IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1726: Cultural Climates of Performance: Performance Practice as Research Studies
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) |
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Organiser: | Dana Key, Department of English, University College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Dana Key, Department of English, University College London |
Paper 1726-a | Negotiating Power: Performing Mary's Body in the N-Town Manuscript (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 1726-b | Performing Convent Drama in Fribourg: Religious Traditions and Stormy Weather (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 1726-c | The Digby Mary Magdalene in Digital, Community-Specific Performance (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Performance Arts - Drama, Social History, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This panel explores wide-ranging interpretations of 'climate' through performance practice as research productions. Our first speaker interrogates medieval climates of societal organization and the negotiations and appropriation of Mary's powerful body in productions of the N-Town plays. Our second explores the various types of climates - religious, cultural, and indeed meteorological - that a series of modern European convent performances of medieval plays encountered. Our final paper addresses truly timely concerns: how to continue performance practice as research in a time of pandemic by exploring socio-political climates around 'genderedness' through an adaptation of the Digby Mary Magdalene performed live over Zoom. |