The Department of Theatre Studies is delighted to announce a series of lectures by internationally renowned theatre expert Prof. Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London). The lectures are open to students, staff, and the general public. Prof. Shevtsova's sessions are interlinked in perception and thought and so can be viewed as parts of one long dialogue with theatre practice. However, since they are parts of that dialogue, each session can be understood separately as a discrete whole.
Tuesday 3 May, 15:00 – 17:00
venue: Dar Ġużeppi Zahra (DGZ103)
venue: Dar Ġużeppi Zahra (DGZ103)
Sociology of Theatre
This session lays out a map of the field, focusing on such selected notions fundamental to it as social practice, social and creative groups, habitus and disposition, and sociocultural performance analysis. Theoretical principles are here integrated with practical examples.
Wednesday 4 May, 10:00 – 12:00
Hall B1 - M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre – Gateway Building (GWHB1)
Hall B1 - M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre – Gateway Building (GWHB1)
Lev Dodin and the Russian Theatre
An exploration of how Lev Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg co-author productions in terms of their commitment to ensemble theatre practice is connected to core aspects of Stanislavsky’s – and also Meyerhold’s – innovations.
Thursday 5 May, 13:00 – 15:00
Hall D1, M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre – Gateway Building (GWHD1)
Contemporary Theatre Productions
Examples are drawn from various countries across Europe and include the work of such directors as Ariane Mnouchkine, Peter Brook, Robert Wilson, Luc Perceval, and Oskaras Korsunovas. This being 2016 and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, attention will be given to productions in Europe of Shakespeare.
Maria Shevtsova
Maria Shevtsova is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, having previously held Chairs at the University of Lancaster (Founding Chair of Theatre Studies) and the University of Connecticut. She is doctor honoris causa of the University of Craiova.
Shevtsova is the author of more than 130 articles and chapters in collected volumes and her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (2005, co-ed), Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (2006, co-ed), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (2009, co-authored), Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009), which assembles three decades of her pioneering work in a field she has established, and The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (2013, co-authored). Her publications have been translated into eleven languages, most recently Robert Wilson into Mandarin (2013; Russian trans. forthcoming in 2016), Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre into Russian (2014). She is the co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and part of the editorial team of Critical Stages, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
She has been a Guest Professor at a number of major institutions in Europe, including the Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts and the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, and was a Fellow of the International Research Centre 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' at the Freie Universität, Berlin in 2012 and 2013.
Shevtsova is the author of more than 130 articles and chapters in collected volumes and her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (2005, co-ed), Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (2006, co-ed), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (2009, co-authored), Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009), which assembles three decades of her pioneering work in a field she has established, and The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (2013, co-authored). Her publications have been translated into eleven languages, most recently Robert Wilson into Mandarin (2013; Russian trans. forthcoming in 2016), Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre into Russian (2014). She is the co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and part of the editorial team of Critical Stages, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
She has been a Guest Professor at a number of major institutions in Europe, including the Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts and the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, and was a Fellow of the International Research Centre 'Interweaving Performance Cultures' at the Freie Universität, Berlin in 2012 and 2013.
