International Conference
The Role of Theatre in Contemporary Society University of Westminster 14-15 May 2010
309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
Organised by Marco Valleriani in collaboration with Paola Monte and Professor Christopher Cairns
Little more than 40 years ago, Dario Fo brought Mistero Buffo to the stage, a play with the declared aim of having a deep effect in society and contributing to changing the cultural status quo of those days. Taking into account Dario Fo’s point of view, and focusing on themes of food and theatrical narration from Commedia dell’Arte to present days, the aim of the Conference is to establish what role theatre can still have in the production of narrative styles and cultural models – and their related consumption – relevant in contemporary society.
At the end of each day of presentations, the conference will host a performance by actor, author and director Eugenio de’ Giorgi.
Programme:
DAY ONE – Friday 14 May
Building: 309 Regent Street – Room: RS 451 (LT4)
10.00 – 10.30 Registration 10.30 – 11.00 Introduction and Announcements – Marco Valleriani
11.00 – 12.30 Food and Theatrical Performance Chair: Christopher Cairns – Westminster University
11.00 – Paola Monte – Royal Holloway, University of London – Food in Comic Routines of Commedia dell’Arte
11.30 – Stefano Boselli – Gettysburg College – Sicilian Dinner Theatre: Food and Drink in One-Act Plays by Verga, Capuana, and Pirandello
12.00 - Alessandra de Martino Cappuccio – University of Warwick Translating Food in Eduardo De Filippo’s Theatre
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch break
Building: 309 Regent Street – Room: Fyvie Hall
14.00 – 15.30 Food Function in Narration
Chair: Mariano d’Amora – Buckinghamshire New University
14.00 – Margaret Rose – Università degli Studi di Milano Food in Shakespeare’s The Tempest
14.30 – Jenny Lawson – University of Leeds Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie: The culinary magic and performative conventions of the dinner table
15.00 - Stephen Knapper – Kingston University Food, insult, revolt and grotesque realism. The case of the early modern Scaramuzza
The Role of Theatre in Contemporary Society
15.30 – 15.45 Break 15.45 – 17.15 Epic Narration and Theatre
Chair: Margaret Rose – Università degli Studi di Milano
15.45 Mariano d’Amora – Buckinghamshire New University Narrando la protesta ‘Don Chisciotte e gli invincibili’ di Erri De Luca
16.15 Marco Valleriani – Royal Holloway, University of London Iconography of Epic Narration in Mistero Buffo
16.45 Gloria Pastorino – Fairleigh Dickinson University From ‘The Lady Is For Discarding’ to the ‘Lord Who Should Be’: Fo’s Journey Through the Simulacra of Power From the Late Sixties to the Berlusconi Era
17.30 – 18.30 Special Performing Event
Eugenio de’ Giorgi
Actor, Author and Director in
“CHE MAGNADA!”
DAY TWO – Saturday 15 May Building: 309 Regent Street – Room: RS 451 (LT4)
10.00 – 13.00 Theatre and Mass Society Chair: Marco Valleriani – Royal Holloway, University of London
10.00 – Luciana d’Arcangeli – Flinders University Mosche e polli: i diversi banchetti in Fo e Rame
10.30 - Paolo Caponi – Università degli Studi di Milano Prove di un teatro di massa: l’esperienza fascista dei Carri di Tespi
11.00 – Olly Crick – The Fabulous Old Spot Theatre Company Commedia in the Community: a recent English context
(11.30 – 11.45 break)
11.45 – Erica Magris – Université Paris III Il “teatro di narrazione” come genere transmediale: l’articolazione della teatralità tra scena e video nell’opera di Marco Paolini
12.15 – Stephen Knapper – Kingston University and Chiara D’Anna – Rose Bruford College Contemporaneity in carnival and commedia. A report
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break
Building: 309 Regent Street – Room: Fyvie Hall
14.30 – 15.30 Special Address - Peter Jordan – Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts In Search of Pantalone de’ Bisognosi
15.30 – 15.45 Break
15.45 – 17.00 Closing Event Eugenio de’ Giorgi
Sex and food followed by the performance of “ALLELUIA EROTICA”
