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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)
Organiser:Dana Key, Department of English, University College London
Moderator/Chair:Dana Key, Department of English, University College London
Paper 1726-aNegotiating Power: Performing Mary's Body in the N-Town Manuscript
(Language: English)
Ann Hubert, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Index terms: Gender Studies, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1726-bPerforming Convent Drama in Fribourg: Religious Traditions and Stormy Weather
(Language: English)
Olivia Robinson, Département des langues et littératures, Université de Fribourg
Aurélie Blanc, Faculté de Lettres - Langues & littératures, Université de Fribourg
Index terms: Gender Studies, Performance Arts - Drama, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1726-cThe Digby Mary Magdalene in Digital, Community-Specific Performance
(Language: English)
Jenna McKellips, Department of English University of Toronto
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.