Musical Theatre: In Process – Keynote Speaker Georgia Stitt

This one-day symposium explores the processes used in the creation of new musical theatre. Rather than advocating for a particular method in the form of a ‘how to’ guide or analysing performances of new works this symposium encourages practitioners and academics to reflect on existing processes in the development or creation of their own or other peoples’ practices. It is designed to draw attention to the diversity of models for creating new work.

Programme:

10:00 - 10:20: Registration

10:20 - 10:30: Welcome

10:30 - 11:00: Panel 1 Jude Taylor et al: ‘TRANSforming Musical Theatre’





11:00 - 11:20: Paper 1 Clare Chandler: ‘It Takes A Cock’ or does it?





11:20 - 11:30: Break





11:30 - 11:50: Paper 2 Rebecca Applin-Warner: ‘The Composer as Dramatist’





11:50 - 12:10: Paper 3 Morag Galloway ‘The Dynamics of Mutuality in the Composer and Performer Relationship’





12:10 - 12:30: Interview with Rosabella Gregory





12:30 - 13:15: Lunch





13:15 - 14:00: Panel 2 Grant Tyler-Peterson, Daniel Gonzalez, Samantha Bingley: ‘Bustin’ out all over: Brunel University Students Testing Boundaries in Musical Form, Multimedia and Representations of Disability’





14:00 - 14:20: Paper 4 Merit Ariane Stephanos: ‘Moonlarking - An exploration of the Middle Ground through birdsong’





14:20 - 14:40: Paper 5 Evi Stamatiou: ‘Olaf versus the Little Match Girl: the unfinished business of puppetry in the development of the musical Frying Pan Alley’.





14:40 - 14:50: Break





14:50 - 15:10: Paper 6 Jen Toksvig: The Broad Cloth

15:10 - 15:25: Interview with Kait Kerrigan





15:30 - 16:15: KEYNOTE - Georgia Stitt





16:15 - 16:30: Introduction of potential CUP volume(s) and Close of Day



