TaPRA 2018, Aberystwyth, Directing and Dramaturgy WG: “Serious Entertainment: Audience Enjoyment, Politics and the Intellectual”
Deadline: April 20, 2018
DIRECTING AND DRAMATURGY WORKING GROUP
THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE. ABERYSTWYTH
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
“Serious Entertainment: Audience Enjoyment, Politics and the Intellectual”.
Entertainment, enjoyment, pleasure. Placer et docere. According to the seventeenth-century French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine, an author must both instruct, and please. Closer to today, and to theatre, the mid-twentieth-century French...
Interval
Deadline: April 13, 2017
Intervals, gaps, breaks, ellipses, caesuras, pauses, syncopes…
Live performance can very literally have an interval. In addition, in our modern world of hyper-acceleration, Jonathan Crary calls for a state of being suspended, or an interval: ‘a looking or listening so rapt that it is an exemption from ordinary conditions … a hovering out of time.’ (Suspensions of Perception, 1999). This year, the Directing and Dramaturgy Working Group will examine the centrality of intervals to...
