Dealing with Martin Crimp - Royal Holloway, University of London

Dealing with Martin Crimp
One-day conference, hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London and the University
of Birmingham
12 January 2012, Royal Court Theatre, London
09.30-10.00 Arrivals and registration
10.00-10.45 Keynote: Vicky Angelaki (Birmingham) – ‘le porte-plume redevient oiseau’:
Reclaiming Substance and the Theatre of Martin Crimp’
Respondent: Dan Rebellato (RHUL)
10.45-12.00 Dealing with Affect
Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Paris-Sorbonne) – Martin Crimp’s Nomadic Voices
Elizabeth Sakellaridou (Aristotle) – Cruel [or] Tender? Protocols of Atrocity – New and
Old
Rachel Clements (Manchester) – Spectrality, Narration and the Politics of Absence
12.00-1.15 Dealing with Character
Tracy Cruickshank (De Montfort) – Defining Our Territory: The City as Character in the
Plays of Martin Crimp
Liz Tomlin (Birmingham) – Citational Theory in Practice: Characterisation and
Subjectivity in Mitchell’s Staging of Crimp’s Texts
Solange Ayache (Paris-Sorbonne/Sheffield) – Centre Stage/Offstage: Women and
Space in Crimp’s Theatre
1.15-2.15 Break for lunch
2.15-3.30 Dealing with Narratives
Aloysia Rousseau (Paris-Sorbonne) – ‘Didn’t see anything, love. Sorry’: Martin Crimp’s
Theatre of Denial
Geraldine Brodie (UCL) – Reflections of Translation in Martin Crimp’s The City

Richard Rowland (York) – Sophocles and the Tender Cruelty of Martin Crimp
3.30-4.30 Dealing with Cultures
Mireia Aragay, Clara Escoda and Enric Monforte (Barcelona) – Martin Crimp at Sala
Beckett, Barcelona
Eléonore Obis (Paris-Sorbonne) – Fewer Emergencies in Paris (2008): Interpreting the
Word ‘Blank’
4.30-4.45 Break (refreshments provided)
4.45-5.30 Martin Crimp in Conversation, followed by the playwright’s reading
5.30-6.00 Book launch – introduction by Chris Megson (RHUL)
The Plays of Martin Crimp: Making Theatre Strange (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), by
Vicky Angelaki