Performance and Politics Research Group: Coriolan/us – A one-day symposium

 

 

Directions

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/maps-travel/maps/penglais/

 

Contact us:

Further information:

Professor Jenny Edkins jfe@aber.ac.uk

or

Professor Mike Pearson mip@aber.ac.uk

 

 

Performance and Politics Research Group
Aberystwyth University

 

Coriolan/us – A one-day symposium

Monday 26 November 2012

9.15 am to 4.00 pm

Main Hall, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University

 

This one-day symposium is a unique opportunity to hear those involved with the innovative and exciting production of Coriolan/us by National Theatre Wales, and those who have written on it, speak about the production. Described by The Observer
as “an outstanding production that makes several big points about the theatre today…an unforgettable political and personal drama: rich, tough and resonant,” and by The Financial Times
 as
“gripping,”
“a production that brilliantly conveys the confusion, unpredictability and opportunism of civil strife,”
this was a inspiring promenade performance that took place in an aircraft hanger on a military airfield west of Cardiff during the summer. The symposium will include recorded extracts of the performance for those who didn’t have the chance to see it.

The Symposium is organized by Aberystwyth University’s post-disciplinary Performance and Politics Research Group, a group founded in 2007. We are interested in all convergences of performance, politics and critical and cultural theory. All are welcome to the symposium —undergraduate and postgraduate students, staff and members of the public. There is no registration fee.

 

Programme:

9.15              

Coffee and welcome

9.30 -11.00  

Introduction to Corialan/us.  Professor Mike Pearson will show extracts from a dvd of the performance and offer his thoughts as director of the production                             
11.00            Coffee
11.30-1.00  

Panel 1

Chair: Professor Jenny Edkins (International Politics, Aberystwyth)
Professor Adrian Kear (TFTS, Aberystwyth)
Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi (Universität Leipzig)

1.00-2.00      Lunch
2.00-3.30     Panel 2
Chair: Dr Simona Rentea, (International Politics, Aberystwyth) tbc

Dr Andrew Filmer (TFTS, Aberystwyth)                    

3.30-4.00   Closing discussion: responses and thoughts on the day from Professor Mike Pearson
   
                  

Links:

Coriolan/us:http://nationaltheatrewales.org/whatson/performance/ntw21#coriolanus

Performance and Politics Research Group:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/interpol/research/research-groups/politicsandperformance/