Wed. 22 April

Hall’s Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon

6-7.30 pm

Reception and launch of Re-Performing Performance

By invitation only

Thursday 23 April

CAPITAL Centre Rehearsal Room

9.30-9.45am

Welcome and introduction

Carol Rutter

Rehearsal Room

9.45-12 noon

Paper Session 1:

1.1 The Lost Workers: Process, Performance and the Archive

Peter Holland

1. 2 Performance and the Playtext

R.A.Foakes

1.3 The Director and the Archive

Tom Cornford

Foyer

12-1pm

Lunch

Rehearsal Room

1-2.30pm

Paper Session 2:

2.1 The Digital Performance Archive: A Brief History

Christie Carson

2.2 The Live Archive: Qualifying the Ephemeral to Crack a Digital Divide

Baz Kershaw

2.3 ‘Let us recount our dreams’: The Archive and its Performances

Jonathan Heron

CAPITAL Centre Foyer

2.30-3pm

Tea

Rehearsal Room

3-5pm

Archivists panel

James Bulman (chair)

Kate Dorney (V&A)

David Howells(RSC Collection)

Sylvia Morris (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Jordan Landes (Shakespeare's Globe)

Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

7.30pm

As You Like It

Friday 24 April

Conference Room, Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon

9.30-10.45am

Paper Session 3:

3.1 'Who would be toll'd for Wenches in a shew': Un-doing Desdemona; or, New Materials for Performance Research

Carol Rutter

3.2 Actors’ Testimonies as Archive and the Cultural Construction of Success in Performance

Bridget Escolme

10.45-11.15am

Coffee

11.15 am-1pm

Paper Session 3

4.1 Showtime: Temporality and the Video archive of Julius Caesar at the RSC

Andrew Hartley

4.2 'My travail's history': Paul Robeson and the Roads to Othello, Stratford 1959

Tony Howard

4.3 (Un)settling Scores: What the Archives Can Tell Us about Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness

Richard Rowland

1-2pm

Lunch

2-4.15 pm

Paper Session 5

5.1 Silencing the Players

Michael Cordner

5.2 And Now: A Choice of Programmes

Robert Shaughnessy

5.3 Eunuchs in Cyberspace: Authority, Amateurism and the Internet Archive

Paul Prescott

4.15-4.30 pm

Tea

4.30pm

Visit to RSC Archive, Shakespeare Centre

OR

Visit to RSC Collection, Wharf Rd., Stratford-upon-Avon

Sylvia Morris

David Howells

The Vintner,

7.30pm

Conference dinner

By invitation only

Saturday 25 April

Stratford-upon-Avon

10am

Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebrations

12.30pm

Shakespeare’s Birthday Lunch

By invitation only