Diversifying in London: Humour and Comedy of the comedia in the 21st Century
28 June 2022, 9:30 am–4:00 pm
This invitation-only event is all about whether the early modern play can still be funny in the 21st century, and how.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Alexander Samson
Location
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Sala Luis CernudaInstituto Cervantes, 15 – 19 Devereux CourtLondonWC2R 3JJÌý
This event brings together academic colleagues from across the country with a specialism in early modern Spanish theatre alongside translators, directors, performers and actors with an interest in Spanish language theatre. At the heart of the event will be a performance-as-research stage reading/premiere of the entremés Los mirones/The Gawkers.Ìý
Programme
9.30 – 10.30: Here Come the Clowns: Comedia and the gracioso
CHAIR: tbc
Barbara Fuchs (UCLA), The gracioso and the metadramatic: Ana CaroÌý
Roy Norton (Oxford), Gracioso in Calderón
Eliot Shrimpton (GSMD), Clowns and Fools: From Will Kemp to Robert Armin
10.30 – 11 COFFEE
11 – 12: Clowning Around: Comedy and the comedia
CHAIR: Barbara Fuchs (UCLA)
Jonathan Thacker (Oxford), Calderón as a comic writer
Rich Rabone (Warwick), Theories of comedy in the Golden Age
David Amelang (UAM), Comic PartsÌý
12 – 12.15 SHORT BREAK
12.15 – 1.30: Messing with the Entremés
CHAIR: Alexander Samson (UCL)
John Beusterien, Dakota Tucker, Veronica Cora-Castillo (Texas Tech University), Translators of Los Mirones
Saraà Jaramillo and Aina Soley (UCLA), Translators of ‘El marión’
Laura Muñoz and Rhonda Sharrah (UCLA), Translators of ‘La casa holgona’
1.30 – 2.30 LUNCH
2.30 – 4: Clown Makeup: Golden Age Theatre and Contemporary PerformanceÌý
CHAIR: Catherine Boyle (KCL)
Rachel Kaufman, Writing Sonnets for Diversifying Translations
Simon Breden (Nottingham), Putting It On
Duncan Wheeler (Leeds), Performing the GA
Maria Bastianes (Leeds), EStages
Sarah Grunnar (Oxford/UCLA)
The event then moves to the Cervantes Theatre
5 – 6: Performance as Research: Staged Reading/Staging of Scenes from Los mirones
Actors from the Globe, Cervantes Theatre and Grumelot will perform short scenes/skits from the new edition and translation of the entremés
6 – 7.30: All the Fun of the Fair: Performance as Research: Los mirones / The Gawkers
Respondents: Barbara Fuchs (UCLA), Will Tosh (Shakespeare’s Globe), Carlota Gaviño (Grumelot), Robin Kello (UCLA)
7.30 onwards: Reception in the bar
A collaboration between Grumelot, UCLA’s , UCL SELCS, , the and .
With funding from UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.Ìý
Organised byÌýAlexander Samson, and John Beusterien. Any queries should be sent to Dr Alexander Samson,Ìýa.samson@ucl.ac.uk