Acting with Facts: Performing the Real on Stage and Screen 1990-2010 - CONFERENCE PROGRAMME.

University of Reading/AHRC.

Bulmershe Campus, Reading, 1st-3rd September 2010.

Wednesday 1st September
Bob Kayley / BG78 / B147 / Studio 1 / Canteen / External
10.30 – 11.30pm / Registration and coffee.
11.30 – 12.00pm / Official Welcome –
A Report on the Project. DP, JB, LT, HS
12.00 – 1.30pm / KEYNOTE 1
David Edgar
and Mark Lawson
1.30 – 2.30pm / Lunch
2.30 – 4.00pm / KEYNOTE 2 Practitioners
Sara Clifford/Bella Merlin/Alan Rosenthal
4.00 – 4.30pm / Break
4.30 – 6.00pm / SCREENING
Film director Brian Hill will present some current work
6.30pm onwards / Drinks Reception (Book Launch)
Thursday 2nd September

Bob Kayley

/ BG78 / B147 / Studio 1 / Canteen / External
9.00 – 9.30am / Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.30 – 11.00am
PARALLEL PANELS SESSION 1 /
PANEL 1A
Andrew Lavender
Curating Real People: personal voices and public performances
Bella Hoeness Roe
Animation as Re-enactment
Paul Ward
Animating with facts. /
PANEL 1B
John Cook
‘Don’t forget to look into the camera!’: Peter Watkins’ approach to acting with facts.
Paul Kerr
Some facts about producing TV with facts and actors: A TV CV.
Richard Kilborn
Formatting the Real: some reflections of recent developments in TV factual entertainment. / PANEL 1C
Anthony Jackson
Acting with ‘Heritage’: the challenges of performance in museum settings.
Jenny Kidd
Fact/Fiction: exploring the liminal in heritage performance.
11.00 – 11.30am / Break
11.30am – 1.00pm / KEYNOTE 3
AcademicsJohn Corner/Mary Luckhurst/Brian Winston
1.00 – 2.15pm / Lunch
2.15 – 3.45pm / KEYNOTE 4
Patricia Hodge/Sylvia Syms/Jan Ravens
‘Acting or Impersonating? Playing the Famous on Stage and Screen’
3.45 – 4.15pm / Break
4.15 – 5.45pm
PARALLEL PANELS SESSION 2 /
PANEL 2A
Matthew Bailey
Tory Stories: the portrayal of Conservative Party leaders on stage and screen.
Steven Fielding
New Labour on Stage and Screen.
Lisa Gaughan
‘The character crunch’: a crisis in satirical representations of ‘real’ politicians. /
PANEL 2B
Sheila McCormick
The Darkest Corner': Live Reality Performance and the Irish National Theatre
Jane McNulty
Dramatising ‘The Troubles’: Beyond Documentary.
Carole-Anne Upton
The Art of Authenticity. / PANEL 2C
Rebecca Hillman
Re-presenting Politicians in Stuff Happens and The Roman Tragedies.
Chris Megson
‘Keep politics where it belongs’: the phenomenal power of the actor in factual drama.
Antoinette Moses
Driftwood or Gospel? Does verbatim theatre demand adherence to a set of rules, and how far may a playwright go in sculpting original material?
5.45 – 6.45pm / PERFORMANCE
Director Christine Bacon will introduce her company
‘Actors for Human Rights’
7.30pm start / Conference Dinner
Friday 3rd September
Bob Kayley
/

BG78

/ B147 / Studio 1 / Canteen / External
9.00 – 9.30am / Registration in foyer and coffee.
9.30 – 11.00am
PARALLEL PANELS SESSION 3 /

PANEL 3A

Tahera Aziz

TITLE TBC
Trevor Hearing
No man’s land: the performative role of landscape in documentary.
Laura Malacart
Voicings: undoing the privileged subject and factual mis-performance /

PANEL 3B

Alissa Mello

Other People’s Words.

Teresa Murjas

TITLE TBC
Jules Odendahl-James
The (W)hole Truth: documentary performance and the forensic imagination. /

PANEL 3C

Paola Botham

Poetic Authenticity? Spider Girls in Santiago and Glasgow.

Ed Charlton

Stages for Torture: the legacy of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Amanda Stuart-Fisher

The Death of the Witness: testimony and the aporia of ‘presence’.
11.00 – 11.30am / Break
11.30am – 1.00pm
N.B.
KEYNOTE 5 is a parallel session / KEYNOTE 5
Other Places/Other Contexts
Europe
Tobias Ebbrecht/George Fournier/Victoria Pastor-Gonzalez / KEYNOTE 5
Other Places/Other Contexts
Australasia
Ulrike Garde/Hilary Halbe Meg Mumford/Stuart Young
1.00 – 2.00pm / Lunch
2.00 – 3.30pm
PARALLEL PANELS
SESSION 4 /

PANEL 4A

Simone Knox

Dubbing with Facts: Michael Sheen and the audio-visual translation of fact-based drama in film and television.

Trevor Rawlins

Training for the Reel, Acting the Real: the place of ‘facts’ in actor training for the screen.

Klaas Tindemans

‘This is one of those situations where I couldn’t give a damn what the people think’. The dramaturgy of political negotiation in The West Wing and Belgian politics. /

PANEL 4B

Shane Kinghorn

Crossing the Line: Reconstruction/ Reconciliation.
Dominique Ying-Chih Liao
Visualizing the Unseen Terror: revealing ‘White Terror’ through a case of juvenile gang slaughter.
Reina-Marie Loader
Are they Acting? The dynamics of mediating the mediated. /

PANEL 4C

Rea Dennis

An Actor Reveals: acting the real.

Frances Rifkin

TITLE TBC
3.30 – 4.00pm / Break
4.00 – 5.30pm / KEYNOTE 5
Screen and Stage Docudrama USA
Steven N. Lipkin
Carol Martin
5.30 – 5.45pm / Closing Thanks
5.45pm / Farewell drinks

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