WG Political Performances

Day 1 / Sunday, July 25 & Day 2 / Monday, July 26

_{Venue & Room: LMU Leopoldstr. 13, Room 2402}

Convener: Avraham Oz (Haifa University, Israel)

• Vicky Angelaki (Birmingham City University, UK):
  Gender, War, Identity: Political Theatre at a Time of Social Flux
• Swati Arora (University of Warwick, UK):
  Street Theatre in Delhi: Traditions and New Perspectives
• Ahuva Belkin (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
  The Politics of Performance: Shalom Aleichem's The Town of the Little People in Ofira Henig's Production
• Sara Brady (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland):
  Uniforms and Resistance: Wearing and Telling by Iraq War Veterans
• Zahava Caspi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel):
  History of Tribulation and the Myth of the Victim: The Holocaust and Israeli Identity in Dani Horowitz's Cherly Kacherly
• Violeta Detcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria):
  Socialism's Passion for Drama: How the Socialist Ideological Canon Controlled the Repertoire
• Susan Haedicke (University of Warwick, UK):
  Playing in Traffic: Street Theatre's Engaged Aesthetic in the Work of Willi Dorner, Jeanne Simone, and Lili Jenks
• Esiaba Irobi (Ohio University, USA):
  What Would Picasso Have Said? Fractured Narratives, Shattered Epistemes, and other Metaphors of Modernity in African Theatrical Performances of the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Shimon Levy (Tel Aviv University, Israel):
  Three Modes of the Political in Blessed of All Women
• Mara Lockowandt (University of London, UK):
  Subversive Entertainment: Zionist Political Drama in the Ottoman Empire
• Tom Maguire (University of Ulster, UK):
  A Pragmatics of Change: Testing Political Theory in Theatrical Practice
• Joanna Ostrowska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland):
  From Street Theatre to Theatre in Public Spaces
• Lloyd Peters (University of Salford, UK):
  Adapting Adaptation Theory Part 2: The Journey from Radio to Stage and Beyond…
• Patricia Reid (Kingston University, UK):
  Identity, Difference, and the Margins of Scottish Identity, in Post-Devolutionary Drama
• Lib Taylor (University of Reading, UK):
  Enlisting the Audience as a Political Strategy in Fact-based Theatre
• Juliusz Tyszka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland):
  Multidimensional Modernist Revolt Against Modernist Social, Political and Artistic Order: "Theatre of the Eight Day" from Poznan in the Period 1973-1985

_{Please contact your convener for programme details.}