Events
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Coffee and Concepts – Seattle amongst Avant-Garde Geographies
This talk will focus on the manuscript's chapter on Seattle: on Seattle-based artists and venues including DK Pan, Sara Porkalab, Implied Violence, Annex Theatre, The Satori Group, and King Street Station, as well as the enduring, colonial role of the "frontier" in claiming urban space in Seattle.
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Coffee and Concepts – LeAnne Howe, playwright
Native American playwright LeAnne Howe will be a guest at Coffee and Concepts next Friday, January 24, 2:00-4:00, at Hutchinson 154. On Wednesday, January 22, 6:00 - 8:00 there will be a staged reading of her new play Savage Conversations at the Henry Art Gallery, directed by School of Drama MFA Directing student Andrew Coopman . At Coffee and Concepts, LeAnne Howe will talk about her creative process and her sense of current developments in Native American playwriting.
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Coffee and Concepts: “Theatre and Peace”
Coffee and Concepts: "Theatre and Peace" The Center for Performance Studies is inviting you for a conversation with the Iranian playwright and theatre scholar Naghmeh Samini on Friday, January 31, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, at Hutchinson Hall 154. Naghmeh Samini's plays have been internationally produced. More than twenty of her dramas have been staged in Iran, France, India, Canada, and the United States. Her scholarly research explores the connections between Iranian drama and Iranian mythology. We look forward to seeing...
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Representing Actors/Defining Acting: the Role of Arbitration in the Actors’ Equity Association
OnlineOn November 20, 2020, Ann Folino White, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Directing at Michigan State University, will present her research about the Actor's Equity Association as part of the Coffee and Concepts Series. Her talk is titled "Representing Actors/Defining Acting: the Role of Arbitration in the Actors' Equity Association" Dr. Ann Folino White is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and Directing in the Department of Theatre at Michigan State University. Dr. Folino White is editor of Theatre Annual: A Journal...
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Is Euripides Dead?
OnlineThe Coffee and Concepts Series begins the new year with a talk by Hallie Marshall, a theatre and classics scholar from the University of British Columbia.
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Coffee & Concepts – “Creeps and the Critics: Disability Theatre’s Challenges for Journalism”
OnlineKirsty Johnston, a disability performance scholar from the University of British Columbia, will offer a talk entitled “Creeps and the Critics: disability theatre’s challenges for journalism.” Recently produced in both Seattle (2014) and Vancouver (2016), David Freeman’s 1971 New York Drama Desk award winning play Creeps has posed significant critical challenges for both artists and critics. The play is important for disability theatre and performance scholars not least because it is the first offered by Victoria Ann Lewis in her landmark 2006 collection, Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights. Emphasizing Freeman’s pioneering decision in Creeps to feature many different disabled characters in cahoots and argument together, Lewis argues that Creeps “prematurely theatrical witness to wrongs that would not find political analysis and advocacy until later in the decade” (xxxiv). The recent staged readings and productions have generated complex artistic and critical responses.
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Coffee & Concepts Talk
OnlineThe Center for Performance Studies at the School of Drama is happy to announce that LaDonna L Forsgren, a performance scholar from the University of Notre Dame, will share her new research about blackness and the musical stage on April 30, from 2 to 4 pm. Her talk is titled: "'Outrageous American Home Truths': Blackgirl Wit, Imagination, and Folklore in Contemporary Musical Theatre."
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Coffee & Concepts Talk
FeaturedOnlineMeditations on Captive Performances of Denmark’s Colonial Children circa 1905
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Earth Matters on Stage: a Book Talk with Theresa J. May
FeaturedHutchinson Hall - Room 154 BOX 353950, Seattle, WA, United StatesYou're invited to join us for a book talk and conversation with Theresa J. May, a professor and director/devisor/ecodramaturg at the University of Oregon and an alum of our PhD program in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism. Theresa May will be our guest in the Friday afternoon PhD seminar on October 22. She'll talk about her recently published book, Earth Matters On Stage: Ecology and Environment in the American Theater (Routledge, 2020), a study of the way American theatre and performance...
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Dis-Orient: Autumn Talks; Landscapes of Erasure and Presence
FeaturedCMU 120“Dis-Orient” is an encounter whereby a series of presentations | papers are delivered by the members of the cluster and by external Guests and Alumni. The latter will deliver purviews of artistic disciplines practiced at their homeland and that challenge the dominating grand narrative. Having as a title "Landscapes of Erasure and Presence", the first encounter of "Dis-Orient: Autumn talks" will host three panelists sharing their research practices around architecture & theatre. Thus, choreographies of spaces as architectural manifestations of monumentality, bigness...
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The Lost Play of Fergus, a talk by Odai Johnson
Hutchinson Hall - Room 154 BOX 353950, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Center for Performance Studies is glad to announce that the Coffee and Concepts series is returning to an in-person format this quarter. On Friday, April 8, 2:00 to 4:00, we resume our conversations about performance with a talk by Odai Johnson, titled "The Lost Play of Fergus, and the Violence of Re-enacting Memory." The talk is from the book project that Dr. Johnson is currently working on, tentatively titled "Missing: Lost Plays and Deep Culture Memory." We look forward...
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The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Mexico
FeaturedCMU 120The School of Drama, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Department of Dance are glad to invite you to a talk by performance historian Ana E. Puga from Ohio State University. Her talk, titled “The Caravan of Central American Mothers in Mexico: Protesting Migrant Disappearance on a Transnational Stage-in-Motion” examines the artistic and activist performances of women commemorating the lives of lost relatives who disappeared while traveling as undocumented migrants from Central America to Mexico.