You are invited to attend

 

THE SECOND

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

THE THEATRE OF DARIO FO AND FRANCA RAME

to be held at the

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

from Friday 26 April (1.00pm) to Sunday 28 April 2002

 

[The Conference is open to researchers, performers, students and the public. If you wish to register, please send an e-mail containing

relevant details to: FoRameForum@yahoo.com]

Click here for details of the last Conference [April 2000]

Click here for summaries of papers

Click here for accommodation

 

CONTRIBUTORS:

The following are confirmed contributors to the Conference.

 

CORALIE ALLISON: "A Chinese Anarchist: the afterlife of a classic"

TOM BEHAN: Round-table discussion on "Translating Dario Fo and Franca Rame"

JAMES BELLORINI: Will perform "The Puppetmaster"

CHRISTOPHER CAIRNS: "Johan Padan: from Monologue to Animated Cartoon"

LUCIANA D'ARCANGELI: "Madwomen in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame"

LISA DURAN: "Linking Brushes: An Examination of Dario Fo's Artistic Adoptions from the Works of Hieronymus Bosch "

ED EMERY: Thirty Years After: "Pum! Pum! Chi è? La Polizia!"

JOSEPH FARRELL:  Title to be announced

BRUNO FERRARO: "Dario Fo pittore e la commedia erudite del ‘500"

BENT HOLM: "Fo, Farce and Futurism"

RON JENKINS: "A Talk on Johan Padan"

CRISTINA LIGAS: "The function of sources in Johan Padan"

TONY MITCHELL: "Archangels Don't Play Pinball in the UK, the USA and Australia: Translation into Adaptation"
GLORIA PASTORINO:
"To make people listen, one has to talk to birds: Dario Fo meets Francis of Assisi"

DAN REBELLATO: Round-table discussion on "Translating Dario Fo and Franca Rame"

ALBERTO SERAFIN: Will stage a public theatre workshop on "The techniques of Mistero Buffo"

Beatrice Tavecchio-Blake: "At the origins of Dario Fo's Theatre: gestuality and choreography in Il dito and I sani"

STEFANIA TAVIANO: "Translating strategies on stage: A play within the play"

ALESSANDRO VECCHIARELLI: Will sing Italian songs at the Saturday night Gathering

 

THERE WILL BE A PROGRAMME OF DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE, INCLUDING ALBERTO SERAFINO IN "MISTERO BUFFO", AND FAUSTO PARAVIDINO'S RECENT "GENOA '01" (Royal Court, March '02).

 

VIDEO AND FILM SHOWINGS WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: Dario Fo in performance of "Johan Padan"; a documentary on Fo rehearsing for "Mamma! I sanculotti!" entitled "From Chaos to Creation"; the documentary "Genoa-G8"; the film "I Cento passi". All films in English or subtitled.

 

¶ The cost of registration is £20 [£5 students and concessions]

 

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Our conference is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of London and the Judith E. Wilson Fund of Cambridge. We acknowledge the support of the Italian Department of  the University of Cambridge

 

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¶ For registration please contact

 

Ed Emery

[Fo-Rame Conference]

Peterhouse

Cambridge CB2 1RD

 

Tel: 0795 755 6352

Fax: 0870 133 0145

E-mail: ed.emery@britishlibrary.net

 

 

Last updated 23.iii.02

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