Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jenny Salisbury Kelsey Jacobson, "Theatre People: Constructions of Audiences as Consumers, Co-Creators, and Curators in Memory and Archive" Recollections from audience members suggest that audiencing, and the personal archiving of theatrical experiences, can be a deeply impactful process of identity-creation, one that is rooted in [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Sara Schroeter Islay Burgess, "(Trans)substantiation and Monstrosity: Consecrating Theatrical Liminality as Additional Liveness" A longstanding investigatory fixation and debate of theatrical scholarship is that of the precise nature of “liveness” in its relation to theatre. This paper argues that if theatrical text is framed as living [...]
Location: Movement Room Moderator: Julia Henderson Chantal Bilodeau, "Daring to Be Solarpunks" British philosopher Mark Fisher wrote, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” In the theatre, this translates into a failure to envision a thriving post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-climate future; instead, offerings on [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Robert Motum Laurel Green and Derek Manderson, "The Assembly: A Game of Civic Decision-Making & Future Thinking for Young Audiences" Would you rather raise the minimum wage, or build a new hospital? Allocate funding for a rooftop garden, or build new housing developments? If charged with [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Jessica Riley Selena Couture, "Guinness World Records: Dazzle Camouflage & British Imperial Inheritances" If you search the Lək̓ʷəŋən , Xʷsepsəm and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples lands (aka Victoria, BC where CATR will be convening this year) in the Guinness World Records database, 20 entries pop up. These [...]
Location: Movement Room Moderator: Marlis Schweitzer Rebecca Harries, "A theatre tool for all: Boal’s Sculptures in Youth Engagement Settings" The theatre methods and ideas of Augusto Boal provides community youth leaders with tools that support inclusive and egalitarian values even when participants don’t have the capacity or resources to develop [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Roberta Barker Bridget Baldwin, "Rita Reconstructed: The Queer Feminist Legacies of Rita MacNeil" Performer and songstress Rita MacNeil has long been dubbed “Cape Breton’s First Lady of Song”. Awarded both provincially and federally for her musical and cultural achievements, MacNeil’s performance career has tied her [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Andy Houston Kamrun Naher Liza, "Simple Theatre: A Space for Debate, Dialogue, Reflexivity, Dreaming the Impossible, and the Flight to Infinity" This panel paper presents a study in which my mentor envisioned a “simple theatre” that “allows debate, dialogue, reflexivity, dreaming the impossible” (Ahmed 218). This [...]
Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Yasmine Kandil Emilia Hillyer, "The Fantasy of Antiseptic: Performing Rubbish Theory and Critiquing Monumental History via Community-Engaged Gender-Diverse Puppetry Practices" The “negative privilege” of low art forms like puppetry call out to the scapegoats of the modern moment: gender-diverse people. At a time when community-engagement [...]
Location: Design Room Moderator: Jill Carter Claire Borody, "Backwards into the Future: Observation of Past Performance-making Practice as a Means Forward" The conference theme Inheritance in Transition: Rehearsing Change for Theatre and Performance Futures aptly identifies the present as a time of shift and revision within the field of theatre [...]