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Session: Incentives and Manifestations: The American Theater as Monument
The Peck Room, Commons, Yale Schwarzman Center
Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove St., New Haven, CT 06520, United States
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You provide the topic we provide the table (and the meal). Sessions are peer-led gatherings (12+ people) where conversations generate collaborations and move ideas to action.
Because sets are limited, registrants will automatically be placed on the waitlist and will be notified via email to confirm their seat.
The recent preservation-driven removal of the Calder sculpture from the adjacent Hewitt Quadrangle creates an opportunity for discussion around the role of art in place making, history, and memory.
There are many monuments in American Theater Making:
The monument that is the structure of American Capitalism
The monument that is the American Theater Industrial Complex
The monument that is Shakespeare and his canon of plays.
The monument that is the play, Othello
The monument that is the character of Othello.
All of these monuments support one another and are foundational to the ways that we create and distribute theater today.
The foundation of American Theater is anti-many things and resists changes in many areas, particularly when it comes to questions of identity such as race and gender.
Join members of the Untitled Othello Project and Midnight Oil Collective to discuss the monuments listed above with the goal of interrogating and potentially posing solutions to dismantling. It is our hope that the recognition of what these structures represent is the first step toward manifesting something new.
Sessionists include:
Frances Pollock (DMA '25), CEO/ Founder Midnight Oil Collective
Keith Hamilton Cobb, Untitled Othello Project
Jacob Padrón (MFA '08), Artistic Director, Long Wharf Theater
David Sterling Brown, Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College
Emily Bryan, Assistant Professor of English, Sacred Heart University
Charlie Gillespie, Catholic Studies, Sacred Heart University
Should you require accessible accommodations, please contact Christian Ponce (christian.ponce@yale.edu) by Friday, November, 25th, 5pm.
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The Peck Room, Commons, Yale Schwarzman Center
Yale Schwarzman Center, 168 Grove St., New Haven, CT 06520, United States