Event overview
Performance Research Forum (PRF) hosts another excellent line-up of talks and events. These free events will take place on Zoom, and can be booked through Eventbrite.
Grace Joseph, ‘Movie Theatre: Exploring Audio Description’
Extant is the UK’s leading company of visually impaired theatre artists and 'Movie Theatre' was the first phase of an investigative theatre-making process looking at the use of film audio description in a live performance setting. A number of questions have arisen about the properties of the Audio Description track when transferred to a live medium, and about the potentiality of this exploration. I will propose some answers to these questions, as well as attempt to map the dramaturgical composition of Extant’s practice, in which accessibility and visual impairment are at the centre.
Grace Joseph is a theatre director and researcher, currently undertaking a practice research PhD at Goldsmiths. Her project, shaped by her ongoing collaboration with disabled-led theatre companies, looks at the aesthetics of access in both rehearsal and performance. As a theatre director, she has trained at the Young Vic, worked at Shakespeare’s Globe, and developed new writing with Camden People’s Theatre and Battersea Arts Centre. She has also taught at Central School of Speech and Drama and is on the editorial board for the postgraduate journal, Platform. She holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and is studying for her Level 3 in BSL.
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Benjamin La montagne-Schenck, ‘ “‘Pretending” to do Research: A Transformational Actor-Researcher’s Heuristic Collaboration with Character via Costume and Makeup’
Transformational acting outlines a character-focused technique drawn from Stanislavski, Chekhov, Demidov and even Brecht. By emphasizing the importance of costume and makeup – essential elements of playing and pretending – to transformation, the actor is equipped with material tools they may use to alter their means of perception. A combined reading of modern cognitive theory and feminist theory asserts that such perceptual alterations afforded by costume and makeup may result in a fundamental shift in the performer’s identity, facilitating a lived experience of the character’s identity. While these perceptual changes stimulate transformation, an actor‐researcher may also find themselves in active collaboration with a ‘character’ outside themselves, potentially lending new-found insight within a research setting.
Ben LaMontagne-Schenck (BA, MFA) is an actor, practitioner-researcher and a Ph.D. candidate in theatre and performance at Goldsmiths. He has studied acting at California State University, Fullerton, East 15 Acting School, the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. He has performed at Shakespeare’s Globe, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and, most recently in CoIn Theatre Company’s international tour of Hamlet. His work is published in Studies in Costume and Performance (Intellect).
Dates & times
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| 8 Feb 2022 | 6:15pm - 7:30pm |
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