Practitioners, Processes, Professions

Theatre Studies runs a strand of workshops/seminars under the title ‘Practitioners, Processes, Professions’. We regularly invite practitioners to discuss their work with students and staff, and often to accompany these discussions with a 3-hour workshop for interested students

Recent Events

Thursday 18 March 2010, 5.15pm, G12 Theatre
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the "border artist extraordinaire"
Strange Democracy: An Evening with Spoken Word Brujo Guillermo Gómez-Peña
In his new solo-performance, post-Mexican writer and performance artist Gómez-Peña deals with the end of the Bush era and articulates the formidable challenges facing Obama. He also denounces the anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized construction of the US/Mexican border - a literal and symbolic zone lined with Minute Men, rising nativism, three-ply fences, globalization, and transnational identities.

Friday 12 February 2010, 3.30pm, Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre
Kira O'Reilly is a UK based artist; her practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. She has been trying to work with materiality and language in bioscience laboratories, searching out the soft yielding points where perhaps a performative practice can intervene or where knowledges from the lab can spill into the art space. She has never been entirely certain of what she is doing there, except that curiosity and desire play a part. During this presentation she will introduce works and unfold thinkings that sit betwixt and between performance art works and biological art works. From her non-scholarly research practice she will give a combination of artists talk and short readings from performative texts. She will ask questions and invite questions about placing bodies in relation to other bodies; human animals, non human animals, cellular bodies, technological bodies, linguistic bodies, institutional bodies.
This presentation is co-hosted by History of Art, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. All welcome.

Friday 29 January 2010 , 1-2pm, Room 408, Gilmorehill Centre
Euan Downey, Polish Laboratory Theatre
In 2006 Euan Downey joined the Teatr Piesn Kozla Company. Since then he has worked on devising for and performing in the company's acclaimed new production of Macbeth in which he plays the role of Malcolm. This production, based on Shakespeare's text, Japanese sword work and Corsican polyphonic singing was two years in the making and will be touring major venues in the UK in 2010. Ewan is currently in development with his second play: Hidden Birds, which deals with the subject of torture.  He will shortly begin work on Teatr Piesn Kozla's next piece: ‘The Crucible by Arthur Miller’. Euan will discuss his work with the company.