Kate Eaton’s translations of two plays by Cuban playwright Virgilio Pinera (You Always Forget Something and Thin Man Fat Man) will be presented as a double bill by third year students from Central School of Speech and Drama at the Arcola Theatre from Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 6th of March. For full details please visit the Arcola website: www.arcolatheatre.com or phone the box office on 020 7503 1646.
Date: 30 January 2010
From: 16.00 to 18.00
Speaker: Prof Sandra G. Vasconcelos and Prof David Treece and a performance by FlamingoFeather
Location: Birkbeck Cinema
Free entry; first come, first seated.
Three Places is an event inspired by the sertão of João Guimarães Rosa, including the screening of Urucuia (Angélica del Nery), seminars by Prof Sandra G. Vasconcelos (USP) and Prof David Treece (King’s College, London) and a performance by FlamingoFeather physical theatre company.
Event web page(s).
Event submitted by: Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies
email: l.martins@bbk.ac.uk
There will be an exciting symposium on the Spanish Civil War
and theatre at the University of Leeds. There are also performances of
the play (in Spanish) on Thursday 3 and Saturday 5 December at
Stage@Leeds. Tickets are available from www.stage.leeds.ac.uk
Translation and Spanish Theatre continue to be In the Air…
Below is a link for more information about upcoming rehearsed readings of contemporary Spanish translated plays organised by Rose Bruford College and Caos Editorial. Out of the Wings visited this event last year and is looking forward to another great series of readings.
http://www.eurotheatro.eu/eurotheatro/en/actos/2009Londres.html
For those interested in attending the event on Friday 16 October, the person to contact is Diane Stacey at Rose Bruford, email diane.stacey[at]bruford.ac.uk or telephone 0208 3082618.
Call for papers: Graduate Colloquium on Theatre Translation at Queen Mary,
University of London; Department of Drama
GRADUATE CONFERENCE funded by the AHRC and the GRADUATE SCHOOL IN
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
***Theatre translation as collaboration: re-routing text through
performance***
Saturday 20 March 2010 at Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS
Keynote speakers: Professor J. Michael Walton and playwright Colin Teevan
Round table chaired by critic Aleks Sierz, featuring playwright Martin
Crimp and theatre practitioners tba
Afternoon workshop led by Graínne Byrne of Scarlet Theatre
Pieces of Piñera
Arcola Theatre
Sunday October 4 2009
Directed by Gráinne Byrne and Katarzyna Deszcz
Translated by Kate Eaton
Additional Support: Kirsty Housley
Sunday 4 October 2009
Starting time: 7pm
Join us for a welcome drink from 6.30pm
STUDIO 1
Tickets £10 / £8
Booking: www.arcolatheatre.com
Or call: 020 7503 1646
Last week three members of the Out of the Wings team, namely David Johnston, Jonathan Thacker and Kathleen Jeffs traveled to New York for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s 2009 conference. Our seminar was a great success; 23 participants of our wiki-conversation which has been ongoing for the past year were in attendance. There never seems to be enough time to have the conversations, which seem to be over as soon as they begin, but the encounter continued with a post-seminar discussion and we hope it will continue into the future. Our preparatory conversation is available for viewing online. For the main site see the Main Wiki, and see here for our specific 2009 New York Seminar.
Specific thanks go to the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre, particularly Ben Gunter and Susan Paun de Garcia, without whom the seminar would not have been possible.
For more information about the Association for Theatre in Higher Education see the ATHE Website or this year’s conference site, Risking Innovation.
As Contemporary Theatre Review has expanded (with an allocation for 2009 of 136 pages per issue), so have the simple administrative tasks such as logging in of submissions, preparing publicity copy, routine communications with the publishers, etc. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London has created a unique opportunity for a doctoral studentship based in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary to act as editorial assistant during their time as a registered student. As part of their scholarship, the editorial assistant will agree to offer 6-8 hours per week of administrative support to CTR.
This research studentship provides a one-off opportunity for a suitably qualified individual to undertake doctoral research on some aspect of international theatrical cultures working within the excellent provisions for graduate study in Drama offered by Queen Mary. The student will also play a crucial role in building further an international journal with exciting plans for the coming three years.
Applicants should be holders of a good first degree from any university, with relevant MA studies completed or close to completion, and should be competent readers and writers of at least one language other than English.
Applicants must complete a Queen Mary University of London postgraduate application form, which can be downloaded from:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/index.html
In addition, they should provide a 500 word statement explaining why they are applying for this particular scholarship and why they feel equipped to take on the role of editorial assistant on the journal.
The application form should be marked clearly with “CTR APPLICATION DRAMA” and sent to the address at the top of the form. Applications may only be sent to Postgraduate Admissions and not directly to members of academic staff.
Further inquiries may be made to Dr. Michael McKinnie, Director of Graduate Studies in Drama at Queen Mary, at: m.mckinnie@qmul.ac.uk
The deadline for receipt of applications at Queen Mary is 3 July 2009.
Interviews are expected to be held on 10 July 2009 (date subject to final confirmation).
Department of Drama, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London
and
The Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
Cultural Branding, National Identity and International Visibility: Spanish Directors at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu: 1999-2011
This Collaborative Doctoral Award offers an exciting opportunity to pursue a fully funded PhD with a leading international centre for research in cultural politics and theatrical performance with one of the world’s foremost opera houses. The research project will examine the ways in which the cultural branding of the Liceu through the work of Spanish directors has defined wider debates around the identity of the theatre and its relationship to Catalan nationalism and the regeneration of the Raval quarter of the city.
How to Apply
Applicants must complete a Queen Mary, University of London postgraduate application form, which can be downloaded from:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/index.html
In addition to the details specified there, they should supply full details of the Master’s course completed or to be completed. In a statement of no more than 500 words, applicants should explain how their current academic interests relate to the proposed thesis, and indicate how they might refine the project in order to achieve their own research aims. They should also submit a piece of written work (an essay or a chapter, an extract from a dissertation) or a portfolio of reviews or interviews of not more than 5,000 words in support of the application. Award holders should inform referees about the distinct nature of the CDA project so that they may take this into account when writing letters of reference.
The application form and supporting materials should be marked clearly with “AHRC CDA APPLICATION DRAMA/LICEU” and sent to the address at the top of the form. Applications sent directly to Professor Delgado or Mr Matabosch by post or email are not acceptable.
The deadline for receipt of applications at Queen Mary is Monday 8 June 2009.
