The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama invites you to join us at the 19th annual Festival of Original Theatre. FOOT 2011 intends to explore the implications of contemporary trends within the field of Post-Colonial performance studies as they relate to contentious issues within various cultural/multi-racial communities. This conference will examine an integrative approach to the intersection of theoretical and practical research through discussions surrounding the use of dramatic language, the arrangement of theatrical space and time, and the manipulation of narrative and performative conventions of drama.
Our Keynote, Dr. Nandi Bhatia, is associate professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, and author of Acts of Authority/Acts of Resistance: Theatre and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial India, Modern Indian Theatre, and Performing Women: Theatre, Politics and Dissent in North India (Oxford University Press). Bhatia was the 1999 recipient of The John Polanyi Prize for Literature, and her extensive research on the links between colonial and post-colonial film, theatre and literature has been published in such journals as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Feminist Review.
The 2011 festival will feature a mix of papers as well as staged readings and/or performances of works by Valerie Mason-John, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Yvette Nolan and Rahul Varma, as well as a screening of the film Being Dalit directed by Alberto Guevera.
For a complete schedule www.foot2011.com
FOOT 2011
Festival of Original Theatre
Performing Back: A Conference Devoted to Post-Colonial Theatre
February 4-6, 2011
Free Admission
Robert Gill Theatre
214 College Street, 3rd flr
(St. George St. entrance)
University of Toronto
416-978-7986
