Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance: Conference – ‘1916 in Irish Theatre/1916 as Irish Theatre.

9.30: Welcome and introduction

Panel 1: Internatoinalising the Rising

• ? Patrick Lonergan, “Easter 1916 and Internationalising Irish Theatre’
• ? Charlotte McIvor, “Rehearsing Revolution as a prelude to 1916: Yeats, Tagore and Peruse and the Staging of Transactional Nationalist Masculinities”
• ? David Clare: “Anthropological Gays: Casement, Pearse, and 1916”

11.00: Keynote Lecture 1 Paige Reynolds (Holy Cross), “The “Rising” of the American Avant-Garde: The Gate, 1916, and Experimental Theater in Boston”

12.00: Coffee

12.15: Panel 2 The Rising on the Irish Stage

• ? Ryan K Evans, “An Evolution of the Production History of The Plough and the Stars”
• ? Christopher McCormack, “”Scenographies of Augusta Gregory’s Plays, Before and After 1916”.

13.15 – Break for Lunch

14.00: Panel 3:

Pearse and Irish Theatre

• ? Eugene McNulty, “‰Û÷Exceptional Bodies: Pearse’s drama and the search for the Law beyond the law’
• ? Marianne Kennedy, “Pearse as guerrilla, site-specific performance artist. A master of reception.”
• ? Barry Houllhan, “Decisions at Easter: Pearse Takes the Stage”

15.15 – Break

15.45: Panel 4: Commemorations

• ? Ian Walsh, “The Performance of 1916 at the Abbey Theatre in 1966: Walter Macken’s Recall the Years‘
• ? Maeve Casserly, “‰Û÷Commemoration as Staged Memory: A comparative analysis of commemoration in Ireland marking the 1991, 2006and 2016 anniversaries of the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme”
• ? Akiko Satake, “”The Easter Risingfrom a Wider Perspective: Cries of Casement as his Bones are Brought to Dublin and The Non-Stop Connolly ShowPart 6″

17.00: Keynote Lecture (2) James Moran (Nottingham):”Child’s Play: Looking again at 1916 Onstage”

18:00: Conference Conclusion