Ravenhill 10

Goldsmiths, November 2006

This symposium of invited speakers and presentations was curated by John Ginman, and assembled a wide range of contributions by Ravenhill’s key collaborators. The symposium had two principal themes:

1. to examine the impact made by his work in national and international contexts in the ten years since the break-through production of his first play, Shopping and Fucking ;

2. to consider the nature of the diverse range of projects undertaken by Ravenhill in the year of the symposium and the ways in which they demonstrated the nature of the his creative renewal.

Speakers included:

Dave Barton, Artistic Director, Rude Gorillas Theatre Company, Santa Ana, California;
The Connections Team, National Theatre, London;
John Deeney, MMU Cheshire;
Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett, Artistic Directors, Frantic Assembly;
Jens Hillje, Joint Artistic Director of the Schaubühne, Berlin;
Peter James, Principal of LAMDA. Current LAMDA students presented a complete rehearsed reading of Ravenhill’s still-unpublished verbatim play, North Greenwich (for the Dome);
Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway College, University of London;
Max Stafford-Clark, Artistic Director, Out of Joint.

All events have been documented, and will soon be available to scholars.