Critical Encounters 1: Encountering Children and Animals

Critical Encounters is a series of critical explorations of performance practices, themes and issues, inspired by and engaging with the Tramway’s performance programme. It is highly relevant to practitioners, academics and students of contemporary performance. The first Critical Encounter, Encountering Children and Animals, prompted by the work of Victoria and Quarantine, invokes a host of issues around histories, representations, ethics and quality.

Critical Encounters
10 – 1pm
£5 / £3

The morning session of the day invites a range of cross-disciplinary speakers with various expertises and interests in relevant areas of performance theories, history and practices to respond to the central themes. (Speakers are listed below.)

Critical Practice
2pm – 5pm
£10 / £5
(Limited capacity)

The afternoon session affords an in depth and intimate exploration of processes and practices with the directors of the highly acclaimed companies, Victoria (Belgium) and Quarantine (UK). There is a choice of two sessions:

Dirk Pauwels and Marika Engels of Victoria or
Richard Gregory of Quarantine

An all day ticket is available at a cost of £12/ £6

Tickets can be booked on: 0845 330 3501

Lunch can be booked, included at an additional cost, to be announced

Speakers

Andrew Quick (University of Lancaster), researches and writes about contemporary performance practices and companies, including Forced Entertainment and the Wooster Group. He is co-founder of Imitating the Dog, for whom he writes and directs, and his most recent publication is The Wooster Group Work Book (Routledge, 2007).

Karen Lury (University of Glasgow), author of Interpreting Television (Hodder Arnold, 2005), is currently completing a book, The Child in Film, which explores the representation and significance of childhood in film.

Anne Varty (Royal Holloway) researches modern British and European Theatre and literature of the late Victorian period and has recently published Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary) researches contemporary theatre and performance, engaging with its potential for affective experience. He is co-editor of the recent Contemporary Theatres in Europe: a critical companion (Routledge, 2006) and is also the author of Stage Fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems (Cambridge UP, 2006).

Jess Thorpe is a founding member of Glas(s) Performance, a company which makes work with young people and communities. She also co-runs Junction 25, a collaboration between the Tramway and RSAMD Youthworks Drama which makes work with young people aged between 13 and 25.

Richard Gregory is an Artistic Director with Qurantine, a company that works with both actors and non-actors, the real and the fictional, blurring the lines between spectator and participant. Founded in 1998, previous shows include White Trash, Butterfly and Susan and Darren.

Dirk Pauwels is artistic director of Belgian Theatre Company, Victoria, founded in 1992. Previous Victoria works shown at the Tramway include Bernadetje(1997), üBung (2002), White Star (2005) and Aalst(2007), a co-production with Tramway and the National Theatre of Scotland.

Dee Heddon (University of Glasgow) is the author of Autobiography and Performance (Palgrave 2008) and co-author of Devising Performance: A Critical History (Palgrave, 2005). Dee is also a member of the Board of New Moves International (producers of the annual National Review of Live Art).

Critical Encounters 1: Encountering Children and Animals

Sat 17 May 2008

10:00am

Tramway

Various pr