Staging the Outlandish and Clowning the Lyrical Legacy and Transformation of the Commedia dell’Arte (Toronto, January 22, 2011)

Conference Sponsored by The Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto

9:00 AM Welcome

9:15 AM Session 1
Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California – Riverside
"Mediterranean Cartographies in Commedia dell'Arte"

Clarissa Hurley, University of New Brunswick
"The Lyrical Ugly: Commedia dell'Arte and the Aesthetics of the Grotesque"

Rosalind Kerr, University of Alberta
"Flaminio Scala's Fake (Lesbian) Husbands and Palimpsestic Performance Texts"

10: 45 AM Break

11:00 AM Session 2
Kyna Hamill, Boston University
"Venetians Don’t Ride Horses!"

Paul Stoesser, University of Toronto
"Harlequin's Slapstick"

Keith Johnston, University of Toronto
"Commedia dell'Arte in Music? The Case of the Comic Intermezzo"

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM Session 3
Elisa Segnini, Dalhousie University
"On Ephemeral Theatre. Reflections on the Author-Actors of Early Twentieth Century Pantomime"

Veronika Ambros, University of Toronto
"Commedia dell’Arte in Bohemia. Transformations and their Functions"

Gabrielle Houle, University of Toronto
"Of Masks and Legacy: Giorgio Strehler's 1990 Staging of The Servant of Two Masters"

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Session 4
Guillaume Bernardi, Glendon College-York University
"Commedia dell’Arte and French Classical Tragedy: Between Historically Informed Performance and Directorial Vision"

Gian Giacomo Colli, Franklin and Marshall College
"Performing Commedia dell'Arte: Practicing vs Rehearsing"

Donato Santeramo, Queen’s University
"Gordon Craig: The Übermarionette and The Commedia dell’Arte"

Caryl Clark, University of Toronto
"Revising Pantalone: Jewish Representation in Goldoni's and Haydn's 'Lo speziale'"

5:15 PM Closing Remarks Domenico Pietropaol

January 22, 2011
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Robert Gill Theatre
Koffler Student Centre
214 College Street, 3rd Floor