Gypsy set design by Cory Vincennes. Photo by Mark Callan.
The digital meeting of the 17th Annual Summer Shaw Symposium
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Schedule
All times given are in Eastern Standard Time.
Thursday, 23 July
5:30 - 6:15 pm EST: Keynote address by Kimberley Rampersad, Associate Artistic Director, Shaw Festival
Friday, 24 July
9:30 am - 10:30 am EST: Panel 1 – Intercultural Shaw
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 2 – The Devil's Disciple
Saturday, 25 July
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 3 – Shaw and Gender
1:45 pm – 3 pm EST: Panel 4
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST: Reading of Buoyant Billions (adaptation by Christopher Wixson)
4:30 pm – 5 pm EST: Concluding remarks
5:30 - 6:15 pm EST: Keynote address by Kimberley Rampersad, Associate Artistic Director, Shaw Festival
Friday, 24 July
9:30 am - 10:30 am EST: Panel 1 – Intercultural Shaw
- R. A. F. Ajith, "Shaw's Relevance in Modern Tamil Theatre"
- Kay Li, "Cultural Translations of Colours in The Devil's Disciple"
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 2 – The Devil's Disciple
- Brigitte Bogar, "The Operatic Devil: Operas Based on Shaw's The Devil's Disciple"
- James Armstrong, "The Devil's Actress: Shaw's Search for the Anti-Bernhardt"
- John McInerney, "The Devil's Disciple: Characters in Discovery"
- Christopher Wixson, "Buoyant Burgoyne: Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple, and No Manners Comedy"
Saturday, 25 July
11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST: Panel 3 – Shaw and Gender
- Tanner Sebastian, "'Goodbye, Home: Queer Domesticity in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple"
- Laurie Wolf, "Gender Disparity inThe Devil's Disciple"
- Wan Jin, "In and Out of the Garden: Gendered Landscapes in Mrs. Warren's Profession"
1:45 pm – 3 pm EST: Panel 4
- Jesse Hellman, "A Search for Agnes in Shaw's Plays and Life"
- Jean Reynolds, "Village Wooing: A Play about Reading and Writing"
- Sharon Klassen, "Bernard Shaw and Feliks Topolski: Creating the Penguin Illustrated Pygmalion"
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm EST: Reading of Buoyant Billions (adaptation by Christopher Wixson)
4:30 pm – 5 pm EST: Concluding remarks