***DRAFT v.6.0***
THE NEW SPACE OF AUTHENTICITY
IFTR SCENOGRAPHY WORKING GROUP & Theatre Institute Prague
PRAGUE, 16 - 19 JUNE 2007

Saturday 16 June 2007 – Registration

14h00 – 	20h00	Registration at the Divadelni ustav/Theatre Institute, Celetna 17, Prague 1
		(nb registration will continue the following morning at the University venue; there is 
		no reception event this Saturday evening)

Sunday 17 June 2007

9h30 – 10h00	Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University, Nam Jan Palacha, Prague 1, 4th floor Opening and Welcome: Eva Sormova, Dominika Larionow, Valerie Kaneko Lucas, David Vivian  

10h00 – 10h30 	First Plenary:	Irene Eynat-Confino (Israel)
		Theatre Space and Authenticity: From a Non Sequitur to a Real Make-believe.
		
10h30 – 11h00	Coffee Break (coffee, tea, and water will be available)

11h00 – 12h30  	Panel 1:  Authenticity: the Director’s Cut
Chair: Dominika Larionow (University of Lódź, Poland) TBC
Designer as Dramaturg: Robert Wilson's Danton 's Death
				Phil Groeschel (University of Missouri, USA)
Undoing Authenticity: Irony and Aporia in Robert Wilson's early Space-Time Experiments.  
Cordula Quint (Mount Allison University, Canada)
Michael Levine: production design for Wagner's Ring Cycle (2006) 
Natalie Rewa  (Queen’s University, Canada)

12h30 – 13h30	Lunch

13h30 – 15h30	Panel 2: Authenticity: re-engineering the credible experience 
				Chair:  Irene Eynat-Confino (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) TBC
			Authenticity: the case of McBurney.
				Claudine Elnecave (Haifa University, Israel)
On the (im)possibility of communication and intimacy in the work of Enrique Vargas and Felix Ruckert.
Katleen Van Langendonck (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Chaque scénographe est source d'authenticité.	
				Véronique Lemaire (Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
 The Authentic and stylised use of colour in light on stage; A comparison and analysis of US and UK lighting designers use of saturated and tint colours.
				Paul Davies (University of Kent, UK)

15h30 –16h00	Coffee Break

16h00 –18h00	Panel 3: Authenticity at the intersection of the virtual, social, and material site  
Chair: David Vivian (Brock University, Canada) TBC
		Quelle authenticity? Le théâtre contemporain polonaise et les nouveaux media
				Piotr Olkusz (University of Lódź, Poland)
How can the spectator support meaning in the multi-media performance process?
				Anna Birch (Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K)
Hosts and Ghosts: the Question of Authenticity in Site - Specific Performance Valerie Kaneko Lucas (The Ohio State University, USA)
		
18h00 –18h30 	Book Presentation by  Agnieszka Koecher-Hensel (Poland) and Nina Kiraly (Hungary)

Monday 18 JUNE

9h00 –11h00	Panel 4:  Authenticating identity from within the totality
		Chair: Jerry Bangham (Alcorn State University) TBC
(Re)creating real space for common Europe. Roger Waters The Wall. Live in Berlin, July 21th 1990.
Artur Duda  (Nicolas Copernicus University Poland)
The Space of Liberty - the space of authenticities. Contemporary Polish performance of opera and theater.
Karolina Prykowska - Michalak (University of Lódź, Poland)
		The "Apartement -Theatre" and its "Authentic Space".
Vera Velemanova (Czech Theatre Institute, Czech Republic) 
The National Theater - What does it mean in Poland after 1989?
			Dominika Larionow (University of Lódź, Poland )

11h00 –11h30 	Coffee break

11h30- 13h00	Panel 5:  Synthesis and juxtaposition as the forge of authenticity
		Chair: David Vivian (Brock University, Canada)
			3D vs. 2D: Impact of Duality on Authenticity of Turkish Theater 
				Adnan Cevik (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey)
			Iconography by A.P. Chekhov's plays. 
				Alla Sosnovskaya (University of Haifa, Israel)
			In Search of New Authenticity in Staging Brecht's Good Woman of Setzuan 
Julia Listengarten and Vandy Wood (University of Central Florida/UCF Conservatory Theatre, USA)
	
AfternOON FREE TO ATTEND PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL

Tuesday 19 JUNE

9h30 – 11h30 	Panel 6: Authenticity: Questions of Definition 
	Chair: Valerie Kaneko Lucas (The Ohio State University) TBC
	Authenticity in Theatrical Designs - What Does it Mean?
		Ming Chen (Kennesaw State University, USA)
		Scenography and the Authenticity of Theatrical Experience.	 
		Harry Feiner (Queens College, USA)
			Two Layers of Authenticity in Scenography 
				Tal Itzhaki (Sapir College, Israel)
Stage for Shakespeare – today 
Malgorzata Leyko (University of Lódź, Poland)

11h30-12h30	Lunch

		Joint Session with IFTR Theatre Architecture Working Group:
University Room, Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University, Nam Jan Palacha (Square), Prague 1, 2nd floor. Introduction by David Vivian and Frank Hildy; Chair: Dominika Larionow (University of Lódź, Poland) TBC

12h30 – 13h30	Part I:  Theatre Architecture
		New Audiences and Out-Dated Theatres.
John Russell Brown, Middlesex University.
Lessons from the Study of Historic Theatre Architecture 
Franklin J. Hildy, University of Maryland

13h30 – 14h30 	Part II:  Scenography
Inter/theater between the illusion of the stage and the reality/authenticity of spectator 
				Katarzyna Zawistowska (The Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk, Poland)
	What is Authentic Shakespeare? 
				Patrick Neilson (McGill University, Canada)

14h30 – 15h00	Roundtable

15h00 – 15h30	Coffee

15h30 – 16h15	Second Plenary: Pamela Howard (UK)
Reading authenticity in the Émigré’s experience: The Greek Passion by Martinu/Kazantzakis (Opera)

16h15 – 16h45	Closing Remarks: Eva Sormova, Dominika Larionow, Valerie K Lucas, and David Vivian

***NEW***	Wine Reception and ‘Goodbye’ at the Divadelni ustav/Theatre Institute, Celetna 17, 
***18h00***	Prague 1 (this is the same place as Registration)