Moderator / Animé par: Carla OroszLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Dawn Tracey Brandes, “The Beckettian Puppetry of Josh Rice's Kayfabe” In many ways, Samuel Beckett’s short 1957 play Act Without Words I is a rumination on action and inaction. A man in a desert is taunted by a mysterious offstage force, and [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Fraser StevensLocation: Golden Room, Atlas Hotel • Mélanie Binette, “Trading Interiorities: A One-on-One Audiowalk on Bereavement” Errances is a one-on-one audiowalk that I created and performed in 2019 at the site where my father died of a heart attack in 2002: the underground entrance of a [...]
Moderator / Animé par: Moira DayLocation: Silver Room, Atlas Hotel • Amanda Attrell, “‘This new idea now appears impossible’: Maria Campbell, Jessica, and Linda Griffiths in Conversation” Yvette Nolan discusses the collaborative relationship between Maria Campbell and Linda Griffiths during the 1980s in Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture: “I do not [...]
Moderator: Sasha Kovacs Location: Room 1175 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session WP New Play Development: Embracing Counternarratives Founded in 1978 by Julia Miles, who recognized the urgent need for women artists to have [...]
Moderator: Fraser Stevens Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Being Underground in Public as Silent Resistance and Critique: Using "invisible site-specific immersive theatre" to reclaim space and unseal buried/forgotten histories of [...]
Moderator: Barry Freeman Location: Room 3110 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Collaborating Together, Apart: Teaching Devised Puppetry Online This past summer, I was lucky enough to be able to [...]
Moderator: Shannon Holmes Location: Room 0030 - - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Team Play: Communal Care in asses.masses and New Societies Emerging discourses of care amidst the schisms of [...]
Moderator: Jennifer Schacker Location: Room 0028 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by Faculty of Fine Arts - University of Lethbridge Listening as Justice: Finding Lost Voices in Theatre [...]
Moderator: Kelsey Blair Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour- Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - University of Ottawa Performing in Response to the Anthropocene In this presentation I argue that there [...]
Moderator: Conrad Alexandrowicz Location: Room 1411 - Pavilion André Aidenstadt - 2920 chemin de la tour - Université de Montréal (Building 19 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of English - McGill University Queer characters on the Maltese stage in the 1970s and 1980s This presentation [...]