18-20 October 2023

Connections between contemporary theatrical productions by women who revisit and re-stage the nineteenth century, or the ways in which Victorian stage practices have informed Neo-Victorian fiction and theatre written by women were debated at the 2022 conference. As a follow-up to the Women Staging and Re-Staging the Nineteenth Century I conference, speakers in the second edition of the conference will broaden the scope of discussion by reconsidering how women’s theatrical activity is reflected throughout the nineteenth century in various traditions and cultures and, in terms of its projection towards the present day, the incorporation of transnational and/or transatlantic perspectives. In addition, how the plastic arts and other cultural industries, such as cinema, influence nineteenth-century female theatrical practice and neo-Victorian stagings respectively.

Another major axis of the discussion will be focused on classical receptions of female cultural production related to the performing arts throughout the nineteenth century, as well as the forms of such reception today through, for example, the recovery of productions or texts.

Keynote speakers of the conference are Jim Davis (University of Warwick); Viv Gardner (University of Manchester); Kate Newey (University of Exeter) and Benjamin Poore (University of York).

We will also enjoy the premiere of Madame by Cienfuegos Danza, choreographed by Yoshua Cienfuegos and inspired by the research on Madame Warton's tableaux vivants carried out by Laura Monrós-Gaspar as part of the project.

The conference is funded by the research project GVA AICO/2021/225.

More information and programme at:

https://esdeveniments.uv.es/95242/detail/women-staging-and-re-staging-the-nineteenth-century-ii.html