (Cornell University) “He Who Could Be Each of Us: Everyman/Elckerlijc as Communitarian Censure.” 3:15 – 4:30 p. m. Session 60 Audience Reception Studies: Fahrer, Crimp, and The Living Theatre Harbor West B Presiding: Elizabeth Scharffenberger (Columbia University) 1. Heaps, Eric “C”. (Indiana University) “Refusing to Fully Translate: Echo Translation and Music in Refusing the Flower.” 2. Running-Johnson, Cynthia. (Western Michigan University) “Re-viewing and the Role of the Spectator.” 3. Hsieh, Yu-Yun. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Staging ‘the record ritual’: Live and Recorded Sound in The Living Theatre’s The Connection.” 26 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 3:15 – 4:30 p. m. Session 61 O’Neill and Ecocriticism Harbor West C Organized by The Eugene O’Neill Society Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University) 1. Kennedy, Jeffery. (Arizona State University) “‘It’s a hell av a life’: The Sea as Character in O’Neill’s Provincetown Players Plays.” 2. Johnson, Katie. (Miami University) “‘Come On Out o’ That Jungle’: The Ecologies of The Emperor Jones.” 3. Baker-White, Robert. (Williams College) “Nature’s Veiled Purpose: O’Neill’s Ecological Imagination in the Tao House Plays.” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 62 Re-Interpreting Classical Texts: Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov Harbor East D Presiding: Verna Foster (Loyola University Chicago) 1. Ignatieva, Maria. (The Ohio State University, Lima) “Tragedy ‘Boris Gudunov’ by Alexander Pushkin as Russian Political Nostradamus.” 2. Partan, Olga S. (College of the Holy Cross) “The Russian Goldoni: Gogol’s ‘The Inspector General’ and the Italian Comic Tradition.” 3. Rylkova, Galina. (University of Florida) “Anton Chekhov’s Plays as Studies of Idealism.” 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 63 Trends in Contemporary American Drama: Vogel, Hwang, Jacob-Jenkins, and Hudes Harbor East E Presiding: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University) 1. Long, Khalid Yaya. (University of Maryland, College Park) “Are We There Yet: Post-Race in Contemporary American Drama.” 2. Schlatter, James F. (University of Pennsylvania) “‘When the Dead Won’t Die’: The Role of Ghosts in Contemporary American War Plays.” 3. Cizmar, Elizabeth. (Tufts University) “‘I hates myself!’: Reviving Blackface Minstrelsy in Branden JacobsJenkins’ Neighbors.” 27 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 3:15 – 4:30 p.m. Session 64 Staged Reading Harbor Club Leah’s Dybbuk Author: Susan McCully (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Director: Eve Munson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Cast: Hana Grothe, Hanna Yang, Wonsup Chung, Brielle Levenberg, Kerri Eastridge, Savannah Jo Chamberlain, Hannah Kelly, Chaz Atkinso Dramaturg: Janna Segal (Mary Baldwin College) 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 65 Theatre of West and South Africa Harbor West A Presiding: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University) 1. Zapkin, Phillip. (West Virginia University) “‘Kill the Pity in Us’: The Communal Crisis as Crisis of Individualism in David Greig’s Oedipus the Visionary.” 2. Udengwu, Ngozi. (University of Nigeria, Nsukka) “Women in Men’s World: A Focus on the Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre.” 3. Ofori, Michael. (Ohio University) “‘Pato’ to Proscenium: Tracing the Paradigm Shift in Ghanaian Theater Through Architecture.” 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 66 Fin de Siecle Stages: Oscar Wilde, Alfred Jarry and The Cancan Harbor West B Presiding: J. Chris Westgate (California State University) 1. Williams, Todd O. (Kutztown University) “‘Beautiful Untrue Things’ in Oscar Wilde’s Society Comedies.” 2. Trainor, Sebastian. (Saint Lawrence University) “The Real Battle of Ubu Roi: The Last Stand of Henry Bauër, Anarchist Theatre Critic of the Parisian Fin de Siecle.” 3. Calvano, Jenn. (University of Colorado Boulder) “Complicating the Gaze: Physicality and Female Representations in Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity and Fin de Siécle Cancan in France.” 28 SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 67 Future Scholars: The Undergraduate Theater Studies Honors Program at NYU Harbor West C Presiding: Robert Vorlicky (New York University) Presenting Students: Katherine Banos, Michelle Nicole Brady Davis, Ethan Charles Abramson, Cassidy Dawn Graves, Taylor Edelhart, and Ilana Khanin. For over 15 years, the Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU—whose majors are actors, designers, and directors—has enhanced the scholarly acumen of Theatre Studies researchers through its Honors Program offerings: students’ participation in highly selective seminars, coupled with the option to write a mentored thesis. Former undergraduates who completed the thesis have gone on to such successes as earning PhDs in Drama, Performance Studies, and English; securing teaching positions in university Theatre Departments; publishing their thesis and speaking at national conferences; and performing on Broadway and theatres across the U.S.—with their thesis in hand! Please join us to hear 6 honors students speak briefly about their recent research, within the context of the program’s demanding, pedagogical approach to elicit original thinking and writing from our future artists-scholars. 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 68 August Wilson and Amiri Baraka Harbor East D Presiding: Laura T. Smith (Stevenson University) 1. Kern, Douglas S. (University of Maryland, College Park) “Dramatizing Death Threats: Amiri Baraka’s Nuyorican Trio.” 2. Nesmith, Eugene. (New Harlem Arts Theatre) “August Wilson and Lloyd Richards: The Playwright-Director Dynamic Collaborative Relationship.” 3. Maley, Patrick. (Centenary College) “Tennessee Williams After August Wilson.” 4:45 – 6:00 p.m. Session 69 NEH Grant Session Harbor Club Presiding: Victoria Sams Victoria Sams, Program Officer in the Education Programs division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will hold a forum in which she will present an overview of grant opportunities for CDC scholars, educators, and organizations. The forum will be followed by a Q & A with the audience. Further information on NEH grants may be found at http://www.neh.gov/grants/match-your-project. Ms. Sams will be available for individual consultation, formally and informally, in the Pier 5 Lobby on Friday from 24. To arrange an appointment, contact [email protected] or call (202) 606-8283. Mark Your Calendar: The 40 Comparative Drama Conference, 2016 Stevenson University Abstracts and Proposals due by 3 December 2015 th 29
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