Conference program: Close Relations: The Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre

Day 1 - Tuesday 19 September

Keynote Presentation (Open Stage theatre)
8.00	Registrations / coffee (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
9.00	Conference opening and welcome (Open Stage theatre)
9.10	Prof. Richard Beacham ‘Architectural, Pictorial and Virtual Spaces: Theatrical Phantasia in Antiquity and Today’
10.10	Discussion
10.30	Morning tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Physical Spaces (Open Stage theatre)
11.00	Prof. Frank Sear ‘The shape of the ancient theatre’
11.40	Monika Laanesaar ‘Repeated places’
12.00	Discussion
12.30	Lunch
Spaces of Memory (Denis Driscoll theatre)
1.30	Dr. Jane Griffiths ‘Performing Electra and the Space of Memory’
2.10	Kate McCulloch ‘Classical Spaces in Contemporary Frames: Maintaining the heroic in the Representation of War’
2.30	Discussion
3.00	Afternoon tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Reshaping Space (Open Stage theatre)
3.30	Jason Freddi ‘The Reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Theatre: Architecture, Performance and Pastiche in the New Globe’
3.50	Bronwyn Tweddle ‘Terrorism and Democracy: the Oresteia in recent cultural spaces’
4.10	Paul Monaghan ‘When I look into space I see my imagination: The tragic body in space’
4.30	Discussion
5.00	Dr. Dmitry Trubotchkin’s book launch and drinks (7th floor Mezzanine, Arts Centre building)
Virtual Paper (Wood Theatre)
6.30	Prof. David Wiles ‘Arguments about space: what are the underlying issues at stake?’
7.00	Discussion
7.30	Finish

Day 2: Wednesday 20 September

Roman Spaces (Open Stage theatre)
8.30	Registrations / coffee (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
9.00	Ass. Prof. Ellen Mackay ‘Fishes in the Archive: the Impossible History of the Naumachia’
9.20	Yvette Hunt ‘From Treading the Floor to Treading the Boards – the Influence of “In Theatre” Requirements on Pantomime’s Reception in Antiquity’
9.40	Helen Slaney ‘Murders and Monsters and Thunderbolts: Seneca in performance’
10.00	Discussion
10.30	Morning tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Issues of Geography (Denis Driscoll theatre)
11.00	Prof. Suzanne Said ‘Athenian Space in Greek Tragedy’
11.40	Dr. Patrick O’Sullivan ‘Geographical and Political Space: The Idea of Sicily in Euripides’ Cyclops’
12.00	Dr. Anastasia Bakogianni ‘Electra in the Open: Michael Cacoyannis’ Electra (1961-2)’
12.20	Discussion
12.50	Lunch
Male and Female Space (Denis Driscoll theatre)
1.50	Giulia Torello ‘Titanic resilience: immobility and use of scenic space in Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound’
2.10	Dr. James (K.O.) Chong-Gossard ‘Gendered Space in Greek Tragedy as Communication’
2.50	Discussion
3.10	Afternoon tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Comedy and space (Open Stage theatre)
3.40	Ass. Prof. Michael Ewans ‘Translating Aristophanes - for actors, in the round’
4.20	Ass. Prof. Robin Bond ‘Frogs in Space ’
4.40	Discussion
5.15	Prof. Frank Sear’s book launch and drinks (location to be announced)
Keynote paper / public lecture (Elisabeth Murdoch theatre)
6.30	Prof. Lorna Hardwick ‘Cultural Spaces in the recent translation and performance of Greek Drama’
7.20	Discussion
7.50	Finish

Day 3 - Thursday 21 September

Keynote paper (Open Stage theatre)
8.30	Registrations / coffee (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
9.00	Housekeeping
9.10	Dr. Dmitry Trubotchkin ‘Close relations between antiquity and the avant-garde: transformations of the classical theatre space in the twentieth century’
10.00	Discussion
10.30	Morning tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Euripidean Receptions (Denis Driscoll theatre)
11.00	Dr. Ivar Kvistad ‘The Atomic Bomb as Dea Ex Machinâ: Heiner Müller’s Medea’
11.20	Xan Colman ‘MYTHOSPOLITIK: Construction and Utilisation of the Theatrical Space of Myth in Christa Wolf’s and Heiner Müller’s Medea interpretations’
11.40	Meredith Rogers ‘Being Intimate in a Public Place’
12.00	Discussion
12.30	Lunch
Tragedy Today (Denis Driscoll theatre)
1.30	Ass. Prof. Platon Mavromoustakos ‘Skénè v/s scena: producing ancient drama and reshaping performance space’
2.10	Ass. Prof. Ann McCulloch ‘Contemporary Tragedy’
2.30	Discussion
3.00	Afternoon tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
Performances (Open Stage theatre)
3:30	Jude Anderson ‘Looking for the leash when the roof is on fire’
4.10	Short break
4.20	Dr. Adrian Guthrie ‘Agamemnon - Bloody Thought’
5:40	Break - make your way to Stork Hotel, 504 Elizabeth St, Melbourne city
6.15	Drinks and dinner at Stork Hotel
8.00	Directors panel at Stork Hotel ‘Directors talk tragedy’
9.30	Finish

Day 4: Friday 22 September

Heroes (Open Stage theatre)
9.00	Registrations/coffee (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
9.30	Dr. Kathleen Riley ‘The Heroic Psyche as Tragic Space: Modern Manifestations of Euripides’ Herakles’
10.10	Murray Dahm ‘Performing Nero’
10.50	Discussion
11.10	Morning tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
McCaughey’s Oresteia (Denis Driscoll theatre)
11.40	James McCaughey ‘The Oresteia at the Pram Factory, Melbourne, April 1974: a dialogue in the construction of theatrical space’
12.00	Dr. Ron Goodrich ‘Present Performance, Past Playscript: James McCaughey's Practice, James Moffett's Principle’
12.30	Discussion
12.50	Lunch
Australian Receptions (Open Stage theatre)
1.50	Dr. Peter Snow ‘Antigone in Australia’
2.10	Dr. Ashley Wain ‘A World Full of Gods: Experiencing Archetypes and the ‘Second Plan’ in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon.’
2.30	Discussion
2.50	Afternoon tea (foyer, Open Stage theatre)
3.20	Paul Monaghan ‘Hysterical Realism and Beyond: Greek Tragedy on the Australian Stage’
4.00	Discussion
4.20	Drinks and launch of ‘Australian Classical Reception Studies Network’ Launch (Dr. Alastair Blanshard), followed by informal Plenary (7th floor Mezzanine, Arts Centre building)
6:30	Final (informal) dinner (University House)

Please note that the conference proper will finish on Friday 22nd. The Saturday is devoted to a regional tour to the Dandenong Ranges and a visit to a local outdoor Greek theatre on the banks of the Yarra River.

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School of Creative Arts & Centre for Classics and Archaeology Close Relations

Conference program: Close Relations: The Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre

Day 1 - Tuesday 19 September

Day 2: Wednesday 20 September

Day 3 - Thursday 21 September

Day 4: Friday 22 September

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