It’s shaping up to be a busy spring in Stratford!
A month before our conference convenes, the Shakespeare Institute will host a one day symposium on editing, Renaissance plays, and performance. Check out the CFP below – the deadline is two weeks today. Info on registration for auditors will be released in just a few weeks, so consider coming for the day even if you don’t wish to present. (We have it on good authority that the symposium convenors expect a day of lively discussion and editorial experimentation.)
Reanimating Playbooks:
Editing for Performance, Performance for Editing.
Symposium: Friday 10 May 2013, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon
A one-day symposium to engage in the conversation between performance and text. We wish to provide a space to explore editorial practices on both sides of publication (from preparation to practice) and to explore how we use, compose, and conceptualise critical editions of Renaissance plays. The day will include a plenary panel of editors and theatre practitioners and two practical workshops.
Speakers are invited to submit proposals for 10 minute ‘provocations’ in which a question may be posed, a sticky editorial decision worked through, a long-standing practice interrogated, a new methodology explored, or something else entirely queried, crowd-sourced, considered, contested or created. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
– new solutions to old editorial cruxes
– problems or triumphs in your own editorial projects
– experiments with stage directions, punctuation, formatting, annotations
– desired aims of individual editions, or proposals for a new series style
– directors/dramaturgs as editors, and vice versa
– favorite editors of days past
– the pedagogy of critical editions
We also welcome proposals for 15-20 minute papers or workshops.
A limited number of volunteer actors may be available for workshops; anticipated requests ideally would be included in your proposal.
Please submit 150-word abstracts, along with brief biographical statement to C K Ash at cxa052@bham.ac.uk by Friday 15 March. Accepted proposals will be notified 22 March. Please do not hesitate to e-mail her with any questions about the event.
You can download the pdf here: CFP Reanimating Playbooks
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