Theatre and Performance Research Association conference to take place live and online this summer
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
The University of Essex will host a conference for theatre researchers this summer, with more than 300 theatre-makers, researchers and students expected to attend.
University of Essex
The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference, first held in 2004, will be hosted in Essex as a hybrid in-person and online event.
The keynote address will be delivered by Sean Metzger from the University of California, Los Angeles, who will attend in person to talk about how the formation of the ‘Chinese Atlantic’ – a term used to describe the influence of Chinese migration on artistic practice – could help shape new directions in theatre and performance studies in the UK.
The event is being organised by Dr Liam Jarvis from the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies (LiFTS), who was awarded the Most Innovative Teacher prize at the 2021 Times Higher Education Awards, and a panel of staff and research students from LiFTS and the University’s East 15 Acting School.
The programme will include a sharing of The Twin at the Lakeside Theatre, a stage adaptation by Essex PhD student Andrew Burton of David Colmer’s English translation of the Dutch play by Gerbrand Bakker.
Working group sessions will also feature on performance and new technologies; theatre history; audience experience; and practice as research.
'It will [...] provide a much-needed space for theatre and performance researchers to come together and share cutting-edge research at a critical moment for our discipline after an incredibly challenging couple of years for the industry,' said Dr Jarvis.
The TaPRA conference takes place on 12-14 September at the University’s Colchester Campus. To find out more and to register, go to http://tapra.org/current/