THE NEW WAVE
OF BRITISH WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS:
Experimenting with Forms
Online Conference
11-12 December 2020
Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres
Unité de recherche VALE (Voix Anglophones : Littérature et Esthétique)
Initiative Théâtre – PRITEPS
Conference Programme
(Paris Time)
FRIDAY DECEMBER 11
10h-10h15 Welcome and introduction
PANEL 1: STAGING INVISIBLE VOICES
10h15 Lynette Goddard (Royal Holloway, University of London): Evoking the Afterlife of Slavery in Selina Thompson’s salt.
10h30 Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary, University of London): Attending to Epistemic Injustice and Criminalized Women: The Challenge and Invitation of Alice Birch’s [BLANK]
10h45 Questions
11h15 Break
PANEL 2: ECODRAMATURGIES
11h45 Veronica Rodriguez (University of Reading): Hole (2018) by Ellie Kendrick/RashDash as Ecodramaturgy
12h00 Alex Watson (Royal Holloway, University of London): Satires of Eco-Consciousness and Crises of Childbirth: Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs and Maud Dromgoole’s 3 Billion Seconds
12h15 Questions
12h45-14h30 LUNCH
14h30-15h30 IN CONVERSATION WITH ELLA HICKSON
15h30 Break
PANEL 3: ELLA HICKSON: THEATRE IN/FOR CHANGING TIMES
15h45 Vicky Angelaki (Mid Sweden University): Ella Hickson and the 21st-Century Female Body Electric
16h Hannah Greenstreet (University of Oxford): “I want the world to change shape”: Form and Politics in Ella Hickson’s The Writer (2018)
16h15 Lianna Mark (King’s College London): Female Autofiction and the Theatre of Reconstruction (Ella Hickson + Debris Stevenson)
16h30 Questions
17h Virtual drinks
SATURDAY DECEMBER 12
PANEL 4: AFFECTS AND RESILIENCE
10h00 Trish Reid (Kingston University London): Zinnie Harris: ‘memory, ghosts and the collapse of time’.
10h15 Jeanne Schaaf (Sorbonne University): The Confines of Domesticity in Morna Pearson’s Plays
10h30 Clara Escoda (University of Barcelona): Affects and the Development of Political Subjectivity: From Resilience to Agency in Kate Tempest’s Wasted (2011)
10h45 Questions
11h15 Break
PANEL 5: GENERIC HYBRIDITY: CHALLENGING THE EYE AND THE EAR
11h30 Eleanor Stewart (University of Avignon): Making a Spectacle out of the Neo-Liberal Crisis: Lucy Prebble’s Enron (2009) and the theatricality of business
11h45 Claire Hélie (University of Lille): Alice Birch: A poet in the theatre
12h00 Questions
12h30 End of conference and virtual drinks
If you wish to join us online, please contact:
elisabeth.angel-perez@sorbonne-universite.fr
solange.ayache@sorbonne-universite.fr
aloysia.rousseau@sorbonne-universite.f
