NEER Research Cluster

Re-thinking Theatre History: The Impact of Rehearsal

MEMBERS

Dr Tim Fitzpatrick (Sydney) - Coordinator
Dr Laura Ginters (Sydney)
Dr John Golder (UNSW)
Dr Jacqueline Martin (QUT)
Dr Tiffany Stern (Oxford, UK)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The function of this Research Cluster is to re-examine surviving rehearsal-related documents and other relevant materials and resources (such as theatre buildings), from key historical periods of European theatre from the late 16th to the mid 19th centuries.

EVENTS (INCLUDING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS)

Conferences and symposia:

An informal colloquium was organised at Oxford in October 2008 involving Dr John Golder, Dr Tiffany Stern and a small number of other interested scholars. This was to lay the groundwork for a bigger meeting next year.

In early July of 2009 we will be holding a Colloquium on Historical Rehearsal Processes at the University of New South Wales. This has been timed to occur between the ADSA conference in June/July and the FIRT/IFTR conference in Lisbon in mid-July. We have invited Dr Tiffany Stern from Oxford and Dr Evelyn Tribble from Otago as keynote speakers, and will be advertising the Colloquium through NEER and ADSA. We expect around 30 participants, and a call for papers will go out in January.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Tim Fitzpatrick has recently completed a book manuscript "Space and Place in Elizabethan Performance" which deals, among other things, with how spatial conventions might have enabled short rehearsal times in Elizabethan performance.

Tim Fitzpatrick, "The Visual Semiotics of Elizabethan Public Playhouses." International Yearbook of Aesthetics 10, 2006.

Tim Fitzpatrick, with Daniel Johnston, "Putting People in their Place on the Elizabethan Stage", submitted to Theatre Notebook, December 2007.�

Tim Fitzpatrick, "Stage Directions and Spatial Mapping on the Elizabethan Stage", submitted to Shakespeare Survey, January 2008.

Laura Ginters, "Lindy Davies: Finding a Path to a Process. A Profile and Interview" Part 1, Australasian Drama Studies Journal 50, April 2007.

Laura Ginters, "'Wir sind das Volk!' How a failed revolutionary wrote about the French Revolution - and thereby helped cause one 154 years later. Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod on the German stage" in Where Culture and Politics Intersect: German Theatre and Reunification, ed. Denise Varney. Bern: Peter Lang: forthcoming 2008.

Laura Ginters, Michael Cohen and Paul Dwyer. "Performing Sorry Business: Reconciliation and Redressive Action" in Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance, ed. Graham St John. New York: Berghahn Books: forthcoming 2008.

Laura Ginters, "Lindy Davies: Finding a Path to a Process. A Profile and Interview" Part 2, Australasian Drama Studies Journal 50: forthcoming 2008.

Laura Ginters, "Wagner and the Little Ballet Master that Could" in "Being There: After." Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, ed. Ian Maxwell. Online refereed publication in collaboration with Sydney eScholarship and Sydney University Press: forthcoming 2008; accepted January 2007.�

John Golder, "Holding a mirror up to theatre: Baro, Gougenot, Scudery and Corneille as self-referentialists in Paris, 1628-1635/36", in Play within a play, theatre dans le theatre, Spiel im Spiel, ed. by Gerhard Fischer and the Bernard Greiner, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 77-99.

John Golder, "Rehearsal at the Comedie-Francaise in the late eighteenth century", British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies (Winter 2007).

John Golder, "Moliere and the circumstances of late-seventeenth-century rehearsal practice", Theatre Research International: forthcoming, April 2008.

John Golder, "L'Hotel de Bourgogne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuies: a study of Girault's recently unearthed plans of 1760", in special issue of British Journal of Eighteenth-century Studies, ed. by John Dunkley and John Golder: forthcoming January 2009.

John Golder (ed.), "French Theatre in the Eighteenth Century", special issue of Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies: forthcoming January 2009.�

Tiffany Stern, with Simon Palfrey, Shakespeare in Parts, Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2007.

Tiffany Stern, "Watching as Reading: the Audience and Written Text in the Early Modern Playhouse" in How to do Things with Shakespeare ed. Laurie Maguire, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 246-81.

Tiffany Stern, "'I do wish that you had mentioned Garrick'': the absence of Garrick in Johnson's Shakespeare" in Comparative Excellence: Essays on Shakespeare and Johnson, ed. Eric Rasmussen and Aaron Santesso (New York: AMS Press), 70-96, ISBN 0404648525

Tiffany Stern, "Actor's Parts" in Handbook on Early Modern Theatre, ed. Richard Dutton, Oxford: Oxford University Press: in press, 2008 publication.

Tiffany Stern, "'The Curtain is Yours!' The Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Curtain" in Shakespeare and the Queen's Men ed. Helen Ostrovich, Ashgate: in press, 2008 publication.

Tiffany Stern, The Fragmented Playtext in Shakespearean England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): forthcoming 2009.

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GRANTS APPLIED FOR

Our 2008 ARC application was unsuccessful, but was ranked sufficiently highly to attract $15,000 "near-miss" funding from the University of Sydney. This will enable us to take forward various aspects of the research in 2009.

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