Meta-Play: Early Modern Drama and Metatheatre
University of Kent
13-14 June 2015
Saturday 13 June
10.30-11.00: Registration
10.30-11.00: Registration
11.00-12.00: Keynote Lecture Professor Robert Shaughnessy (University of Kent)
12.00-1.30: Panel 1
- Contemporary Practice at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
- 'Then draw the model': theatre architecture as metatheatre in Elizabethan/Jacobean performance spaces- Ildiko Solti (Independent Scholar)
- Across the Ages: Child Players and Reconstruction of Original Practice – Mark Hamilton (Regent’s University London)
- Meta-play and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)
2.30-4.30: Panel 2
Embodying Metatheatre: Now and Then
- Gesture and social cognition in Shakespeare’s theatre - Darren Tunstall (Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey)
- Matter-Theatre: Cymbeline’s Rhetoric and Conspicuous Construction – Callan Davies (Exeter)
- Levels of communication in a Norwegian A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Lars Harald Maagerø (King’s)
- Touching the other in Cheek by Jowl’s Measure for Measure – Pascale Aebischer (Exeter)
Directed by Emma Whipday (Oxford), including Roundtable Discussion
Sunday 14 June
9.45-11.15: Panel 3
Theorizing Metatheatre:
11.30-1.00: Panel 4
Social Life, Social Spaces
2.00-3.30: Panel 5
Engaging Audiences
3.45-4.45: Performing Gender Practitioner Panel
Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Kirsty Bushell (RSC)
Jimmy Tucker (Propeller)
4.45-5.45: Keynote Speaker: Dr Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London)
Register at
http://store.kent.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=26&catid=98&prodvarid=100
For questions please email s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk and h.r.newman@kent.ac.uk
9.45-11.15: Panel 3
Theorizing Metatheatre:
- Metatheatre Via Comedy and Tragedy: Comedy and Tragedy Via Metatheatre - John Kerr (Minnesota)
- Are Shakespeare’s plays always metatheatrical? – Steve Purcell (Warwick)
- All ‘Metatheatre’ is Not Created Equal: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Navigation of the Spectrum of Dramatic Representation - Nathaniel C. Leonard (Westminster College, Missouri)
11.30-1.00: Panel 4
Social Life, Social Spaces
- This is the night that I must play my part’: Metatheatricality as a Trope for The Socially Corrective Power of Theatre in Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) - Iman Sheeha (Warwick)
- Playing with(in) London spaces: new meanings of metatheatre behind the dramatic success of the Restoration libertine – Gabriella Infante (King’s)
- Pleasing Fantasies: Metatheatre as Political Fiction in Othello – Ben Morgan (Oxford)
2.00-3.30: Panel 5
Engaging Audiences
- ‘A stranger Pyramus than e’er played here’: some uses of metatheatre in A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Trevor R Griffiths (Exeter)
- ‘A frightful pleasure’: metadrama, malcontents, attraction and repulsion in The Changeling’ – Jan Doorly (King’s)
- “So Much For My Happy Ending”: Avoiding The Happy Ending in Twelfth Night - Mary Way (Kent)
3.45-4.45: Performing Gender Practitioner Panel
Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Kirsty Bushell (RSC)
Jimmy Tucker (Propeller)
4.45-5.45: Keynote Speaker: Dr Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary, University of London)
Register at
http://store.kent.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=26&catid=98&prodvarid=100
For questions please email s.dustagheer-463@kent.ac.uk and h.r.newman@kent.ac.uk
