The Tenth Annual Conference of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora Project
IRISH DRAMA, THE GUTHRIE AND AMERICAN THEATRE
Co-sponsored by Irish Studies, the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul; the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis; and the Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland)
PROGRAMME
Friday, September 20, 2013
Location: The Guthrie Theater, 818 South 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN 55415
8.45 – 9.30 Registration Level 8 Classrooms
9.30 – 10.45 Panel: Irish Drama and American Theatre
Level 8 Classrooms
Dr. Kay Martinovich, Theatre Director, Chicago, “Irish Women on the Chicago Stage: Marina Carr, Hester Swane and The Mai”
Dr. Shelley Troupe, National University of Ireland – Maynooth, “Developing Images: Druid, Synge, and the Guthrie”
11.00 – 12.00 Talk: Dr. Christopher Fitz-Simon, author/actor/director, on “’Tall Tony’: Recollections of Tyrone Guthrie, 1939-1971”
Dowling Studio
12.00 – 1.00 Lunch
1.00 – 2.00 Guthrie Theater Backstage Tour
2.00 – 3.30 Interview: Joe Dowling, Director, Guthrie Theater, in conversation with Professor Anthony Roche, University College Dublin
Dowling Studio
3.30 – 3.45 Break
3.45 – 5.00 Plenary lecture: Professor John P. Harrington, Dean, Fordham University, “Irish Theatre and American Regional Theater: A Cultural Dynamic”
Level 8 Classrooms
7:30 Performance: Brian Friel’s version of Anton Chekhov,
UNCLE VANYA
Wurtele Thrust Stage (Delegates purchase own tickets)
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Location: The Terrence Murphy Auditorium, Room TMH 260, University of St. Thomas downtown campus, 1000 La Salle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403
8.45 – 9.30 Late Registration
9.30 – 10.45 Panel: Joe Dowling as Theatre Director
Professor Nicholas Grene, Trinity College, Dublin, “Dealing with The Dead: Joe Dowling’s Abbey Production”
Professor Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland – Galway, “Joe Dowling, Shakespeare and the Abbey Theatre”.
10.45 – 11.00 Break
11.00 – 12.15 Plenary Lecture
Professor José Lanters, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Creating Constance: The Textual and Theatrical Incarnations of Thomas Kilroy’s ‘Wilde’ Play”.
12.15 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 2.30 Panel: Tyrone Guthrie
Dr. Patrick O’Donnell, Normandale Communtity College, “A Pirandellian Hamlet of Monaghan: the Irishness of Sir Tyrone Guthrie”;
Dr. Ian W. Walsh, University College Dublin, “Tyrone Guthrie and Irish Theatre Before Brian Friel”.
2.45 – 4.00 Panel: The Theatre of Brian Friel
Dr. David Clare, National University of Ireland – Galway, “Brian Friel’s Invocation of Edmund Burke in Philadelphia, Here I Come!”;
Professor Emerita Helen Lojek, Boise State University, Idaho, “Staging Space in Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee”.
7:30 Possible: Conference attendees attend Guthrie performance in Dowling Studio of Sun Mee Chomet’s one-woman play, How To Be A Korean Woman
TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT, PLEASE CONTACT DAVID.CLARE@NUIGALWAY.IE