Synge Summer School 2008

PROGRAMME

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Sunday 29 June

12.00 -15.00: Registration at Conference Centre, Avondale House, Rathdrum

17.30 Official opening of the 2008 School at Avondale House by Lynne Parker (Rough Magic Theatre Company)

19.30 Irish Drama Production in the grounds of Avondale House

 

Monday 30 June

09.30 Lecture: John P. Harrington: ‘Synge, Irish Theatre, and the New York Stage’

11.15 Lecture: Emilie Pine: 'The Backward Look: Ghosts and Memories in Marina Carr and Conor McPherson'.

14.00 – 15.30: Seminars facilitated by Nicholas Grene (Synge’s drama), Patrick Lonergan (contemporary Irish drama), Emilie Pine (Irish women’s drama)

16.00 Synge Country Tour (including Afternoon Tea at Glenmalure Lodge)

Tuesday 1 July

09.30 Lecture: Ondrej Pilny. ‘Translating Synge’

11.15 Lecture: Ros Dixon: ‘ Oh Chekhov! Thou Art Translated: Brian Friel’s Three Sisters’

14.00 – 16.00: Drama Workshop: Mary Luckhurst

16.15: Dublin Theatre outing – travel to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin for the evening performance of Three Sisters adapted by Brian Friel

 

Wednesday 2 July

11.15 Lecture: Nicholas Grene: ‘Is Beckett an Irish Playwright?’

14.00 – 15.30 Seminars (Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Emilie Pine)

20.00 Reading by playwright and novelist Sebastian Barry (venue: Brockagh Centre, Laragh)

 

Thursday 3 July

09.30 Lecture: Shaun Richards 'Synge and the European Avant-Garde’

11.15 Lecture: Mark Phelan: ‘Performing History – Stewart Parker’

14.00 – 16.00: Drama Workshop: Mary Luckhurst

21.00 Social evening with local Irish traditional musicians (venue: Jacobs Well, Rathdrum)

 

Friday 4 July

09.30 Lecture: Melissa Sihra ‘Irish Theatre and World Stages – Reflections on Recent Developments’

11.15 Lecture: Patrick Lonergan ‘Internationalising Irish Drama: Sheridan, Synge, McPherson’

14.00 – 15.30 Seminars (Nicholas Grene, Patrick Lonergan, Emilie Pine)

19.30 Synge Summer School Closing Dinner (venue: Woodenbridge Hotel)

 

Saturday 5 July

11.00 Bisi Adigun ‘ Re-writing Synge's Playboy - 'Christy's Metamorphosis; a hundred years on’ followed by Q & A session

12.30 – Lunch, Avondale House

13.30 – Close of School