Interdisciplinary Season
2005-06
Maya Roth, Artistic Director; Oympia Dukakas and Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker - April 20, 2006
February 3-5, 2006
Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival
The Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society, with the help of the Program in Performing Arts, is proud to announce the 2006 Donn B. Murphy One Acts Festival including the final performances of Georgetown senior Celia Duffy's "Chemistry". If you have any questions, please contact Tyler Spalding at trs25@georgetown.edu.
March 16, 2006 at 4:00pm
The Life and Legacy of Janusz Korczak
the Leavey Program Room
Panelists are Professor Daniel Blatman from the PJC, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Hebrew University; Professor Katrin Sieg from BMW Center for German and European Studies; and Betty Jean Lifton, author of King of the Children, a biography of Janusz Korczak.
Sponsored by the Program for Jewish Civilization
March 21, 2006 at 6:00pm
Jenufa
By Timberlake Wertenbaker based on the book by Gabriella Preissova
Directed by Irina Brown
Gonda Theatre
This open rehearsal of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new adaptation of Jenufa, based on the Czech short story by Gabriella Preissova, featured student and professional actors. The open rehearsal of the developmental workshop was followed by a Q&A session with Wertenbaker, an internationally acclaimed playwright in residence at Georgetown and Irina Brown, the director visiting from England where she is the Assistant Director of the National Theatre. The story tells a moving and horrifying tale of love, betrayal, murder and forgiveness. Christopher Sivertsen, an actor and choreographer who works with Ms. Brown, led a workshop for advanced actors on Wednesday, March 15 from 4:15-6:15pm in the Gonda Theatre. Irina Brown will conducted a Director's Workshop with select students on Friday, March 17 from 12-2:45pm in the Gonda Theatre. Both events were open to observation by the general public.
March 31 and April 1, 2006
International Dramaturgy Symposium
This symposium brought together scholars, artists and dramaturgs from five countries to investigate the dramaturgy of Timberlake Wertenbaker, with a focus on translations as a way of understanding her oeuvre. The symposium featured panels on multiple topics including the international playwright's translations and transformations of works from ancient Greek, French and Italian to English, history as translation in her new works, a roundtable on the theories and politics of translation, and a Q&A with the playwright herself, Georgetown College's 2005-06 Davis Professor.
April 3, 2006 at 6pm
The Kite Runner
From the novel by Khaled Hosseini
Adapted and Directed by Wynn Handman
Performed by Arian Moayed
Gonda Theatre
This performance, brought to Georgetown from New York's American Place Theatre, features a professionally staged verbatim theatrical adaptation of the groundbreaking novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, starring Arian Moayed, followed by an interactive discussion. From the first novel about contemporary Afghanistan to be written in English, this performance dramatically portrays the relationship of two boys— Amir, a privileged Pashtun and Hassan, a Hazara servant— during Afghanistan's turmoil in the 1970s. An extraordinary story about life, friendship, family, fear, guilt and redemption this universal tale also explores the culture of a previously obscure nation, locating the struggles of people within the tide of history. The play was followed by a talk back with Director Wynn Handman, Actor Arian Moayed and Associate Professor of History James A. Millward.
Sponsored by the Program in Performing Arts, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, the Humanities and Human Rights Initiative and the English Department.
April 5, 2006 - 4:15-5:30pm
Race and the Right to Be Human
A lecture by Paul Gilroy
Gonda Theatre
Paul Gilroy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics.
Sponsored by the Lacay Lecture Fund, the Lannan Poetry Series, African American Studies, and the English Department.
April 7-8, 2006 at 8:00pm
Georgetown University Dance Company
Spring Concert
Gonda Theatre
This April the Georgetown University Dance Company became the first dance group at Georgetown to present a concert in the new Gonda Theatre. GUDC's Spring Concert will feature student works ranging from contemporary ballet to modern, jazz and hip hop, as well as works by professional choreographers including Elisa Clark from Robert Battle's company, Battleworks and Troy Powell from Alvin Ailey. We hope you will join us for this performance as we celebrate the beginning of a new era for dance at Georgetown.
April 11-12, 2006
Lannan Literary Festival
Gonda Theatre
"Thee World Republic of Letters" Symposium addressed the cultural implications of the system of world letters, the function of translation, the vicissitudes of cultural interdependency, and the uneven and combined exchange of letters. It brought together authors from various national literary traditions to examine the migration of literary forms and explore the transmission of cultural capital across and beyond the bounds of the nation, raising important questions about the changing relationship between the writer and global society in the early 21st century. Participants included the two-time Nobel finalist Adonis, Ammiel Alcalay, Elias Khoury, Shanrush Parsipur, Chris Abani, Antje Ravic Strubel, Jose Manuel Prieto, Rob Nixon, Zaia Alexander, and Pascal Casanova.
Sponsored by the English Department
April 20, 2006 - 3:15-4:30pm
Love in the Multitude
A lecture by Michael Hardt
Gonda Theatre
Michael Hardt is a Professor at Duke University and co-author, with Antonio Negri, of Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Penguin Press 2004)
Coponsored by the Religion, Politics, and Peace Initiative
April 20, 2006 - 6:00pm
An Onstage Interview with Academy Award Winner Olympia Dukakis
Conducted by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Gonda Theatre
During a career that spans over 40 years, Olympia Dukakis has worked as an actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist. She received an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category, the New York Film Critics Award, the Los Angeles Film Critics Award and the Golden Globe Award for her work in the Norman Jewison film Moonstruck. Ms. Dukakis starred in the 2001 world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Credible Witness at London's Royal Court Theatre.
April 24 at 7:30pm
Galileo's Daughter
by Timberlake Wertenbaker, based on the book by Dava Sobell
Directed by Maya Roth
Gonda Theatre
A concert reading of a new work by British Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker about science, faith, and history. The reading featured students and guest artists and was followed by a reception.
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April 27, 2006 - 5:00 pm
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable
Gonda Theatre
The Davis Lecture by British Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker.
