Tuesday 13 May 2014

Research Event: Music and the Dramatic Text, University of Kent, European Theatre Research Network

The European Theatre Research Network at the University of Kent is delighted to invite you to the following research event:
(convened by Dr David Roesner and Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig)
University of Kent, Grimond Building, Aphra Studio
Monday 19th May at 2pm
Programme:
The afternoon will start with three presentations by Dr Catherine Laws (University of York, Music) Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig (University of Kent, Modern Languages, Hispanic Studies) and Dr David Roesner (University of Kent, Drama) will explore the impact of music on a range of European dramatists, their playwrighting and the musicality of their theatre-making. Music here serves as a topic, an intertextual presence, a range of structural models and an attunement to the sonic qualities of language or the rhythm of gestures.
The presentations will be followed by a student 'work-in-progress' production based on the Catalan author Joan Brossa's music-theatrical miniatures "Accions Musicals" (1966-1978). These have been translated especially for this event by Dr Montserrat Roser i Puig from Catalan into English and will be performed for the first time in the UK.
The performance will be followed by a panel discussion with all speakers, the directors and the audience.
The event is funded by the School of Arts, University of Kent and Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) and attendance is free.

My talk can be viewed here: 


Friday 25 April 2014

Not long now....

In the past few weeks and months I have been busy with the final editing, proofing and indexing stage of the forthcoming book. It is now going to the printing unit very soon and will be available in July – not your typical summer read, but perhaps still worth looking at?

Here is the announcement in Ashgate's online catalogue.

Tuesday 28 January 2014

Voilà!

For the Francophone of you, this very recent publication may be of interest:

Didier Plassard (ed.), Mises en scène d'Allemagne(s) (Paris: CNRS, 2014).

It contains chapters on theatre practitioners such as Peter Stein, Thomas Ostermeier, Klaus Grüber, Christoph Marthaler, Claus Peymann, Peter Zadek, Frank Castorf, Einar Schleef, Rene Pollesch and Rimini Protokoll.

My chapter on Christoph Marthaler in this collection offers an in-depth analysis of his 1999 production "Die Spezialisten" (Hamburger Schauspielhaus) and investigates how musical form is used as a core dramaturgical and narrative device.