Tuesday 28 June
7.30-9.00am
Breakfast served for those staying at St Hugh’s
Dining Hall
9.00-10.30am
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht, Acting and the Actor
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Tony Hozier: Image and Action: an approach to Brecht in actor training
Kent Sjöström: The Actor’s Mr. K.
Alice Koubová: Ludic philosophy in Brecht’s drama and prose
Chair: David Barnett
OR
Session B: Brecht and Shakespeare 2
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Martin Revermann: Brecht’s Bard: Translating the Coriolanus
Antony Tatlow: Playing with Power: Historicizing Coriolanus
W. Stuart McDowell: Bards at the Gate
Chair: Ralf Räuker
OR
Session C: Brecht Fragments and Their Afterlife
Louey Seminar Room
Zoe Beloff: A Model Family in a Model Home or a Tale of Fictitious Capital
Matthias Rothe: Trading Futures: The Fleischhacker Project
Chair: Marc Silberman
OR
Session D: Brecht as Recycler
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Elena Pnevmonidou: From Opera to Novel: Brecht’s Cross-Genre Recycling of the Threepenny Material
James Rasmussen: Brecht’s Antigone and the Art of Recycling
Charles Osborne: A Translator’s Perspective on The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar
Chair: Stephen Parker
10.30-11.00am
Coffee and tea break
Wordsworth Tea Room
11.00am-1.00pm
Academic sessions in parallel
Session A: Brecht and English-Language Theatre
Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Bettina Auerswald: Upcycling Brecht? Verbatim Theatre and/as Epic Theatre Practice
Laura Ginters: A Play By Any Other Name: The Ragged Cap a.k.a Señora Carrar’s Rifles. The First Brecht Production in the Southern Hemisphere?
Anja Hartl: Post-Brechtian Aesthetics in Contemporary British Drama
Verónica Rodríguez: Recycling Brecht: David Greig’s The American Pilot and The Events
Chair: Steve Giles
OR
Session B: Brechts Brauchbarkeit
Louey Seminar Room
Milena Massalongo: Brecht zum Gebrauch: Einige Thesen
Anna Mercedes Hempel: Wozu ist Brecht noch ¨brauchbar¨, z.B. in Paraguay?
Marco Castellari: Die neue italienische Brecht-Welle
Grazyna Szewczyk: Zwischen Tradition und Experiment: Rezeption und Adaption von Brechts Stücken in Polen in den Jahren 1990 -2015
Chair: Florian Vaßen
OR
Session C: Brecht and India
Ho Tim Seminar Room
Dwaipayan Chowdhury: Eclectic Brecht? : Assessing Calcutta Repertory Theatre's Galileor Jivan (Life of Galileo)
Prateek: Canonizing Brecht in India: A Study of the Theatre of Fritz Bennewitz
G.S. Sahota: Recycling the Folk and Refashioning the Public: Brechtian Epic Theater in Post-Independence India
Chair: Paula Hanssen
1.00-2.30pm
Lunch served
Dining Hall
2.30-4.00pm
Parallel workshops
Workshop A: David Constantine: Translation as Close Reading
David Constantine leads this workshop on translating Brecht’s poetry. He will select two short poems and work with the group to discuss shape, rhythm, rhyme, meter and how these might be rendered in English.
Louey Seminar Room
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 15 participants)
OR
Workshop B: Di Trevis and Dominic Muldowney: Performing Brecht
Di Trevis has a lifetime of political theatre behind her. Together with Dominic Muldowney, long-time musical director of the National Theatre, she will take actors through their paces in a masterclass on performing Brecht.
Wordsworth Tea Room
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 60 participants)
OR
Workshop C: Sarah Moon: Recycling Brecht as Activist Street Theatre
Sarah Moon leads this workshop on Epic Theatre tropes in contemporary activist street theatre. She will examine the composition process of street theatre and look at how it can incorporate Brechtian elements, before leading participants in the workshop to construct their own activist scripts.
Ho Tim Seminar Room
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 12 participants)
4.30pm onwards
Parallel performances
4.30-6.00pm
Performance A: Phoebe Zeitgeist: Cantieri Bavaresi #3 EKART
Phoebe Zeitgeist is a theatre company based in Milan, which produces plays and talks on the political function of the imagination and of culture. Here, the group present a piece from their research Cantieri Bavaresi, based on Baal, by Brecht. The focus is on Ekart as a key figure. The performance will be followed by a theoretical discussion.
Maplethorpe Hall
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 100 participants)
OR
4.30-5.30pm
Performance B: Hans Martin Ritter: Brechts Bestie – Umwege und Irrwege der Kunst, die Wirklichkeit zu erfassen, oder: Erzählen als Diskurs: Fragen zu einer offenen Dialektik des Ästhetischen
Hans Martin Ritter gives a literary performance of the story The Beast by Bertolt Brecht, framed by a theoretical discussion about the dialogical quality of storytelling.
Please note: both the performance and the discussion take place in German.
Old Law Library
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 50 participants)
6.00-6.30pm
Book launch: a new English-language edition of Brecht’s Me-ti, by Antony Tatlow
Wordsworth Tea Room
6.30-8.00pm
Dinner served
Dining Hall
“Sprechstunde”: Brecht agents, publishers, editors and others will be available for consultation over dinner.
8.00-9.30pm
Song recital by Lore Lixenberg
Mezzo-soprano Lore Lixenberg, a specialist in twentieth-century avant-garde and contemporary music, performs a selection of Brecht’s poetry set to music. This includes Hanns Eisler’s ‘Hollywood Elegies’ and the world premiere of newly commissioned settings by contemporary composers Niels Rønsholdt and Richard Thomas, based on translations by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine.
Mordan Hall
(Sign-up necessary, maximum 140 participants)
8.00-11.30pm
Bar open
Wordsworth Tea Room
8.00-11.00pm
Short films shown
China Centre Lecture Theatre