| R18Collective.org | Relapse @ Red Bull TONIGHT, Animal Magnetism x2, Newberry Symposium, and More! Note that the Animal Magnetism link expires this week--see it now! |
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While we have nothing to do with tonight's Red Bull reading of The Relapse, we do encourage you to tune in. It sounds like a delightful evening. You might even recognize Chauncy Thomas from our past Zoom readings of The Emperor of the Moon and The Critic. |
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You still have a few days left to see video of the script-in-hand performance of Elizabeth Inchbald's 1788 farce, Animal Magnetism, directed by Colin Blumenau and produced by Creation Theatre and Lucy Askew. The Oxford performance was a laugh riot. See the it here, and mark your calendars for January 23, when the R/18 Collective will produce Animal Magnetism as a Zoom reading with the Red Bull Theatre, with support from the University of Tennessee's Center for Global Engagement. | | |
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R/18: Re-Activating the Repertoire at the NewberryOur Covid-delayed symposium for Researchers, Practitioners, and Producers is finally happening this week at the Newberry Library, Chicago, October 27-28. The symposium brings together theatre historians, musicologists, and members of the performance studies community with actors, designers, musicians, artistic directors, and producers to discuss the import and viability of works from the Restoration, eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. The symposium will feature scenes from our workshop plays, The Man of Mode, The London Merchant, and The Revenge, performed by the Congo Square Theatre Company under the direction of Allen Gilmore. Each scene will be preceded by a roundtable discussion. Phillip Breen of the RSC, Congo Square AD Ericka Ratcliff, theatre makers from the Chicago area, and a multi-generational group of scholars make up our slate of interlocutors for a rich set of discussions about what is at stake in re-activating the repertoire. Find out more or register on the Newberry website. We'll share highlights on our blog in a few weeks. |
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Join us on November 11 at 10 am Eastern for an online panel featuring the creators of the reimagined Ballet des Porcelaines, choreographer Phil Chan (NYU) and art historian Meredith Martin (NYU). Their spectacular venture points to the challenges and the possible discoveries available in bringing eighteenth-century stage works to today's audiences, especially when such works are immersed in, and express, an ideology of white European supremacy. This panel will consider the rewards and implications of this reimagining of the Ballet des Porcelaines. What can we learn from it? Register at r18collective.org/ballet |
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