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SUMMARY: 'Fourth-walls': pre- and post-dramatic theatre - Professor Kate N
 ewey (Professor of Theatre History\, University of Exeter)  Dr Karen Jürs
 -Munby (Lecturer in Theatre Studies\, University of Lancaster)  and Actres
 s Janie Dee (winner of two Olivier Awards\, Evening Standard Award\, Criti
 cs Circle Award\, an O
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CONTACT:Jonas Tinius
DESCRIPTION: 'Fourth-walls': pre- and post-dramatic theatre\n\nProfessor K
 ate Newey (Professor of Theatre History\, University of Exeter)\n\nDr Kare
 n Jürs-Munby (Lecturer in Theatre Studies\, University of Lancaster)\n\na
 nd Actress Janie Dee (winner of two Olivier Awards\, Evening Standard Awar
 d\, Critics Circle Award\, an Obie and a Theatre World Award)\n\nwill disc
 uss how concepts of theatre and acting have changed and are changing\n\nPr
 ofessor Newey proposes a critique of the standard historiography of Britis
 h theatre that still tends to guide the way we think about British drama &
  theatre: in particular\, the distorting and depoliticising influence of 
 ‘modern drama’\, associated with the darkening of the auditorium\, psy
 chological realism\, and Stanislavsky. A historian of nineteenth century B
 ritish literature and culture\, Newey has specialised in Frankenstein\, Vi
 ctorian women playwrights\, Fanny Kemble\, Australian theatre\, Victorian 
 theatre and popular culture\, and John Ruskin\, and currently leads the AH
 RC-funded  project ‘A Cultural History of English Pantomime\, 1837 – 1
 901’\n\nDr Jürs-Munby  ('Shared Space: Playing with the Fourth Wall in 
 Postdramatic Theatre') will explore the dismantling and playful partial re
 -mantling of the ‘fourth wall’ in contemporary theatre\, starting from
  observations on recent performances such as Andy Smith and Tim Crouch’s
  What happens to the hope at the end of the evening.  Reflecting on the hi
 story of the fourth wall\, the talk will examine postdramatic theatre’s 
 particular engagement with this phenomenon as part of its politics of a co
 nsciously shared space between performers and audience members aiming at t
 he audience’s implication and response-ability. \n\nJürs-Munby is the t
 ranslator of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatic Theatre (2006) for which 
 she also wrote the critical introduction.  She has published extensively o
 n historical and contemporary dramaturgies\, modes of acting/performing an
 d relations between text and performance. Most recently she co-edited (wit
 h Jerome Carroll and Steve Giles) the forthcoming volume on Postdramatic T
 heatre and the Political (Methuen Bloomsbury\, 2013). She has a special re
 search interest in the work of Elfriede Jelinek and is currently writing a
  monograph on the stagings of her texts by major German directors.  She wo
 rked as a dramaturg on the English premiere of Jelinek’s Sports Play (20
 12).\n\nJanie Dee will talk about the acknowledgment (or not) of audience 
 presence as an aspect of acting\, and the impact\, from a performer’s pe
 rspective\, of the reconstructed Shakespeare’s Globe. A performer of exc
 eptional range\, Dee has worked with Peter Hall\, Harold Pinter\, Alan Ayc
 kbourn\, Johnathan Kent\, Richard Eyre and Andrew-Lloyd Weber on Shakespea
 re\, Greek tragedy\, cabaret\, Musicals\, and a wide variety of drama at t
 he Globe\, The Royal Court\, The National Theatre\, West End and regional 
 theatres (e.g. Chichester\, Dublin) as well as for film and television (e.
 g. Celebration\, P.D. James for the BBC).  www.JanieDee.com\n\nClare Foste
 r (chair) is a Phd candidate whose research examines changes in the concep
 t of theatre with the first performances of the authentic texts of Greek d
 rama and Shakespeare in the 1880s\, when so-called ‘literary’ drama ev
 olved together with the separation of audiences and the object presented o
 n stage. \n\nOpen to all.  No registration required.\n\nA Performance Netw
 ork event at CRASSH: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25132\n\nhttp://ww
 w.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/performance-network
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Seminar room SG1\, Ground floor  
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