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THEATRICAL AESTHETICS OF EROTICISM AND DEATH UNIVERSITY OF WALES, ABERYSTWYTH, DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES presents A DAY SYMPOSIUM onSATURDAY 1st MAY 2004: Featuring confirmed papers from the following practitioners and lecturers: Howard Barker: Death, The One and The Art of the Theatre David Rudkin: Some Eros/Thanatos Interfaces in Attic Tragedy Dic Edwards: The Dramatic Paradoxes of Sex in the Living Corpse Lucy Gough: Is There Beauty in the Raggedness of Theatrical Deaths? Robert Wilcher: Dying for Love: The Tragicomedy of Shakespeare’s Cleopatra Richard Hand: Hugo, Mirbeau, Grand Guignol and Parisian Theatre Helen Iball: Theatricality as Eroticism, and Recent Attempts on its Life Roberta Mock: Visions of Xs: Experiencing La Fura’s XXX and Ron Athey’s Solar Anus David Ian Rabey: Presence, Absence and the Nearness of Loss Full programme of papers and panel discussions runs9:15-4:15, with breaks for coffee and lunch (not provided, but available at Aberystwyth Arts Centre nearby). Proceedings are concluded by a7:30pm performance of Lovefuries(which runs 28 April-1 May), written and directed by David Ian Rabey, in the Emily Davies Studio: world premiere of a double bill of one-person plays (The Contracting Seaand The Hanging Judge) on the surprisingly entwining forces of eroticism and death. Admission free (but please inform Karoline Gritzner, kgg@aber.ac.uk, by Friday 23rd April if you plan to attend, so that we have a sense of numbers), except for ticket prices for Lovefuries: £6/5, with advance booking recommended for all performances 28 April - 1 May via Jenny Joy, jjj2@aber.ac.uk. THEATRICAL AESTHETICS OF EROTICISM AND DEATH is a new research initiative, curated by Karoline Gritzner and David Ian Rabey, affiliated to UW Aberystwyth CREAM (Centre for Research into Extreme and Alternative Media). This day symposium represents the springboard for this initiative, which intends to encompass an international three-day conference at Aberystwyth in 2006, and a published collection of papers. LOVEFURIES is a production supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (Creative and Performing Arts) and the Arts Council of Wales. It also represents an Inaugural Production by David Ian Rabey as the Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and marks the publication of his first volume of plays, The Wye Plays, by Intellect Press in Spring 2004. |
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