GREAT RECKONINGS IN LITTLE ROOMS

100 YEARS OF FORTITUDE
27 February 2015 to 1 March 2015
Venue: 
Falmouth University
Country: 
United Kingdom
A three-day conference/gathering to consider the histories and futures of Laboratory Theatres.

Centre for Performance Research and The Laboratory Theatre Network warmly invite you to:

GREAT RECKONINGS IN LITTLE ROOMS: 100 YEARS OF FORTITUDE

Events are open to all and free of charge. Option with meals £40 - £70.

A three-day conference/gathering to consider the histories and futures of Laboratory Theatres: speculative, provocative, radical, retrospective, nostalgic, optimistic, idealistic, naïve, incorrigible, iconoclastic, irreverent and, dare one say, experimental in approach.

This is the concluding conference of a Leverhulme-funded international network initiative: The Laboratory Theatre Network.

GREAT RECKONINGS IN LITTLE ROOMS: 100 YEARS OF FORTITUDE

Over the last three years research seminars and conferences have been convened in: Aberystwyth (Wales), Holstebro (Denmark), Wroclaw (Poland) and Berlin (Germany). The Laboratory Theatre Network has asked how theatre laboratories have experimented with form and content in the social and communal function of theatre by generating innovation in technique/craft, application, and aspiration. It has investigated how laboratory theatres have carved out ‘liminal’ (betwixt and between) experimental spaces in relation to both mainstream professional theatre and the disciplines of theatre/performance studies and how, as such, they are in precarious and often isolated positions in the current geopolitical and economic climate.

In this final event the Network intends to assess recent histories of laboratory theatre and to examine current independent configurations before collaboratively proposing new modes of experimental practice. These three days will consider the legacy and heritage of the laboratory theatre ‘tradition’ and on the basis of material presented and discussed, debate possible future models, emergent tendencies, threats and opportunities: capacity, potential, the tried and the tested, the obsolete and redundant, the fecund and furtive.

A full and diverse programme of illustrated talks, presentations, demonstrations and performances will be made by:

Representatives of the Laboratory Theatre Network partners:

And from leading members of:

Together with keynotes, dialogues and interventions from:

  • Prof Paul Allain 
  • Gey Pin Ang 
  • Dr Bryan Brown 
  • Prof Richard Gough 
  • Dr Ali Hodge 
  • Prof Dariusz Kosinski 
  • Anna-Helena McLean 
  • Prof Simon Murray 
  • Prof Mike Pearson 
  • Dr Ben Spatz 
  • Sergei Tcherkasski 
  • Nigel Watson 

The event will take place at AMATA, Falmouth University, www.amata.org.uk.

The programme schedule is:

Friday 27 Feb: 09.30 – 19.00 including lunch and breaks, followed by a buffet supper and a performance at 20.30

Saturday 28 Feb: 09.30 – 20.00 including lunch and breaks and a performance at 18.30, followed by a conference dinner at 20.30

Sunday 1 March: 09.30 – 15.30 including lunch

Please contact Helen Gethin to register if you would like to attend the event: heg@aber.ac.uk, 01970 358021

Attendance at talks, presentations, demonstrations and performances is free. To include teas/coffees, lunches for the three days and a buffet supper on Friday 26 Feb costs £40. To add the conference dinner on Saturday 27 Feb costs an additional £30.

For more information about previous events see: https://laboratorytheatrenetwork.wordpress.com/

This event is supported and hosted by:
AMATA (Academy of Music and Theatre Arts), Falmouth University
Leverhulme Trust International Network grant awarded via Aberystwyth University.

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14/02/2015