All Conference Events to take place at
The University of Notre Dame in London
1 Suffolk Street London
SW1Y 4HG
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Saturday, June 28
10-10.45 Registration and coffee
10.45 -11.00 Welcome
11.00-12.30 Panel I
12.30-2.00 Lunch (and RAPPT business meeting)
2.00-3.30 Panel II
3.30-4.00 Tea
4.00-5.30 Panel III
5.30-6:30 Reception
6:30-7:30 Performance
Sunday, June 29
10.00-11.30 Panel IV
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-1.30 Panel V
1.30-2.30 Lunch provided
2.30-4.00 Roundtable
4:30 until… Drinks and merriment at nearby pub
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Panel I: Amateur Dramatics, Crafting Communities in Time and Space
Helen Nicholson: Amateur Dramatics in Urban Utopias
Jane Milling: Arcadian Amateurs and Rural Workers in post WWII Devon
Nadine Holdsworth: Staging Place and Heritage: HMS Collingwood’s Henry V at Portsmouth Royal Naval Dockyard (2013)
Panel II: Case Studies
Carolyn D. Williams: The Fine Art of Breaking Even: Or, It Can’t Be a Fire Risk if it’s Shakespeare
Janet Mcgaw: “A Culture of Our Own”: The role of the Snowy Mountains Authority in the early life of Cooma Little Theatre
Fiona Brennan: Selling a Town’s Dramatic Zeal: Josephine Albericci and the Kerry Drama Festival
Panel III: Adventures on the Pro-Am Cusp
David Coates: The Economics of Society Theatricals in the Nineteenth Century
Grace Smith: “Professional Amateurs”: Making Ends Meet as a Full-Time Non-Professional Actor in 1940s Ontario and Quebec
Tom Phillips: Adventures on the pro-am cusp
Panel IV: Case Studies–Women and Amateur/Private Performance (15-minute papers)
Eileen Curley: Charitable Ticket Sales: The Changing Role of the Patroness System and Audience Access to Nineteenth-Century Theatricals in New York.
Emma Whipday: “Pins and Points”: Amateur Performance and Neighbourhood Discord in Early Modern England
Heather Fitzsimmons Frey: “So ready to sell us to the first bidder:” Challenging Girls’ Economic Dependence through Subversive Victorian Fairy Tale At Home Theatricals
Anne-Claire Michoux: ‘She suffered to see inserted, “Lady Townly by Miss Ellis”’ (The Wanderer): the perils of the stage for amateur actresses
Panel V: Historiography (15-minute papers)
David Worrall: The Complexity of Location: Amateur Performance as Social Assemblage
Georgina Lock: Holding the Audience: A 1764 Hackney Schoolboy Production of the Siege of Damascus
Oskar Cox Jensen: The Song’s the Thing: Vicarious Thespianism via the Late – Georgian Ballad Trade
Jay Paul Skelton: Stanislavsky and Amateur Opportunities
Roundtable: Practice-Based Research and/or Good Theatre
Elizabeth Wright, Judith Hawley, and Mary Isbell
