[CW-Grad] Attention playwrights/performers: The Festival of Original Theatre 2010

[Robin Russin]

PLEASE NOTE THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 30, 2009
The Festival of Original Theatre 2010:

Performing Space and Space in Performance

January 21-23, 2010

University of Toronto



For as long as there has been theatre, there has been a space that  
accompanies it; however, any significant contribution to the  
discussion of the powers and potentials of the space, place, and  
geography of the theatre have only appeared in recent years. The long- 
standing significance awarded to history and time resigned any  
discussion of space to a secondary role. It has only been in recent  
years that this “intellectual curse”
that accompanies a study of geography has been lifted and replaced  
with serious and diverse discussions of space and geography becoming  
more prevalent in theatre and performance scholarship.

Taking its cues from the recent scholarship on space, geography, and  
landscape, the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of  
Toronto is now inviting graduate students to submit abstracts for  
papers and performance proposals for its annual conference the  
Festival of Original Theatre (F.O.O.T) to be held January 21-23, 2010.  
F.O.O.T seeks papers or performances proposals from all disciplines  
that explore
or discuss the scenographic, the geographic, and/or the spacial and  
its relationship to theatre, performance, and performativity. Some  
topics may include:

• Site specific theatre(s)
• Performances in different locations/contexts,
• Theatre architecture,
• The function/effect of space, location, geography on character/actor/ 
identity,
• Cyber-theatre, virtuality, and performance,
• The scenographer’s place in designing space; the different ways the  
designer can create “space,”
• Staging the globe: different places in one space,
• Borders, borderlands, and liminality in theatre/performance,
• Relationship between location and identity/nationality,
• Performing the city, country, nation, or multi-geographic locations,
• Staging home, homeland, homelessness, exile, and/or displacement,
• Staging theatre/performance in difficult locations,
• Discourse theory, space, and the performing body,
• The collision between geography and history in performance.



Please send abstracts (300 words) and a brief bio (100 words), along  
with any questions to this year’s Artistic Director at:
  foot.graddrama at utoronto.ca by October 30, 2009.


Robin Russin

Associate Professor & Graduate Advisor
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
(213) 949-1061 cel
robin.russin at ucr.edu

"I try all things; I achieve what I can." - Ishmael in "Moby Dick,"  
written by Herman Melville

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny in  
"Unforgiven," written by David Webb Peoples

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